I’m a Wealthy Affiliate Member for over 2 years and have veteran a lot of up’s and down’s as affiliate marketer.
One thing I can tell you with 100% confidence, WITHOUT a excellent marketing foundation you won’t have it simple to make money online. A fantastic learning resource is imperative for you.
I wrote a article an dpublished it lately on Ezine Articles where I review the new Wealthy Affiliate Academe, see yourself.
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Review Wealthy Affiliate Platinum – What Changed at the Wealthy Affiliates?
By Guido Mueller
The Wealthy Affiliate Academe is a Affiliate Marketers training resource with over 35′000 Members.
In Sept 2009 the site passed an upgrade for the third time since it’s launch in 2007, now called Wealthy Affiliate Platinum instead of adding only a v.3.
Here is my review with insights about the new interface and the new tools and what I quote positive/negative.
1 – New Interface
The new Interface looks very clean. Like before you have the option to customize your dashboard. The new design is certainly a enhancement in terms of establishment, as you now have a main menu bar at the top, accessing all vital parts of the site. A perfect addition is the “bookmark” feature which makes the site a bit similar to Facebook.
2 – Sites loading speed and user encounter
What’s a huge enhancement is the sites loading speed. I always thought that Wealthy Affiliates hosting provider could do better and the hosting switch to GoDaddy improved this a lot. The user encounter has improved a lot.
3 – Learning Resources
The learning resources are now really different organized. All resources and tutorials are now federal in a “Training Center” with following modules :
- Getting started
- Article Marketing – Email Marketing
- Research Niches and Markets
- Pay-per-click Marketing
- Miscellaneous
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- WA System Tutorials
- Website Development
- Web Hosting (as part for members)
- and the Official approval courses to Article Marketing and Pay-per-Click Marketing which are not part of the membership.
4 – New Tools
The new tool worth mention here is the new keyword tool, which analyzes a keyword and it’s commercial value, if it can be used for Article or PPC marketing. You as well can spy into the AdWords competition for that keyword or dig deeper into the keyword right from the KW-tool.
The second tool are the ready made niche reports in NicheQ. There are currently 8 fully detailed niche reports available and more niches will be added. You get all data to the industry and consumer, available affiliate offers, and PLR material. You save weeks in research with this.
The industries covered are Pet, Golf, Stocks/trading, Insurance, Dating, Gaming, VOIP and Hosting.
The other tools such as website hosting, the link cloaker, the ClickBank research tool and the website builder remain the same as before the update, so I won’t get into details here.
5 – The Forum
There will be soon a reorganization and more detailed sub-forums will be added. Thousands of posts show actual step-by-step campaign walkthroughs, where you can follow the improvements. Those are real examples, where you can learn how a marketer mindset should look like.
6 – The cost
The cost of Wealthy Affiliate will remain the same at $39/month. This is one of the lowest offers available online and a very honest value for what you get. There is a option for a full year payment, offering a 25% discount.
- What I like in Wealthy Affiliate Platinum
Specially the new organized “Training Center” helps me with my work and make it simpler to find what I need. Then the new keyword tool and the forum are my favored.
- What I don’t like in Wealthy Affiliate Platinum
The web hosting remains limited. The hosting has some limitations in respect to the amount of sites, discspace and bandwidth. I have several sites and don’t use WA hosting till today. For Newbies it’s OK, and included in the membership fee. For intermediate marketer this part is useless. There should be more flexibility and a upgrade option for people which want to use more hosting.
The Website builder SiteRubix hasn’t evolved. It’s OK for newbies, but not very usable for a intermediate or advanced marketers. You build simple review sites but if you want to make more complex sites, then this tool isn’t capable of helping you much. I recommend to get your feet wet with a software like Kompozer, where you will learn to build sites with a tool you can use as well outside the Wealthy Affiliates.
Conclusion :
Who likes to make money online need in first priority a excellent knowledge about Internet Marketing, specifically Affiliate Marketing. You need to have a excellent foundation. That’s no variation to any other skill you need to learn.
Internet Marketing has to be learned and you need a excellent resource, a time management and a strong stanchness. The opportunity in Internet Marketing is huge and the best part, you don’t depend on your prior occupation, age, sex or race, and the more encounter the better.
Bottom line, I always recommend to invest into training, for that you be with you what you have to do.
Against any other traditional business it’s dirty cheap to start out as Affiliate Marketer.
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