What is Wealthy Affiliate?
Wealthy Affiliate is an all-inclusive platform dedicated to helping committed and very successful internet entrepreneurs create, grow and succeed in businesses online. Taking new as beginners along the path to now aspiring business owners. Created back in 2005, Wealthy Affiliate has the longest standing track record in the industry and has been deemed the top company in the industry by over 50,000 independent reviews and currently has an excellent 4.8 Star rating on trust pilot.
Let’s take a look at what it’s all about!
Company Name: Wealthy Affiliate
Website URL: WealthyAffiliate.com
Price: Starter FREE, Premium $49/mth ($497/year), Premium Plus+ $99/mth ($697/year)
Founders: Kyle & Carson
Community: 2.9+ MILLION members
Overall Rating: 4.9/5
Trust Pilot Consumer Rating: 4.8/5
Research Tools: 5/5
Customer Support: 5/5
Training/Classes: 5/5 (current for 2024/2025 strategies)
WordPress Hosting: 5/5
Websites: 5/5
Free Trial: YES. (no credit card required)
What separates Wealthy Affiliate from the competition out there, is the all-inclusive nature of the offering. Not only are you offered world-class training, but you are getting all the research and writing platforms, websites, hosting, and expert support that you actually need to run an online business (instead of having to purchase all of these services separately).
So, in essence, you can check into Wealthy Affiliate with or without experience and have EVERYTHING you need under one roof to manage one to many very successful businesses online.
About the Wealthy Affiliate Founders.
Kyle and Carson are the co-founders of Wealthy Affiliate, when they started Wealthy Affiliate, they were both independently very successful affiliate marketers online.
Both met in college in a computer science program, and each spent 3 years building successful affiliate marketing businesses before they decided to start Wealthy Affiliate back in 2005. They both knew back then they wanted to teach others about how to create an online business and succeed. Kyle & Carson are both highly committed to the community within Wealthy Affiliate.
Once you join, you can even contact either of them for any form of help, or just a chat – they will be there for you!!
If you want to start your own store online, create a drop shipping website, do a blog on your precious pet, offer financial support, anything that comes to mind – you are in the right place, the great thing is, you can check it all out within the Free Starter and build your very first online website, see it LIVE in action and you will not be able to let it go!! I know because it’s – addictive – the idea of what’s ahead, what you can achieve and where, by being part of Wealthy Affiliate Platform it can take you – is endless. You have nothing to loose with the Free Starter.
Get Started at Wealthy Affiliate Today (free to start)!
You will start in Wealthy Affiliate platform on the Free Starter membership, this is so you can browse and get the feel of it and start your training. Once you have decided you want to upgrade to the Premium membership I just want to share with you that everything you need can be accessed free:
- The website hosting platform – Free within your free & premium membership
- Creating a Domain for your website – Free with Siterubix – upgrade to get your own domain when you choose
- Choosing a theme for your website – Free – unless you choose to upgrade
- Using plugins for your website – Free – unless you choose to upgrade
- Using plugins to enhance your website – Free – unless you choose to upgrade
You can run your website for Free and when it starts to grow and you are earning you may decide then that you want to upgrade – the great thing here is, that you move as slow or fast as you choose, it’s your choice how you proceed and there’s no pressure to upgrade unless it’s what you want and it’s to your advantage. You are in control of your website business.
Next up, the Training.
Core Training.
Building a Successful Business Properly from Scratch.
Wealthy Affiliate has the most comprehensive database of training in the world, with 1,000’s of resources and 100’s of hours of classes.
But being focused, and having a path to building a business is critical. That is why you are going to be automatically enrolled in the Core Training & Tasks of training when you enter into the Hubs platform after you join Wealthy Affiliate.
The Core Training is the key to getting rolling online, whether you are just starting out with no experience or if you have some experience, this training is 25 lessons (4 Phases) and will literally take you from the infancy of choosing your direction of your business, to getting traffic, integrating revenue opportunities, to building out and scaling that business for long term success.
There is a RIGHT way and a WRONG way to go about building a business. Unfortunately a great deal of the training that is available out there is misleading, or is outdated information and will send you in the wrong direction.
The CORE training at Wealthy Affiliate is updated regularly.….so it is the most current training in the world. Keeping you ahead of the latest trends, and the competition.
The training at Wealthy Affiliate walks you through the key and critical steps that you need to understand when building out a successful business.
Here are just some things that you are going to learn within the first 5 tasks.
- Launching Your Done for Hub
- Creating Your Own Niche Website, and Brand
- Crafting Your First Website Pages Leveraging the AI Article Designer & Author Platform
- Creating Helpful Content that Ranks! (and gets traffic)
- How to Share & Start Earning Commissions RIGHT NOW!
And that is just within just the first 5 lessons. You are going to be off and running with a successful business before you know it, your website Live! The good thing is you can proceed as fast or slow as you want, there is no pressure put upon you – it’s your call.
There is a proper process that you need to follow if you are looking to create a long term and sustainable business (or multiple businesses), and when you can master this process, you are going to have a brilliant journey ahead of you. The focus here is to help you master these and you have expert support and access to help as you move through every lesson in the training.
Expert Classes.
To Become an Expert, you need to Learn from Experts.
There is an old Chinese proverb that is relevant to education and speeding up the process of achieving success in business (and in life). It goes something like this.
“To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.”
In other words, if you want to become an expert, you need to get firsthand knowledge from those experts about their experiences and their knowledge of YOUR road ahead. That is the beauty of the expert Classes platform at Wealthy Affiliate
These are real-time classes that take place throughout the week, every week. In fact, there are a minimum of 350+ classes per year. They are PURE value and are taught by some of the most successful Internet Entrepreneurs in the online business world.
These are REAL people, creating REAL success. People that are in the trenches, teaching you what they know works, and helping you avoid roadblocks that will end up in inevitable failure. People that are going to be able to help you accomplish the same.
After you establish your fundamental and core foundation through the certification training, you are going to want to expand your skill set and your knowledge base. This can be done in an ongoing, interactive way through the Classes platform.
Each and every class has a FULL Question & Answer period, and you can ask questions throughout as the live stream is taking place. This is powerful because if there is a topic you don’t understand or you want the actual expert to expand on what they are talking about, you can simply ask.
After a class takes place, you also have access to the replay and can watch it as many times as you like…it goes into our expert class database of classes which has over 500+ HOURS of incredible training.
You won’t find more current, more expert, and more interactive training in the industry that will help you take your business to the next level.
BENEFITS of Classes:
- Learning directly from the industry experts
- Speed up success by years, learning from those that are successful
- Avoid critical failures in business
- Expand upon your skill set and success, weekly
- Get access to the most current expert training in the world (it’s real-time, weekly)
Learn about Keywords which bring in the Traffic.
A Single Keyword Can Be Worth $1,000’s.
Understanding your audience, and being able to discover significant pockets of opportunity online can separate a very successful marketer from one that doesn’t achieve any success. In fact over time you can be able to rank under a SINGLE keyword that can lead to $1,000’s of income. One article, one publish, $1,000’s in residual and ongoing income.
That is the reality if you understand how to properly research keywords and you have access to the elite tools to accomplish this.
Wealthy Affiliate provides an incredible suite of research tools and platforms that you can utilize within ALL types of online businesses, whether you are looking for “ideas” for a business, or you are looking to find low competition keywords that will bring a lot of value to your business.
And come up with high value, and low competition keywords. If you look at the QSR column (competition), that is a metric that ONLY Wealthy Affiliate provides through technology built. This is your TRUE competition, and having access to this data will help you rank with efficiency in Google, Bing and Yahoo. This leads to free, high value organic traffic (and great opportunity).
This gives you a competitive edge over others that don’t have access to this information.
You always have access to “done-for-you” research directly within your Hub environment, which is instantly created for you as soon as you launch your business. This comes with 100’s of low competition, high intent keyword ideas that you can start getting ranked for, and you can use to drive highly successful campaigns.
As you build your Hub you will be getting research that is for you within your particular niche. Wealthy Affiliate is going to teach you how to become profitable in ANY niche.
Researching your niche and having access to elite, and progressive research platforms is going to be imperative to the success of your business. Let’s have a quick look at this platform and its true value that it will offer your business.
BENEFITS of the Research Platform to Your Success:
- Save’s lots of time, it’s super-efficient
- Leads to revelation of big pockets opportunity
- Can spy on your competition, gives you a competitive edge
- Track your website to see exactly where you are ranked, and start to form ideas on patterns and trends in terms of Google rankings
- Uncover MILLIONS of keyword (traffic) opportunities.
- Find HIGH value domain assets (up to 75 new domains in a 3 second search)
- Reveal new niche opportunities, also in seconds
Upon joining Wealthy Affiliate, you will have immediate access to this platform. If you understand how to research your audience and keywords, you are going to master things like Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Pay-Per-Click (PPC) marketing with efficiency.
Market Research.
Become an Authority in Your Industry.
Success online is not as complex as some make it out to be. YOU as the online entrepreneur choose a direction for your business. This could be ANY niche. If you like dogs, perhaps you make your niche about that. If you like model airplanes…or make-up…or make money…or whatever the heck you want.
Then you work to become an EXPERT in that niche. But to do this, you need to understand how that is accomplished and have access to the training and tools that will help you get there.
Within Wealthy Affiliate, you are going to have access to the Jaaxy platform which will help you, plus expert classes that walk you through the process of building authority in your niche.
When you establish authority in your given niche, search engines like Google will start to rank ALL of your content well. This will lead to traffic and revenue capabilities, so truly understanding this process is going to be crucially essential to the success of your business.
Benefits of Mastering Market Research:
- More expertise, equates to better rankings
- A bigger natural following, more reach
- Become an influential brand in ANY industry
- Shareability of your content, maximum word of mouth reach.
- More traffic, more revenue
Being able to have the proper “tools” at your disposal can save a great deal of time in business, and you are going to be well-equipped with every facet of research.
Keywords, you are going to be able to find low competition opportunities in seconds. Website rankings and analysis? You are going to be able to uncover search engine trends with your website, and track these automatically! Spying on your competition? Wealthy Affiliate has you covered.
Let’s dive into the affiliate programs…..
You Can Promote Over 550 MILLION Products. For Free.
The Internet is a vast place, and so is the affiliate marketing world. As an affiliate marketer, you can promote from over 550 MILLION products. Basically every product, brand, and company in the world has an affiliate program. From Amazon, to Walmart, to Nike, to eBay to Etsy. Billions of dollars are being spent online every month, and behind a large percentage of all of these transactions are affiliates generating revenue.
In 2022 affiliate marketing was slated to generate affiliates $12,000,0000,0000 (yes, $12 BILLION) in income, with this growing year-over-year up to 2026 and the foreseeable future.
Wealthy Affiliate is of course going to help you capitalize on this from an affiliate marketing education standpoint, but what about finding these companies and opportunities? Yes. You are covered with the “Revenue Opportunity” section within your Hub.
Again, this is completely automated, done-for-you research that is going to be offering you insights into products/services that you can promote in your niche, and affiliate programs that you can take advantage of.
Benefits of this Affiliate Program Search at Wealthy Affiliate:
- Easy to search and find relevant affiliate programs in your industry
- Access to over 10,000 of the highest paying and reputable affiliate programs online
- Can reach out directly to affiliate managers and company owners
- Manage your affiliate programs you are part of in one central location
- Exclusive relationships with large networks to simplify acceptance
This tool alone will give you a competitive advantage over the rest of the industry (affiliates not hanging out within Wealthy Affiliate).
About the community within Wealthy Affiliate.
Wealthy Affiliate is a “Powerhouse” Community.
Wealthy Affiliate boasts the largest community of internet entrepreneurs in the world. Size doesn’t always mean better, as the real value is in the fact that the community of Wealthy Affiliate is also the most interactive and helpful community on the planet.
If you are helpful, or looking for help, then you are going to get the support you need to advance your skills, business and success. You are also going to have the opportunity to pay it forward as your skill set improves and you can give back to the community. That is how we operate, and it starts at the top with the owners (Kyle and Carson), who to this day 20 years later, still are active within the community each and every day helping people build their businesses.
No question is a dumb question, and no matter the level you are as an online marketer, there will always be a way to advance your knowledge and skills within the community at Wealthy Affiliate (and always someone with more experience to help you with that).
Benefits within the Wealthy Affiliate Community:
- ZERO questions go unanswered.
- Average is less than 5 minutes to get your questions answered.
- Ability to network within the largest entrepreneur community in the world (almost 3 MILLION strong)
- Your Network, is your Net Worth
- Direct access to your own personal mentorship, and coaches
- Direct Access to Kyle
As crazy as it sounds, there have been people that have gotten married as a result of their relationship at WealthyAffiliate.com! True story.
So not only are you going to be able to have confidence that you will get help when you need it, you are going to be able to establish meaningful long term business relationships within like-minded and very successful Internet Entrepreneurs.
Fast Hosting, Leads to High-Ranking Websites.
Google ranks websites based on the content, but also many other factors like speed, security, your core vitals. The website and hosting platform at Wealthy Affiliate were built for speed, and the technology is leading the WordPress world. Out of the box, every website on Wealthy Affiliate is 100/100 in terms of Page Speed Insights, Google’s rating system in for website speed.
Hosting is offered at 3 levels within the platform. With a Starter membership, you can host one website for free within your account. Premium, you can host up to 10 websites. And within the highest-level membership, you can host up to 50 websites…enough to run 50, million dollar enterprises within the online world!
A successful online business starts with a firm and solid foundation, and you are in good hands with the hosting at Wealthy Affiliate.
Success is what effort you put into it! Taking control of your financial pathway will lead to a stress-free lifestyle!!
Success. Wealthy Affiliate Members Have a Competitive Edge.
They say you are the “average of the 5 people you surround yourself with”, but what if you could surround yourself with 1,000’s of world’s most successful affiliate marketers and internet entrepreneurs? Well that is one of the many competitive advantages that you are going to have at Wealthy Affiliate, and this will contribute to your growth and the level of success you can achieve online.
Ultimately at the end of the day, your goal is achieving success within the online world. What does success look like to you? What would you define as success? $100 per month, or $100,000 per month? The reality is BOTH of these are entirely possible, and it will come down to what sort of effort you are willing to put forth, and the persistence that you have in business.
Some of the most prolific marketers online are currently running their business, or multiple businesses, leveraging the framework within Wealthy Affiliate.
But just a quick reminder. You could have access to EVERYTHING you need to succeed (like what Wealthy Affiliate offers), but if you are not willing to put forth the effort and do the work yourself, you will have let yourself down quickly. If you are willing to work hard and keep working hard, (consistency, time, effort) you will have unlimited potential within the online world. There is “no upper cap” to your potential.
So if you want to succeed, it is up to you. You have the facilities that will help you create any level of success online.
The Levels of Membership at Wealthy Affiliate
You can Level up when it suits you.
One of the more common questions is what is the price of Wealthy Affiliate, and is it one of those “upsell after upsell” sort of programs. The answer is no. In fact, there is a completely free membership that allows you to “try before you buy”, so there really is no risk whatsoever to joining Wealthy Affiliate.
Take a look at the 3 Levels of Membership.
Starter Membership: $0 Free Account
First, and foremost I ALWAYS recommend that people refuse to pay for a program in this industry before they can try it. If a company doesn’t offer a trial, or offer you a look at their program, they likely don’t trust their program enough to offer you a look. One thing that makes Wealthy Affiliate unique is that you can create a free Starter membership (no cost) and start building your business before ever having to invest a dime. This gives you the time, and evidence of your free trial achievements to make a constructive positive decision about your future!
When you jump into the free version of the membership, you are going to be walked through the process of building your first Hub. The Hub Wizard (assisted with the latest AI technology), will help get you up and running with your own niche website minutes from now.
===> Create Your Free Starter Membership, and Start Building Your Hub Now!
Premium Membership: $49/mnth (or $497 yearly discount)
The Premium membership is the flagship membership of online entrepreneurs. The reason being, you get access to everything you need to create, grow, manage, and expand your online business (or several businesses). This includes everything from a state-of-the-art website and hosting platform, research and writing tools, over 20 core training modules, weekly classes, 100’s of daily community blog posts, networking capabilities with fellow entrepreneurs, and personal mentoring and expert help 24/7.
You can also create up to 3 FULL Business Hubs (and 3 businesses) within the Premium membership.
Premium Plus+ Membership: $99/mnth (or $697 yearly discount)
This is our Premium PLUS membership, meaning that you get everything within Premium Plus some additional perks. These include access to a higher level of hosting, the ability to host up to 50 websites. Comparable Managed WordPress hosting packages alone cost $250+ per month. We lead the industry in terms of hosting speed and quality, so this is huge value. Tack on our highest level Jaaxy Enterprise (value $99/mth), and 350+ additional expert classes per year, this is the ultimate in value, and the ultimate Elite membership online of aspiring and ultra successful entrepreneurs. This membership will literally give you status within the online world.
Those are the 3 levels of membership within Wealthy Affiliate. I actually don’t recommend that you spend a penny at this point, even if you are considering one of the higher tiers. Rather I want you to “test drive” Wealthy Affiliate using the completely free Starter membership.
You can get rolling with the training, get your own niche business set-up by lesson 4 alone, and you get direct access to ME personally (I will reach out to you when you join). Most people think that is “fake”, but the reality is that this is how we have run Wealthy Affiliate since 2005 and we have never lost sight of our focus, HELPING people.
So get rolling with a completely free test drive Starter membership, and get rolling with your online business. No credit card required.
My Final Thoughts.
When I joined, I was as green as the grass on my lawn, had no experience what so ever! That was then, by doing the training consistently, doing my best to learn more and more, now I feel very confident in what I do (being an affiliate and I also have a Wellness website) and am quite happy to help and guide anyone to succeed as I have.
At this point, you are likely ready to make a decision, and maybe everything seems overwhelming, but you take one step at a time, replay if need be, and continue. If you are interested in checking out Wealthy Affiliate and seeing if it is the platform for you, try out our completely Free Starter membership ‘test drive’. It doesn’t cost a thing, no credit card required.
Imagine, minutes from now you will be up and running with your own niche website, your own Business Hub, and the foundation of your business.
===> Start here with your first Business Hub TODAY!
I know you will love it, and I want you to find out for yourself.
Note: If you have any questions at all, I will be more than happy to help you out and get back to you. Drop me a comment below.