wealthyaffiliate.com review
Wealthy Affiliate is the world’s most popular – and controversial – affiliate marketing training course, community, and ecosystem.
It’s a 1.4-million strong community designed to take complete beginners from 0 to profitable affiliate marketers by offering training, tools, a functioning website, and coaching.
In theory, your membership offers everything you need to earn a good living via affiliate marketing including:
- Training on niche selection
- A website builder
- Training on how to bring free traffic to that site
- Training on how to master paid traffic
- Subscriptions to necessary tools
- An intro to affiliate programs so you can earn money from your traffic
- Coaching and a helpful community so you get it right.
- Here are some interesting specs on the community1,800 coaches
- 10,000 + business started
- 1.4 million members
- 23,000 people helped daily
Kyle Loudon and Caron Lim founded Wealthy Affiliate with the goal of helping others achieve the same dreams they had all the way back in 2005 – live a life of freedom while earning money via affiliate sales.
I always knew about them, but I was already earning a living from SEO and affiliate marketing by the time they were hitting it big. So I just “eh”, and moved along.
When all the controversy started picking up steam, I didn’t even bother thinking about it.
Wealthy Affiliate review 2023: Pricing, Tutorial & Alternatives
- You get a basic roadmap
- Access to keyword research tools
- Web hosting included
- A helpful community (though I don’t know how much I’d trust some people here)
- Trainings from 2013
- Google’s algorithm is totally different now
- The creators and trainers aren’t even (seemingly) in the space anymore
- Largely text-based
- The dashboard is confusing and people can spam you with offers
- The claims are outlandish and unethical in my opinion
Wealthy Affiliate costs either $0 or $49 per month ($19 for the first month) OR $359 per year if you decide to pay yearly.
- Access to BASIC training
- Community access (7 days)
- One basic website (more on this below)
- Access to WA’s affiliate program
- 30 free searches for the keyword tool
- All trainings
- Community access
- Direct messaging (I suspect so you can convert free users to paid ones for a commission)
- 50 websites
- 2x higher affiliate payout
- Access to coaches and website feedback/support
A free membership lets you dip your toes into the training, getting familiar with affiliate marketing, and start learning keyword research. So what do you have to lose?
The trainings in the free portion are actually somewhat up-to-date, so at least you’ll learn some decent stuff.
That’s what makes it so enticing, actually. And it’s the reason why there are so many people around the web promoting it.
