If you've been a long time reader of my blog, then you know how often I've praised Wealthy Affiliate and it's sister products. Jaaxy keyword tool and Siterubix free website builder. In fact, by reading my glowing review you'd get an impression that Wealthy Affiliate University is perfect and flawless. Not true! While overall an excellent product, Wealthy Affiliate has some big flaws that I discuss in detail in another article on my blog. But here I want to talk about my biggest Wealthy Affiliate complaint. What is it? It's its outdated training. Now don't get me wrog- their training is up to date, bit only the official course put out by Kyle (the co-owner of Wealthy Affiliate). The rest is a mixed bag. some of it is updated while a large part isn't. What are you talking about exactly, Nikola? Good question:) Well, Wealthy Affiliate gives its members a chance to show off their knowledge and skills by producing tutorials, videos and courses that are then hosted on the main site and shown to all members. The problem is two-fold:
Because internet marketing is an evolving field and what works today might not tomorrow, and it might even hurt your site. So it's crucial to have the latest knowledge. And this fault of Wealthy Affiliate Platform is hurting the people WA is best suited for- the newbies. That's my biggest WA complaint, But I'll add one more as I cant help it- this irks me a lot. I don't like the ranking system inside Wealthy Affiliate, because it influences people to compete for an meaningless title of "Ambassador" while they should be focusing on building out their business. The end result is that most so called ambassadors fail online and then blame Wealthy Affiliate. No, it's their fault 99% and the 1% goes to WA for making it so easy to be distracted. Third Wealthy Affiliate complaint- will this madness never end!? Sorry, I'm just crazy like that:) No link building training. As we know Google's core algorithm is built on links. Links were that slight edge that set them apart from competitors and it's something they still heavily use to this day, and probably always will. Links rule the web and it's foolish to neglect that very import part of internet marketing. Which is exactly what Wealthy Affiliate does does. Within their official training there's not a peep about building good, white hat links and in unofficial training, there's some mention, but badly outdated and frankly useless and dangerous to use. I mentioned this as my third complaint, but I think this could have been the first. Because I see the lack of backlinking lessons as a number #1 problem WA has, and it's the reasons why people can point fingers at them and say: "The Wealthy affiliate training is outdated and doesn't work, because they don't teach how to build link and link are what moves the needle for Google and even Bing/Yahoo. And you know what- they're right. Don't gem wrong. I love Wealthy Affiliate and think it is an excellent IM product, but it has some serious flaws that you need to know about. Truth hurts, but also heals... Nikola Roza signing out. P.S. For your next step, go here
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AuthorMy name is Nikola Roza and I blog at nikolaroza.com. If you want to learn about affiliate marketing, SEO and link building- you should visit my site. You won't regret it. ArchivesCategories |