Wealthy Affiliate is an all-inclusive platform dedicated to helping aspiring and very successful internet entrepreneurs create, grow, and scale businesses online.
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 TrustPilot.
Let’s look at a quick breakdown of Wealthy Affiliate, and then I will get right into filling you in with more details!
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
TrustPilot, 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 Membership: YES. Get Rolling Here! (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 also getting all the research and writing platforms, websites, hosting, and expert support that you need to run an online business (instead of having to purchase all of these services separately).
So in essence, you can walk into a 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.
I am going to be upfront with you. I am Kyle, the co-founder of Wealthy Affiliate (picture on the left), and I might be a little biased, but at the same time, I am also one of the biggest and ongoing critics of Wealthy Affiliate. Back when Carson (the other co-founder) started Wealthy Affiliate, we were both independently very successful affiliate marketers online.
We met in college in a computer science program, and each spent 3 years building successful affiliate marketing businesses before we decided to start Wealthy Affiliate back in 2005. We knew if we could create success, we could teach others, and that is where it all started.
A bit about us, we both live in Victoria, and I just crossed the big 40 mark. I don’t feel a bit over 3,0, though, and I have been at this affiliate marketing thing from the ripe age of 21. It’s been lots of fun, and Carson and I are both HUGE proponents of not just helping others, but listening to our members’ wants and needs. We built Wealthy Affiliate based on our users’ wants (and sometimes demands), and we continue to evolve the community and platform on this basis.
We are committed to the community, we help all day, every day, and we continue to evolve the Wealthy Affiliate platform every day. If you ever want to contact us directly, you can do so within the community.
Contact Kyle ( WA founder) here,
Contact Carson (Co-Founder) Here
That is what we are all about. Supporting people, mentoring people, and shedding our combined 40 years of affiliate marketing knowledge.
This is the typical type of feedback we get daily from newcomers. We care lot…more than ANY other company in the industry. I stand behind that, and aim to prove that to you! ????
Get Started at Wealthy Affiliate Today (free to start)!
Core Training. Building a Successful Business Properly From the Ground Up.
Training is just training without context, without support, and without actual, real-life examples and experts that help you make sense of all of it. 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 the Hubs platform after you join WA.
The Core Training is the key to getting rolling online, whether you are just starting with no experience or if you have some experience, this training is 25 lessons (4 Phases) and will 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 outdated information, and will send you in the wrong direction.
Video: Wealthy Affiliate Walkthrough – How YOU Can Benefit From WA
The CORE training at Wealthy Affiliate is updated WEEKLY….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 the first 5 lessons. You are going to be off and running with a successful business before you know it.
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 if you can master this process, you are going to have a brilliant journey ahead of you. Our focus is on helping 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, Learn From Experts.
There is an old Chinese proverb that I am drawn to, as it 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. There are a minimum of 350+ classes per year. They are PURE value and are taught by some most successful Internet Entrepreneurs in the online business world.
Here is a look at the current class menu, as you can see, there is a class today!.
These are REAL people, creating REAL success. People who are in the trenches, teaching you what they know works, and helping you avoid roadblocks that will end up in inevitable failure. People who are going to be able to help you accomplish the same.
After you establish your fundamental and core foundation through the certification training or bootcamp, 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.
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 who 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)
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 who doesn’t achieve any success. In fact, over the years I have been able to rank under SINGLE keywords that have led 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 your understand, 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.
(No Credit Card Required)
And come up with high-value, 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 efficiency in Google, Bing, and Yahoo. This leads to free, high-value traffic (and subsequent opportunity).
This gives you a competitive edge over others who 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.
This happens to be in the “candy making” niche, but as you build your Hub, you will be getting research that is for you within that 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 are going to be imperative to the success of your business. Let’s have a quick look at this platform and its true value that will offer to your business.
BENEFITS of the Research Platform to Your Success:
- Saves lots of time, it’s super efficient
- Leads to the revelation of a big pocket opportunity
- Can spy on your competition, giving 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 Expert or 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 could 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.
Here is an example of one such class, where I spend over an hour breaking down one of the most lucrative niches online, the “make money” niche, and the opportunities within it.
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 quintessential 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.
And that leads me to the “research” of lucrative affiliate programs, something that I want to take a moment to discuss.
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. 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 fact, in 2022, affiliate marketing is slated to generate affiliates $12,000,0000,0000 (yes, $12 BILLION) in income, with this growing year-over-year for 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 offer you insights into products/services that you can promote in your niche, and affiliate programs that you can take advantage of.
Running with the “candy making” example, a seemingly obscure niche, look at all of the opportunities within this one niche alone…
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 that 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 (IE, affiliates not hanging out within WA).
Wealthy Affiliate is a “Powerhouse” Community.
Wealthy Affiliate boasts the largest community of internet entrepreneurs in the world. Size doesn’t always doesn’t 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 (Carson and I), who, to this day, 16 years later, still are active within the community every day, helping people build 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 WA (and always someone with more experience to help you with that).
Benefits to the WA Community:
- ZERO questions go unanswered.
- The 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 mentorship and coaches
- Direct Access to Kyle
There have even been a few marriages come out of it all! LOL
As crazy as it sounds, there have been people who 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 with 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, and 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 PageSpeed Insights, Google’s rating system for website speed.
As an example, the website you are currently on (MarketingWithKyle.com) gets a PageSpeed Score of 99/100, and it has a bunch of content on it, which conventionally slows down a website.
This means my website is viewed as “lightning” fast in Google’s eyes, which has become one of the key ranking factors for websites these days. You will be running websites on a faster hosting platform than your competitors, which means you will rank better, get more traffic, and have more opportunities than your competitors.
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.
Now, I want to spend a few moments walking you through the different membership levels at Wealthy Affiliate.
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 the 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 to achieve 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 that 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 are going to meet your potential quickly. If you are willing to work hard and keep working hard, 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.
Pricing – The Levels of Membership at Wealthy Affiliate
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. There is a completely free membership that allows you to “try before you buy”, so there is no risk whatsoever to joining WA.
Let me take a moment to help you understand 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.
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/mth (or $497 yearly discount)
The Premium membership is the flagship membership of online entrepreneurs. The reason is, 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.
**TIP: Also, I wanted to mention something. If you join as a free Starter member, you are going to be able to get ONE free .com domain when you upgrade. This has a value of $15 USD!
===> Get Rolling for FREE Here, Then Decide on the Premium Upgrade!
Premium Plus+ Membership: $99/mth (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 a 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 give you status within the online world.
You can also create up to 10 FULL Business Hubs (and 10 businesses) within the Premium membership.
If you want Premium, but to put it into Entrepreneur Overdrive, this is the membership for you, and you will always have the option to go Premium Plus+ within Wealthy Affiliate. ????
**TIP: If you join as a free Starter member first, you are going to be able to get TWO free .com domains when you upgrade. This has a value of $30 USD!
===> Get Rolling for FREE Here, Then Decide on the Premium Plus+ Upgrade
Those are the 3 levels of membership within Wealthy Affiliate. I 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.
Of course, there is likely a sense of bias as I am the co-founder of Wealthy Affiliate, but that also gives me a unique perspective that I can offer you on the platform. I will be the first to say it isn’t “perfect”, but nothing is. That approach to business always gives you the drive to further improve and innovate, and that is what we continue to do at Wealthy Affiliate.
We Invest Millions Annually into Our Members. Every year, we continue to invest millions into the platform, the services, and back into the community, Wealthy Affiliate. That is something I have yet to see anywhere in the industry. We continue to push the envelope in terms of technology, education, and community. You can be sure that you will see WA evolve efficiently, and your life will continue to get easier as an online business owner with every passing day.
We Remain the Most Cost Efficient in the Industry. On top of this, we continue to keep the cost of our Premium level service as the lowest in the industry. Programs that charge $10,000+ offer a small fraction of what you would get within Premium for $49 per month. We haven’t increased our prices in 17 years in business, yet inflation has gone up over 200%. Not to mention our no-cost, test drive Starter membership that is better than 99.9% of the paid products out there, and it doesn’t cost a cent.
We Put YOU First. One thing that holds to this day and is ingrained in the ethos at Wealthy Affiliate is that we put people first. The platform and community evolve as a result of the feedback we get, requests for improvements, and where we see it better serving the audience (to ultimately lead to more success). That will continue to be the case moving forward, you achieving success within the online world is our goal. Always has been, always will be.
At this point, you are likely ready to make a decision. Again, one thing I don’t want you doing is spending a cent….rather, if you are interested in checking out Wealthy Affiliate and seeing if it is the platform for you, I want you to take us up on our completely free Starter membership ‘test drive’. It doesn’t cost a thing, no credit card required, and literally will get you instant access to communicate directly with me and millions of other aspiring and successful entrepreneurs.
Not to mention, minutes from now, you will be up and running with your niche website, your own Business Hub, and the foundation of your business.