What Is Wealthy Affiliate University and is it Legit

Wealthy Affiliate can be broken down into four sections.

1. Wealthy Affiliate University - Training

2. Wealthy Affiliate Builders - All the necessary tools all in one system that will help you build your web business.

3. Wealth Affiliate Research - Tools for keyword research and strategy

4. Wealthy Affiliate Support - 24/7 live community chat and 24/7 tech support

It’s been my experience that companies that have been in business for 10 plus years have a long history that can easily be researched and verified.

The data shows that Wealthy Affiliate operates in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia and has several hundred thousand members.

In my mind, that says a lot.  If Wealthy Affiliate was a scam, they would not have thousands of members and they would not be in business for 14 years and counting.

Because people do research before getting involved in most things online they read reviews. Almost all of the reviews I’ve read all say pretty much the same thing. It’s the best training platform online for building out an online business.

Any negative info I could find was that members try to promote Wealthy Affiliate. Well yes, that’s the idea of affiliate marketing. You sell other people stuff if you feel they have quality products. For example, one of the biggest affiliate companies out there is Amazon and eBay, but every other company has affiliate programs too. Here are a few more you may have heard of; Ford, Chevy, IBM, Apple, Wal-Mart, NFL, Weight Watchers, Nutri-System, Re-Max, etc.

Affiliate marketing is selling other peoples stuff (passive selling) and you earn a commission.

Training Platform

What is Wealthy Affiliate University? Let’s break it down into its separate parts.

4 Training Sections

• Online Entrepreneur Certification
• Affiliate Bootcamp
• Training HQ
• Live Training

Online Entrepreneur Certification (50 Courses)

Getting Started (Level 1)

• Get Rolling
• Understanding how to make money online
• Choose a niche
• Building your own niche website
• Setting up your website
• Getting your site ready for search engines
• Creating your initial website content
• Creating custom menus on your website
• Understanding keywords
• Congratulations and your new steps

Building Your Own Traffic Producing Website (Level 2)

• Your own domain, your brand
• Move on over, my brand has arrived
• Creating keyword rich content
• Setting up a domain specific email account
• The traffic breakdown
• Making use of visuals
• Understanding the low hanging fruit
• Making face as a real person
• Amplifying your productivity
• Boosting your WA ranks

Making Money (Level 3)

• Understanding the money in online business
• Understanding affiliate programs and networks
• Relevant affiliate programs are everywhere
• Adding affiliate links to your pages
• Instant access to a million products
• Leveraging product reviews
• Getting paid for ads on your site
• Earning pennies or dollars
• A brilliant way to track & understand your traffic
• With help comes financial success

Mastering Social Engagement (Level 4)

• What does social engagement mean to your business
• Making your website a place to engage
• Using Facebook the right way
• Pinterest & the visual social hemisphere
• Incorporating a sound tweeting campaign
• Google plus or minus
• The benefit of being social at WA
• Making your campaigns social branding animals
• Using the Wealthy Affiliate social community
• You cannot be a master of everything

Achieving Maximum Success Through Content Creation (Level 5)

• Content is your business
• Setting up google webmaster tools
• Improving indexing times and speeds
• People need to read your content
• A year is a short period of time
• Writing within a devised plan architecture
• Writing your content with conversion intent
• Injecting comments with intent
• Bing and Yahoo, they are still 33%
• Articulating a plan for the months and year

So, you can see that WAU has 50 self-paced courses in the first training module (Certification). Each course is a combination of text-based and video learning with assignments. The assignments are actually real-world assignments where you are building your business in real time. For example, each course teaches you an aspect of building your online business. After each course (before you move on to the next course) you put into practice what you just learned and build that part of your new business.

It’s a brilliant way to teach someone how to build an online business. Instead of going through lots of classroom training and then at the end you are supposed to apply everything you learned. The Wealthy Affiliate University teaches you one thing and then you build that one thing and then you repeat that process throughout the training and then at the end of your training, you have your first business built.

Of course, that is just the beginning. Now that you have the framework of your new business, you begin to fine tune everything and continue to add content to your business.

Affiliate Bootcamp (70 courses)

This section of training has another 70 courses and it is designed to teach you how to build a business specifically in the Make Money Online niche. The make money online niche is big and after the Wealthy Affiliate University Affiliate Bootcamp training, you will actually be able to start making money in this niche.

I am speaking from experience and in full disclosure, I have gone through the Affiliate Boot camp course training. I have gone through less than 10% of the training since there are literally 1000’s of courses available depending upon which direction online you want to pursue.

Of those 1000’s of courses, a good portion of the courses are from Wealthy Affiliate University members that have been a part of Wealthy Affiliate for years and develop courses (free of course) to help other members based on their experiences from building online businesses.

I believe you can only get that kind of community member support from well established strong companies.

Certainly, if you are asking the question, what is Wealthy Affiliate University and is it legit, I can tell you from my actual time at WAU that it is completely legit and an amazing platform to train and put into real-world practice what you are learning (My Story).

Personally, I have four revenue generating websites:

• Pet Products
• NFL Products
• How to make money online which consists of affiliate training and traditional online training
• Transportation Services

Training HQ

Here you will find all training modules from Wealthy Affiliate University training to specialized member training. You can either scroll through all of the courses (which would take a while) or you can search for what you are specifically looking for.

Live Training

Live training is conducted by Jay.  Consequently, every Friday he produces a live training event online. He is really good. I’ve participated in a lot of live training webinars over the years that have been a little boring or hard to follow.  So, Jay produces some of the best live training I’ve ever seen that is easy to follow.  

All of the live training secessions are recorded, so you can go back and watch them over again or watch all previous live training secessions at your convenience. It is my favorite training and if you plug into his live training once a week, it will accelerate your learning.