Now before we get into the reasons why I cancelled my subscription to WA in this Wealthy Affiliate Review, I want you to know that there are a few things that are good about Wealthy Affiliate and I am going to outline them here for you now.
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You definitely need some tools when you’re starting an Internet marketing business. Inside Wealthy Affiliate they do provide tools for you. The caveat: Once you have gone through the process of learning those tools and actually making use of them, many times they become out of date or you have learned all you could from Wealthy Affiliate and you may be ready to move on to other, more powerful and avanced sources of infromation and learning. But guess what? You have already spent so much time, effort and headache getting to know these tools, you will be reluctant to leave and that is where they have you. They COUNT on this happening and they know the majority will stay longer than they might have it were not for getting them hooked on the "free" tools they provide. There are other tools on the internet that are free and they could just as easily teach you those tools and how to use them, but that would allow you to leave at the drop of a hat and they are not willing to allow that.
Anyway, here are the free tools from Wealthy Affiliate and after I introduce each, I will give you the good and the bad of getting hooked on using these tools.
Wealthy Affiliate Keyword Tool – Here is what they have to say:
"Keyword tools are very expensive but you don’t need to worry about that because WA provides you with your own keyword tool."
Here is what I have to say in my
Wealthy Affiliate Review:
Google has a free keyword tool that Wealthy Affiliate uses with a script that goes to Google and logs into an API and gets the same data you can get for free from Google itself. They add a couple bells and whistles with a note on the level of competition but Google has all that for as well, all for free.
I just can't see the logic in getting sucked into a monthly subscription for something you already get for free. Besides that, what is expensive about free?
Site Rubix Website Builder – Here is what they have to say:
"Are you intimidated when it comes to building websites? Now you don’t have to be scared anymore because WA provides you with easy to use software (Site Rubix) that will let you create websites with ease. If you search for ‘wealthy affiliate review’ in Google, you’ll find a Site Rubix site ranking in the top 5!"
Here is what I have to say in my
Wealthy Affiliate Review:
Site Rubix website builder is 10 year old technology, it is far from easy to use and no one uses it anymore as of the time of the writing of this Wealthy Affiliate Review so you will not find any sites ranking anywhere that have used that site builder. This is another example of out of date content on their sales page. You can imagine what the tutorials are like inside, if you can even get any help.
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Free WA Hosting – Here is what they have to say:
"You don’t even need to get your own hosting yet, because WA offers free hosting for your sites (up to 3)."
Here is what I have to say in my
Wealthy Affiliate Review:
This is another freebie designed to hold you hostage. They are for sure (and I have seen many people complain about this) that you will be reluctant to leave if you are unhappy for any reason because once you have put the time into building your first website with Site Rubix, which could take you up to a whole week to accomplish.
Not only that, but do you even know how to move a website? It's a lot more difficult than building one, I can tell you that.
This makes you a prisinor to a place where you pay money every month to get help, whether you get it or not. What would be more credible in my opinion is to teach you how to use your own hosting so that you are free to make the decisions that are best for you without the fear and anxiety of having to do so many technical things to do, that you do not know how to do, that will make you no money and will most certainly recieve any assistance on doing.
Why would they help you leave when you are paying them a monthly fee? No matter what they say about their intentions, common sense should prevail on you that these things do not make sense.
ClickBank Research Tool – Here is what they have to say:
Get updated information on what ClickBank products are hot. You can also determine a product’s refund rate (less than 15% is good). Believe me, you don’t want to be promoting a product that gets a lot of refunds.
Here is what I have to say in my
Wealthy Affiliate Review:
This is so deceptive it borders on the line with outright lying. There are more than one Clickbank tools that do the same thing and even more. All they have done, again, is tap into those systems and returned the same information you can get else where for free in an attempt to hold you hostage and get stuck in paying the recurring fee whether you are actually recieving what they promised or not.
Some people do and some people do not. Most of the ones that say they have recieved what they wanted are promoting to you in the same place where you found this page with their affiliate links awaiting your click.
Sound like a poni scheme? Well, promoting Wealthy Affiliate is the first thing mentioned when you join if you do not know where to start or a product to styart with. How convenient is that?
WordPress Express – Here is what they have to say:
WordPress sites are very easy to rank in search engines and you’ll be able to create your own site in just 60 seconds or less using the WP Express.
Here is what I have to say in my
Wealthy Affiliate Review:
That is half truth and the other half is not true. WordPress sites do rank very well in the search engine results and they should get credit for creating a system that makes it easier than the Site Rubix for their subscribers. However, WordPress is free and the introduction of WordPress to the masses at Wealthy Affiliate was the idea of one of their more advanced members (X2-Roger Rowe) who has since left to create his own search engine marketing training forum.
The half that is not true is that a WordPress site can be built in 60 seconds. Total lie. WordPress can be installed in your server in 60 seconds but for them to make it sounds as though there is a push button website builder that can make it happen in 1 minute is decieving at best.
These are all good tools, there is no doubt, but being chained to them with a monthly subscription is not what real help is all about. There are definitely other places that teach you the same methods and even more advanced methods and you really should take a hard look at them. Just because you see a bunch of good reviews doesn't mean anything if they all have affiliate links included in them, which you will not see here.
Let me repeat that:
THERE ARE NO AFFILIATE LINKS IN THIS REVIEW NO MATTER THE SITES I REFER TO AND THAT IS HOW YOU KNOW YOU ARE GETTING A 100% HONEST REVIEW.
