I try to stay active on Wealthy Affiliate as much as I can.
At first, I did it just to keep in touch and help people that have signed up with me.
As I did this, I noticed people making the same mistakes again and again. Heck, some of these mistakes are the same ones I made when I first started!
So I want to put together this guide to help those starting out in Wealthy Affiliate (WA), or even affiliate marketing in general.
These are the 10 biggest mistakes I see newbies make all the time.
#1 – Getting into the make money online niche
It feels like almost everyone that goes through WA somehow ends up in the make money online niche and wants to promote Wealthy Affiliate to make THA BIG BUCKS.
I know I might seem like a hypocrite because this is a MAKE MONEY ONLINE site – but I would avoid getting into this space unless you really know what you are doing!
This was the first site I made, if I were to do it all again I probably would have got into a totally different niche.
Why?
Because there’s a lot of competition, and it’s really not that profitable unless you’re doing coaching or promoting your own products.
#2 – Writing fake review articles to promote WA
This sort of goes hand in hand with #1 but I cringe when I see people post 10 fake review articles on making money online products just to promote Wealthy Affiliate.
Not only do I think this is an ineffective method because so many people do it and people are starting to see through the crap – but it also potentially opens people up to lawsuits for writing those fake review articles.
#3 – Not having a solid social media presence
Wealthy Affiliate is big on Google + as providing backlink power to your site, but that is severely limiting the potential power of your site.
You want to have as many social media properties pointing back to your site as you can. You also want them all interconnected so that they power up each other while also powering up your site AND you want them to all be automated so that whenever you post something to your site, you get links from all the other social properties back to your site!
Doing this yourself can be very time consuming, however, there is an excellent provide I use that will do this all for you.
For new sites, I would just order the basic version for $5 and get the $15 in add-ons for the additional Google properties and extra social media accounts. And yes this is a completely white-hat method.
If you already have some social media accounts, you can give them your info and they will attach all the properties together for you.
#4 – Just writing review articles
Writing review articles are fine, but ONLY writing review articles is just a waste of time. Sure if you might be able to rank on the first page for very low competition keywords for some articles.
But if want to rank for competitive terms you need to add informational or supporting articles to the mix.
What are supporting articles? They are articles related to the keywords you want are trying to rank for. Here is an example of how it looks:
Source: Serpfocus
Let’s say you’re trying to rank for the keyword “best HD TV’s” (I wouldn’t recommend it if you try) – so you could make supporting articles that are related to HD TV’s but do not target the same keyword.
For example, you could make related articles such as “A Complete Guide to finding the right TV”, or “Finding the right size TV for your room”.
These articles are meant to add value to your site and help consumers make their buying decision easier. It also gives your main article something called ‘topical relevance’ in Googles eyes which will make it easier to rank.
The important thing is to link the supporting article to your main article and visa versa.
#5 – Not having patience
I see people get frustrated when after 3-4 months their sites aren’t ranking well and they don’t know why they can’t get any traffic to their sites.
Well, first of all, it’s probably a site with 100% review articles and has very little informational content on it.
Google is not stupid, they know when a site is being set up as a straight up affiliate site and they won’t reward them. That’s another reason why having informational or supporting content is super important!
Also, brand new sites take longer than ever for Google to begin trusting them. That’s why having many social properties linking back to your site will help you get ranking quicker. Google wants to see you’re a real brand and real brands have many social media accounts.
Your first couple of months should be all about uploading content and learning about your niche better. It also helps to be active on forums and Q&A sites like Quora and Reddit. That way you can understand your niche better as well as drive people to your website while you wait for organic traffic from Google.
Most new websites can take 6+ months before they really start gaining traction in Google, so use that time to try and drive traffic in other ways like Youtube or even making your own ebooks.
#6 – Having unrealistic expectations
Wealthy Affiliate isn’t going to have the answers to all your problems. Being successful in affiliate marketing is like being successful in any other business. It requires a commitment to learning as much as you can while also putting in the work.
There are many things Wealthy Affiliate doesn’t touch on, especially getting to your site links (which is one of the biggest factors for getting high rankings – very important!) or creating a good Youtube channel.
There are many reasons for leaving out such topics. For one, getting links to your site is a bit of a gray area, so WA stays away from this topic as it doesn’t want to get into murky waters. Also, some topics are just outside of the scope of what WA wants to be about.
But that doesn’t mean learning about these topics wouldn’t be very helpful in making you successful!
So it’s important to understand that being an affiliate marketer means always learning.
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