A little provocative question, sorry - but let me tell you a quick story.

In 2005 I lost my job. Thanks to my savings I managed to pay the bills for a few month, but I had to use my credit card more then I should and couldn't find a new job.

The obvious result - late 2006 in was in deep debt. No job's in sight - I was desperate.

The solution seamed simple. Why not make money Online ? So I went to my old 468 and search for "how to make money online".

Guess I spare you what happened next as that's most probably where you are right now. Am I right ?

Promises, lies, scams, more debt - and ALL seamed so easy. Just buy a system, copy some stuff and count the cash - DEAD WRONG.

But Affiliate Marketing is a viable business and People do make good money at it - HOW? - because they are doing it right. I could resolve my problems thanks to this.

Well, at a sleepless night I found in mid 2007 a Wealthy Affiliate Review Site and decided to join, principally for the free 1on1 support as I needed definitely someone to help me with this because I was LOST. Once inside - OH BOY, what a difference!.

I'm not here to bash other products or programs, there are some good ones around, but if you like to be serious about making money online I highly recommend that you invest in a great learning resource like Wealthy Affiliates to understand the whole interaction between "the Sellers (We Affiliates)" and "the Buyers". You can't just discover that on your own.

Wealthy Affiliate has all you need in this respect and my review here will show you in a video and some screenshots I made what you get. And make sure you look out for me if you join because I will Support you as much as I can - that's my bonus for my clients.

Thanks for spending your time at my Hub or even more - if you join Wealthy Affiliate Here.

The Wealthy Affiliate University is a Internet Marketing and Affiliate Marketing training resource. In September 2009 they updated their site for the third time since 2005.

I'm a Wealthy Affiliate Member since 07 and use it daily. Here are my insights about the new interface, the tools and what I quote positive or negative and off course my conclusion.

1 - New organized Interface

The new Interface looks far better then before. It's clean and easy to surf. You get the option to customize the dashboard with addons showing the "latest news" within the site, like new added tutorials, new members etc.The new design is definitely a improvement in terms of organization with the main menu bar at the top including all important parts such as the Forum, your bookmarks (new and very helpful), training center, tools&research, WASpaces (your personal blog), affiliate program, and to the help desk.

2 - Loading speed

A big improvement is the sites loading speed. Wealthy Affiliates prior hosting provider was not capable of maintaining a good speed, so the switch to GoDaddy was a smart move which made it possible to improve a lot on this aspect. A faster site satisfies the user much more.

3 - Learning Resources

The learning resources within Wealthy Affiliate are new organized. In the "old" version we had a "site based tutorial" section and "user created tutorial" section called "share zone". It was somehow difficult to find help even if there existed a resource to a problem.
Now all tutorials are centralized in a "Training Center" where you find the following modules :
- Getting started
- Article Marketing
- Email Marketing
- Research Niches and Markets
- Pay-per-click Marketing
- Miscellaneous
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- WA System Tutorials
- Website Development
- Web Hosting (included part for members)
- Accreditation courses to Article Marketing and Pay-per-Click Marketing (those are the only 2 courses which are not part of the membership - I didn't purchased those)

4 - Tools

What's a huge difference from any other Internet Marketing resource is the fact that Wealthy Affiliate offers several useful tools as part of the membership. The main tools to mention here are :
- the new keyword tool
helps in a great way to analyze wherever a keyword is valuable, has a fair competition, and can be used for article or PPC marketing. All this data is available within a few seconds after you run the tool, really great help. You as well can spy into AdWords competition or dig deeper into the keyword right from the KW-tool.
- the article spinner
Article spinning has to be used with caution, we all know that unique content is absolutely king. But I know that our Unique articles can as well be used for other purposes if we rewrite them a little. This tool will help rewrite your unique content in mere seconds, or if you wish you can use ready made PLR articles to get content.
- Ready made niche reports
There are 8 fully detailed niche reports within the best and most valuable online industries. You get all industry data, affiliate offers, PLR material, websites etc.. Do this yourself and you would have to spend weeks, so this is a invaluable resource for members. The industries are Pet, Golf, Stocks/trading, Insurance, Dating, Gaming, VOIP and Hosting.

There are more tools such as Hosting, the Link Cloaker, Clickbank Research Tool and the SiteRubix Website Builder, but they remain the way they are so I won't get into details here.

5 - The Forum

The Wealthy Affiliates forum. Although there is nothing new right now I need to mention the immense value of this forum, for many (me included) this alone is worth the membership.
First - There are a lot posts with actual step by step walk trough's from campaigns or about websites from members which did struggle. The community helped them to improve those till they made money. Those are real life examples and everybody can learn how to do it.
Second - Post any question and you get help. Really. That's not usual in other (free) forums and the community in WA is simply awesome, unique and extremely helpful.

6 - The cost

The cost of Wealthy Affiliate remain the same at U$39/month what is $1.29 a day. This is a tremendous value for what you get and I know that similar courses charge around the double. Who can pay for a full year get a discount of over 20%, might be worth a look.

Currently there are over 35'000 members in Wealthy Affiliate, where most use it on a daily base. You can benefit from this as a Business owner as you will learn how t market your products online, or you can become a savvy blogger or a affiliate marketer.

- What I like in Wealthy Affiliate

Obviously the above in details mentioned tools are my favored, specially the new organized "Training Center" will help me with my work and make it easier to find what I need. Off course I love that the price remains the same as price increases today in time are difficult.

- What I don't like in Wealthy Affiliate

I really don't hide anything and here are the items I don't like, don't use within the membership.

WA Hosting - the hosting remains limited. In case you already have some site or have wish to build a business with multiple websites, WA hosting has limitations in respect to the amount of sites, disc space and bandwidth. I have several domains and sites and don't use it till today due to this fact. For a Newbie this is OK and will help you get your first site up and life, and it's part and included in your membership. But as intermediate marketer this part is useless.

Site Rubix. The Website builder hasn't evolved. It's OK for newbies but very basic and not suitable for a intermediate or advanced marketer. You build simple review sites, but if you would like to make more complex sites then this tool isn't capable of helping you much. I recommend you get your feet wet with a free WYSIWYG builder like Kompozer, where you will learn to build sites with a tool which works outside the Wealthy Affiliates.

Conclusion :

Who likes to make money online need in first priority a good knowledge about what Internet Marketing actually is, or in other words - you need to get a good foundation.

That's in fact no different then for any other skill or profession. Being a Internet Marketer is something which has to be learned. You need a good resource, time and commitment to make your start-up as beneficial as possible. The opportunities in Internet Marketing are huge and nobody is asking about your prior occupation, your age, sex or race.

And another strong benefit is, it's dirty cheap to start out compared to any offline business model. I've failed with 2 offline businesses and lost more then $100k with salaries, rent's, lost inventory etc..

With that said, I always recommend to invest into training for that you understand what you need to do.

The Wealthy Affiliate University is in this respect a complete learning resource for Internet Marketers which is one of the view places available that has all together at one spot.

If you would like to know how to start a Online business to leverage your sales, or if you wish to start to sell other peoples stuff as a Affiliate, or in case you need knowledge about how to run a Blog business, I can recommend in good faith to try out Wealthy Affiliate.

I have here a in-dept Wealthy Affiliate Review at my site with a video overview.

And for additional details you are invited to visit my Blog My Wealthy Affiliate Info where I have some great information and some more videos for you.

Good luck with your online business.

Guido Mueller

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