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Well, I wrapped up my first week at Wealthy
Affiliate University.
Week 1 takes things pretty slowly, with not much to do but reading and surfing
around the site and forums.
In addition to completing the six tasks mentioned in Wealthy Affiliate University - Week 1,
I also sifted through the Learning Center and completed reading the following
Guides and Tutorials at the "Junior Level":
| Getting Started | Junior | Guides & Tutorials | May 23, 2009 | | Internet Marketing Basics | Junior | Guides & Tutorials | May 23, 2009 | | Penny Pincher Marketing Techniques | Junior | Guides & Tutorials | May 23, 2009 | | Trading Services for Cash | Junior | Guides & Tutorials | May 23, 2009 | | Article Marketing | Junior | Guides & Tutorials | May 23, 2009 | | Using Clickbank | Junior | Guides & Tutorials | May 23, 2009 | | Squidoo Optimization | Junior | Guides & Tutorials | May 23, 2009 |
Also included in the Junior Level were several videos that I did not get
around to and one ebook titled "Finding Hot Markets and Keywords"
which I downloaded but did not read through yet.
Naturally, the tutorials were pretty basic. I received the most benefit
from Article Marketing and Squidoo Optimization as these are 2 areas I am unfamiliar
with
The Wealthy Affiliate Forums are very active and most people are helpful.
There are a lot of newbies, of course, and even with breaking things down
into an 8 Week Action plan this industry still leads to information overload
for many.
Wealthy Affiliate Hosting
Since Wealthy Affiliate includes hosting for up to 3 websites, I decided
I would play around with their hosting as well. To put it kindly, I wouldn't
recommend it to someone that already had hosting elsewhere. I needed to
set up a new website to work in conjunction with my local advertising business
here at home, so I purchased a domain name and picked a compatible niche from
Wealthy Affiliate's NicheQ
program.
At first glance, NicheQ
seems like a neat little inclusion in the Wealthy Affiliate membership. After
working with it a little longer, I give some more feedback. You can visit
the link to see for yourself what all is included. Currently they
have 8 niches available and you get access to one additonal niche each month.
Back to the subpar hosting.
They use Plesk for their control panel. I am familiar with and prefer
cpanel. But that wasn't really the bad part(I can learn a new control
panel just fine).
The problem was that the offerings in Wealthy Affiliate's hosting are outdate.
I am setting up my new site on WordPress and the version they had available
for install was 2.0, which is over 3 years old and 2 versions prior to the current
2.7.1. Unacceptable.
The silver lining in all of this is that it gave me a chance to bitch to
one of the owners and see their response time. The lucky winner was Kyle.
He read and responded to my PM within 24 hours. That's a positive
thing.
Kyle also noted that they are aware of the shortcomings in the hosting they
offer and are working to rectify it. Also a good thing.
I also glanced at Wealthy Affiliate University's website builder SiteRubix.
I'll probably give that a shot during one of the tasks during the
8 week action plan. I build my sites with either Joomla or WordPress,
so I normally wouldn't have a use for SiteRubix.
I'll wrap this now as I've rambled long enough. I did cover a couple
other things this week, but I'll update you on those during Week 2.
Until then,
Chris B.
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