Our goal with Wealthy Affiliate is to incubate the most knowledgeable, helpful, interactive and forward thinking community in the world of Internet Entrepreneurs. And this all starts with the COMMUNITY and the amazing folks like yourself that hang out here within WA.

The idea of this "pay it forward" mentality started very early on in the development of Wealthy Affiliate. Carson and I built Wealthy Affiliate as a platform in 2005 to help affiliate marketers. With every update, evolution, and innovation here at WA, our focus has remained on building out this platform to better serve YOU.

We have learned that if you teach someone something, or you help someone accomplish something...they tend to help others do the same. This is exactly what the Wealthy Affiliate community stands for, we are the most helpful and welcoming community on the planet.

There has been no greater privilege over the years than to see someone accomplish something they never thought was possible. Build their first website, generate their first online income, quit their job, scale their business, and achieve the 1,000's of other smaller successes that take place each and every day here within WA.

Fast forward close to 17 years now since we started Wealthy Affiliate, and we have helped millions of people within the online world. We are going to be doubling down on these efforts in the year ahead, and in a big way!

In fact, we are going to be "upping" the ante in 2022 with many awesome improvements and the first one is investing more time, energy, resources, and money into the Ambassadorship program!

This is a program that everyone here at WA is automatically enrolled in, and that you can take part in. Everyone here at Wealthy Affiliate can be an Ambassador of WA and I am hoping that YOU take some time to make an effort to become an Ambassador in 2022!

First off though, What is an Ambassador?

An Ambassador is someone that is an active, positive, and helpful participant of the community here at Wealthy Affiliate. They naturally engage with others. They help others. They ask questions when they need help. They in essence, are an active community member.

Ambassadors within the community are ranked within the Ambassador rank page, with the top 25 members being Ambassadors and the top 100 rankings getting exposure on the rankings page. Anyone and everyone (including yourself) can achieve these rankings).

As you get involved, you are going to see your ranking "decrease" closer to #1, this means that your ranking is going up. The closer to #1, the higher the rank. ;)

It is nothing more complex than this. More activity, more help, more engagment within your content...it all equates to a higher rank.

We truly value each and every member here within the community and absolutely anyone “has it in them” to become an ambassador. We also understand that different people will naturally have different roles in a community of this size, and you need to do what makes the most sense to you and your situation (and time allowance).

How is Ambassador Rank Calculated?

The calculation that we base our ranking is based on a complex algorithm. This determines is based on THREE pillars within the community, helping folks, being a creator, and your overall activity. This collectively will lead to your overall ranking calculation.

You are provided with your rankings for all of these, within your stats. Here is what a sample breakdown of stats look like, these are mine.

These are the sorts of things that we look for when determining your WA rank:

1. Helper - How much you help and how timely it is within the community. This is on the basis of your activity within chat, within training comments, interaction within questions that people ask, and within blog posts.
   
2. Creator - Do you blog, do you create discussions, do you create training? If not, then this is something that you should consider. You can blog about things that you are learning about your online business, you can document your process within your blog, you can share findings, and you can discuss various topics related to your business. When you are an active Premium/Premium Plus+ member for 3 months, you can start to create training as well within the community.
   
3. Activity - How active are you within the community? Do you leave comments, do you interact with new members, do you take part in live chat? How often do you jump into WA daily? Are you actively moving through the training? Are you taking part in classes? These are things taken into consideration with your activity, it is a collection of your overall activity ranking.
   
4. Overall Member Rank - Based on a combination of the above, your overall member rank is assigned. As time goes on and as you are active in the THREE pillars, you are going to see your rankings go up.

You will be able to find your rank simply by going to the dashboard, and scrolling down or you can click on the "Rank" within the top left profile widget on the dashboard (as shown below).