In order to earn $1,000 a month from one of my niches, I know I need to drive more traffic to my site and thus increase exposure to my ads and affiliate links. To that end, I've been working on building backlinks, following some of the ideas in  "Build Backlinks a How To Guide" in the Training Center. My first stop was ezineArticles.com, where I'd signed up to contribute some time ago but never published anything. After editing my author bio to include links to my niche site, I&n

Do you have too many niches? Are you spreading yourself too thin over numerous topics and trying to manage several websites and blogs? I know I am. I have a pets website, a toys website, a cooking website, several craft/hobby sites, a nutrition site, and several blogs, on top of hundreds of individual content articles. The best of my niche sites is earning $350+ a month, but I have not had time to add to it in weeks. An insight that really hit home for me during my Wealthy Affiliate cours

Wow. I had high hopes but really did not expect to see my investment pay off so … quickly. My  Wealthy Affiliate membership has already paid for itself. I spent $359 for access to the Wealthy Affiliate course and resources for a year and, following their action plan, will more than make that back through affiliate sales from the past three days. Three WA membership sales have been completed through my links: one year-long for a $175 commission and two monthly ones that will pay me $

I put it off for too long ... I know how powerful an email list can be, but I've never built one or sent out periodic newsletters. Today, I was inspired by the WA resource center to finally start my subscriber list.  I'm building it from people who bought my ebook; I'm currently working on updates and my first communication will be about revisions to the ebook.   Promoting WA will also find its place in the newsletter; I think WA is an awesome opportunity and want to share it with

I first heard about the Wealthy Affiliate forum and resources years ago -- early 2008, I believe -- but had no money to try it out. I had made the decision not to buy anything online until I had earned money from my efforts. I wanted to start for free and see some success before spending money I really couldn't afford. So I plunged forward, with more effort than knowledge, and over many months of work managed to make enough money that I quit my part-time job. I was making more money working muc