Introduction to Wealthy Affiliate Bootcamp
The WA Affiliate Bootcamp training is a comprehensive platform that teaches affiliate marketers on how to make money online by promoting the WA platform. The Bootcamp covers everything you will need to build a successful online business as an affiliate marketer.
There are seven phases/courses in the affiliate Bootcamp, each one covering a particular area of training, as shown below.
- Wealthy Affiliate Bootcamp – Getting Your Business Rolling
- Wealthy Affiliate Bootcamp – Contents, Keywords and Conversions
- Wealthy Affiliate Bootcamp – Giving Your Site Social Value
- Wealthy Affiliate Bootcamp – Get Visual, Get Aesthetic. Get a Brand Through Media.
- Wealthy Affiliate Bootcamp – Knowing Your Audiences & Catapulting Your Referrals
- Wealthy Affiliate Bootcamp – Bing, Yahoo, & The Power of PPC
- Wealthy Affiliate Bootcamp – How to Scale Successful PPC Campaigns
Each phase has 10 lessons for a total of 70 lessons in the Bootcamp. Upon completion of these 70 lessons, you should have your own successful online marketing business working towards a fulltime income. This review summarizes each lesson in Phase 1 of the Bootcamp.
WA Affiliate Bootcamp – Phase 1, Getting Your Business Rolling
Phase 1 of the WA Affiliate Bootcamp training is appropriately named, “Getting Your Business Rolling”, because it lays out the groundwork of how to make money online with affiliate marketing, by promoting the WA brand. But the principles covered in this module as well as in the entire WA training platform, do not only apply to Wealthy Affiliate but you can use them in any industry you want. The lessons in this Phase of the training are available to starter members with free accounts as well as premium members. They are:
1. Getting Started
2. Choosing Your Domain
3. Building Your Website
4. A Website Look Around
5. Activating Your Plugins
6. Getting Your Website Ready For SEO
7. Your Initial Framework of Content
8. Understanding the Keyword Research Process
9. Creating Thoughtful, Insightful Reviews
10. The Exciting Journey Has Begun
Kyle, an owner of Wealthy affiliate, is the chief architect of the Bootcamp training. He is assisted by a group of helpers throughout the Bootcamp. The top helpers for the lessons in Phase 1 are as follows: EOPolini, Maddy55, nrollins84, Helen Doyle, Zappadas, SeanGreentre, Mozmary, Kyle, Boomergp08, and delroy2222. At the end of each lesson, Kyle assigns tasks for you to complete before moving on to the next one. In the following section, I will give you a brief summary of each lesson in Phase 1 as well as the tasks assigned.
Summary of Phase 1 Lessons
Lesson 1 – Getting Started
Lesson 1 is appropriately called “Getting Started” because here is where Kyle begins to lay the foundation you will need to build your affiliate marketing business. The lesson is led by Kyle assisted by a team of top contributors. It begins with Kyle introducing himself and Carson, the other owner, and their families to his audience and touting their successes in the industry of having worked with almost 1.3 million affiliates since 2005 and having created many 6 & & figure incomes.
He also explains the process of accessing the WA Platform using the resource menu by explaining the function of each item on, as well as how to get to the training via the Dashboard sidebar.
He also addressed the commission structure by highlighting the differences between starter member commissions and premier member commissions.
The lesson also includes two videos, the first is about the 2019 Las Vegas annual convention for Wealthy Affiliate high achievers. The second video is a comprehensive walk-through of the Wealthy Affiliate Program.
Lesson 1 Tasks
- Adding your Affiliate Goals
- Commenting on at least two other people’s goals
- Saying whether you plan to make the Las vegas Conference
- Watching the WA walk-through video.
This is a fundamental lesson in which he begins to lay the fundamentals of affiliate marketing. If you are serious about an affiliate marketing career, this lesson is a can’t miss.
Lesson 2 – Choosing Your Domain
This lesson “Choosing Your Domain,” is all about how to create your own brand online through your Wealthy Affiliate website. Kyle walks you through what you must do to create a brand that will be successful and can be sustainable. The keys to branding are to choose your direction or niche and to define your target audience
Lesson 2 Tasks
1. Reading a Tutorial on your Target Audience
2. Choosing a Brand/Direction for your site”
3. Asking for help if you need it..
Lesson 3 – Building Your Website
This is one of the most exciting of the ten lessons in this series. It is about building your website in 30 seconds. It is inspiring because you get to do it yourself as you follow the instruction laid out by Kyle. In the lesson, Kyle walks you through the four steps involved in the website building process. As well as, with the use of a video walking you through the SiteRubix platform showing how you can build a website with speed and effeciency at Wealthy Affiliate.
Lesson 3 Tasks
- Watching the video how to build a website in 30 seconds
- Choosing a Domain
- Building your Website on SiteRubix
Lesson 4 – A Website Look Around
Now that you have your website up and running it is time to start focusing on building out the site. This lesson teaches you about about the back office of your website and how some WordPress functions work. Kyle walks you through the back office (administration area) of your site and shows you how to clean up the back office area and remove the dummy contents. The lesson includes a video on how to set up your website back office.
Lesson 4 Tasks
- Watching a Video about how to set up your website back office
- Deleting the Dummy Content on your website
- Navigating the Back Office of Your Site
- Installing WordPress Updates
Lesson 5 – Activating Your Plugins
Plugins will eventually become an essential component of your website as you build out your site. This lesson introduces you to plugins and how to activate them on your website. Two Plugins are preinstalled on every website built on the SiteRubix Platform. EWWW Image Organizer which minimizes images on your website to make your site load faster, and All in One SEO, to prepare your site for search engine rankings. In the video, Kyle walks you through the Plugins area of WordPress and show you how to activate your plugins.
Lesson 5 Tasks
- Watching Plugins Video.
- Activating Your Plugins.
Lesson 6 – Getting Your Website Ready for SEO
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is essential to content creation because you are preparing your content to rank on the search engines. In this lesson, Kyle introduces the SEO concept and with the help of a video “Setting Up Your Website for Search Engines,” walks you through how to prepare your site for SEO.
Lesson 6 Tasks
- Watching the SEO video.
- Set Up your All in One SEO Settings.
Lesson 7 – Your Initial Framework of Content
This lesson is your introduction to content creation. Kyle introduces you to the Sie Content platform where you will be creating all your content going forward. He creates a video called “Creating Your Initial Framework of Content” in which he walks you through how to use the Site Content platform to create and publish content.
Lesson 7 Tasks
- Watching Content Video
- Creating Your About Me Content
- Creating Your Privacy Policy PAGE
- Creating a Menu for Your Site
Lesson 8 – Understanding the Keyword Research Process
Understanding the keyword research process is a significant step towards getting your website ranked by the search engines. In this lesson, you begin to learn the importance of keywords to your business. In the video “Keyword Mastery, Keywords Are the Foundation of Your Success” Kyle explains the importance of keywords and the art of keyword research using JAAXY, the Wealthy Affiliate keyword research platform.
Lesson 8 Tasks
1. Watch Keyword Research Video
2. Researching Keywords.
Lesson 9 – Creating Thoughtful, Insightful Reviews
Product reviews must be thorough and thoughtful to impress your readers and propel them to act. You learn to create good product reviews for your website. In the video “Creating, Thoughtful, Insightful Reviews,” Kyle walks you through the process of how to create and architect a proper review, and how to integrate Wealthy Affiliate into your site.
Lesson 9 Tasks
- Watch the “Creating Thoughtful, Insightful Reviews” VIDEO
- Choosing a Title for Your Review
- Creating Your Wealthy Affiliate Review
- Publish Your Review
Lesson 10 – The Exciting Journey has begun
Here, Kyle wraps up the Phase 1 training by reinforcing the underpinnings of a successful marketing business on. He provides benchmarks of the accomplishments you should strive to achieve with your online business over different periods up to five years.
Lesson 10 Tasks
- Rewarding Yourself at the end Phase 1.
- Continue to the next lesson
Conclusion
If you have a desire to make money online as an affiliate marketer, then this Bootcamp training, mainly Phase 1, is the place to start. It is a basic course in which Kyle lays the groundwork of affiliate marketing for you to build on.
In lesson 3 you learned how to build a website, in lesson 6 you learned how to prepare your site for Search Engine Optimization, in lesson 7 you were introduced to content creation and in lesson 8 you learn about keyword research. As Kyle pointed out in the first lesson, “if you are building a skyscraper you will need a solid foundation.” These lessons are the beginning of that foundation.
If you are wondering whether to start the Bootcamp training or not, I hope this review makes your decision a little easier.
If you have any questions or comments please leave them below.