@brendamz It just saddens me to see how many people wasted so much money on WA, while,as I said before, their basic training for beginners is ok (now, it wasn't for years), once you have your website up and running and have written blogs, there is no one holding you responsible to tell you if you are on the right track or not.
Kyle, and other 'teachers' on the platform should have told you (sorry if this is blunt) : "Brenda, what you are doing right now, isn't going to make you any money." It wasn't just the HCU, you were writing about things that NOBODY outside of WA cares about.
No one cares about the 'Hubs', their 'keyword research tool Jaaxy,which nobody ever heard of and which isn't any good", or their 'perfect AI writer (which sucks)', or their 'world-class hosting" (which sucks). Even without the HCU update, you wouldn't have gotten anywhere, sorry to say!
And of course, you got nowhere with social media, because also their training on social media sucks! Again: basics, how to set something up, like a Facebook page or a newsletter, is fine (I'm even still a member for a while, because I want to setup a newsletter to my 2 other sites as well, and Jay's class about that is easy to follow),but other than that nobody is going to succeed on social media, only based on their 'training'.
Heck, have you ever really checked out Jays FB page or even just WA's page? Even on Linkedn and Twitter, both are nobodies. They don't ever show the 'big money' and 'success' they have with their own sites. The only 'succes' they have every now and then is showing how Jay ranked a post above Martha Stewart,hahahahahaha!
Even Vitaly never made most of his money with affiliate marketing, but with ads!
Of course Kyle says to everyone: don't go look on socials or elsewhere than on WA, people might start to notice they are doing things wrong! hahahahahaha
I opened up my ads income today (screenshot), my stats have never been this high, since I started focussing on socials, and ignored Google.
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(while WA was STILL like "get your longtail keywords and you'll be fine", "keep using the AI writer and you'll be fine", "ignore the noise everywhere else but only focus on our platform and you'll be fine". If I had done that, and never look anywhere else (yes, on those socials that you don't like), I wouldn't have gotten anywhere.
The only people on WA who were helpful to me were Partha, Diane, and Andy. Oh, and Vitaly at least was and is being honest about everything, love him for that. (he was the only one telling me that I should probably be on socials instead of focussing on writing for my blog, after his case studies on the model building niche, this was even before all the Google updates)
The others like Kyle, Carson even in a dm to me about the hosting, Eric Cantu, they were ALL OVER ME when after the HCU update, I said that using longtail keyword isn't going to help us!
If you google 'WA review", you'll only get a few youtube results from people who are never active on WA and are clearly just sucking up to the WA cult,and one video from Eric, who got a lucky shot on Youtube.
Did you notice that at their 'meetings in Las Vegas for their star-winners', it is always the same people in the pictures? The teachers on WA and every now and then someone else who had been a teacher on WA. Did you ever see any really successful member who has no bonds with WA at those meetings? I can't believe nobody ever noticed this.
If I had now joined WA as a newbie, I would have been gone a lot quicker than I would have a few years ago, because back then, all you saw were classes and good information, now what you see is social talk and 'hang in there, it will get better'. I would have RUN so hard from the platform as it is now, I don't want to chat about my life or how vaguely 'it will get better if you just stick to it, my 'friend' (ugh),I want to make money!
Remember when you taught me about access for screenreaders for websites, and that I should adjust some colors and so on? You were passionate about explaining it to me, and you were doing that so well, I think you'd be better at creating a niche about that, instead of trying to promote something that is dead and dying and is even working against you. But I see you moved on, good for you!
What are you going to do now?
Good luck with everything you will try
Lizzy