Wealthy Affiliate Review 2025: Hubs Platform, AI Tools, Pros, Cons, Pricing & more.

Wealthy Affiliate is always changing.

So with the new AI-powered tools and integrations, new training, new hubs platform, and more introduced up to the end of 2024, I’m presenting you with a new, up-to-date Wealthy Affiliate review.

I’ve written a few Wealthy Affiliate reviews since joining the course and community membership in 2007. These reviews have always been different, highlighting new changes and breaking down the current value they offered with courses, tools, and community.

In this honest review, I’ll try to give you all the answers you need to decide if Wealthy Affiliate is for you. I’ve been a member of Wealthy Affiliate since 2007 and has always kept my membership. I’ve experienced all the changes (good ones and bad ones) and I’m still a member to this day.

If you’re asking any of the following questions, I got you.

Before I get into this review, I would like to remind you that Wealthy Affiliate is free to join (no credit card required) so find a business idea, sign up and try it out as part of your own due diligence.

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What is Wealthy Affiliate?

Wealthy Affiliate is an affiliate marketing training course and community membership aimed primarily at teaching beginners how to build an online business with affiliate marketing.

It was launched in September 2005 by two Canadian affiliate marketers, Kyle and Carson, who wanted to share their knowledge of buying traffic with other marketers.

The site began as a keyword list subscription service costing $29/month. This was a very valuable service at the time since buying traffic with Google Adwords was a very popular strategy at the time.

At $29/month, Wealthy Affiliate didn’t even have a community when it was launched. They added a forum soon after and kept adding resources. Today, Wealthy Affiliate is a fully-contained online business management hub with courses, websites and AI-powered research.

Users also get community with profiles, live classes, web hosting, blogs, support and much more.

In 2024, with the recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI), Wealthy Affiliate has adapted and added many upgrades including their hubs platform (more on this), updated training, and integrations.

Despite all this, they’ve kept the subscription price low and affordable for members compared to the $995 courses offered by competitors.

Who are Kyle & Carson?

When you’re trying to learn affiliate marketing online, it is important to know who you’re learning from.

So, naturally, you might be asking who are Kyle and Carson? Can they be trusted?

Being a member of the platform for over 15 years, I’ve followed both guys and I’m able to answer these questions confidently.

Kyle Loudon and Carson Lim began their affiliate marketing journey as two college friends from British Columbia, Canada.

They started out buying traffic on Google and achieved relatively quick success within the first 6 months of their journey. This prompted them to start their own membership site to provide keyword lists to other affiliates who wanted to be successful with buying traffic.

Nowadays, both guys are still very active in the everyday operation of Wealthy Affiliate. Kyle is more public, creating training and discussions, as well as engaging posts and live classes.

Carson deals more with the technical side of things and the behind the scenes developments, occasionally popping in to give updates.

Both owners seem to have the best interests of the community in mind from what I’ve seen for the time that I’ve been on Wealthy Affiliate. They are definitely trust-worthy and ethical in the way they do their marketing.

Should You Join Wealthy Affiliate?

Wealthy Affiliate isn’t for everyone. Sure anyone can join but there are some that will get more value out of the training more than others.

The main target audience for Wealthy Affiliate is the beginner who wants to learn how to make money online with affiliate marketing. Other experience levels may also get some value from the tools and community.

And there are some who many not be a fit for Wealthy Affiliate. Spammers who have no intention of taking the training and persons who expect to get rich quick are two groups that come to mind.

Also, if you’re advanced level, you probably wouldn’t get much value from the training as it is geared more to beginners.

Wealthy Affiliate Key Features

Wealthy Affiliate isn’t just about courses. Courses are the main feature since it is a learning platform but there are also additional features to make those courses work for the members who are taking them.

In this section, I’m going to be reviewing the most important features available on Wealthy Affiliate.

Hubs

When you create a business hub on Wealthy Affiliate, this becomes the place where you will manage your website and do your learning, keyword research and more.

Since Premium members can only have three websites and Premium Plus members can have ten, you can only have three or ten hubs, respectively.

The training is integrated into the hub so you don’t have to leave the hub to do the course. You can also track your progress inside your hub.

Other key features include your writing tasks where you can add your articles to create a sort of publishing schedule. Well, at least, that is what I use it for.

Let’s take a look at some of the features inside Hubs.

Wealthy Affiliate Training

There are different types of training at Wealthy Affiliate.

First, the core training is the main course that everyone is expected to follow. When you create a business hub, your training is provided inside the hub so that you wouldn’t have to leave the hub to consume the training.

Depending on the type of niche you chose, your training can be general niche training or it can be the bootcamp training where you have the option to promote Wealthy Affiliate.

Starter members (and all other members) follow the natural setup process for a website business. As you complete the training, your progress is tracked so you can see where you are and how your website is coming along.

This first series used to be called: “Laying the Groundwork for your Business” but is now just “Getting Started”. It contains the following modules:

After he second module, the trainings gets a bit more advanced but still teaching about things you need to know to make money with your website. There’s:

This training is always up-to-date and current and reflects everything happening in the industry at the time.

Each lessons is a video recording with Kyle teaching and giving step-by-step instruction. There is also an accompanying text version of the lesson right under the video with tasks you need to complete from the lesson.

In addition to that, each lesson has a discussion area where students can ask questions.

It’s great to see new members making progress with their websites. Some ask for feedback and you can see they’re following the course as they have logos and all the relevant pages on their websites.

The beginner course is way below my experience level and since it’s kind of brand new after it was refreshed with new video recordings, I’d have to watch them over again to track my progress. However, it’s great training for beginners in my honest opinion.

With the hubs integration, members don’t have to learn about installing WordPress, choosing and installing a theme, plugins and all that technical newbie stuff. They progress way faster since most of this stuff is completed for them right after they choose a business idea during signup.

Live Expert Classes

Besides the core training, there are live expert classes. These aren’t available to Starter members, only for paid members on the Premium and Premium Plus tiers.

Premium members get one live expert class every Friday taught by Kyle or Magistudios which Premium Plus members get several every week taught by a different expert within the community.

The classes are great to cover more in-depth topics that aren’t focused on within the core training. For example, while the core training may briefly cover topics like using Pinterest for traffic, live expert classes can be just about this entire topic.

Some critics of Wealthy Affiliate complain that the community isn’t taught certain topics. Being a Wealthy Affiliate member means you get access to the core training which gives you a beginner to advance framework for your business and you get expert training on other topics with the live classes. Everything is covered.

Here’s a view of the Live Expert Classes for an idea of some of the topics which are covered.

Inside the Email & Funnel Marketing category, you have classes such as:

In the screenshot above, you can see that the next class is about “Building Featured Images in Canva for your Blog Posts”. Members can subscribe here and see a countdown until the class starts.

I love the live classes because they’re interactive, and they’re void of fluff and marketing. There is nothing to be sold when attending these classes which is a big plus.

Tools & Resources

In order for members to put the training into action, (and this goes for any training course at all), they need access to resources like web hosting, keyword research tools and more.

Usually, this is solely on the business owner to pay for these resources. Sometimes, this presents a barrier for many beginners who may not have the funds or who maybe be hesitant to move forward with having to pay for stuff.

Wealthy Affiliate, over the years, has made an effort to become a fully-contained membership where everything is available for members to launch their online business.

Here are some of the best features available to Wealthy Affiliate members.

Managed WordPress Hosting

My aunt, proud of the success that I had with affiliate marketing, and also curious, decided to join Wealthy Affiliate many years ago. I don’t think she would have launched a website at all if she had to go look for web hosting externally.

Wealthy Affiliate provides web hosting for all members. It’s a great way to break down some of the barriers beginners face when starting their affiliate marketing business. The cost is included in the membership fee so it’s just a matter of launching your website.

The hosting is managed WordPress hosting which means you can only build WordPress sites and you don’t have to worry about backups, security and other technical behind the scenes stuff. These are all “managed” by the service provider.

Hosting quality is comparable to a lot of the top WordPress hosts. It may not beat my current host, WPX, on speed, but it’s way better than the web hosting service everyone seems to recommend – Bluehost.

There are also tons of great built-in features that I have never seen on other WordPress hosts.

For example, there is no need for a caching plugin. You can access SitePlus from your websites dashboard and toggle on a feature called SiteSpeed. Then just choose either accelerated or extreme caching for your site to work with. Both will speed up your site’s loading times but the extreme option also does the work of some premium WordPress caching plugins to help your site load faster.

Article Designer (AI Writer)

Before Article Designer, there was just Site Content which was an editor where you could write your content inside Wealthy Affiliate before porting it to your website to publish.

With the new Article Designer, now part of Site Content, AI can help you to create entire articles in a structured way. You’ll need Word Credits for this. Premium members get 7000 credits per month while Premium Plus members get 20000.

Site Content keeps track of your writing stats and all your publishing activity.

While Site Content might be useful and have its pluses, I prefer writing and designing my content right inside WordPress since you can actually design better looking content. With the Article Designer, you’d have to still edit after you’ve published to add things like video embeds, columns, tables, and more if needed.

Plus Article Designer only works with your website if it’s hosted on Wealthy Affiliate.

Site Feedback

When you’re just starting your first website ever, it would be great to know if you’re making any design mistakes and how to fix it.

Wealthy Affiliate has a platform for this. With Site Feedback, members can post their websites and get feedback on everything from their content, layout, site design, or just general feedback.

To make this work, members who give feedback are rewarded with credits which they can use towards requesting feedback or comments. Yes, you’ll need credits to post your website for feedback. You can buy credits or earn credits by offering feedback or comments.

Site Comments

This is similar to Site Feedback except you’re asking for members to comment on your website posts. This makes your website look active and helps to build user-generated-content (UGC) which can be quite beneficial to your search engine optimization strategy.

To use Site Comments, you can post the article you want comments on and specify what kind of comments you need. Members will learn credits for the comments they add via the platform. Sites must be hosted on Wealthy Affiliate to use Site Comments.

Niche Finder 2.0

The first step to starting any business is to find a niche. Wealthy Affiliate has a tool called Niche Finder 2.0 that can help you to do just this.

The tool is built into the hubs platform, accessible at the step where you need to find a niche for your hub website. It works with AI, most likely a ChatGPT integration.

You can enter a seed keyword – like a passion, interest or hobby, and Niche Finder will give you 10 suggestions which you can also use to dig deeper.

I found this tool very helpful in helping me research ideas. I use ChatGPT anyway so it’s just as great. You don’t have to enter a prompt so it has a lot of value for people who may be new to affiliate marketing but haven’t gotten into the whole AI thing.

Niche Finder 2.0 can also be accessed from your dashboard menu apart from it’s hub integration.

Wealthy Affiliate Community

Another valuable aspect of Wealthy Affiliate is the community. Lots of other memberships have communities because it makes learning more interactive and there is built-in support.

Over 2.3 million people from 195 countries worldwide have been a member of the Wealthy Affiliate community.

The community at Wealthy Affiliate holds a lot of value no matter your experience level but as with the training, it benefits beginners the most.

Wealthy Affiliate has several features that make their community a very effective one for helping members to make progress.

Community Profile

All Wealthy Affiliate members get a profile when they join the site. You can upload your photos and write a description about yourself to help your profile stand out.

You can follow people and people can follow you just like on social media. Other members can send you private messages but there are also rules to prevent unwanted messages from ruining your Wealthy Affiliate experience.

Another feature that’s prominently displayed on your profile is your goals. During the set-up phase of your profile, you’re asked about your goals and the answers are displayed as a reminder of what you’re working towards.

Your Wealthy Affiliate profile allows people to get to know who your are and can be a valuable networking tool.

If you sign up to Wealthy Affiliate through my link, we will be instantly connected so you can see my profile and be able to message me when you go premium.

Blogging

Blogging inside Wealthy Affiliate is a great way to engage with the community. You share your thoughts and you can get traffic from email notifications to people who follow you, and from the dashboard of other members.

Blogs are also search engine-friendly so if you optimize it for the right keywords, you can also get search engine traffic.

Some approved members also have the ability to create vlogs but this most likely wouldn’t apply to a beginner who is just starting Wealthy Affiliate to learn about affiliate marketing.

Blogging activity is gamified so members have an incentive to post and share their thoughts about topics that love, their progress or things they find interesting.

Live Chat

Live chat was a feature that was heavily requested back when Wealthy Affiliate abandoned the forum and introduced the native community setup.

It was an instant hit when it was first introduced and is always active. Since Wealthy Affiliate has members in every time-zone, you can go into the chat at any time and get support.

The chat is on the right hand side of the dashboard and you can see live activity as members are having conversations. Kyle regularly pops into the chat to help members with whatever issues they may be having.

All the community features including blogging, live chat and having a profile where people can post messages make the learning experience at Wealthy Affiliate very engaging, interactive and helps with progress and motivation. It’s one of the reasons why I’m still keeping my membership even after completing the course.

Choosing An Online Business Idea To Make Money

Choosing a business idea or finding a niche is the first step if you want to make money with affiliate marketing. This is the first lesson I learned soon after I joined Wealthy Affiliate almost 18 years ago.

And it’s still the same in 2025. Wealthy Affiliate actually makes it easy for you by having you pick your niche before you start the training.

Right on the homepage, with the help of AI, Wealthy Affiliate’s niche finder tool allows users to generate niche ideas for their affiliate marketing business.

Here’s how it works.

You put in a search term related to something you’re passionate about or have an interest in, then press search.

The AI-powered tool will return 5 great sub-niches you could use to narrow your focus and build the perfect website.

For example, fitness experts wanting to start an online business would search for “fitness”. The tool returns sub-niches like “home workouts”, “fitness tech and wearables”, “yoga and mindfulness”, and more.

You can further narrow your search by searching for one of these terms or you can click the “Choose this” button to decide on a business idea you’re going to use.

After choosing an idea, you can then sign up to Wealthy Affiliate and your business hub will be built automatically. Your website, training, affiliate program opportunities, research and more are all available to you once you’re in Wealthy Affiliate.

I love playing with this tool because you can really narrow down broad niches and find something to build an affiliate marketing business around.

There is also a version inside the members area which you can use if you signed up without using the tool. This works even better because it gives you 10 results instead of 5.

Wealthy Affiliate: How To Make Money

Making money with affiliate marketing comes down to 4 basic steps.

This is the way it’s taught at Wealthy Affiliate and also how it is taught in many other courses too.

The difference though is that the first two steps are done in no time through the AI-assisted hub creation process at Wealthy Affiliate.

During signup, the AI Niche Finder tool helps you to narrow down your niche and a website is automatically built for you when your hub is created.

The training teaches you how to create content and you can use the Article Designer which is also an AI tool to assist you in the content creation process.

Finally, the monetization process allows you to earn from your hard work and visitors coming to your website. In your business hub, you’ll find a section where AI has suggested different affiliate programs relevant to your niche.

A common myth about Wealthy Affiliate is that members are only taught how to promote Wealthy Affiiate’s affiliate program. Promoting that affiliate program is a choice that a lot of members make but it isn’t the only direction that they’re taking to make money with affiliate marketing.

Wealthy Affiliate members are following a proven process with the help of AI, up-to-date training and integrated tools to make money online in 2025.

Wealthy Affiliate Support & Help

Support is one of the biggest benefits of joining Wealthy Affiliate. Affiliates who receive support and feedback achieve success at a faster rate than those who don’t.

Wealthy Affiliate has a number of support channels so that members can receive help quickly. These include:

To quickly find all the help channels on Wealthy Affiliate, there is a “help” menu link which gives you all the options as well as direct contacts to both Kyle and Carson via private messaging.

Here’s how each support channel works.

Questions & Answers

Asking questions are highly encouraged. Wealthy Affiliate makes it easy for you to ask questions with the “Ask a Question” feature. You’ll find this on your dashboard homepage so you can quickly ask a question whenever you need to .

Recent questions appear on everyone’s dashboard so they can have a chance to provide answers or find questions to answer.

Live Chat

The dashboard also has a community live chat which is always busy no matter the time of day. Wealthy Affiliate has members from all over the world in different time zones so you’ll always find someone on the chat.

This is another place where you can ask questions and get an answer very quickly.

Private Messaging

You can ask specific persons for help on Wealthy Affiliate via private messaging. For example, if you’ve identified a topic expert within the community, you may want to reach out to them.

Kyle and Carson provide their contact right inside the Help tab in your dashboard.

You can find the private message button for other members by going directly to their profile where you’ll find the message button.

If you decide to join Wealthy Affiliate through my link, we will instantly be connected and as a way of showing my appreciation, I’ll personally help you with any questions or issues you contact me with. You can find my profile here.

Training Responses

If you’re looking at a training, this is probably one of those times when you might have questions and need support.

All the training at Wealthy Affiliate have a comment section where you can ask questions and get answers from the community. Furthermore, you can check a box to indicate that it’s a question and his will show up in the Question & Answers card in everyone’s dashboard.

Site Support

Finally, there’s Site Support. This support channel is only used for when you need technical help with your websites or have a hosting issue.

I’ve used Site Support a few times before and each time they fixed the issue and replied in less than 5 minutes. Support is very fast compared to a lot of other WordPress hosting providers and they’re quite knowledgeable.

How Much Does Wealthy Affiliate Cost?

With everything that Wealthy Affiliate offers, you may be wondering what it costs to be a member.

There are two membership tiers on Wealthy Affiliate – Starter (free) and Premium Plus.

The free tier allows you to get started and see what’s available inside Wealthy Affiliate. The Premium Plus membership gives you access to everything Wealthy Affiliate has to offer and you have the option of paying monthly or annually.

Let’s take a look at what each membership tier costs.

Starter (Free)

One of the best things about Wealthy Affiliate for aspiring affiliate marketers who want to get started with some structured training, is that you can join for free.

The free membership at Wealthy Affiliate is called Starter. You only need a working email address to sign up and you aren’t required to enter your credit card info.

This tier, as you would expect, comes with some limitations but it allows you to get started with affiliate marketing by setting up a hub for your online business. Hubs contain a website and training so this is a great start without having to invest upfront in education, website hosting or even a domain name.

One major disadvantage of Starter is that you get full support for the first 7 days and then this is limited after. You can still use all the features available to you on the Starter membership but you wouldn’t be able to ask for help. This is a way of pushing you towards unlocking the benefits of the paid plan.

Premium Plus ($99/month or $697/year)

The Premium Plus membership is the paid membership tier at Wealthy Affiliate.

Upgrading from Starter to Premium Plus unlocks all the core features and training available to members. The paid plan costs $99/month or $697/year if you want to commit to an entire year at Wealthy Affiliate.

Members on the Premium Plus plan have access to:

Finally, I should mention that members get future price protection which means they would always pay the price at which they subscribe even if Wealthy Affiliate were to raise their prices.

Pros & Cons of Wealthy Affiliate

Having survived since 2005 while others have been long forgotten, Wealthy Affiliate seems to be providing a great service and training for aspiring affiliates.

But they aren’t without criticisms or faults. There are things I love about Wealthy Affiliate and there are also things that I wish they would do better.

Here are some of the good things about Wealthy Affiliate alongside some of the things they can probably improve on.

Wealthy Affiliate is generally great and provides almost everything members need to succeed online with affiliate marketing. This includes training, web hosting, keyword research tools, website building tools and a business management hub.

Most of the AI integrations are great also but I’ve always found Site Content which includes AI Article Designer a bit unnecessary or not as useful in its current state of development.

The criticisms about Wealthy Affiliate that appear on blogs and websites outside of Wealthy Affiliate are also no longer relevant for the most part. They tend to mainly talk about Wealthy Affiliate having outdated training but all of the training has been refreshed and is frequently being updated.

I will admit though, that there are much better training outside of Wealthy Affiliate that is more focused. However, those courses are in the price range of $995 and even higher.

Wealthy Affiliate is perfect for beginners who don’t want to invest that much on training and still have to pay for web hosting, domain names and possibly traffic generation.

Can You Make Money with Wealthy Affiliate?

Back in 2007, a year after I had just started doing affiliate marketing, Wealthy Affiliate helped me put the pieces together.

When I first encountered their training, there are something missing which prevented me from making any sales at all for about 8 months. I took action on everything I learned and I made my first sale. Consistently sales followed after that.

Applying the training and being a part of the community allowed me to earn a full-time income. I was earning more from affiliate marketing that from my government job.

After 6 months of consistently earning, I quit the government job to do affiliate marketing full-time.

The training at Wealthy Affiliate has changed many times since, keeping the core SEO strategy but updating the techniques as the internet marketing landscape changed.

No matter which version of the training, Wealthy Affiliate has always produced success stories from the members who were willing to learn and apply the knowledge.

Here are three stories that prove the Wealthy Affiliate training works.

The new version of the training includes the hubs update that was just released as well as new AI integrations. Can this new training yield success stories?

It may be too early to tell but the way it is set up, members are launching websites and have a whole business plan for their business via the AI-powered hubs platform.

This means that their should be more and faster successes happening with the new training and tools involved.

Is Wealthy Affiliate Legit?

Yes. Wealthy Affiliate is a legitimate platform where people can go to learn how to build an online business and also build it.

The platform has courses, web hosting and a website builder as well as other tools to help build an affiliate marketing business.

Wealthy Affiliate has been around since 2005 and has continue to evolve. This is evidence that Wealthy Affiliate is doing something right. Today it is one of the most popular affiliate marketing learning communities online with thousands of active students.

Final Verdict

If you’re looking to build an online business doing affiliate marketing then Wealthy Affiliate is one of your options for learning how to do so.

The platform is very beginner-friendly, provides all the training and tools you will need plus community for support. Although there are training that have a tighter structure, the Wealthy Affiliate training is still great and is especially valuable at it’s low price point.

Beginners will get the most value from the training and the AI-integrated tools which speed up the rate at which one can build their business. More intermediate and experienced marketers benefit less but can still get a lot of value interacting with the community.

Try Wealthy Affiliate for Free

To get started with Wealthy Affiliate, find your ideal business idea, then sign up for free with no credit card required.

Starter members get a free forever account with full support for the first 7 days. You can create one business hub and get training that allows you to start building your business.

The first 7 days is where you should take full advantage of the community and training. When you use my affiliate link, we’ll be connected instantly within the community and you can communicate and receive my support.

However, consider upgrading to a Premium Plus account as you will get the full benefits of being a Wealthy Affiliate member.

This includes:

Wealthy Affiliate FAQs

In this section, you’ll find the answers to some frequently asked questions about Wealthy Affiliate.

Is Wealthy Affiliate legit or scam?

Wealthy Affiliate is a legit training course and community that has been around since 2005. Scams rarely last that long in the affiliate marketing industry and Wealthy Affiliate has out-lived a lot of it’s competition.

The affiliate marketing training website has nothing to hide and anyone can join for free (no risk) to evaluate what they have to offer.

How much can I earn with Wealthy Affiliate?

How much you earn with Wealthy Affiliate depends on the direction you take, how much effort you put in and other factors. Wealthy Affiliate teaches affiliate marketing, where you promote other people’s products and the earning potential with affiliate marketing is infinite. Whether you earn $5 or $5000/month or more is totally up to you and how you apply the training.

How much is Wealthy Affiliate paid membership?

There are two membership levels and options for subscribing to Wealthy Affiliate.

You start with a Starter account – Free ($0).

Then you can upgrade to the paid membership which has monthly and yearly billing options.

Premium Plus monthly – $99/month
Premium Plus yearly – $697/year

Is Wealthy Affiliate a pyramid scheme?

Wealthy Affiliate is not a pyramid scheme. It is not even a multi-level marketing program. You can become an affiliate of Wealthy Affiliate, recommend it to others and earn commissions.

However, some critics of Wealthy Affiliate are comparing it to pyramid schemes because they believe that members are only making money promoting the program. There are lots of members who choose to promote in other niches and find success. The success stories are posted in the community.

Finally, there are no tiers in the affiliate marketing program. You can only earn recurring commissions on the sales that you make. You cannot earn on any sales your referrals make.