The Optional Extra Costs
At Wealthy Affiliate
(Starter and Premium)
By Marcus at Work From Home Watchdog
Wealthy Affiliate is renowned for being an honest and transparent work from home community.
As a result, any further costs at Wealthy Affiliate are clearly stated, and are purely designed to enhance your membership even further.
In this article, I’m going to break down every single additional cost that you might come across as a Wealthy Affiliate member.
That way you will have a clear idea of what to expect if you are considering trying Wealthy Affiliate.
I will also explain how to get the best possible cost-saving deals as a Wealthy Affiliate member, and more importantly, the best times to take advantage of these offers.
The Wealthy Affiliate Starter account is the entrance point that I recommend everyone should take when first trying Wealthy Affiliate.
It’s completely free to setup a Starter account, and it grants you limited yet very powerful access to everything within the Wealthy Affiliate community.
The first optional cost that you will encounter as a Starter member is a relatively small one, and it’s also a purchase that you do not need to make.
It comes in the form of a domain name for your website, as indicated below in the ‘Build My Website’ section of the Wealthy Affiliate training.
Just in case you are unsure of the purpose of a domain name, it serves as the title for your website.
For example, my domain name for Work From Home Watchdog is what you might expect:
Without a domain name, your website cannot function or appear on the Internet, so it’s a necessary thing to have.
But as mentioned earlier, it’s not a necessary purchase at Wealthy Affiliate and shortly I will explain why.
First let’s take a look at the process of actually buying a domain name at Wealthy Affiliate.
After clicking on the ‘Register A Domain’ button highlighted in the image below, you are asked to search for a domain name.
*Please note: You build your website on lesson 3 of the ‘Getting Started’ training at Wealthy Affiliate, so by the time you reach that part of the training, you will have already learned how to come up with some domain name ideas.
Purely for the purpose of showing you how it works, I’m going to search for the domain name ‘marcuswadomainexample’:
No surprises to see that the .com version is available, and it will cost me $13.99.
It’s important to note that domain costs are per year, so if you do decide to buy a domain name for your website at Wealthy Affiliate, it would cost you an additional $13.99 per year.
This is a very small price to pay for what is effectively the foundation of your online business.
Ok, so let’s now look at your options if you don’t want to pay for a domain name for your website at Wealthy Affiliate.
Let’s head back to the ‘Build My Website’ section, but this time we will look at the ‘On A Free Domain’ Option.
This option allows you to build an entirely cost-free website by using a free domain at Wealthy Affiliate.
Once you’ve clicked the ‘On A Free Domain’ button, you are taken to a page where you search for your free domain name.