How To Make Money On Youtube In 10 Easy Steps
How To Make Money On Youtube In 10 Easy Steps
YouTube has migrated from being just an entertainment platform to the world’s second largest search engine (Google is the first). The company worked alongside Google a few years ago to create an increasingly lucrative marketing platform, as more people are moving from television to the digital world. YouTube is no more the sphere of film makers and funny videos, it has become a network which has more than 2 billion video views per week, and also gives low cost or no cost means to establish a social trade channel for businesses.
Many individuals, businesses, and companies are taking advantage of this platform in a positive way, so if you haven’t joined the train yet, you’re greatly missing out. It is not only by uploading videos that you can make money on YouTube. However, to succeed in anything takes planning, and YouTube is not an exemption. These are 10 easy steps to make money on YouTube.
- Use YouTube to get traffic for your blog and website
A blog or website needs traffic to flourish. You can use YouTube to gain traffic, and also to increase it. Start by getting the Creator Playbook, turn some of your contents into videos, and also create new ones. You can plan to make a video post one a week, or twice a week, according to your schedule, and be sure to add the link of your website to the first line of your video descriptions. This way you can direct your YouTube traffic to your blog and website.
- Research keywords
When creating content for your website, you need to use major keywords so people can easily find what you put up. The same goes with YouTube. Use YouTube’s keyword tool to find popular words corresponding to what you do. This way, you know what people search for and you can work around that. You have to be strategic in creating videos on YouTube, and positioning it to be seen by your audience. Google includes YouTube videos in their searches online, so you can check your Google keyword research to know what people search for.
- Provide your products on YouTube
If you create products, YouTube can be the best place to advertise and promote them to make and increase sales. Whether you create apps, arts, e-books, or music, you can promote them on YouTube. This implies that you create a video on YouTube advertising your products, you get to reach a large number of audiences this way. Just be sure to add a link to your products in the video description, this makes it easier for users to go straight to the link and buy the products.
How To Make Money On Youtube In 10 Easy Steps
- Create a web TV series
YouTube allows you to create your own web TV shows. You can monetize whatever it is you love doing on this platform and make money from it. You can create short stories, comedy series, talk show, or drama series. You can gather a few friends together and record your own TV shows. However, you only have 15 minutes per video, but you can also increase your limits if you want to upload longer videos. You are only limited on this space by your imaginations, and your budgets of course.
- Be an affiliate marketer for companies
Affiliate marketing implies that you sell products in exchange for a pay. A lot of companies offer this job to people who help them promote their products. There is no limit to the number of companies that use these services, even Amazon and eBay. You can also join some affiliate networks to help increase your visibility, networks such as ShareASale.com, Click Bank, and Commission Junction.
To make money on YouTube through affiliate marketing, you review the products in video, or create ‘how to use the products’ tutorials. And then you add the link to the products in the video description. Make sure to use the affiliate link, this way, the owner of the products can give you credit for it.
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- YouTube Partner program
You can join the YouTube partner program to get paid for your videos directly on the platform. Once you enable your channel for monetization, you get paid a certain commission of the payment for advertising on YouTube. You get paid for every thousand views on your videos. All you have to do is verify your channel, and you can start earning.
There’s nothing wrong with being paid for what you do. This way of making money is like partnering with YouTube, but you’re earning from it as well.
- Test-market your products
YouTube is a great tool for market research. You can know if your idea is going to be profitable before you venture into it. For instance, if you have an idea for a product, you can create some videos on it and the views and comments you get on the videos will give you an idea of how much viable your business idea is. Your audience on YouTube can also give your ideas on how to make it viable, and you can proceed to creating the ideas and getting funding will be easier.
How To Make Money On Youtube In 10 Easy Steps
A lot of people search for ‘how-tos’ videos on YouTube, and you can leverage on this. If you know how to do something, and you can teach people, then you should do that on YouTube and make money from it. You can make beauty videos, fashion, cooking, and anything people search for online. This is a great way of using what you have to earn money.
You can be a YouTube star by creating videos about your interests, or whatever you’re passionate about. Even if it is an absurd idea, you can develop your own YouTube channel and post them there. YouTube stars earn a lot of money, and you can too, only if you know your way around it.
- Turn your pet or child into a star
“You do not have to be a singer to become a YouTube star. If you’re lucky, you could shoot a video of your child, pet, or a double rainbow that strikes a chord and goes viral, ” says Forbes. If you see anything that catches your attention, video it, and upload the video. You never can tell, it might catch a lot of people’s attention too, and can be the next talk of the town. It’s another cool way to make money on YouTube.
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