How to make money on YouTube
There are many people who post videos on YouTube every day, day after day. Unfortunately, only a small handful of those people realize that it’s possible to monetize the videos they’re uploading to YouTube.
There are a multitude of different ways you can get on YouTube and let it make money for you. A vast majority of people making money from YouTube are primarily and some form of home business in most cases.
However, there are always different means to monetize YouTube. You can promote your home business within your videos, affiliate marketing products, or possibly even sell your own tangible products.
There is still an additional way to make money from YouTube that most people are not aware of, and that is the purpose of this article today.
The YouTube monetization program
Once you become a partner of the monetization program through YouTube, it actually allows you to insert ads into your videos. Every time one of your in-video ads is viewed or clicked, you will be paid per click and/or view.
The rules to qualify for the program are quite modest, as long as you are not promoting any type of vulgarity or hate in your videos and you are 18 years old, you will be accepted. Some of you reading this may already have hundreds of existing YouTube videos that you can go into your channel settings and add the monetization feature to right now.
For those of you who are interested in getting started on YouTube, you now have a real method by which you can make money online without the need to join a home business or even need advertising dollars or capital.
What are the best types of videos to monetize?
Me personally, with the type of personality that I have, I really enjoy comedy and laughter and things of that nature. So obviously what I would do is post as many funny videos as possible. Comedy videos tend to go viral much faster than most other types of videos.
Of course, after the comedic videos, there will be videos of a tragic or dramatic type. You know this to be true just by watching the nightly news every day. The next thing I want to cover is what you should do with your videos after you’ve added the monetization feature.
How to get more viewers so you can earn more money
There are actually a multitude of ways you can get more people to watch your YouTube videos and I’ll cover a couple here today, but I won’t go into too much depth because there are simply too many. The first way you can start to get a large number of viewers to watch your videos is to put them on Facebook.
When it comes to the internet, your goal is to go where the eyes are. Currently, the most popular websites on the Internet are Google, Facebook and YouTube. Clearly, those are the three locations you want to drive traffic from.
On Facebook, there are several ways you can drive traffic and viewers to your new videos. Here are just a couple of methods you could use:
On your Facebook wall
In Facebook groups
facebook fan pages
Instant messaging
facebook pay per click
Tag other people in your posts
Just that handful of methods is enough to get hundreds of visitors every time you add a new video to your Facebook wall or in Facebook groups.
Of course, another factor in the results you get from using social media is the number of followers/friends you have on your profile. When it comes to social media, you’ll definitely want to take advantage of “The Big Five.” The Big Five consist of sites like:
interest
Google+
Those are the five great social media sites that will generate tons of traffic for your new videos. Of course, the more traffic your videos get, the more people will click on the ads displayed within your videos, ultimately putting more dollars in your pocket.
If you follow the steps mentioned here in this article and go out and produce tons of videos, you will start to see some income from the YouTube monetization program. Just make sure you don’t make it difficult for them because their videos can be about literally anything.
So just get out your camera phone and find something you like to talk about and record yourself with your camera phone. It really could be that simple. Just one last piece of advice, what interests you most comes naturally to you.
So what is easiest for you will be what you can do the most. The more you do, the more you earn. Now that you know how to make money on YouTube, so get out there and start making tons of videos and on the monetization feature!
