How to make money on YouTube

There are many people who post videos to YouTube every day, every day. Unfortunately, only a small handful of those people realize that it is possible to monetize the videos they post on YouTube.

There are a multitude of different ways that you can access YouTube and let it generate income for you. A vast majority of the people who make money from YouTube are primarily and some form of home-based businesses in most cases.

However, there are always different ways 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 do not know about, and that is the purpose of this article today.

YouTube’s monetization program

Once you become a partner in the monetization program through YouTube, it actually allows you to insert ads into your videos. Every time one of your ads is viewed or clicked within the video, you will be paid for each click and / or view.

The rules to qualify for the show are pretty modest as long as you don’t promote any kind of vulgarity or hatred in your videos and you are 18 years old and you will be accepted. Some of you reading this may already have hundreds of existing YouTube videos that they can go into their channel settings and add the monetization feature right now.

For those of you who are interested in getting started on YouTube, you now have a real method that allows you to make money online without the need to join a home business or even without the need for money or advertising capital.

What are the best types of videos to monetize?

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 I can. Comedy videos tend to go viral much faster than most other types of videos.

Of course, second to comic videos will be tragic or dramatic types of videos. You know this to be true simply by watching the evening 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 depth because there are simply too many. The first way you can start to get tons of viewers to watch your videos is to put them on Facebook.

When it comes to the internet, your goal is to get where the eyes are. Currently, the most popular websites on the entire Internet are Google, Facebook, and YouTube. Clearly, those are the three locations you want to drive traffic from.

On Facebook, there are a number of ways you can drive traffic and viewers to your new videos. Here are just a couple of methods you can use:

On your Facebook wall

In Facebook groups

Facebook fan pages

Instant messaging

Pay per click on Facebook

Tag other people in your posts

Just that handful of methods is enough to get you hundreds of visitors every time you add a new video to your Facebook wall or Facebook groups.

Of course, another factor in the results you get when using social networks is the number of followers / friends you have on your profile. When it comes to social media, you definitely want to take advantage of “The Big Five.” The Big Five are made up of sites like:

Facebook

Twitter

Pinterest

Instagram

Google+

Those are the big five social media sites that will get you a lot of traffic to your new videos. Of course, the more traffic you get to your videos, the more people will click on your ads displayed within your videos, which will ultimately bring in more dollars in your pocket.

If you follow the steps mentioned here in this article 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 yourself because your videos can be about literally anything.

So just take 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 tip, whatever interests you the most will come to you more naturally.

So whatever is easiest for you will be what you can do the most. The more you do, the more you will earn. Now you know how to make money on YouTube, so get out there and start making tons of videos and monetization!