How to Make Money on YouTube

This article can help you make money in a number of ways, but you’ll need to follow some basic rules and use your imagination. And you can’t expect to generate income overnight. In fact, it might take years to reach your goals. But if you’re willing to put in the time and effort, you can eventually enjoy both financial and social rewards from creating video content on YouTube. Here are some tips for making money on YouTube

Launching your channel

Sure, you can upload some videos for kicks and giggles, but if you’re trying to make money, your approach will have to be a bit more serious. First, think about what you plan on covering with your channel—one huge area of interest or several niche topics? There are pros and cons of each: If one large topic makes up most of your channel content, it could be easier to get that video seen by millions of people.

Promoting your videos

The best way to make money on YouTube is by promoting your videos. This means that you need a decent number of subscribers and views before you can start earning real money from ads—and that’s if you’re going with ad revenue as your sole source of income (more on that below). But before we talk about monetization, we have some other tips for increasing visibility.

Monetizing video views

Looking for a new way to make money from your video content? It’s important to understand how much money you can actually make from advertising, because every day more and more people are creating their own videos. That means it’s easier than ever before for advertisers to find people who are creating relevant content, so if you want those views—and those dollars—you need to differentiate yourself.

Monetizing a specific product

The most common way of making money from YouTube is through ads. For example, if you have a popular channel that reviews different tech products, you could become an affiliate for a company like Amazon. When viewers click on an ad and purchase something off Amazon after clicking through your video, you receive a percentage of the profit for sending them to Amazon. That's called monetizing a specific product or service.

Monetizing your channel

Another way for a channel to earn money is through monetization. Monetization allows channels to make money off of advertising; basically, you can allow companies to place ads on your videos, and every time a viewer watches one of those ads (say, a movie trailer), you get paid. It’s pretty easy: You fill out some information and submit it through YouTube, Google handles all the advertising negotiations and checks out your content, and then they cut you a check.

Networking with influencers

There are various ways for you to make money through your channel. The first one is by becoming an affiliate partner of another company and promoting their products. You can sign up with a company like Unbounce, Instapage, or Leadpages and promote their service along with your own. This way, if someone likes your content they will visit that site through you and it’s possible they may buy something through that link.

SEO best practices for YouTube channels

In order to make money from your channel, you need to be able to rank well in search results. That’s going to require a significant amount of SEO work—not only optimizing individual videos with keywords and descriptions, but also building out a whole website with optimized internal links, quality guest posting and more. While there’s no clear-cut formula for success (because Google is constantly evolving its algorithm), here are some basic best practices that will help get you moving in the right direction