According to the recent Forbes report, lot of people are making money in Millions from
their YouTube Channels.
After reading the Forbes report, many people are showing interest to start their youtube
channel by hoping that they too can start earning money.
Personally, I am earning some money from my youtube channel.
So, I have decided to come up with this video for giving details about earning money from
YouTube.
Before giving more details, I want to clarify few things.
As I am going to tell mainly about earning money from youtube videos, I would like to
clarify that I am NOT working for YouTube or Google.
So, don't take it as official.
I am going to tell it based on my personal experiences.
I haven't done any research/survey/study to come up with this video.
I am just coming up with this video based on my own experiences and my own thoughts.
So, it need not be applicable for everyone.
Personally I am very comfortable with my youtube earnings than my other initiatives such as
software development, Books, freelance works, website business, product sales and taking
online courses.
Now let us see how to actually earn money from YouTube.
For earning money from youTube, we need to have two things.
One is, you should have your youtube channel, and another is, your Google Adsense Account.
We can do these two things very easily.
You can create your youTube account and Adsense account within few minutes using your Google
/Gmail account.
If you are already having Google Adsense account you can integrate it with your YouTube Channel.
i-e you can use the same adsense account which you use for your other websites.
Or, if you don't have Google Adsense account, you can get it by following the steps given
in Google Help article for hosted adsense account.
Note that this hosted adsense account is applicable for youtube videos only, you can not use it
for your other websites.
After creating YouTube Channel and associating it with Adsense account, we can start earning
money from our youTube videos that are qualified for monetization.
There after, we have to just focus on creating youtube videos and promoting them to get more
views and subscribers.
Once you earn $100 , Google will send you the money as cheque or directly deposit in
your bank depending on your country.
Starting YouTube Channel and getting Adsense Account are not difficult.
You can do it within few minutes.
Anyone can do it easily.
And, you can get any kind of support from Google if you find any difficulty in creating
channel or any difficulty in receiving adsense payments.
So, the only thing we need to focus is, creating useful videos and getting views or visitors
to our videos.
i-e promoting our Videos.
Getting views to our videos is not an easy task.
It will be really challenging one.
Many people will drop their plan of earning money from YouTube once after facing this
challenge.
So, I want to highlight the fact that difficulties and challenges are there everywhere.
Any kind of online earning approach is having its own difficulties and challenges.
But YouTube is having lot of options to handle the challenges easily.
So, comparatively I feel YouTube is the much better way for earning money easily, and that
too without spending any money.
So, if you drop your plan of earning money from youtube after facing the difficulties
in getting video views, I can say that you are NOT going to earn money from any other
online earning opportunities.
We have to put lot of efforts and time in improving loading performance if we are running
our own website.
But we need not worry about these performance things when using YouTube.
Google will take care of all hard things.
It will deliver youtube videos in various formats at good speed throughout entire world.
The uptime of Youtube site is very high.
Google is continuously taking steps to improve the quality and delivery of youtube videos.
You may say that youtube is providing limited control comparing with our own websites.
I agree with that point and it is true that Youtube is having some shortcomings.
But they are not going to harm you in any way.
Let me address them one by one.
First, youtube will not allow you to have your own domain name.
i-e everyone should use the domain name youtube.com.
So, we can not sell our youtube channel to anyone else.
I feel it is actually providing advantage rather than disadvantage.
Because, if we have our domain name, we may sell it at some time for some reason.
But based on my understanding focusing on particular thing for a long time is the key
for the success.
So, youtube is giving you that opportunity.
And, the next thing is, YouTube won't allow you to use any advertisement program other
than Google adsense.
This one also actually provides advantage, though it looks like a disadvantage.
I have tried various ad programs including yahoo's media.net for our web site TheQuotes.net.
But they perform very poor even though they claim that they are better than Google Adsense.
So, ultimately I wasted time and money in trying other ad programs for our websites.
It won't happen in youtube.
The other thing is, YouTube will take 45% of the adsense earnings.
This one also won't affect you much.
Because based on my experience, RPM for my youTube Videos is still high even after reducing
45% youtube cut, comparing to the RPM of my other websites.
So, I am not seeing any disadvantage in focusing on youtube videos.
Now let me give some tips and tricks for using youtube effectively to get more views and
therefore earn more money.
Choose your channel name appropriately.
I have selected the name qualitypointtech to match with our company name "QualityPoint
Technologies".
Anyway, now I have integrated it with my Google+ profile.
So, you will be seeing my name "Rajamanickam Antonimuthu" when seeing my videos.
Based on my understanding, some people will come to our youtube channel by searching it
from Google or youtube.
So, I choose the name so that my youtube channel will be shown to the people who search "qualitypointtech"
or "rajamanickam" from Google.
So, choose your channel name in unique way so that people can reach your channel by searching
it from Google or Youtube search.
If you choose some fancy name which is very common, your channel may NOT be shown to the
users when they search it from Google.
i-e Branding is very important to get traffic from repeated visitors.
If you are not doing it properly you may lose them even if they are interested to view your
channel Videos again.
Getting more subscribers to our YouTube channel is very important in terms of getting more
views as well as getting good search rank, even for getting some new youtube features
which are not available for channels with less number of subscribers.
For example, paid channel option will be given to the Channels with at least 1000 active
subscribers.
So, take more care to get more subscribers.
Ask everywhere to subscribe for your channel by giving subscription link to the viewers.
For example, you can add your channel subscription link in description section of all videos.
You may find our channel subscription link at description section of my videos.
You can replace world "qualitypointtech" in that link with your channel name.
And, you can add subscription link through "annotation" feature of the video.
You can find "subscribe" link imposed on the video at the end of many of my videos.
We can easily add it by choosing "subscribe" option from drop-down list when setting annotation
for your video.
You need to type your channel name after choosing "Subscribe" option when adding annotation.
And, if you have your own website or email list you can add your channel subscription
link there also.
Even you can add your youtube channel subscription link as part of your email signature.
We can embed the youtube channel subscription widget in our blog posts and side bar of the
blog or our websites.
And, remember to add few related videos using cards feature so that people can view many
of your videos.
Youtube allows you to have channel subscription video.
So, make sure that you create one such video and add it as channel trailer so that any
new user visiting your channel see the channel subscription trailer video.
YouTube is the most used search engine next to Google.
So, getting search traffic from YouTube is very important to get more views to our videos.
And therefore, make sure that you add your target keywords in Title, description and
tags of your Video when uploading it.
And, note that you have to keep your keyword at beginning of the title.
I have noticed that videos are getting some boost in search rank if we make them as HD
video and add subtitle/CC to them.
Thumbnail of the video plays important role in getting more views.
So,Create and upload an eye-catching, high-resolution thumbnail.
Apart from Youtube search, your youtube videos can appear in Google search also.
So, make sure that it is well optimized for Google search also.
Once after uploading our videos, we have to promote it in social media sites such as Twitter,
Facebook and reddit.
We can connect our youtube account with twitter and Google+ so that video can be automatically
posted to twitter and Google+ once after completing the upload.
Apart from sharing your video in your own wall in Facebook, try to share it in relevant
facebook Groups and Facebook pages.
After uploading the videos, remember to add them into relevant playlist to organize them
properly.
And, show your best playlists in your channel home page.
Marking your playlist as "Series playlist" will help you to get some more views to your
videos.
But do it only if the videos in the playlist are relevant or related.
Watch your YouTube analytics report regularly to get details about what kind of videos are
earning more.
Based on this analysis you can plan your further video creation and promotion activities effectively
to maximize the earnings.
YouTube provides many online tools to create videos.
For example, you can use the music from youtube audio library.
Be careful about whether the audio library song allows you to monetize your video.
Some tracks will show their own ads, you won't get paid for that.
So, use it only when it is really required.
Always try to give informative videos with reliable details, and with proper credits.
We can use creative commons videos from the youtube editor.
Never try to use any copy-righted content, and never hesitate to fight against false
copyright claims.
If your videos go viral, you can earn more money very quickly.
But it is very difficult to judge which video will go viral.
So, instead of spending time in making viral videos, better we can focus on creating videos
which can help others by sharing knowledge and experience gained by us in the long term.
And, whenever you share your video in social media, better share them from playlist.
It will give two benefits.
One is, your channel will get more views as people tend to view similar videos in the
playlist, and the next benefit is, probability for the users viewing the adsense ads will
be increased, and therefore you can earn more money.