So I've been reading through the comments
and you guys have been asking for more information
on how I do my affiliate marketing.
So in today's video,
I'm going to show you a huge strategy
that is something I personally do
and highly recommend for you
and it's how to turn your affiliate marketing
website articles into YouTube videos.
Now, the kicker here is
the way I'm going to show you how to do this,
you don't even have to be on camera.
Hi everyone and welcome back to another video.
If you're new here,
my name is Greg,
and I like to talk about online entrepreneurship
and sharing the resources
that I wish I had along my journey
so if you're interested in making money online,
feel free to look around the channel
and consider subscribing.
As mentioned in the introduction here,
this is going to be a rather quick video,
but it's going to go through a full tutorial
on how to turn your affiliate marketing website articles
into YouTube videos.
Like I said earlier,
you do not have to be in the videos,
you do not have to talk in the videos,
you don't even have to be comfortable on camera
because everything is done from your computer.
Now, with that being said,
as you've seen in other videos on this channel,
you need to have a niche affiliate marketing website
that is going to be the gold standard
for all affiliate marketing.
Because when someone's interested in buying something
or learning something,
they're either going to go to Google or YouTube,
and they're going to search for information.
Now by having a niche specific affiliate marketing website,
when people go to Google
and they're searching for information,
your website and your articles
will show up in Google search results.
Now that process right there is primarily
where most of your traffic is going to come from.
Someone going to Google, searching
and organically finding your articles,
clicking them and going directly to your website.
That is all completely free and I highly recommend it.
However, what is the bonus?
What are the other ways that you can grow your business?
That is where YouTube comes in.
Now, YouTube is a search engine, just like Google,
meaning that people go there and search for information.
Now, a lot of us go to YouTube for entertainment,
but a lot of us go there to find out how to do things.
So with that being said,
how do you take the information
from your affiliate marketing articles
and turn it into YouTube videos
that people can watch
and you can get the traffic from YouTube as well as Google.
So in about 30 seconds here,
I'll walk you through entirely from start to finish
how to do this
so you can follow along step-by-step,
however, the first thing
that we all need to understand about YouTube
is that no, you do not need to have a following built up
and the goal of this isn't even to build up a following.
Since it is a search engine, just like Google,
you're just trying to get individual videos to rank.
When someone searches, how to do this, for example,
you want your video to show up.
Additionally, keep in mind
that it's not just All How To videos
these can be reviews.
If you type in best headphones, for example, on YouTube,
look through all of those videos
and I can almost promise you
all of these are affiliate marketing videos.
And the last thing before we get into this,
is you do not need to buy camera equipment,
you do not need to buy a microphone
and you don't have to be on camera at all.
I know for a lot of people getting on camera
and making a video can be very challenging.
All right, without further ado,
hopefully we're all on the same page.
If you have any questions thus far,
let me know in the comments.
Otherwise let's switch over to the computer
and I'll walk you through how to do this start to finish.
So the very first step here
is to go to your affiliate marketing website,
where you can find your articles.
Now, for the sake of this video,
I'm going to use a website that is not mine,
I don't own it, I just really like it.
This is a great example of how niche
affiliate marketing websites should be made
and the content on this website is very good
if you're interested in RVs or camping in general.
So this website is called CamperReport.com.
That's the one I'm going to show you this
as an example on how to make the videos,
but a quick disclaimer is
as you go make these videos for yourself,
make sure that you're making them on your articles
and not on another websites articles.
If you're making these on articles that you do not own,
you can get into a whole load of trouble
for infringing on their copyrights.
So make sure that you wrote the content
and you own it
before you are making these videos for YouTube.
Now, with that said,
the next step once we're on our website
is to pick the first article
that we wanna turn into a video,
so I'm just going to pick the first article
that's on this website here
and it's called "RVing is America's Next Vacation."
Now scrolling through here,
it looks like this is a pretty short article
so it'll be great for this example,
just to show you how to do this.
So once you have the article
that you're ready to turn into a video,
now go to another tab
and I'm going to show you the tool I use
to turn these into videos.
So in a new tab,
go to a website called invideo.io.
This is the tool I use and I'll show you how to use it here.
So once you're here,
you can make a free account or a paid account.
Now here's the thing for this tutorial,
you can use the free account, get the feel for it.
The only thing is at the end of this,
the videos have a watermark on it,
if you're on the free account.
Now, since it has a watermark on it,
you're not going to be able to use it
because Invideo will own the copyright.
So essentially what that means is
for the sake of this tutorial,
you can use a free account,
you'll be able to follow along just like me,
but once you're ready to do this for your own website,
you will need to upgrade.
Towards the end of this video
and down near Description
I'll put any discount codes
so you can get this for a really good price
and put it to use.
Now with all of that being out of the way,
let's go ahead and get back to this
and show you where this gets pretty cool.
So the reason I use Invideo
is because it saves a ton of time
and all you have to do is go from Pre-made Templates
over to Article-to-Video,
just stay on the YouTube landscape and scroll down,
you can pick any of these templates.
So for example, I'm just going to click this one here
and it'll give you a little preview of what it looks like.
Make sure you're staying on the wide 16 by nine
and just go ahead and click use this template.
So here's where it gets pretty cool
because it'll save you a lot of time,
instead of typing in your headline
and your whole article right here,
all you have to do is scroll down to option two,
click to open that up and then paste the URL,
which is the website link
from your affiliate marketing article,
the one that you wanna make this video about.
So we'll go back over to our website.
This is the article we wanna turn into a video
so I'm just going to go up to the browser search bar
and copy the URL
and then go back over to Invideo
and I'm just going to paste that here.
So this is the link directly to that article on our website.
Now you can leave on Auto Suggest Images and Videos,
that's just going to save us a bit more time in the future,
but now just go ahead and hit Fetch,
just give this a second to load here
and it's going to do a lot of the heavy lifting for us.
So now what's been done is they went over
to that URL we just pasted,
they got the title of the article
and all of the information in the article,
so this is where it gets cool even more
and this is the reason that I like this tool.
If we were to make a video with all of the information
that is in this written article,
it would not come out well in video.
It's because there's a lot of information that we don't need
and in video, you need to get straight to the point,
as opposed to putting in all the extra details
and connecting sentences that you might need in writing.
With that being said,
all we have to do is hit
this Auto Summarize button right here
and it pulls out the sentences that they think are best.
And as you can see, almost instantly,
it's pulled out the sentences
that we really need in the video
and left out a lot of the fluff
that doesn't belong in the video.
Now, all you have to do is come over to this side
and you may need to adjust this.
I'd say it does about 90% of the work for you,
but you can still go in and you can add to these sentences,
you can remove things.
You can even come back over to your article
and you can click to add and in a line
that they didn't include
or you can remove a line that you don't want to include,
but essentially then you just stay on this right side
and you just edit anything that you need to
and you could even scroll on the left side,
look at the black text.
Those are the sentences that are not included right now
and see if any of that is relevant
that you want to be included in the video.
The more sentences that you add in on this right side,
the longer the video,
but just keep in mind that for YouTube,
for these specific individual affiliate marketing videos,
a two-minute video is completely fine.
If you're going and trying to do a full tutorial like this,
you know that's going to take more time than that.
But for this purpose, a two minute, five minute,
10-minute video is all completely fine.
So looking through this article in particular,
this was a short article, as I mentioned before
so it has 16 scenes right now.
Now, ideally you wanna stay under 30 scenes.
However, for longer articles, you can go up to 50 scenes.
So once you are happy with what's in here,
all you have to do is click, Go To Storyboard
and just give this a second to load,
it's processing everything
and then the next part here is pretty cool as well.
Okay so now we're in the editor,
we're basically in the homestretch.
I just wanna show you how all this works,
so you can do it yourself.
So as you'll see,
all of those scenes that were along the right side,
those 16 scenes are now all going to have
their own photo or video
and they're all going to be essentially their own slide.
Now, when we were creating this previously,
we put on Auto Suggest Images and Videos
so anytime it's reading through this,
it's going to suggest an image
that it thinks would be a good fit.
You don't have to use these,
but just know that sometimes it's going to be
perfectly spot on and it just saves you even more time.
So what we need to do is we need to get videos
and photos as the background of these scenes
so the viewers of these videos have something to watch
and keep their attention
while they're reading the information that they need.
So in order to do this, it's actually very easy.
We come over to the left side
and type in a topic or a keyword
and it'll give us stock footage that we can use.
Now, for this example, we're talking about RVs and campers
so I'm just going to type in RV and search that.
Now we have a ton of stock footage that we can use
all with commercial usage rights.
If you've been around this channel for a while,
you know that commercial usage rights on everything,
whether that's print on demand or affiliate marketing
is so important.
It essentially means that you can profit from the use of
this content because you have full commercial usage rights.
So as you see, when you scroll through here,
there is a ton of stock footage about RVs that we can use.
These are all videos.
If we come over to the other side,
these are all going to be photos,
again, with full commercial usage rights
so I prefer to use the videos just because
it's generally more engaging than photos.
However, if you do need to use photos,
don't worry, you can absolutely do that
and I personally do that as well.
So all we have to do here is select the media
that we wanna use for each of these scenes.
All you do is drag it in,
hit Use Full Video
and then the last step is you just hit, Edit
to decide long that individual scene is going to be.
Now, the way you determine
how long a scene should be from experience,
if it's a title scene or something that is short
for example like this, it only has a few words,
I would say seven to eight seconds.
Now, if it is something
that has a pretty lengthy amount of text on it,
this is about average
and as we go through here,
I'll try to find you one that's a bit longer.
All of these are about average length.
That should be 10 to 12 seconds long.
Now that's just in my experience,
you can make them longer or shorter if you want.
Essentially, you just wanna give the viewer
enough time to mentally read through the sentence
while they're watching the video.
So for this first slide here,
we're just going to hit, Edit
and conveniently looking at this.
This clip is already about seven and a half seconds
so I'm just going to drag it down to roughly seven seconds
and all you have to do that
is select this main selector and you can go in
or you can go out to make that scene shorter or longer.
So about seven seconds is perfect.
We'll just go ahead and hit Save
and now I can show you a preview of this
by hitting the Preview button
and how cool is that?
It's just going to have that video with the text over it,
it fades in,
and then it fades out and goes to the next scene.
So moving right along to the next scene,
since we did Auto Suggest Images and Video,
it's going to pull something that it thinks is relevant
from the sentence you put in.
However, you can change this to anything that you want here.
So personally, I really wouldn't use this photo.
I don't think it's very engaging
so I'm going to switch it over to a video.
Now, looking at how long this is.
I think we might need about nine to 10 seconds on this
because it's a medium to long slide.
So I'm just going to select this video right here,
drag it in over top and before we hit Use Full Video,
just notice how long that video is.
If it's a long video, like 20 seconds,
just know you can hit Use Full Video
and then you can hit, Edit
and trim it afterwards to exactly how long you need it.
For this instance,
since the video is only five seconds long,
I'm just going to slow the video down to 0.75 or 0.5 speed.
This will double the length of the video.
We know we're aiming for nine to 10 seconds on this one
so that'll give us about 10 seconds
and then we'll hit Use Full Video.
So now when we look at the time on this,
it's about 10 seconds.
What we did was we slowed the speed down to about half
so now we can watch this video in basically slow motion.
So that's looking good,
we'll just move down to our next scene here
and we'll just put it in another clip.
This one looks like it should be about 10 seconds as well.
So looking at this clip, it's 17 seconds.
That's perfect, Use Full Video.
We'll come back in
and we'll slide it down to about 10 seconds
so looking through these previews,
you can see all of this stock footage is awesome.
These are clips that people normally wouldn't see,
it's engaging and people are going to be watching this video
while they're reading the bits of information
that they need to learn.
So essentially you just keep going through here
and finish out all of these scenes on a video.
They also give you access to copyright free music,
right on the website in the editor
so you don't have to go find music anywhere else.
So you just hit the music icon up here,
and you'll be able to choose a song
that you wanna use in the background of this video.
So you can preview all the songs
just by hitting the Play button.
You can sort by different categories
for the style of video that you're going with
and really just scroll through here
and then hit Select when you find a song
that you wanna use for this video.
Now just know that if you do have
your own copyright free music
that you wanna upload for this video,
all you do is just hit, Upload Your Own.
I just think using theirs makes it a lot easier
and saves you a lot of time.
You'll notice that as you start to grow
your business in affiliate marketing,
it's all about doing the things that work
and doing it more times.
It's basically rinse and repeat.
Once you find out what works of creating articles,
you make more articles and then in the longterm
you make more money.
That goes the same for YouTube,
so the name of the game here for creating these videos for
YouTube, from your niche affiliate marketing website
articles is speed,
that's why I recommend a tool like this
because it's going to be quick.
So with that being said, once you've picked your song,
there's going to be one set by default
and remember you can select any other one
to swap it out at any time.
Then once you've set all of the images or videos
for all of these scenes,
all you do is hit Preview and Export.
It's going to load for a second here
and then it'll let you preview the entire video
and you can see if there's any errors or any typos,
anything that you need to fix before you export it.
And then all you do is hit Export Video
and it'll save it right to your computer.
Now this will process for a second here
and then you'll have a little Download button
that you can click
and it'll put the video right on your computer.
The cool thing is once you download it to your computer,
if you still see any errors,
you can come right back in and edit the project again
and pick up where you left off
and you can just switch something there.
Additionally, if you do need to add anything special
to the video, you can take this video
that's downloaded to your computer
and put it right into iMovie, Final Cut Pro,
any different video editing software
and you can make adjustments there.
So once the processing is done,
you just hit your little Download button right here
and it'll start downloading it to your computer
so now you've got the video file on your computer
and you can do anything you want with it,
so making the assumption that you used
your own articles from your own website that you own
and you have a premium subscription to Invideo,
you will have full commercial usage rights
of what you've created.
You will own the copyright,
and you can share this on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram,
anywhere you want and you can legally profit from it.
So some of you guys may be asking,
why do I personally create
affiliate marketing YouTube videos like this
when I'm perfectly fine being on camera
and I could create the videos myself.
Now I can give you an answer
that will go into a lot of detail,
but the short answer here is time and scale.
When you can create videos like this,
it may only take you a half hour to create a full video
from start to finish.
Creating a video like this on the other hand,
being on camera and making everything seamless
with all of the editing takes multiple days.
So by using a tool like this,
you can simply grow your affiliate marketing business
faster because you can scale.
You can create a lot more of these videos
than if you were to create each one of them
on camera like this.
Now the next question that a lot of you may be having
are do people actually watch these videos?
Now in the beginning I honestly wasn't sure
and that's why I tested them.
I'll tell you about the results here in a couple seconds,
but just know that I saw this style of video on Facebook,
and I've seen myself personally watching these videos
for a few minutes on Facebook, just reading along,
getting the information that I needed.
The question was, will this work
on a search engine platform like YouTube?
So that's why I did the testing.
I was skeptical if people would stay
and actually watch through the video,
but after trying it with affiliate marketing videos
in this style of video
and keeping an eye on the analytics,
watching the watch time of how people are engaging,
are they giving thumbs up on the video?
How do they like it?
And how long are they watching it?
The analytics were almost identical
to videos that I had filmed of myself.
Videos that have taken me multiple days to create,
were performing evenly with videos that took me a half hour
to create from start to finish using this method.
And the last question,
and the last part of this video
is how do you do this as an affiliate marketing post?
So the way you do this,
is you post your video on YouTube,
and then you have your title
and you have your description of that video.
The title of the video should be the same
as the title of the article
that you're getting from your website.
The description is where you're going to
put in your affiliate links.
So the most important thing is in your description,
you wanna make sure that you have two specific things.
The first thing is you wanna say,
read the full article here
and then link to that full article on your website.
This is just going to get you more traffic back to your
website and potential for people to see ads on your website,
for people to read other articles on your website.
It just gets them in your environment.
And the second thing is you wanna put in the product
affiliate links if there are any, in that video.
You can do this right in the description
so you can say the product that you were reviewing
in that video or whatever was relevant,
and just put the name of the product
followed by your affiliate link
that you got from your article.
Now, if you don't have any affiliate products
that are mentioned in that video,
you don't have to put affiliate products
in that description.
However, if you do have those affiliate products
linked in the description,
it's always good practice to put an affiliate disclaimer
at the bottom of your description.
To do this,
you simply just have to write, Disclaimer
and then the links above are typically affiliate links.
That's all nice and simple, nothing special.
So guys, that's a full tutorial
on how to do this from start to finish.
I forgot to even mention that there's a discount for this
so when you're signing up, it's about $10 per month.
I have a discount from them, which is 25% off.
You just type in Greg 25
and it'll give you that discount.
I'll link that down in the description.
So as always, I hope you guys enjoyed this video,
I hope it's been helpful
and I hope sharing this with you guys
allows you to grow your affiliate marketing business,
just like I've done with my own.
If you have any questions,
just let me know down in the comments,
otherwise I'll be seeing you all in the next video.