How To Start A YouTube Channel And Make Money
By: Udemezue John
Tags: Digital Marketing, YouTube, Seo Tips

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Introduction

So much have been said about making money online, from starting a blog to online consultations to selling a product and so on.

This time I am going to be debriefing you on how to make money by just uploading videos on youTube.

Just before that, do You Know that As of February 2017, there were more than 400 hours of content uploaded to YouTube each minute, and one billion hours of content being watched on YouTube every day. As of August 2018, the website is ranked as the second-most popular site in the world, according to Alexa Internet, just behind Google.

About YouTube.

YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees-Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim — created the service in February 2005.

Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.

YouTube allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to playlists, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users.

It offers a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media videos.

Available content includes video clips, TV show clips, music videos, short and documentary films, audio recordings, movie trailers, live streams, and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos.

Most content on YouTube is uploaded by individuals, but media corporations including CBS, the BBC, Vevo, and Hulu offer some of their material via YouTube as part of the YouTube partnership program.

YouTube and selected creators earn advertising revenue from Google AdSense, a program which targets ads according to site content and audience.

The vast majority of its videos are free to view, but there are exceptions, including subscription-based premium channels, film rentals, as well as YouTube Music and YouTube Premium, subscription services respectively offering premium and ad-free music streaming, and ad-free access to all content, including exclusive content commissioned from notable personalities.

YouTube is the second most used platform in the world behind Facebook.

How To Grow Your YouTube Channel.

When you get started at first with your YouTube Channel the first problem you might encounter is getting more reach and followers, here are some very few tricks that can help you get started.

Please note that by default that you already have a YouTube channel in your name, but you are free to add more as you seem fit.

1. Optimize your Titles and Description.

The YouTube does not read how quality your video is, all it does it to read the titles and description that are in text to help categorize videos according to the users need, you can make use of the Google Keyword Planner to help determine how to write the best titles and description.

2. Use Your Website.

Another medium that you can use to attract audience and views to your YouTube channel is to embed it on your website.

Mind you, that you need extra tons of visitors on your website or blog to be able to attract a lot of subscribers to your YouTube Channel.

Read this article to learn how to Start A blog properly.

How To Start A Blog And Make Money.

3. Use Social Media.

Social media is another tool that can be used to promote your YouTube channel.

If you have a lot of Facebook friends or huge followership on Social media then you can share the link to your friends and ask them to stream and subscribe via your link.

Here is an article I recommend you read to help you get started with the use of Social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

How To Grow Your Business With Facebook.

How To Grow Your Business On Instagram.

4. Use Emails.

Emails are another very huge ways to get subscribers to your YouTube Channel, if you have a very huge email marketing list then you can share your YouTube videos to them and ask them to click, it works so well and I have seen a lot of internet professionals make use that trick

Read this article to learn about email marketing.

How To Boost Your Email Marketing List

5. Post regularly.

Most people start their YouTube channel the first day only to drop some very few videos on their YouTube channel and run away, this method would not help you gain the audience you want, I strongly recommend that you make very good of the first three months from the day you posted your first video on YouTube, make sure that you post regularly in the first three months to get indexed by Google.

90 days is the max time needed to make your hit.

6. ShowUp.

This is a very important and a very quick way to grow your YouTube channel, don’t just animate some videos and expect people to start put to your channel, they are going to leave or even skip your video, I strongly recommend you show up, let your audience see your face, it can attract them to stay longer on your videos and the longer they stay the more YouTube ranks your Videos to them.

This is more reason why lifestyle YouTube channels have more views than others because people love reality.

How To Make Money From Your YouTube Channel.

Now that you have a very huge and broad idea on how to start promoting your YouTube, here are very few tips to help you start making your first dollar.

1. Google Adsense.

Google Adsense is a contextual advertising platform owned by Google. Google Adsense simply helps Google to pay you for displaying Ads on your YouTube Followers.

You can make a lot of money via the Google Adsense and I mean you can run into thousands and even millions of dollars when using Google Adsense, Google pays you based on the total amount of views that your video generated over some time.

2. Sell your product.

This is another way to make money on YouTube, you can recommend a product for your subscribers and include a link back to where they will purchase the product.

3. Affiliate Marketing.

Another way to make money via YouTube is affiliate Marketing, You can drop a link to you affiliate marketing link in your video and tell your audience and subscribers to click and make a purchase then you make money from that purchase.

Conclusion.

So many people rely on the use of Google Adsense to make money via YouTube, Here is an article I recommend that you read this article below to get started with the Google Adsense program.

How To Make Money With Google Adsense.