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Making money on YouTube is something that not many expect at first but soon find themselves doing so, after all who wouldn't want to make money doing something they love such as making videos? It is one of the extra rewards YouTube brings to those who are able to monetise their videos and this in depth and informative article will help you better monetise yours.
First things first
To be able to make a decent amount of money on YouTube it is best to make videos that will receive plenty of views, you can make money from low view count videos but it will be very little. When youre able to monetise your videos you will be emailed by YouTube letting you know that you can now monetise your videos. This doesnt mean you will be joining the YouTube Partner Programme but you will be able to make money on your videos.
You will also need to have an Adsense account, if you have received an email from YouTube make sure to sign up for Adsense and get your application approved because once it is approved you can start making money.
Having an awful lot of patience will come in very handy as you will most likely not be an overnight success and it does take time and mountains of effort.
Monetising Single Videos
Once you are able to monetise your videos and have everything sorted out with Adsense you will see a small monetise button next to your videos, when you click it you can start making money on the video after filling in the Copyrighted Materials section correctly.
Copyrighted material and materials used in your videos
When you need to fill the details in about things used in your videos you should be as clear as possible. If for example you used some free music from another site, write that down and put any information you can in the videos description about the author and include the license such as Creative Commons Attribution. If you used an image from a free stock site tell them and about the license. If you made things yourself mention that you are the original author of the works and the same applies to any music or visuals you make for the video. You basically need to let YouTube know your video is made legally and within copyright law.
Once you are done and have finished you will start seeing adverts appear on your video(s).
Never try and monetise pornography, things like that are not welcome on YouTube and certainly wont be accepted for monetisation.
Click or not to click
One of the main rules about Adsense is not to click on your own advertisements, if you do this YouTube will remove your ability to monetise your videos and you may risk an account ban. It really isnt worth it and they DO find out people who do this as they have algorithms which check for invalid and fraudulent clicks.
Friends Clicking
Telling your friends to click on your ads or inciting clicks in any way may get your monetisation ability removed and possibly your YouTube account banned. This is also in violation of the Adsense Terms of Service and you should abide by these or risk making nothing from them ever again. They can detect things like this and do check for such activity.
Im not making much, why?
Patience is the key and you will find that over time your earnings will increase and sometimes decrease. If you are not happy it could be lack of traffic to your videos or the lack of relevant ads even though Adsense is awesome for relevant adverts with good content. You should read the next step of this article if you wish to learn how to get more from your videos and advertisements.
Maximising your Adsense/YouTube revenue
This is something anyone making money will want and I am sure you do too and it all comes down to getting traffic (visitors) to view your videos, if you get 3000 visitors to one video in a month you can expect to make an appropriate amount for the amount of visitors, the month after 6000 visitors to the same video, you shouldn't necessarily expect double but a slight increase there are many factors such as advertisement relevancy which is how relevant the ads are to your videos, if the visitors are all using adblock software and so on but you should not care so much about that. You need to care about what you can do yourself to get the most from the advertisements.
Make sure that your videos are worth watching and are of good quality, both visual and audio should be as good as possible and the content should be great. If someone clicks on your video to view and three seconds later leaves they most likely will not click the advertisement. Keep them entertained and enjoying your videos, you never know, they may click just to support you. The more targeted visitors you get to your videos the more you will make and it is as simple as that. It is the people who are genuinely interested in your videos that are likely to click on your advertisements not those who dont care and just see it because it is on autoplay.
Try and do your titles, descriptions and keywords as good as possible, a bad title could be "Check this out" and for the same video a good title could be "iPhone 4 Review and Unboxing", make them snappy or catchy like "Dancing Whippet" too at times and keep your efforts consistent. Persevere and you will reap the benefits of YouTube monetisation.
Getting More Traffic and Views on YouTube
Try and get as much traffic and views as possible to both your channel and videos but more so your videos some good ways to do this is by promoting yourself as much as you can on external websites such as YTtalk.com and also around the YouTube community by being an active participating member you will find that people check out your channel and videos. Try commenting and talking to people who already speak to you and who are subscribed to you, this is your audience and you want them to keep coming back for second helpings. Try your best getting new subscriptions too, you can do this by talking with others interested in similar videos and gaining popularity by being a YouTube social God or Goddess. Don't use view programs and such to increase views though, YouTube do know what are real genuine views. Comment on similar videos to your own with good quality and interesting comments as you may get yours voted up bringing it to the top and therefore more people seeing your username/link and possibly clicking through.
Getting a YouTube Partnership
If you are offered or have applied for a YouTube partnership and have been accepted or accepted it from them you will be able to make much more from your videos. Your audience will grow from what it currently is if you keep going as you are and so will your revenue.
To get a partnership your videos need a decent amount of views already on them and YouTube needs to see you have a good amount of subscribers and that you regularly upload quality, non-copyrighted videos that you can monetise without any issues. Don't apply if you have copyrighted materials in your videos as you will most likely be rejected and dont apply too early on.
Once you are accepted keep making your videos and uploading regularly to truly maximise your revenue as well as by following the steps in this article. If you are patient and persevere, your cheques will be very rewarding for all of your efforts.
Thank you for reading and I hope this helps you make money on YouTube
First things first
To be able to make a decent amount of money on YouTube it is best to make videos that will receive plenty of views, you can make money from low view count videos but it will be very little. When youre able to monetise your videos you will be emailed by YouTube letting you know that you can now monetise your videos. This doesnt mean you will be joining the YouTube Partner Programme but you will be able to make money on your videos.
You will also need to have an Adsense account, if you have received an email from YouTube make sure to sign up for Adsense and get your application approved because once it is approved you can start making money.
Having an awful lot of patience will come in very handy as you will most likely not be an overnight success and it does take time and mountains of effort.
Monetising Single Videos
Once you are able to monetise your videos and have everything sorted out with Adsense you will see a small monetise button next to your videos, when you click it you can start making money on the video after filling in the Copyrighted Materials section correctly.
Copyrighted material and materials used in your videos
When you need to fill the details in about things used in your videos you should be as clear as possible. If for example you used some free music from another site, write that down and put any information you can in the videos description about the author and include the license such as Creative Commons Attribution. If you used an image from a free stock site tell them and about the license. If you made things yourself mention that you are the original author of the works and the same applies to any music or visuals you make for the video. You basically need to let YouTube know your video is made legally and within copyright law.
Once you are done and have finished you will start seeing adverts appear on your video(s).
Never try and monetise pornography, things like that are not welcome on YouTube and certainly wont be accepted for monetisation.
Click or not to click
One of the main rules about Adsense is not to click on your own advertisements, if you do this YouTube will remove your ability to monetise your videos and you may risk an account ban. It really isnt worth it and they DO find out people who do this as they have algorithms which check for invalid and fraudulent clicks.
Friends Clicking
Telling your friends to click on your ads or inciting clicks in any way may get your monetisation ability removed and possibly your YouTube account banned. This is also in violation of the Adsense Terms of Service and you should abide by these or risk making nothing from them ever again. They can detect things like this and do check for such activity.
Im not making much, why?
Patience is the key and you will find that over time your earnings will increase and sometimes decrease. If you are not happy it could be lack of traffic to your videos or the lack of relevant ads even though Adsense is awesome for relevant adverts with good content. You should read the next step of this article if you wish to learn how to get more from your videos and advertisements.
Maximising your Adsense/YouTube revenue
This is something anyone making money will want and I am sure you do too and it all comes down to getting traffic (visitors) to view your videos, if you get 3000 visitors to one video in a month you can expect to make an appropriate amount for the amount of visitors, the month after 6000 visitors to the same video, you shouldn't necessarily expect double but a slight increase there are many factors such as advertisement relevancy which is how relevant the ads are to your videos, if the visitors are all using adblock software and so on but you should not care so much about that. You need to care about what you can do yourself to get the most from the advertisements.
Make sure that your videos are worth watching and are of good quality, both visual and audio should be as good as possible and the content should be great. If someone clicks on your video to view and three seconds later leaves they most likely will not click the advertisement. Keep them entertained and enjoying your videos, you never know, they may click just to support you. The more targeted visitors you get to your videos the more you will make and it is as simple as that. It is the people who are genuinely interested in your videos that are likely to click on your advertisements not those who dont care and just see it because it is on autoplay.
Try and do your titles, descriptions and keywords as good as possible, a bad title could be "Check this out" and for the same video a good title could be "iPhone 4 Review and Unboxing", make them snappy or catchy like "Dancing Whippet" too at times and keep your efforts consistent. Persevere and you will reap the benefits of YouTube monetisation.
Getting More Traffic and Views on YouTube
Try and get as much traffic and views as possible to both your channel and videos but more so your videos some good ways to do this is by promoting yourself as much as you can on external websites such as YTtalk.com and also around the YouTube community by being an active participating member you will find that people check out your channel and videos. Try commenting and talking to people who already speak to you and who are subscribed to you, this is your audience and you want them to keep coming back for second helpings. Try your best getting new subscriptions too, you can do this by talking with others interested in similar videos and gaining popularity by being a YouTube social God or Goddess. Don't use view programs and such to increase views though, YouTube do know what are real genuine views. Comment on similar videos to your own with good quality and interesting comments as you may get yours voted up bringing it to the top and therefore more people seeing your username/link and possibly clicking through.
Getting a YouTube Partnership
If you are offered or have applied for a YouTube partnership and have been accepted or accepted it from them you will be able to make much more from your videos. Your audience will grow from what it currently is if you keep going as you are and so will your revenue.
To get a partnership your videos need a decent amount of views already on them and YouTube needs to see you have a good amount of subscribers and that you regularly upload quality, non-copyrighted videos that you can monetise without any issues. Don't apply if you have copyrighted materials in your videos as you will most likely be rejected and dont apply too early on.
Once you are accepted keep making your videos and uploading regularly to truly maximise your revenue as well as by following the steps in this article. If you are patient and persevere, your cheques will be very rewarding for all of your efforts.
Thank you for reading and I hope this helps you make money on YouTube
