How to Monetize YouTube Videos? What are Best Practices?

YouTube is the largest video portal on the internet and second largest search engine in the world. It supports the users to keep videos and clips, music videos, TV videos, funny videos, video blogging and educational videos etc, the people who registered in YouTube they are permitted to upload unlimited videos and add comments to videos while unregistered users are not permitted to upload videos they can only watch the videos on the site the people who wanted to register they should ensure that they are at least 18 years old.

Youtube Monetization in 9 Easy Steps

First Step: Create a Youtube Channel

In order to upload content on YouTube you have to set-up one channel and you should take care about the design, look, and appearance of the channel which includes keywords. Entire outlook of your channel should be more attractive and as well as informative to engage the users and they should feel good while seeing otherwise they won’t show interest to visit your channel and to watch videos. Make sure that the keywords should be related to your content and sometimes we make slight mistakes that result from cancellation of your subscription as google treats it as misleading tactics as spam. As a result of this you may lose the chance of monetizing your YouTube videos. And you should be very careful while deciding the name of your channel, and make sure that the name of your channel should not be the tongue twister for the audience because small mistakes may go wrong so the name should be very generic and original and easy to remember. It is always better and beneficial to keep only one account for this purpose. So, that users can easily remember it. If you keep changing accounts constantly it will be confusing for both audiences and for you.

Second Step: Add Content

After completion of the YouTube channel in a good framework successfully the next step is to add content and the main thing is your content should be of top quality. In the present days all the people like to see the clear cut and smooth, high-resolution videos. If you do not carry this you will lose and people don’t show interest at least to see your channel also you have to take care of the sound quality. It should be a smooth and noise-free experience with high and perfectly clear. You should not post videos which are very lengthy. Videos and blog post range should be from 2 minutes to 15 minutes maximum. Otherwise, the people who are watching your videos get bored and they lose interest and migrate elsewhere without proper feedback & engagement. So, you should be very alert in the case of an audience.

Third Step: Engage Audience

Engaging people and building them is the key to monetizing your YouTube videos. Once you post videos on YouTube these videos will get ads by YouTube to showcase them to the audience. In order to get ads by YouTube first, you need the audience to watch those ads. Here the main thing is you need to make unique and best content. Keep on doing this the things will happen sooner or later your audience will come to you surely. Quality is the best support to you here. You should ensure that videos should be engaging the people and invoke the interests of users. One thing keeps your quality, clarity good and first, you learn the things from other popular channels by watching their videos and channel how they are doing well and maintaining quality and uniqueness and how they are engaging people with which type of content they are maintaining to attract the users on YouTube. Analyzing these popular channels will help you with your own SWOT analysis. By this way, you will get to know what are the strengths you have and how to polish them, and the main thing is that you should focus on your weaknesses and get a hang of the opportunities which you can exploit along with keeping watching of your competitors.

Fourth Step: How to Generate Subscribers and Videos

This is the important thing you should do if you successfully want to monetize your videos, once you start gaining the audience to your side from that point you are a winner on YouTube. By this, your channel ranking improves and your ratings begin to improve, as they go up you become more search-friendly there is a greater chance to get more audience than the past. So start keeping your content more trending and featuring this helps to increase more traffic in the form of regular Viewers & Subscribers through this the Ads which is given by YouTube is being viewed by more users you get paid. For this, you have to promote your YouTube channel and videos elsewhere also. Once your term starts you should not give up, you need to move on to earn money.

Fifth Step: Monetizing Youtube Videos

In order to monetize your videos, the thing is simple that you can do easily, for this the first thing is you have to enable the monetization in order to allow YouTube to place Ads on your videos to the video which is monetized. And also you confirm and agree legally that your video doesn’t contain copyright content apart from yours. Manually you can monetize your video by checking the monetize with Ads box in the monetization tab which is in video manager. Building a slight traffic is beneficial before you monetize your videos. This is because your audience gets irritated by seeing the Ads for the first time only. First, you have to start with Ads-free videos to improve as much as viewers and to retain your audience in the form of subscribers.

Sixth Step: Setup Google Adsense

After you monetize your videos then you have to go to AdSense. Here you must be wondering by seeing how you can efficiently track and analyze your income and devise withdrawal mechanisms. You can set up a Google AdSense Account which is done for free. For this process, you need two things

First one is you should be an adult, you just need to be 18 years old.
You should create a PayPal account which is the online platform to store the money which you earn by Ads in American Dollars. From here you can easily transfer or exchange your currency for withdrawing from any bank account you mentioned.

You gain money per Ad click and a little amount per Ad view. So, don’t expect more money in the beginning itself, keep on going to improve your content and traffic to your videos. So, gradually earnings will begin to increase and become more regular. If you do well, you will earn more income. Have good luck for your future.

Seventh Step: Check Your Analytics

You can monitor your video performance in YouTube analytics with up to date metrics and reports. In YouTube analytics, you can find tons of data of yours in different reports like- Traffic sources, Watch time, Demographics reports, Ad performance. In this analytics, you can estimate earnings, views, traffic to your video etc. You can go to this page directly through this link youtube.com/analytics otherwise follow the steps given below.

First, you sign into your YouTube Account and click on your account Icon – Creator Studio.
Next, Analytics which is on the left side.

Choose the report which you want to know about. By this one can use these tools efficiently to see how their content performance is? And they can rectify if any improvement is needed. It also gives you an idea of the success of your content marketing strategies which can be polished to improve performance. There are more benefits for you if you also can check the positive & negative comments, shares, likes, by users to your videos which you have uploaded. If comments are positive you will get to know that your content is good, on the other hand if you get negative comments you will know that you should improve your content to be better.

Eighth Step: Market Your Videos

If you think that just uploading a video on YouTube is enough, you are totally wrong. You should promote your videos by online marketing and in social media, where the places that you have chances to share like in Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, google+, WhatsApp like so many platforms are there and also you can keep them in your personal blog also. The thing you should do to bring more traffic to your videos is promoting or advertising in many possible ways and you can share the links to your circles through email marketing, this is one best way to push your content to people with best. This always brings more traffic to your channel and organic views to your content.

Ninth Step: Youtube Partnership

If everything is going right and you start ranking in views and money in YouTube then there might be more chances to become a YouTube partner. In this, the channel owners who get more views and earn very well have access to advanced content creation tools and they can win prizes for the particular number of viewers they have, and also they have intensive community support and tips. Anyone can apply for this, you also can apply for this partnership at any time by going to the YouTube partner page but it’s not easy to achieve to access this powerful partner program. You need to have at least 15000 cumulative watch hours for your channel in the past 90 days.

Best Practices & Most Popular and Earning Figures in Youtube

Here, I want to introduce some people to you who are earning more on YouTube nowadays.

Nisha Madhulika

She belongs to Noida, she is 56 old woman and Madhu started to post videos on YouTube and her first video uploaded in YouTube on May 16, 2011. And her YouTube channel name is maa ke haath ka khana Now she became one of the top five stars in YouTube from Asia.

Subscribers:

772739

Views:

Hold your breath before hearing this, the total views is 236 million. Really it’s a wonder and the number of views per month is more than 18 million, and the number of average views she is getting daily is between 575,000 – 625,000. All the people who are following her, they used to learn her variety of cooking like students who are far away from home are following her mostly and housewives also. Top chefs coffee table book is YouTube’s one, recently YouTube featured madhulika in it.

Channel link:

https://www.youtube.com/user/NishaMadhulika

Geekyranjit

He belongs to Hyderabad city, and he has experience of 25 years in working with computers and he is a Programmer and Tech reviewer in YouTube. He has more knowledge on gadgets/smartphones/tech which he uses in daily life. The thing which helps him to become famous is his honesty reviews. He never supports any company or brand, he just uses the gadgets which he is going to talk about.

Subscriber’s:

835112.

Views

Channel link:

https://www.youtube.com/user/geekyranjit

Kanan gill

He is a stand-up comedian, YouTuber, actor from Bangalore, his age is just 27 years. And he used to give reviews of bollywood films mercilessly with fellow stand-up comedian Biswa Kalyan Rath. The movie they gave the first review to Gunda and so many other films. Kanan worked as a software engineer for 3 years. At present he is earning a lot of money through YouTube.