How to Generate Income Through Youtube

In recent times, youtube is becoming one of the best platforms to make money online. That’s because youtube allows you to make money in multiple ways:

Google Adsense Ads

Sponsorship

Selling merch

Selling subscriptions

Affiliate marketing

Driving traffic to your store to generate sales

Before you can generate income through youtube, you will have to take care of a number of things such as

Create a good video (technical)

Offer good content (creative)

SEO

Digital Marketing

How to start making money on youtube?

The first step of making money is to reach a monetization threshold of 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours watch time. This is must of you want to earn from AdSense. For the rest of the methods like sponsorship, and selling merch the only requirement is you get tons of views. However, in order to get tons of views, you also need tons of subscribers, right?

The Second step is SEO. You need to do SEO on your videos in order to improve the visibility of your videos. Your video should rank high for high-traffic keywords.

Marketing, the third step, plays a huge role in building traffic. You need traffic on your videos to generate revenue. You can drive traffic internally as well as externally. You might even have to run ads to build traffic.

You must have realized how the third step and second step connect with the first step. 

Can You Actually Build an Income On Youtube?

In recent times, video content creation is overwhelmingly increasing. Thanks to the rise of video-sharing platforms and the opportunities to make money through video content. But does this mean everyone who tries video content creation starts making money? Let me put this another way around. Youtube is one of the most preferred platforms to publish video content. Can you actually build an income on youtube?

On youtube, only 17 percent of channels are monetized, which means out of 100 youtube channels only 17 youtube channels make money. How easy is it to get into that 17 percent club? You need 1000 subscribers on your channel and 4000 hours watch time on your videos to get monetized and you need regular views, not just thousands but hundreds of thousands, to generate revenue.

How long does it take to reach 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours watch time? How long does it take to generate hundreds of thousands of views?

You might have to publish 60-70 videos and spend 6-7 months to reach the monetization threshold provided you are publishing high-quality content. If you continue to work on youtube and publish high-quality videos, you might start generating sizeable income within 2 years.

If you follow this strategy you can get monetized just in a few months and start making money

How to Generate Views on Youtube

You can earn more views on your videos if you create videos on trending niches, however, while doing so, you also need to see if the trending niche is also your niche. For example, these days images taken by the James Webb telescope are trending on youtube, however, if your niche is not science and technology, you will have to entirely avoid creating videos. Videos on non-related niches do not help you in the long run. Likewise, some topics just face away, you should avoid using those topics, and you should strive for evergreen topics in your niche. You can of course use trending topics if these are in your niches. For example. you can do a video on Sri Lanka politics if your niche is current affairs, politics, and history. Just make sure your topic doesn't become stable too quickly. If videos stop generating any views, your entire work will be wasted.

There are things that are a big no-no on youtube, for example buying subscribers, buying views, subs-for-subs, etc. If you are buying views and once youtube finds out your views are not coming through legitimate sources, your channel is demonetized (ads removed) and you will not earn from ads, if your channel is not yet monetized and you are buying views so that you can reach 4000 hours watch time, your monetization application will be rejected. Buying views is nothing except a waste of money. Instead of buying views, run ads for your videos. When you run ads, and if your video is good, people will not skip your ad (video) and will continue to watch and you will not only gain views but also subscribers