How to Use YouTube to Make Money with your Website or Blog
Video marketing on YouTube is a way to make money and drive traffic to your website or blog. Creating a video adds a human element to your business. Your customers feel a greater connection to you because they can see your face and hear your voice. YouTube videos are easy to create and provide an excellent method of marketing your online business.
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Instructions
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Create a YouTube video using a digital camcorder or your webcam. Make sure your video has good quality and your content is useful, innovative and relevant to your business. YouTube accepts high-definition videos, so if you have access to an HD video camera, use it.
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Search for similar videos already posted on YouTube before you upload your video. Look for really popular videos in your niche.
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Use the same tags for your video that the really popular video in your niche is using. You can find the tags any video on YouTube is using by clicking the "more info" link under the YouTube poster's name and the date the video was posted. You can find the YouTube poster's name to the right of the video in a gray box with a yellow "Subscribe" button. Copy the tags from the popular video and save them in Notepad or some other text document.
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Upload your video using the same tags for your video that your competitor used.
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Use your embed code to post your video elsewhere on the web. Embed codes allow anyone to take your video and post it to their website. You want this to happen because it means more exposure for you. Among websites on which you may post your video are Facebook, WonderHowTo, FlixYa, Spike and MySpace.
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Make money when other people embed your videos. When your channel on YouTube becomes popular enough, you may become a partner with YouTube. Once you are a partner, anytime someone embeds your video, you make money from Google AdSense ads that appear next to your video on that person's blog or website. You must have at least 500 subscribers to your channel before applying to be a YouTube partner.
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Search ning.com for a community related to your niche. Get involved in the community and post your video to the appropriate communities. Your video will make the front page of the Ning Community when you post it.
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Tips & Warnings
YouTube videos don't need to be fancy. You can literally just sit in front of the cam and talk.
Always include your own contact information at the beginning and end of every YouTube video you post. State your contact information and post it visually.
