Making Money With Your YouTube Videos and Affiliate Links

There are many ways to make money with your videos and one popular way is to make money is to combine YouTube videos and affiliate links. If you have an active channel on YouTube are building subscribers, and like to upload regular videos about anything, you can turn your video views into constant income for you. Many people opt to use the YouTube ads program to make money out of their videos. This is the most standard money making program on YouTube but it may not provide much of an income in the long run. For hundreds of views on your videos, you might only make a few cents out of your YouTube ads.

Is there a better way to make money from YouTube? Yes, there is. It’s called affiliate marketing.

Basically, you’re just recommending certain products through your YouTube videos and when people click on your affiliate links and purchase products from the merchant, you get a commission from each of the sales you generate. There are many affiliate programs in which you can participate – for instance, Amazon and Apple Store have affiliate programs that allow you to earn commission by promoting their products.

So, how can you make make money with youtube videos and affiliate links?

Watch Derral Eves and his guest Melea discuss her strategies for making money with affiliate links in the video below:

Start making more money from your YouTube videos and affiliate links:

1. Use The Affiliate Link Shortener Provided By Amazon

This is the first tip for making money with YouTube videos and affiliate links that you should follow if you are going to use the Amazon Marketplace. Remember that the affiliate links for the products that you promote on Amazon can be really long and will be pretty ugly if you put it on your video description. That’s why you should shorten your affiliate link to make it simpler and easier for people to click on it. If you choose to participate in the Amazon affiliate program, you should only use the link shortener provided by Amazon, not other link shortening services like bit.ly or private link shorteners. If you are participating in an affiliate program from other merchants, you should use the link shortener provided by them, if one is available.

2. Build A Decent Website Where You Will Embed Your YouTube Videos

Getting accepted into a good affiliate program, such as Amazon Associates, requires you to have a website that is live. You cannot register for the Amazon affiliate program using your YouTube channel. You need to have your own website and the website needs to be informative and relevant to the products that you will promote. This is because a team from Amazon will check your website for eligibility for their affiliate program. Unless you have a good website set up, you shouldn’t apply for their affiliate program, since most of the time your application will be rejected.

If you don’t have a site, we recommend to start with a reliable hosting company. We’re not really going to take the time to break down all the hosting providers out there, there are several companies who have done an in-depth hosting providers analysis in the past. But start by tracking down a good reliable hosting company that will support your video embeds, and start your virtual portfolio there.

3. Create Affiliate Links For Your Promoted Products

Amazon has a wide range of products for you to promote, and you can always create affiliate links for those products. Don’t skip this step, because this is what will make you money. If you forget to promote the products using your affiliate links, but instead, you are promoting the product directly using the product link, then you will not get the percentage of any sales that come from your link. So, be sure that before promoting any products, you should create affiliate links for it. Only then will you be able to make money from your promotion.

Those are some tips that you can follow to make money from your YouTube videos and affiliate links. Affiliate linking can really help to boost your overall income from your YouTube videos and it is certainly better than relying solely on YouTube ad monetization.

Remember to diversify your revenue streams!

7 Very Profitable Ways to Make Money With YouTube Videos

L. Scott Harrell

L. Scott Harrell is the Executive Editor of Vtrep.com. He is also a serial entrepreneur and top tier business development professional who speaks leadership, startups and digital media masterfully. Scott can be reached via email: editor@vtrep.com

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