A step by step guide to make money on YouTube – a beginner’s guide

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First thing first, Can YouTube really earn me any money? If yes, how much?
Well, to answer this questions, I will say a big Yes. Yes, you can definitely and legitimately earn money from YouTube. Many of the social media marketers are earning good amount of money from their YouTube videos. But to answer how much money you can earn from YouTube, I must say it varies for various publishers. It may be $100 per day or $1000 per day or $100 a month or $1000 in a month or in some period. No one can tell exactly how much you are going to earn from YouTube videos. It completely depends on how much visitors you get to your YouTube videos. As much visitors you get, your earning will be proportionate to that amount. If you don’t know how to achieve this, I will tell you how.
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This is a beginner’s guide to make money on YouTube. I am well aware that most of the people doing online business or involved in blogging, online marketing, social media marketing know how to make money with Youtube. You can earn a decent amount of money uploading and sharing your personal videos to YouTube. If you are one of the experienced bloggers or the social media marketers, then this article is definitely not for you. I am going to describe the step by step process to earn money through YouTube videos for the beginners. So, this is a step by step beginner’s guide to make money on YouTube.

What you need to make money on YouTube: Prerequisites  

  1. An account with Google: Yes, Youtube is a Google product and you need a google account to login to YouTube. If you already have a gmail account then just sign in to YouTube via that logon credentials. If you do not have an account with Google, then sign up for one, then log in to YouTube.
  2.  Original and high quality(optional) videos: You need some videos to upload to YouTube. The videos should be unique and copyright free, in other words the videos are made by you. You can upload any kind of videos to YouTube, whether it be a video of your last night party with your friends, a moving train or a tutorial video to do something or anything you like. Note that, you cannot upload pornographic or sexually explicit videos to YouTube. You can try uploading such videos to get banned by Google. The quality of the videos should good, preferably in high definition, but this is optional. You can upload low quality videos also to YouTube and YouTube will not bar you to upload videos based on quality. But, good quality videos are advisable because it will be more pleasurable to your viewers. You can copy videos from somewhere else and upload to YouTube, but this will not enable you to monetize the video. Google will not entertain your application for monetization with duplicate videos.
   3. Visitors and subscribers to your videos. People will subscribe to your YouTube channel if they like your videos and they will come again and again whenever you post new videos to your channel. Make a plan how you will circulate the link of your YouTube videos through various social media sharing or any other legitimate means.

What you need to do to set up your YouTube channel?

Step 1: Log in to YouTube using your Google account and go to your profile. Click on ‘Create a Channel’ to set up your new YouTube channel. Note that you can give any name to your channel. It can be your real name, any keyword like dancing videos, health tips, blogging tips and tricks or anything. Using a keyword which has a good amount of searches in Google everyday can be beneficial in getting traffic to your channel. But whatever name you give, make it simple. Do not use complicated words or phrases.
Step 2: Click on Video Manager. Video Manager is a store of all your YouTube videos. You can see all your videos uploaded to YouTube in one place. You can categorize your videos, add descriptions to individual videos from Video Manager.
Step 3: Upload your unique videos to your YouTube channel. Write something about the video in the video description. Add some relevant tags to the description. The tags will enable YouTube to categorize your videos and to show them to appropriate viewers.
Step 4: Now the most important part comes. Click on ‘View Additional Features’ option in the side panel. In the additional features, you will see an option YouTube Monetization. This is nothing but the YouTube revenue sharing program of Google Adsense. Now, click on ‘Enable Monetization’ button. There, click on ‘Enable my account’ option. You are almost done now. Just read the terms and conditions and agreement for monetization. You need to accept those terms by clicking ‘I Accept’ button.
Step 5: Now all you have to do is wait for 24 hours. You will get an email within 24 hours regarding the YouTube monetization. After reading the instructions in the email, go to Video manager in your YouTube channel and you will get an option for monetization in each of your videos. Just enable that option and you are done. Now concentrate on getting visitors to your YouTube channel by sharing it to social media sharing websites or by any other means and happy earning.
Hope this article helps. If it helps you, please share it with your friends. Thank you.
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Best Google Adsense Alternatives for Indian Bloggers in 2014

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Google Adsense is unarguably the best CPC advertising platform for bloggers and online marketers. Being the product of Google and for consistant good service to its users Adsense has already made a strong trust among the bloggers and online writers who earns a living writing on the web. Many people are earning a good amount of money from Adsense ads and many have chosen blogging and online writing as their day job just because of strong potential to earn money online with advertising. But in every case, not all bloggers get an approved Adsense account from Google to display ads on their website or blog. So, they must look for some alternative for contextual ads on their blogs. But which one? There are many firms which are providing advertising services for bloggers and web developers to monetize his work. But you cannot trust all of them to be legit and you cannot guarantee that you will earn money from its ads because some ad serving companies provide really poor advertises and very low CPC. for bloggers from India, the scenario is worse.
Because, many ad serving agencies largely depends upon the traffic from US and Canada, and you will not earn a good amount unless you get huge traffic from these regions. In this article, I am going to discuss some of the best Ad serving networks for Indian bloggers.

Why you need an alternative to Adsense?

There may be many reasons to choose an alternative to Google Adsense for CPC ads on you website. For example -

You are not able to get an approved Google Adsense account. Google is very much selective in approving its publishers. If your blog does not meet Adsense’s requirements, you will not be able to get your account approved from Google subsequently not getting any ads displayed on your blog. 
Adsense account may be terminated at any time. Google scrutinize the performance of the ads on your website, and if it detects any false click or click frauds on your blog, your account is subject to termination. So, you need another advertising platform.
If you account is about hacking or cracking and related to that kind of information, you are not eligible for an Adsense account. You must not apply for Adsense and look for a good alternative.
If your website is not so old, i.e you have set up your website or blog recently and want to monetize it, but Google will not approve your blog for Adsense ads before it is at least 6 months old. So you need an alternative ad serving platform before you can apply for Adsense. Adsense is also not for bloggers who gets less traffic. You will not get approved from Google unless you have a very good traffic to your blog. 
Adsense does not support websites in Indian languages. So if you are blogging in your own language like Hindi or Bengali or Tamil, you will definitely not get advertising form Adsense. Hence you need an alternative solution to monetize your blog.



What are the best alternatives to Google Adsense for Indian bloggers?


There are many ad serving agencies in terms of delivering a monetizing solution to your blog. But can you make money in the same efficiency form each one of them? The answer is ‘NO’. And you can not simply trust every Ad serving agencies that they will definitely send money to you after you have earned enough. So, when considering to monetize your blog with contextual ads be selective and place the best ads from best provider which turns your traffic into good revenue. As I have mentioned earlier that if you do not have enough traffic from US and Canada, you cannot earn enough form every contextual ads serving company. I have done some research in selecting CPC ad platforms and tried some of them and found some are really useful for Indian bloggers. You may try the following 10 best contextual ad services to mnetize your content.
  Bidvertiser: I have the best experience with Bidvertiser so far. They provide some decent ads to your blog and CPM and CPC is also very good. You can choose from templates like 728x90 leaderboards or 468x60 banners to 320x320, 125x125 and other sizes of ad units and place them anywhere you wish in your blog. They provide good advertises for traffic from India which could easily attract your visitors and you can expect a decent amount of clicks. Hence increasing your revenue. Bidvertiser has a brilliant affiliate program too, using which you can increase you earning by sending affiliate advertisers or publishers to them. It has a minimum payout of $10 via PayPal or $50 via cheque. This less amount of payout is easy to reach in a small amount of time. You can join Bidvertiser directly from this link.
  Infolinks: Infolinks is considered as best Ad solution for in text ads in the world. They converts your keywords to links and shows ads on the links when hovered over it. Infolink has good advertiser base from India and hence they can bring a good revenue to Indian bloggers showing relevant ads in your site. Their CPC and eCPM is very good and holds a very good revenue earning potential. You can easily integrate Infolinks to your site regardless of the platform you are using for blogging whether it be Blogger, Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal or any other. You can try this advertising solution for atleast a month and see whether it is bringing you revenue or not. Infoloink pays you once you earn a minimum of $50 and sends payment via PayPal.
 Chitika: Many people claim Chitika to be the most neighboring competitor to Google Adsense. They provide advertising solutions to a large number of online publishers. But for me, Chitika was not a pleasant experience. At least for Indian visitors. When Chitika does not find a relevant ad to display in your area, it displays some bogus text links to some website or search engine which is not really attractive and you visitor may feel your website to be not attractive. But if you have a large visitor base from countries like US and Canada, you can earn a good money from Chitika. And many Indian publishers also recommend Chitika as they might have earned a decent amount of money from it. Chitika payout is also less. It has a payment threshold of $10 via PayPal or $50 via cheque. You may try Chitika also.
  TribalFusion: Tribal Fusion is another high paying ad network program. This ad network pays high CPM and CPC amount but their requirement is also very high. To get approved to Tribal Fusions ads publishing program, your website must have at least 500,000 visitors per month. If you have a high amount of visitors to your site and very good user base but you are not earning enough money, you can try Tribal Fusion. They consider your sites design, and content when approving your account. Certain contents like drug promotion, sexuality, pornography etc. are not allowed.
  Yahoo Bing Contextual Ads: Yahoo Bing contextual ads is a good contextual advertising platform and is powered by media.net. They provide good CPC and you can earn a decent amount with this platform. But they also have some requirements to be fulfilled before you are approved as a publisher. You can add customized advertising from Yahoo Bing contextual advertising program and boost your revenue. You can go to the website and check for the requirements yourself.
  BySellAds: BySellAds is another popular advertising solution among bloggers and web publishers. Unlike other contextual advertising networks, using BySellAds, you can directly negotiate with the advertisers. You can put an area of your website for advertising and if some advertiser likes to put ads on your place, he may contact you and you can set your price. A good alternative to direct banner advertising.
  Media.net: Media.net is a contextual ad program from Bing network. You can try this ad network to monetize your blog. It also have a good CPC and have good amount of advertisers. You can receive payment after you reach a minimum of $100 ad revenue.
  Clicksor: I tried Clicksor few months back but was not really satisfied. You may try and check for your success. They provide text ads, banner ads and also pop up ads. Getting approval to Clicksor publisher program is easy. Clicksor pays you when you earn a minimum of $50 via Paypal.
  ExitJunction: If you have a great amount of monthly traffic and have a good CTR(Click Through Rate), then you can try ExitJunction as an alternative to Google Adsense. They pay you good CPC. exitJunction Pays out when you have a minimum earning of $50 and you can receive payment via PayPal.
  Kontera: Knotera is very much similar to Infolinks in terms of contextual advertising. They also leads in the field of in-text advertising. You can give a try to this ad network as an alternative to Google Adsense. Kontera sends you payment via PayPal with a $50 minimum payout.


Final Words from Editor:

No ad networks are really huge money makers unless you write great content on your website or blog. And for Indian bloggers, if one ad network is good and making money for me, it may not be the case in your case. it may totally fail to make money for you. Making money from advertising depends upon the content in your blog, the visitors you are getting and the ads you are being served with. So my personal suggestion is do a research using one or two ad network on your blog and if it is not making good money for you, then dump it and try some other. There you may meet your luck. But if no ad network is making money for you then quit blogging and join an academy for a degree in blogging and SEO. I'm just kidding. Keep trying and writing great content and when it will be worthy to make money from your content, you will definitely make money from it.
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How to Earn Money by writtings Sponsored Reviews on Your blog

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earn money from sponsored blogYou may already know that bloggers make money not only by placing ads in their blogs, but from various sources. One of the prime source is Sponsored blog post. Many companies pay bloggers to write blogs about their products in their personal blog. Bloggers those who have vast audience gets easily such sponsored posts or sponsored reviews about some product someone wants to be endorsed. Sponsored Reviews and Sponsored posts are popular way of money making among the bloggers. You can also earn some money writting sponsored reviews and endorsing some product in your blog posts. In this post I am going to tell you some good websites where you can search and get sponsored post for your blog.
  1. SponsoredReviews : SponsoredReviews.com is a most prefered option for bloggers to get sponsored posts and reviews for a blog. It is one of the old but popular website of its kind. You can sign up for SponsoredReviews and give a try. But there are some shortcomings in using Sponsored Reviews. One, Sponsored Reviews keep 50% commission you generate from every sponsored post as they were acting as a mediator between you and the advertiser. And two, To get qualified and approved for SponsoredReviews, your blog must have a goog Google page rank and Alexa rank. Sponsored Reviews has some strict rules when they consider blogs. Some of the regulations they have mentioned in their FAQ page are:
  • Your blog must be at least 3 months old and be cached/indexed in the major search engines, including Google.
  • Your blog must have a minimum of 10 backlinks. Backlink analysis is verified through Majestic SEO.
  • Your blog must be submitted to a category that is the most relevant for your site.
  • Your blog must contain at least 10 archived posts with a minimum of 3000 combined word count.
  • Your blog must not contain duplicate content scraped from other sites.
  • Your blog must have a professional appearance.
  • Sponsored Reviews reserve the right to reject blogs that contain too much visual clutter. You are free to use ads, banners and badges, but if they overwhelm the content itself they may reject the blog.
  1. ReviewMe: Reviewme.com is yet another website of its kind which brings you sponsored product reviews. You just need to write good reviews about a product they will give you to write. You can find a very good number of advertisers in this website for your need. They may higher you to write reviews if your blog is having good trafic and potential to market their product.
  2. PostJoint: Postjoint.com can also be another option for sponsored posts. It is a quite new network, but it has a very good number of advertisers so, you have a good chance of getting some sponsored reviews in this website. You just need to sign up on PostJoint, get approval for sponsored posts and then you may be getting sponsored reviews from advertisers for your blog. You have to ask for a price for your post or review and if the advertiser finds it comfortable, then they will place an order for you.
There are some other options to get sponsored reviews for your blog. You may ask advertisers to contact you directly by placing a banner on your blog or you may practice similar tactics. If you have other mind blowing ideas, please share in below comment box.

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How to Make money using Twitter

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Yes, This is not a myth. Although, making money online is not an easy task. But you can really earn some extra money with Twitter. Yes, you read it correctly. You can earn money from your twits. I will tell you how. There is huge competition in the online market and most people trying to earn some quick bucks in the Internet fails to earn any money because of their impatience and urge for easy money.make-money-with-twitter You should always remember that easy money is a myth other than if you are not gambling or selling drugs. A person needs to work hard to earn money online. However, there are many real and legitimate ways to earn money online. Today, we spend hours on social media Twitting, Facebook sharing and in other social networking sites. However, few people know that they can earn money using the power of social media. Social media marketing is growing extensively and gaining popularity. Most business organizations are trying to expanding their market and gain profit with the help of social media marketing. But how one simple user of social media can earn money? Yes, this is possible. But you need patience and some work to earn money. You can earn money with Twitter using some tricks. Games and apps on Facebook has become a popular option to make money online. But everyone cannot afford to create a game on Facebook or not able to create an app which will make revenue. But in twitter, you do not need to program any app or game. You can earn money just for twitting. I am going to tell you how. There are numerous ways to earn money from your tweets. But I will discuss only the best options.


What you need to make money using Twitter?


To make money from Twitter, you will need-
A Twitter account (obviously). If you don’t have one, then create one. Twitter does not distinguish between person, company or any other thing. So, you can create a Twitter account for your personal name, your company or your website or blog. 
Get some decent amount of followers. Twitter followers are those, who follows you and gets any tweet you post on your twitter account. To make money, get as many follower as you can. Your earning will be somewhat directly proportional to number of your followers. 
Tweet regularly and have at least 50 twits on your account. Tweet about interesting things, so that people get encouraged to follow you and click on your twits.
Always maintain a basic standards for your tweets so that people do not feel compelled to unfollow you.
Share links and images in your tweets. You can share any interesting link you have read on a blog, on a news portal etc.


How to start making money with Twitter?


The following options will help you making money with Twitter.
1. Sponsored tweets: Sponsored Tweets is the most popular option to earn money with Twitter. sponsored tweetsSponsored tweet is a well known service with a large number of users. This service uses a Pay-Per-Click(PPC) option for your tweets. You can also set the amount you want to charge for each click. You can choose the ads you tweet from a list of ads which is updated regularly. To get started with Sponsored Tweets you should have at least 50 followers , 100 tweets in your profile and an account which is 60 days older for signing up and get qualified to sponsored tweets. Sponsored Tweets has a referral program too. You can place referral link on other social media platforms or you can place referral banner ad on your blog or website to earn profit from referral.
2. Rev Twt: Rev Twt is another popular advertising platform based on Twitter tweets. Rev Twt has a simple formula, as much follower you have you have the probability of earning that much. Because this platform uses a Pay-Per-Click(PPC) option, as many clicks your tweet generates, that many amount you earn. revtwtRev Twt works on the basis of two methods, CPC (Cost per Click) or CPT (Cost per Thousand Followers). You have the option add multiple twitter accounts in Rev Twt to make more money. Payments are made via paypal when you reach a minimum of $ 20 in your account.
3. MyLikes: MyLikes is another popular option to earn money on Twitter. You can use MyLikes on other platforms too like your blog, tumbler and YouTube.mylikelogo You can choose from thousands of advertisers and you can also schedule the time when the advertisement will be tweeted from your twitter account. You can earn around $ 0.50 per click on your tweets and you can get a payout per week. MyLike can be a good option if you want to use it on multiple platforms and have a large number of followers.
4. BIT.LY: BIT.LY can be another option to earn money on tweets. You can easily monetize valuable contents you are sharing to social media with BIT.LY. However you would not be getting paid per click, PPC method is not followed by BIT.LY. Instead of PPC, you will need to create a profile based on your interests then advertisers can choose your account to publicize a campaign. You need to agree to send some tweets at specific schedule and you will get paid.
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