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The web content outlines a method for earning profits on YouTube without creating videos by leveraging affiliate marketing, selecting high-demand products, utilizing Creative Commons videos, and implementing effective SEO strategies for video ranking.

Abstract

The article provides insights into making money on YouTube through affiliate marketing without the need for producing original video content. It emphasizes the importance of choosing the right affiliate products, focusing on those with recurring billing and high gravity, which indicates popularity and competition. The strategy involves finding and reusing high-quality review and testimonial videos that are licensed under Creative Commons, allowing for legal sharing and monetization. The article also guides readers on how to conduct YouTube research to identify suitable videos and products, and it stresses the significance of personal experience with the products for authentic promotion. Additionally, the article discusses the ease of ranking videos on YouTube by optimizing elements such as thumbnails, titles, descriptions, tags, hashtags, cards, and end screens, and it highlights the potential traffic surge from achieving page one rankings on Google and YouTube. The author, Deon Christie, offers additional resources and a free giveaway for new Medium subscribers to further assist in the process.

Opinions

  • The author advocates for the use of affiliate marketing as a viable way to earn on YouTube without video creation.
  • High gravity products on platforms like Clickbank are seen as advantageous due to their demand, despite the increased competition.
  • Personal experience with affiliate products is considered crucial for credible promotion and persuasive video descriptions.
  • Utilizing Creative Commons licensed videos is presented as a legitimate and efficient method to source content for monetization.
  • Video SEO is deemed essential for ranking and maintaining visibility on YouTube, with specific tactics recommended for optimization.
  • The author suggests that reaching page one on search engines can significantly increase traffic and potential earnings.
  • Deon Christie offers additional reading materials and incentives for Medium subscribers, indicating a commitment to providing value and building a community.

YouTube Profits Without Making Videos

Make Money On YouTube Without Making Videos!

You Need Not Make Videos To Make Money On YouTube!

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What you will learn from this article.

Find the right affiliate offer to promote.

Finding the right videos with YouTube research.

Make money with videos without making videos.

Ranking your video in YouTube search.

Find the right affiliate offer to promote.

This strategy is primarily for affiliate marketing, and how to make money with YouTube without making any videos. But you must first find the right affiliate product to promote.

For the purpose of this demonstration, I am just going to use Clickbank. With Clickbank, you want to pay attention to gravity, affiliate tools, and whether the product has recurring billing.

But why recurring billing? Well, that is part of creating a passive income, because every time the person renews their monthly membership you get paid. With gravity, however, you need to know the following.

A high gravity product of 200 and above, also means a lot more competition. But the product is also in demand, and audiences are purchasing it frequently. Therefore many marketers are promoting it.

A lower gravity below 100, means a little less competition but the product might not be all that much in demand. A low-gravity product also means that not too many affiliates are promoting it yet.

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Considering the commission you will earn, and how much the product costs you must also implement GEO targeting. This establishes affordability, and with high-ticket affiliate offers you must target only top-tier countries.

You also want to focus on products for which there are review videos and testimonial videos on YouTube. But this is where it gets interesting, which we are going to cover a little later during this demonstration.

Finding the right videos with YouTube research.

In order to find the right videos you need to do research for every affiliate product you want to promote on YouTube. Use search phrases like “affiliate product name reviews”, or “affiliate product name testimonials”.

Then you have to watch these videos and see what people have to say about the affiliate product. Be careful, because promoting a product that reviews and testimonials warn against defeats the purpose.

Remember that people might choose to check the reviews and testimonials after watching your video. Then only might they decide to purchase your product from the video description URL.

So, you are going to find products from your affiliate network, in this case, Clickbank. And then review these products thoroughly by watching YouTube videos.

Once you have selected a few products, you also want to, if possible, purchase and test the product. That way you can write a video description based on personal experience.

After completing this exercise, it will be much easier to move to the next. Where we will cover the strategy of making money with YouTube videos, without making any videos.

Make money with videos without making videos.

For the purpose of this demonstration below, I have chosen to check on review videos for a Clickbank product called Videly. Which are video-creating and video-ranking software.

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The review and testimonial videos by the way have only good things to say. Making it a good product to promote, but it is also a high-gravity product. The software itself is rather affordable and pays around $50 per sale.

As you can see illustrated above, from inside your YouTube channel dashboard, you want to click on the filters icon after doing your search. Then you must enable the Creative Commons license option.

But focus on, as mentioned earlier, review and testimonial videos about the affiliate product with the Creative Commons license. Basically, this means that you can reuse the video and upload it to your YouTube channel.

Just to be 100% sure you are on the right path, as illustrated below. You want to expand the video description area. Right at the bottom of the video description somewhere it must indicate “Creative Commons Attribution License (reuse allowed)”.

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Now that you have your affiliate product and Creative Commons license promotional video. You are ready to promote your affiliate product on YouTube without making any videos.

Next, you click on the “share” option below the video and then copy that URL presented in the popup window. Then paste it into one of two software tools called YouTube Downloader yt1s or yt5s.

After that, you convert and then upload the video to your PC. The same video you are going to upload to YouTube. But when you use a video to promote affiliate products, then always promote the product presented in the video.

They saved you a lot of work by providing you with high-quality videos, it is only fair to promote the product presented in the video. Besides, now you can get paid for YouTube views, and through affiliate commissions.

Ranking your video in YouTube search.

Ranking a YouTube video is the easy part, and there are a few areas to focus on. Maintaining that ranking position, however, will depend on the engagement rate and how popular your video becomes. But you want to focus on the following.

Video Thumbnail.

Video Title.

Video Description.

Video Tags.

Video Hashtags.

Video Cards.

Video End Screen.

Ranking a video on page one for highly competitive keywords and search phrases really is the easy part. But I have already covered that in another article on Medium. You might want to read the article below on video SEO and ranking.

As can be seen below, this video is ranked position 3 in YouTube search results. For a review video about the 12 Minute Affiliate, a program most professional marketers are familiar with.

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It is ranking for the search phrase “make money online”, therefore, directly targeting a specific audience. This is a Creative Commons video, which is one of many I use with this strategy on YouTube.

Some Creative Commons videos might be different, in the sense that the creator allows you to use the video without any copyright strikes. But they will run ads on the video, and the proceeds will go to them.

You will then not be earning from these kinds of videos as far as YouTube goes, but you will still earn your commissions from the affiliate product sales.

The top video marketers and earners on YouTube are calling this the ultimate video SEO super weapon! How much traffic do you think you will get the minute you reach page 1 on Google and YouTube? Are you ready to find out? — Source

AFFILIATE DISCLOSURE: Some of the links in this post are links to affiliate offers. If you visit them to make a purchase, I will earn a commission. The decision is yours, and whether or not you decide to buy something is entirely up to you. All offers come with a full money-back guarantee!

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