Thinking of starting a YouTube Channel and using it to direct traffic to a few affiliate programs. Believe that it is a good niche that I can eventually make a good profit. Planning on doing it as a weekly talk show about a certain product. Does anyone have advice on marketing this idea and tips for driving traffic to the channel. Looking forward to hearing some responses. Thanks.
You can use Facebook advertising to reach certain people interested in your product. It helps because you can really have views from people that are actually interested. Provide them with social links like Twitter & Facebook and once they follow you there, "always if interested" they will support you for as long as they are interested.
Yeah thats what I've been reading is start getting a following before starting to promote products etc. Is that what you recommend? Have you had success in the past?
YouTube channels are a great way to drive traffic to products, whether they are your own or affiliate, or CPA. A few tricks, you need to make sure your channel is set up correctly and is distinctive. Don't forget to use customized header graphics on the channel. To have links in your videos you need to get annotations enabled, this means getting your site listed in Google Webmaster tools and linking your YouTube email name to your webmaster tools account. I recommend getting several videos up on your channel before you even think of going for traffic, people will want to see an active channel, not a one. So spend the time necessary to get it going. I get about 1/2 of my YouTube traffic from people searching on YouTube and finding my videos, this means that I have to get my videos placed high in search results. Lots of techniques to get that done. The other 1/2 of the traffic to my YouTube videos comes from traffic that I direct to my videos from other sources, my best source is Pinterest. YouTube says that they have thousands of people making over 6 figures per year on YouTube just from YouTube ads and that is the worst way to make money on YouTube, so it is a great market. One really important thing, YouTube does not like affiliate links, so you need to send people to your web site or blog first, then to the affiliate offer. You should do this anyway as you want to grab their email address before giving them away to the affiliate company.
Your thinking idea is great. It is true that by youtube channel, you can earn money. But it is not easy. If your channel has a good number of subscriber and good number of views of your channel video, then you can get the ad from youtube. And if you can get the ad once a time, after this it is very easy to earn money from youtube channel. So I think you should look at every site of youtube channel to earn money. You will need to create a good and professional channel for this. Good Luck.