Why Affiliate Marketing is Important on YouTube

YouTube affiliate marketing is extremely important because it’s an additional source of income for your business. Getting monetized on YouTube is getting harder by the day, by the time of writing this article, you need to have over 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watch time before you can earn a dime from YouTube Ads.

 

This YouTube monetization requirement has been a road block for most people because it’s not easy to get 1,000 fans and have people watch your content for more than 4,000 hours. It’s tough.

 

This alone has discouraged millions of people from starting a YouTube channel and I like that because YouTube is a marathon and not a sprint. You should be ready to start and willing to stay consistent for months and years to come.

 

This is why Affiliate Marketing on YouTube comes in, because with Affiliate Marketing, you don’t need to wait till your channels reaches over 1,000 subscribers with over 4,000 hours of watched content before you can start making money.

 

With Affiliate Marketing, you can earn money from people that buy the products and services you recommend on your YouTube channel.

 

How do you Setup Affiliate Marketing on YouTube

 

The first step is to identify products and services that you use or have used before, visit their website and check if they have an affiliate program.

 

If there’s an affiliate program, you sign up. Once you sign up, some programs would review your application but most affiliate programs would approval your request and immediately you’ll be given a unique URL which you share to your audience on YouTube.

 

Where do you Insert Affiliate Links in YouTube?

 

The best place to insert affiliate links in YouTube is in the description box. Links or URLs added in the description box become clickable once you publish the video which means the people that watch your videos can scroll down to your description box and click on links to products you recommend or mentioned in the video.

 

What’s the Best Way to Get More Affiliate Clicks in your Videos?

 

The best way to get more affiliate clicks in your YouTube videos is by making a video on the product or service you’re an affiliate.

 

Showing results that it worked for you and how it worked for you so people can copy your process to achieve the same results using the same product or service.

 

After publishing your video on YouTube, another way to draw attention to your affiliate link is by pinning a comment on your video with the affiliate link so that’s the first comment anyone sees when they scroll down to the comment section.

 

Also, another way to get more clicks on your affiliate links is by setting up your YouTube upload default settings. You need to have a list containing your affiliate links, go to default upload settings and paste those links in there.

 

What this does it that whenever you upload a new video on YouTube, all your affiliate links are automatically inserted in the description box. This saves you hours and time, because now you don’t have to manually insert your affiliate links.