 If you are a creator on YouTube and part of the Amazon affiliate program, and if not, why not, by the way, then stick around because in this video, I'm gonna tell you how you can potentially increase your Amazon affiliates revenue using TubeBuddy. Hello, welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec. Now, when I set up my channel in the middle of May this year, I wanted to, from the outset, put systems in place and things in place to allow me to generate revenue for the channel. We all know that it can be a long slog waiting to get monetized on YouTube, hitting that thousand subscriber mark and having the required watch hours. And even when you get there, it's not like YouTube's gonna back up the money truck. So I'm still not at that level yet in any case. So I did want to make sure that there was ways that I could generate revenue to at least cover costs because running a YouTube channel does in fact have costs. People may not be aware. But things like paying for your epidemic subscription to make sure you're using legally allowed to use the music that you have in your productions. Obviously, there is equipment, there's costs involved in it. There's also the time involved and so on. Hosting a website, various other different things like that. So there are costs involved and I wanted to make sure that it would at least cover all of those costs and hopefully cover a little bit of the time cost involved in it as well. Now, one of the first things I set up was my Buy Me a Coffee. So that's at buymeacoffee.com slash take one tech. So if you do value the content that I create, then that is a great way to show your support for the channel, either on a one-off basis or on an ongoing continued subscription. But what I also set up was Amazon Affiliates. I'm sure most of you are familiar with Amazon Affiliates and the way that this works is basically you can include links or images and things like that on your website perhaps. But when anyone clicks on one of your links to go through to Amazon, then you receive a commission for anything that they buy through that link. Now, it doesn't actually have to be the product itself that you've linked to. It can also be anything else that they've bought in that session or within a particular timeframe, I believe within 24 hours. I might be wrong about that, but it's not always just the products that you link to that can gain you commission. So it can be a way to generate some extra revenue for your channel. Now, with my channel, I'm sure if any of you are regular viewers, then you will know that I don't really do a lot of product reviews or anything like that on my channel. I do occasionally review products and I do occasionally talk about products. And when I do, then I'm obviously as a good YouTuber, I always put the link in the description below. But it is only then that I had been including links to products on using my Amazon affiliate links. And so I wasn't really getting a huge amount of traffic through to Amazon. I do also include Amazon affiliate links on my website. So I've got a gear page there. So if you go to takeonetech.io, then at the top you'll see a gear page. You can click on that and it will list all of the gear that I'm using to create my YouTube videos. And so all of those links are Amazon affiliate links. And so if anyone makes purchases, having clicked those links, then I do get some commission from that. But really, as I say, I wasn't getting a huge amount of Amazon affiliate commission. But then I had an idea, but it wasn't my idea. I just noticed that other people were doing this where they would actually include the links in their descriptions for the gear that they were using and things like that. So I'm not claiming that this is something new or anything like that, but you may have seen it before and not really thought it necessary. But I just want to tell you the effect that it's had for my channel having been doing this for the past month. So let me just first come over to my YouTube studio and I'll show you what I'm talking about. And in fact here, you can just notice straight away that I am at only 668 subscribers. So if you aren't subscribed, then go ahead and hit the like button and subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications so that you get notified whenever I make any amazing content. Actually, it will just be when I make content and I can't guarantee it'll always be amazing, but I'll try my best. But in any case, so that's where I am at 668 subscribers. And if you just come over to the little customizer, the monetization tab over here, I should say, at the bottom, then if I click on that, you can see that in order to get monetized on YouTube, at least from revenue from Adverts, I need to have a thousand subscribers and this is actually saying one less than that other page. Nevermind. I'll assume the higher figure for now. So this is saying 667. And then also it's got the watch hours and you need to have 4,000 watch hours and I'm at 3,801. So I'm actually, I'm probably gonna hit the watch hours requirement before I hit the subscribers requirement. You also need to have two-step verification and also no community guidelines strikes. So fortunately, I've been a good boy on YouTube and don't have any of those. So, but yes, I am still a little way off being monetized on YouTube. And as I say, even when I do get monetized, it will not be a massive amount initially. So if I now come into my content and I can just pull up one of my videos, then what I can show you is in here, basically I have a stock description. In fact, let me just step back a minute, shall I? If I come down into the settings down here and then I can come to, so that's the little cog wheel at the bottom and then I come to this upload defaults. So I'm gonna click on that one. Here, I have the option to add in a default description. So I don't add in a default title and I don't add in a default tags either, but I do add in a default description and this is the description that I'm talking about. So as I come down here, you'll see that basically any time I upload a video, it automatically puts this information in for me without me having to sort of type it in or copy and paste it in or whatever every time. So if I come over to this video now, you can see that we've got my description. This just happens to be the last video I did about Looptek integration, coming to Ecam Live, which I'm very excited about. I've been notified by the shipping, my shipping notification has told me my Looptek will be here on the 1st of November. So you can expect a review and an unboxing and everything like that to come in very soon. But down at the bottom, basically here, after this text, this line here denotes the beginning of my stock text that I have at the bottom of all of my descriptions. And that shows different ways that people can connect with me. So my website, things like that. Also I do coaching calls where I talk about any tech issues that you may be having. So you can book one of those with me if you want, at takeonetech.io slash consultation. I used to do that solely through Buy Me a Coffee, but now there is an option to book it through the website so that you don't have to get necessarily sign up with Buy Me a Coffee either. But anyway, so that is in there in the footer as well. I'm calling it a footer. It's technically just part of the description, but I think of it as the footer. And down here, you can see that I've also got some other links to gear that I use. So there's computer gear, audio gear, camera gear, and various different things like that, lighting, obviously. And then just some other random things that I use as well in my setup. So all of these links now are Amazon links. So you can see them there. And all of those links appear in basically every one of my videos that I'm creating going forward. But obviously when I did this, which was a month ago, I did still have a back catalog of, well, over 150 videos that I needed to really update to add this in because it would be a shame to not have it in my existing videos and only have it in the ones going forward. Now, going in and editing a video can be a little bit time consuming. So it would be a case of, if I come out of here, it would have been a case of going down my list, making sure I didn't lose my place in the list, clicking on a video, coming in, waiting it for it to load up, coming down to the bottom. I did have a stock footer before, by the way, which was just some general information about the other affiliate links that I used and things like that. It was just basically a paragraph. So I would have had to have gone in and edit all of these and then clicked on save, come back out of this one, go into the next one. It just would have been laborious and time consuming in it. To be honest with you, it would have been one of those jobs that would have been on my to-do list for quite some time and I probably just wouldn't have got around to it. But fortunately, TubeBuddy had my back and I think that TubeBuddy may have just inadvertently or intentionally actually paid for itself with the additional revenue that I've been able to generate. I'll tell you about the results I've had afterwards. But first of all, let me show you how easy it is to actually go through and bulk edit all of your descriptions in YouTube. And if you haven't got your affiliate links in your YouTube descriptions, I can highly recommend it. And when you hear the results, I think you're gonna probably agree with me as well. But first of all, I'm gonna tell you a little bit about TubeBuddy, shall I? And how you can get it because TubeBuddy is, I think of it as my YouTube coach, to be honest with you. Every time I upload a video, it's there giving me little prompts of things that I need to do. Make sure I've got my tags straight, make sure I've got my descriptions are long enough and titles are the correct length and that I'm including tags from my titles in my descriptions. All these little tips are great. And so it is my upload coach. But it's far more than that. It is an analytical tool as well. It can analyze your thumbnails. It can analyze your facial expressions to tell you which of your videos are performing best. And you can also do split testing and things like that with it. It's an amazing tool and I really highly recommend you check it out at takeonetech.io slash TubeBuddy and get yourself a free trial and see for yourself. But let's get back to this little demo because I think you're going to like this. How simple it is to just go through and update your thumbnails. Sorry, not your thumbnail. It is easy to update your thumbnails. How easy it is to update your descriptions. So what we can do is if we come over to TubeBuddy. In fact, first of all, let me just give you a quick overview of how TubeBuddy sort of works within the context of the YouTube Studio. So it basically, it almost feels as part of the YouTube Studio experience. And on occasion when I've opened another computer up and logged in and it hasn't actually been there, it just looks a bit strange not to have all the functionality just sort of built in. It just feels so integrated. So there is a TubeBuddy menu that sits up in the top. So it just appears as part of the, almost as I say, part of the YouTube interface. And if you click on here, we've got a menu and it does a few great things actually. So it can take you through to jumping through to some of the commonly used places in YouTube. So rather than having to navigate through all of the menus and things like that, we've got some quick links just up here. But then there's all sorts of other tools here like Keyword Explorer where you can investigate different keywords, which ones you think are going to work well and so on. Topic planner where you can plan out your video topics and things like that. Tags list. So if there's tags that you use regularly rather than inputting them all one by one each time, you can just create little groups of tags. So I have that where I've got different sort of video topics that I do and then I can just pull in basically a tag list. So that saves a ton of time as well. You can also do analysis on when is the best time to publish your videos. So it'll tell you the time of day on every day and then also the best time of the week if you're publishing depending on the frequency of your publishing. It's also got a different time for live streams as well. So based on your sort of viewer behavior, it'll tell you when the best time to watch live streams is. And then it's also got this tool click magnet. Now that is another video all in itself, but this one allows you to do a really deep dive into your thumbnails and analytics, click through rates, your content and all these sorts of things. So I'll do a separate video on that because it really does warrant one in itself. So that is the sort of main TubeBuddy menu up at the top. There's lots of other things here, so different website tools you can get through to your community. There's a support thing to get through to TubeBuddy support directly in there. So it's really easy to get any issues resolved quickly and efficiently, but then down here we've also got sort of embedded into the interface as well here. So when you hover over a video, for example, you've got a little drop down here and this has got lots of tools in it specific to that video. So you can publish direct to Facebook, you can share it on Twitter, you can apply templates and all sorts of other different things that you can do directly from the interface here next to your videos. But the one that we're gonna do today, can you tell I'm a fan of TubeBuddy? The one that we're gonna do today though is here in this bulk and miscellaneous tools. And the one in particular is this one, bulk video processing. And you can do bulk thumbnail overlay so you can add additional information over the top of your existing overlays. But as an example, if you are running some sort of special offer or something like that, you might want to have something temporarily over the top of all your thumbnails. There's lots of other things, I won't go into all of these, but we want this first one, find and replace text. So I'm gonna click on that one and this brings up this little box. And this is basically to find and replace text. You can also do this drop down where you can insert or alter text, things like that, remove and delete text. So if you've got something in there like it may be a dead link or something and you just want to take out that link, then you can do that. There's all sorts of different things you can do in here, but we are going to do the find and replace text. Now you've got two text boxes. I'm sure most people are familiar with how find and replace works from other office applications and applications on the computer that you have. But basically you're gonna enter the text that you want to find and the text that you want to replace it with. And we're just gonna drag down here just to show you that this can basically be as long as you like and it will fit in a full video description in fact. So all I did was I clicked on here find text and I found the text that I had originally put as my footer in my videos. And as I said before, it was about a paragraph long and so I added that one in. And then in here I clicked on the replace text and I put in that new much longer description with all of those links. And also you may have noticed put in little emojis and things like that. I suppose as little sneaky attention grabbers I will say. So anyway, I put those in there and it just all fit in the box quite nicely. And then what you can do is there's a couple of options here. So if you want to include partial word matches, so I didn't, I wanted to make sure I was getting the exact text. And then also you can have whether you want it to be case sensitive or not. And I just left that one blank. And then here we can say search in titles and descriptions. So yes, you can go through and edit all of your titles as well if you want. But I did it just on the descriptions. And then I clicked continue. And once you click that, it basically just finds all the instances of it. And funnily enough, it found exactly the same number of instances as I had got videos because I was searching for that stock video description. Then I clicked on the change, the replace and it just started working away in the background. So from in terms of my time, it was a case of just going ahead and drafting this new description, which I don't know took me all of 30 minutes to go in and grab all of my links, things like that to make the text for the updated description footer. Then I dropped it into here and clicked continue. And that was me done. It was literally four, five clicks away. And it was all churning away in the background. And I think it took around about three minutes, four minutes, something like that for it to just go through and update all of those descriptions. A hell of a lot quicker than it would have been if I had been doing it. And in any case, I just went away and made a coffee. So it was no time for me at all. So that means that then I had all of these descriptions updated in my video descriptions for all of my videos, not just the future ones going forward. And that made a big difference. So what difference did it make? Well, it in the last month, I've had over 900, 920 links through to my Amazon affiliate links. Now, that may not sound like a lot to you if you are of your really heavy Amazon, you know, get heavy Amazon traffic. But the point is that was about 10 times more than I'd got in the previous month or the month before that. So it has really dramatically increased the number of click-throughs that I've got to my Amazon links. And now the conversion rate once people have actually got to Amazon is admittedly slightly lower because presumably people are just randomly clicking, not randomly, but they're less intentional, shall we say, about actually going and finding the link. So they haven't had to go through to my website, looking at my gear page because they're specifically interested to click through to it. So there, there is a lot more intention involved. Or if I've mentioned a product and the link is in the description, people are interested in that product because they've watched my video about it. And so they're clicking on the description, on the link in the description to go through to Amazon because they're interested in the product. So it makes sense that there is more intention there that the conversion rate would be higher. Now, my conversion rate before was around about 4.5, something like that from people who click through, 4.5% would go through to make a purchase. Whereas now it's around about 3.8, something like that. So when I say it's slightly lower, it's not like dramatically lower, it's just slightly lower. And that's because people are obviously looking in the description, they're scrolling down, they're noticing that there's some links there and thinking, oh, I wonder what that is, but they're not necessarily as intentional about it. But nevertheless, 3.8% of a 10 times greater number works out at more sales. Let me just tell you that much. And I can tell you that in doing this, this is pretty much paid for TubeBuddy itself. So this one action, and this is obviously recurring revenue, as I make more videos and as I continue to have my back catalog is being searched and people are finding it and people are clicking on those links, then that ad revenue as my channel grows is only gonna grow as well. So thank you TubeBuddy for that little tool that you gave me, because it has really made things a lot simpler. So if you are interested in TubeBuddy, then as I say, it is my tool of choice when it comes to helping me with my YouTube and monitoring it with my uploads, with my analytics and everything like that. And once again, I just have to say, go to takeonetech.io to get your free trial and there are three different levels. And I recommend giving the legend level a tryout because that has got all of the features. And once you see some of the things that you can do with the legend level, you'll realize how valuable it is. And I've got to say, I was sleeping on it. I went for the lowest level when I first started my channel, which was around $7, $8 a month and they give a discount if you've got less than a thousand subscribers. So it does seem a very cost effective way of doing things. But if I'd done this sooner, it would have paid for itself sooner. So once again, thank you TubeBuddy and definitely go and check that out. And speaking of monetization, as we were, if you have found this useful, definitely go and give a like and subscribe. And if you've really found it useful, head over to my Buy Me A Coffee page buymeacoffee.com slash take one tech. That's the best way to show your support for the channel. So I hope you found that useful. If you are using TubeBuddy and you've got any other features that you really love and have really saved you a load of time, then drop them in the comments and I'd love to hear about them because I'm still discovering more and more ways to use it every day. So thanks again TubeBuddy and thank you all for watching. And I'll leave a link to some more YouTube content creation videos over on the right hand side. And YouTube will pick one, especially for you just up in the top right there as well. Have a great day everyone. Bye bye.