 The ultimate guide for affiliate marketing on YouTube for newbies. Okay. Are you a newbie? You a newbie? This video is going to help you out. Seriously. If you want to do affiliate marketing on YouTube, this is the guide you got to watch, okay? I'm going to go through every single thing that you need to do from disclaimers to everything else. And when you're done with a short video, you're going to know what to do. So let's get going. But the one thing you really need to do is subscribe to. Don't forget to do that. Hit that button down there. Don't forget turn on bell notifications. All bell notifications. So that every time I do a new video you get notified or if I go live or any of that stuff and give me a thumbs up if you don't mind. So let's get right into this and let's check it out what we need to do. Where can you get affiliate links is the first thing that people always ask me like, how do you create those? How do you get those? It's not as mysterious as it sounds. All you have to do is go to most websites, whether it's Amazon or Walmart or Target or where's the best buy? And they're going to have an affiliate program. All you have to do is sign up for that program. And then once you've done that, when you log in, you can actually click on a product, get your affiliate link and post it wherever you want. Now, Amazon is probably one of the biggest affiliate marketplaces. However, there's all kinds of other places you can go to. I like to use ClickBank. That's a great affiliate marketplace. You can you can market all kinds of different courses and all kinds of different products on ClickBank. You can also go to ShareAcele. ShareAcele has all kinds of products. Also, I'm actually a vendor on ShareAcele. So people can go on to ShareAcele, get a link for my products, for my website, and they can make money off my products too. So, you know, I do it on both both ends. I am an affiliate and I'm also the vendor. So yeah, both of them. I do both of those. The next question is, how do you naturally integrate your affiliate links with your videos if you're doing videos on YouTube? And I think it's quite easy. Probably one of the simplest things to do, and I know my wife does it more on products than I do, but do a review of a product, get a product. Many times you can contact some of these companies and say, Hey, if you send me the product, I'll do a review on my channel. I've got, you know, 1000 subscribers or 10,000 or whatever you got. And it doesn't even have to be a whole lot of subscribers. Most of these companies just want to have another review of their product out there. When you do a product review, you can tell the people in the video, Hey, I've posted a link below. If you like this particular product, you want to check it out, click my link below and get a 20% discount or 10%, whatever. In most cases, when you're doing a review like that, the companies will say, Hey, we'll offer a 20% discount or 10% discount or whatever it is. And you can pass that along to your viewers and that encourages them a whole lot more to actually click the link. Now the question is, where do you put the link? Most people will put the link in the description section of the video, but I want you to temper this a little bit. You know, YouTube's whole goal is to keep people on the platform. It's not to send them someplace else. So if you have no subscribers and you're brand new and every time somebody watches one of your videos, they leave and go buy something else, you probably won't get many views. You know, YouTube is not going to push your videos out that much. So you have to temper this a little bit. I don't tell everybody in every single video that I have links below. Now the links are always there, but I don't always mention it. And I don't always mention it because I don't always want people to leave the platform. Heck, I would rather than watch 10 of my videos instead to build my traffic up so that YouTube pushes my videos out a little bit more rather than just sending them away every single time. That's not what I want to do. Now as your audience grows, as you get more views, as you have more traffic, it's a whole lot easier to do a video and send them someplace else because YouTube already knows that people watch your channel. You already have a bunch of views. You already have traffic, so they don't mind it as much. But if you're brand new, you've got to be careful in doing that. Here comes the big thing. What about legal disclosures? Here's the important thing to remember. When you are an affiliate for a product, you cannot hide that in any way. You don't want to hide that, okay? You want to say, hey, I'm an affiliate for that product and I get a small portion of the sale if you buy from them. I don't think that turns anybody off at all. Now what you may want to say is that's not going to affect your price at all. You're not going to pay any more for the product, which they shouldn't, right? The affiliate money that you get should come out of the product manufacturer, whoever it is, their pocket, not the consumer. In many cases, like I said before, if you send somebody to an affiliate link like that, the manufacturer or the owner of that particular program will pay you a commission for that, right? But they'll also give a discount that you could pass on to other people to encourage them to click that link, too. But you want to make sure at all, anytime you tell somebody to go somewhere and you're getting money back from it, let them know. Just be honest about it. It doesn't turn them off. Just say, hey, this is an affiliate link of mine. I get a small portion of the sale. It doesn't affect how much you have to pay for the product. They just give me a small portion because I'm an affiliate for this company and I respect this company. Make sure you let them know that. Now, the next thing that people ask me is, well, if I'm an affiliate for a particular product, what changes do I have to make in my settings? What do I have to do in my settings to make all this work? You don't have to do anything. OK, the way it works is whatever link you have, whatever affiliate link you have, when that is clicked on, that person is cookied so that they know when they come to the site, whether they go to Amazon or some other site, that it came from you. And since it came from you, you're the one that's going to get the commission if they buy a product. And you can also be more detailed if you want about your affiliate association. You can say, hey, I'm not being paid. You know, if you click the link, but they did send me this product to review for free. I got this free product right here. So that's OK to do that too. For the most part, you want to make sure people trust you. And why shouldn't they? Why should you not be trustworthy, right? You want to be trustworthy. You want to be open and honest with everything you're doing online. Next question I get is, how does the payout work? Well, the payout normally works when you set up your affiliate association. So you're going to go to, say, click bank, you're going to fill out all your information, including your banking information. And when you get a commission, they're going to do a payout, whether it's weekly or monthly, whatever, whatever that affiliate agreement is. And they're going to just put money in your bank. Some affiliate associations will put money into a PayPal account or a Venmo account or whatever you set up. But that's all going to happen at the time you become an affiliate for that particular product. Now, the next question I have people ask me is, what are the commission rates? What am I going to get paid to be an affiliate? Well, that really largely depends on who you're marketing. At Amazon, it's going to be a small amount, maybe two, three, four, five percent. You know, I don't even look at it to be honest with you. I do have links below for Amazon. If you want to check it out, they are affiliate links and I do get a small commission. But, you know, on some sites, it could be 10 or 20 percent. I know our products on share sale, we pay out 10 percent. So if you send somebody to our survival cave food site and they buy something on that particular site, we pay you 10 percent, which is a pretty good payout. Other sites pay a lot more. If you go to something like Clickbank, you could get 50 percent or 80 or 90 or some of them actually pay out 100 percent because they're just trying to build their list. And they don't care about that initial money because they know on down the road when they re-email them, they're going to make money off that. Now, the other big questions I get is, I just want ads to run on my videos. I want to make money off ads. Well, they changed it last year to where they're going to put ads on everybody's videos, period, period. Whether you're monetized or not. So if you don't have monetization, you're not going to get paid, you just won't. And that's just the way it is. And if you don't like that, just don't make videos for YouTube. It's real simple. I like it. I think they have a good program. Their requirements for payment is that you're a viable, you know, site to actually put ads on and they consider viable 1,000 subscribers. It takes time to get 1,000 subscribers and also 4,000 hours of watch time in the previous 12 months. So you have to qualify under those two things. And then that doesn't guarantee you're going to be paid. All it guarantees is that you're eligible to monetize your particular videos. You still have to apply through the YouTube network and they have to approve you. And not all of your videos are going to be able to be monetized. If you're targeting videos towards kids or something like that, you can't monetize those. It's not going to happen. A lot of times if you have any foul language or nudity or any of those things in your videos, you can't monetize those. They're not going to allow it. So you also have to look at what kind of content are you putting out if YouTube will even allow you to make money off ads. And let's face it, a lot of advertisers, they don't want to advertise on an ad that has profanity or something in it. That's not what they want because that's going to damage their brand. So you really have to be careful about that. And you've got to be cognizant as to what the rules are and you've got to adhere to them. This is not your platform. This is Google's platform. This is YouTube. So they make the rules. They let you use it for free. Pretty good deal. Now, I will tell you if you're starting off your newbie and that's what we started off as, you know, your newbie, affiliate marketing is probably one of the easiest ways to make money. And the more content you put out, the more money you can make. And I want you to think of it this way. If you had 10 videos and they all had affiliate links on them, you could make X number of dollars off those affiliate links. But what if you had a hundred videos? What if you had a thousand videos? So it really increases exponentially when you make more content. Now, that content we talked about today was on YouTube, but that doesn't mean that you can't put the same affiliate links on your website or on social media or wherever you want to put them. But you do want to check out when you get to social media, especially places like Facebook or whatever. They have a lot of rules about this stuff. If you violate those rules, you can get shut down. They can close your account and you can get banned from the platform. We've seen that happen, right? We've seen people get banned from platforms. So make sure you adhere to the rules. Make sure you do it right. There's no point in doing it any other way. Understand when you're using one of these platforms, you're going into somebody else's house. It's their house. OK, so they have their house rules. And if you went into somebody's house and you acted up and you didn't act the way they wanted, whether it was a bar or whether it was somebody's personal home, they're going to want to kick you out. They don't want you in there. So understand the rules is the most important thing. You got to understand them up front. And then secondly, you've got to abide by them. If you don't want to use somebody else's house, you don't want to use YouTube or Facebook or whatever. You can do what you want on your own website. OK, however, I will tell you some websites have been shut down, too, because of rules that they had about hosting. So be careful. That's all I can say is be super careful about it. You can make money on YouTube. You can make it with affiliate links. Don't do it in the beginning. I will tell you, do not do it in the beginning. Get some traffic first, get some views first. And then you can go ahead and put them on there. I know you're anxious. I know you want to make money. This all takes time. We all start with zero subscribers. 100 percent of us started with zero subscribers. And we're kind of building from there. And that's what you're going to have to do, too. I hope you enjoyed this video. And don't forget to subscribe. If you haven't done so so far, there's a button down there. It says subscribe. If it's red, that means you haven't clicked it. You need to click it. There's a bell next to it that will pop up. But only after you click it, you got to ring the bell. 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