You might have read many threads in the forums, ebook and reports about how to use Youtube.com as your source of traffic and monetize your website and/or with affiliates. Now, I will not go into details like telling you how to setup your website etc. I will discuss both whitehat and blackhat methods. I will not get into details like how to upload / download video, how to watermark a video etc, you may search this blog for details about such things or just google it. I will directly get involved into methods that can be helpful so lets get started and write down the plan. Let us divide our plan into the following point:

So whats the plan ?

1. Download and/or upload video to youtube.com
2. Send traffic to your website. Create buzz on forums, blogs, make it viral OR use blackhat methods for instant buzz
3.  Monetize traffic with affiliate programs, google adsense, selling links, CPM offers, CPA offers, Domain Parking

Disclaimer: Find a video which is public domain, or the video with the permissions that you can redistribute freely. In our example you will be using any video (downloading from youtube), so be careful with the copyrights and trademark infringement, I will not be held responsible for any loss or damage caused by this article to either video producer and/or the uploader.

Now, you will be thinking what kind of videos can be helpful in making decent cash per day, I would say something around $250-$500 per day would be a decent money, and YES it can be done, but it solely depends on your efforts and the time you dedicate. So lets start with the exact videos that work perfectly, I would actually suggest 2 types of videos, the music and something related to iPods. Now, you all know people are crazy and iPods and at the same time about the music videos, there is not limit on the new releases of music albums and the new bands. So are you getting my idea ?

1. Lets get started now !

You have to do some work, lets start with the finding a music video that you will be promoting, it depends on where you are located, if you are located in London UK, then find about the newly released music videos or about the hottest band of the season and go to youtube and search about the specific video, you will definitely see videos there. Download that video (using http://keepvid.com/), watermark (there are many tools that do this) the URL of your website / blog on that video and re-upload. Now, while uploading the video, take care of the title of the video, do not just give a lame title like “new blah blah video”, be smart on this part use the name of the singer or exact keyword that you want this video to be searched for. While uploading video put your affiliate link in the description if you don’t have a website, otherwise point them towards your website.

2. How to drive traffic to your video ?
Now that’s not tough as well. Lets consider the whitehat methods first.

1. Submitting to social bookmarking website stumble upon, digg, propeller, del.icio.us etc)
2. Posting in the forums, replying in blogs comments
3. Posting at yahoo answers

Now this will take about 2-3 hours of work to post to these websites, but keep in mind the more you make your video popular, the more visitors you get hence the more money in your pocket, once its done, move on to next video and this cash cow will grow itself and everything will be automated.

I will encourage you to use whitehat methods first, however the techniques I am pointing now may/can create you many problems or get you in trouble, but I am posting them just to educational purpose, these are blackhat methods.

1. Spam your video link through PRStorm, it is a tool used for referral spamming. Just google it.
2. If you already have a website with some traffic, open a hidden popup (with the video page) on each of the page, so your video will get so many unique hits and thus become popular.
3. Use a great tool, that does everything automatically and makes your video popular in no time, its called Tube Automator. All is done, lets move to next time cash our time.

3. Monetizing the traffic

 I have a method for monetizing this kind of traffic, first we should know what we already have to use with this. I am going to list few options for you to choose, or may be use all of them

Affiliate Programs : Well, I would suggest using Commission Junction, but there are hundreds of affiliate programs to join. You can pick any of the ring-tone offers and start promoting with it, but keep in mind that the conversion low might be very low because of the nature of you tube traffic.

Google Adsense: You might have visited several times to the pages where there is no content (against Google Adsense TOS) or there is content but way too down on the page and at the top there are all ads, so someone going there has no option other than clicking an Ad or just closing the browser. This works most of the times.

Link Sales : If you become expert with this method, you can not only get thousands of unique visitors but thousands of dollars as well. Think, once you have a decent flow of traffic and a website full of Adsense, Affiliate offers then why not to sell Ads using Adbrite ? yeah, that’s another good option. You can also display banners on such website to earn with CPM (cost per thousand impression) as well.

Cost Per Action : Now, I would say that this converts extremely well, only if you have uploaded a teaser video. A teaser video is something like half video, think a man falling from roof, and just before end you stop and give a link to your website and tell the visitor to visit and see the full video, once visitor is there ask them to complete your CPA offer, trust me you will find offers that pays $5-$15 for even free signups, so you can make a decent money with that, but just be careful if the affiliate manager finds out you will get banned. This works wonder will celebrities movies, you know what kind of movies am referring to.

Domain Parking: DP is a method where you just register a domain name and the company sets a page for you with full of Ads, and all the type-in traffic is considered as legit traffic, that means you will not spam your link, post anywhere etc, only the people typing it in the browser window will go there. So think about it ? people cannot click on the video, so what they will do is type the name of URL watermarked on the video and go there to make you money.

You can always add your flavor to all these tips to maximize the income, you also might have some tricks that I haven’t mentioned, feel free to share with us.

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This topic was probably not needed because as I see most of you already know what an affiliate program is and you are here to learn how to make more cash with those affiliates programs but I thought it would be nice to put some insight for the newbies who are just considering into joining affiliate marketing gang.

I will be focusing on being as an affiliate to any business entity rather than starting your own affiliate business where others would join and become your affiliate.

Consider this; you refer a client to any business and they pay you commission for each sale. That’s called affiliate program. You join companies and start promoting their products and based on your sales they pay you commission. Commission structure depends on what that specific company sets.

How they track sales and pay you ?

Well, they track with cookies. Read more about cookies here, quote from that text

A message given to a Web browser by a Web server. The browser stores the message in a text file. The message is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. 

Most of the times for joining an affiliate program, you even do not need a website, just join and start promoting their website with any PPC (pay per click) program like Google Adwords, MSN Adcenter and with Yahoo.

What companies to join ?

Well, there are thousands of companies to join, but I would recommend you joining Commission Junction and Clickbank, because they have very large database of clients, so you have more options on selecting products that you want to promote. I will be posting a list of all the affiliate program sites that you can join and start promoting products and earning cash instantly. At this stage I would suggest you to join CJ and CB and just go through their system, they take some time to get you approved, so by that time you can get yourself familiar with their client area and find products that you think have potential and have higher commission rates.

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Achieving success online is as easy as 1-2-3. You might have read hundreds of articles, e-books, WSOs or reports. But still you are looking for more ? You might be thinking as to why I cannot succeed in anything online ? Oh ! may be am doing something wrong ? there are hundreds of ways to make easy cash online, but you fail all the time. Now I have a plan for you to overcome this problem and help you take your first step. Are you ready ? if No, I can wait 2 minutes :)..

So you are ready to find out why you fail and take your first step (get a paper and write down everything)

1. Identify yourself

Who you are ? what can you do ? Have you got mirror near by you ? ok no problem. Now, thats the very first step to get you started. Seriously, I mean if someone asks me what happens if someone mixes potassium hydroxide with potassium phosphate ? Oh c’mon I am not a pharmacist, how can I know ? so that’s really important to know what you can and can not do.

Once you figure out what you can and cannot do then you can move to next point. Obviously if you are planning to achieve success in online business you might have some interest in other businesses that are already doing well in the field, so just have a look at them.

2. Plan ! Pick something you think you CAN do !

Now, you might be thinking what I talking about, everyone has some special skills / abilities to do something special. Can you write ? can you speak ? can you chat ? can you develop a website ? can you generate traffic ? can you spam ? I am sure you can do a lot more that just this. You may find some solid methods that really work here, so pick any of them that I have posted, (those are the methods that I have tested personally) and make a plan on how to proceed, write down everything you think will be necessary in order to achieve target. By writing down everything step by step gives you idea and overview of the plan, and helps you analyze success / failure at any stage of your plan. Set target and you are ready.

3. Take Action

Now this is the point where 90% of the people stop, and at the end they claim they are unsuccessful, you will have to take action even if its just registering an email for keeping your record, just go for it rightnow after reading this article. Trust me, most of the things usually take 15-20 minutes to setup, and I agree with a few of the people I know personally, they say we work for 2 hours daily and generate $10K per month. Thats 100% true and even more. You can also do the same, But you will have to take action to get yourself started, once you are on the track you will never look back.

I hope this gives you some motivation to get yourself started, you might have read in many of my posts that I encourage people to take first step and then the ball keeps rolling. So take action and good luck !

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