YouTube Marketing done right strategy for affiliates

The affiliate industry is growing every year. More people are interested in the affiliate industry, but they fail when they look at the traffic sources. What is the best platform to start affiliate marketing campaigns? We would say YouTube. The short answer is that YouTube is the most demonstrative platform worldwide. YouTube is a video engine that dominates everyone's attention. With more than half a billion active monthly users, the platform has become a giant. Unlike Facebook, Instagram or Pinterest, YouTube is known for video - and you know what? Video marketing is the best way to convert regular users into customers.

Channel optimization

It's essential to optimize your channel. Start with an official image and create a perfect header photo. The next step is getting subscribers to the YouTube page. You can buy YouTube subscribers from trusted sources. In 2021, it's easy to get high-quality subscribers and likes on your videos. Those subscribers stay with your content and engage in increasing the chances of going viral. 

Where to put affiliate links?

There are many options when it comes to putting affiliate links. Firstly, you can quickly drive traffic from YouTube videos to your funnel. When we say 'funnel', we mean the website where people can get an offer (any offer you choose). Driving traffic from YouTube to the funnel is the easiest way. However, it may not give you lots of clicks.

There are terms like this in the affiliate industry - direct link and un-direct link. Direct-link means that you are driving traffic right away to the offer page. For instance, you are promoting this vertical - finance. One of America's biggest banks has an offer for students, so you encourage that particular offer. You drive traffic right away from YouTube video to the bank's page (check the image below - David Dobrik is promoting bank "current" in the BIO of his video. He is affiliated with "current" and drives traffic right away to the bank's offer).

There is another route - you can drive traffic to your funnel. Create a web-page where you warm-up the audience. For instance, YouTube may give you 1000 visitors to your web-page. Not all the visitors are interested in your offer - some of them are just interested in the web-page. So, it's better to warm-up traffic first on your funnel and then give 'bank' (offer creator) the highest quality leads.
 

What type of videos make money on YouTube?

All the industries can make money on YouTube. The main question would be this - what type of videos are perfect for affiliate marketing? Well, the answer is obvious - product reviews. We would say that single product review videos are working like a charm. You can create a single product review and upload it on YouTube. Give a video relevant to hash-tags and start promoting it. There are many ways to promote single product review videos. The first one is YouTube advertising. Secondly, you can go for collaborations with YouTube channels in your space (check the image below - prominent tech reviewers on YouTube are using single-product videos and drive traffic from video to affiliate offer).