Taking the first steps to making money online are in general are always that hardest. This is why the first few ways of making money will be easy to follow but will only generate small amounts of additional income. Once you have used these very easy methods to make small amounts of money you can move onto the more difficult stuff.

Yes, it is actually true. You can make money from posting videos on YouTube, some people have even become very rich this way. The principle behind this method of generating money is very simple; you post videos on YouTube, people watch your videos and click on ads and you get a percentage of the revenue generated.

Unfortunately though, unless you have a real talent for making high quality videos, it’s unlikely that you will end up being one of the lucky few who make millions from this method. Despite this it is not difficult supplement your normal income by posting videos on YouTube.

Before trying to make money by posting videos it’s a good idea to see where your strengths and weaknesses are at making and promoting videos. Start by creating an account and uploading some of your videos, try to make videos that will appeal to a wide audience so you can get lots of people to watch them. Keep an eye on how many hits each video is getting. After about a month has passed you will be ready to try your hand at promoting your videos, take note of how many views each video was making before you try to promote it.

You can promote your videos in many different ways; you can start to write your own blog, start a facebook group and try to get as many people to join as possible or you can write comments with hyperlinks on YouTube itself. Try each of these methods of promotion, each one on a different video. After a month has passed check to see if the number of views per month has gone up, whichever method(s) of promotion has worked most effectively is the one that you are best at and is the one that you will use to promote your videos once you are earning money from them. It is important that you test your ability because you want your account to be associated with high quality videos, so you don’t want your account that you will be making money off to have your first attempts. Remember that the higher that quality YouTube thinks you are the higher up they are likely to put you on a page when someone searches for one of your videos .

Once you’ve done your testing then you are ready to start the account that you will make money off. Take the videos you have already made off your old account and recreate an improved version of your good old videos for your new account (or if one or more of your ordinal videos got a lot of views then use the ordinal video). Once you’ve uploaded the videos wait a month or so and do the promotions that worked best on your last account for all your new videos, once you have several hundred views on each video you need to become a partner with YouTube, to do this, go to homepage and click on the link that says partnerships under programs. From here you can apply to become a partner, once you apply YouTube will review your account. They will look at how many views your videos have received and how many videos you have. Based on this they will decide whether or not to approve you as a partner. Almost always they will unless your videos contain copyright material.

Once you are a partner with YouTube you will get a commission from every ad that is clicked on by someone who was watching your videos. The more people click on your ad the more money you earn. It’s as simple as that.