Step#1 - Sign up at a CPA network.
I monetize the traffic that I get from Youtube by sending them to CPA offers. If you don't know what a CPA offer is, well its basically like an affiliate network where they pay you every time a visitor you refer fills out a form. Getting people to fill out forms in exchange for some kind of freebie that the advertiser is offering is real easy . If you have an account at these or any other CPA I personally use MillnicMedia network, that will suffice. If you don't then I suggest you signup at MillnicMedia.
Step#2 – Find a good offer to monetize
I usually find offers that give away something free and are in vogue. For example, a free iPhone. The iphone is a very hot product right now and people are crazy about it.
Find such an offer with the network you have signed up for. Try and pick an offer that has a landing page that is well designed and has a "call to action"
Typically a well designed landing page is designed in such a way that the only action the visitor can do is to fill out the form or close the page.
Pick out two to three good offers and save the affiliate links to a file.
Step #3 - Download the video conversion software.
Files that are stored at youtube and other video sharing sites are in the ".flv" format that youll need to convert to mpeg. So to do that youll need this freeware called RIVA flv encoder. Download it from http://www.rivavx.com/?encoder
I’ll explain how to use it further down.
Step#4 – Make the video
Ok this is the place where I hear you go "heck I don't know how to make videos"
Trust me it’s not that hard.
Option A
Go to youtube or any other video sharing site and type the keyword in the search
box. In our example type "iphone"
You will find several videos uploaded by people. Find one that's generic and doesn't have too much branding in it.
The next step is to download this video from youtube or any other video sharing site that you found it at.
To download it visit this site
http://dcg.m4v.org
Enter the url to the video in the box. (make sure that the video site you are using is supported by them)
Save the file when you get the prompt. Once you have finished downloading the file rename the file with the extension ".flv"
Now we need to convert that video into the mpeg format. To do so start the RIVA flv encoder and select the flv file as the input and in the output box enter the filename with the extension ".mpg"
Here is one video that I took and added my advert in the start and the end of the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFsC3Ydm5u0
If you have camtasia you can add your advert at any place in the video as a callout.
If you don't have camtasia then you can use the free camstudio that's given along with Tube Automator as a bonus and add your adverts into the video.
Option-B
The second option is to create a presentation in powerpoint and then record that presentation with either camtasia or camstudio.
Creating text based presentations is a easy simple way to make your video and keep it short and interesting.
Step#5 – Make the blog
The next step is to make a blog at blogger.com and add the code that’s below into the template. This code will redirect the user to your affiliate offer and since it’s a blogspot blog any body snooping around will not get your real info as they can’t really do a "whois" search at blogger.
<script language="javascript">
document.location='YOUR AFFILIATE LINK HERE';
</script>
Step#6 – Upload the video to youtube
Upload the video to youtube and use a catchy title. Example "Win a free iPhone" In the description add the URL to the blog. Do not write anything else in the description. Add descriptive tags based on the offer you are promoting.
Step#7 – Make it popular with Tube Automator
Get Tube Automator to Automate it…
Finally use tube Automator to post comments and vote on your video. The more you vote and post with different accounts the more popular your video gets.
So are you ready to get that avalanche of traffic??
