How to Make Money with Ringtones and YouTube

Now many of you may already know how to monetize YouTube traffic by driving traffic to your own websites or to paid affiliate programs. What you may not realize, however, is that YouTube traffic sucks for converting into sales or even simple ad clicks. This is why you have to think for a minute, who are the people on YouTube? The answer is fairly apparent, most YouTubers are young people in school that follow the hottest trends but have no disposable cash. So how do you turn broke people into money? With CPA offers!

My favorite method for this is ringtones but I will cover another method that works after this as well.

The first thing that you will need is to sign up at a network with free ringtone offers, free being the key here, where you get paid $1 or so for each person that signs up for a free account and downloads a ringtone. You can, again, find these offers on Hydra as well as CJ and a ton of other smaller networks, almost every network has at least a few. You will also need a YouTube account, I recommend you make one just for advertising because while chances of being banned by YouTube are super low its nice to save that personal account and always play it safe.

Now you're going to want to download some music videos, you can already find these all over YouTube. A little hint here, the newest rap and pop gets the most attention and money for your efforts. In order to do this simply search YouTube for the video you want. Make sure to watch it to be sure it doesn't already have a watermark with someone else's URL in it. Once you've located a suitable music video simply visit Vixy and paste the video's URL in there. Be sure to select "AVI for windows" as the format or you will end up with a FLV. You now have your music video, from YouTube, as an AVI on your desktop. All you need to do now is to open up Windows Movie Maker (comes with windows) and load up your movie. Now go to Tools>Titles and Credits and click on "Add Title on the Selected Clip".

Go to "change title animation" and select "subtitle" from the list. Now just type in something like, "To Get Your Free *songname* Ringtone Download Visit *TheUrlofYourCPAOffer*". Be sure to also shrink the size down a bit as you don't want to clog up the whole video.

Now you hit okay and your subtitle is there, but wait! It's not on the whole video yet, just that first clip (usually a video when imported is broken into many clips). All you have to do is grab the corner of the subtitle, at the very bottom, and drag it all the way from end to the other.

Your video is now ready to go, just upload it to your new YouTube account and it will be live and branded in a few minutes. From here be sure to put the song title, and artist, as the title - no mention of ringtones - and then put the URL of your CPA ringtone offer as the VERY first thing in the description, use the full http:// address to make it clickable. After this put the song name and artist in again as well as music video. Your video is good to go; all you need now is to get it that initial burst of traffic that will help it to take off.

Now the easiest way to get initial exposure is to use a YouTube bot such as Tube Marketer, Tube Increaser, Tube Booster or Tube Spinner. Or you can just follow these easy steps:

Create some accounts, you can use Tube Booster for this as account creation still works, it will save you a lot of time but it is about $100. If you have Tube Booster create about 60-70 accounts. If not try to create at least 10-15 by hand, just create new gmail accounts for each one - you will only have to do this once but I would say make 5-10 more a day until you have 50 or so for better results.

Now its time to comment, rate and favorite your videos. Often time you can get most favorited for the day with only a few which brings in the traffic quick and gets you more legitimate honors which keeps the traffic going, if done right this is a never ending cycle of traffic and you can start on your next video. Just remember, do more ratings than comments and more comments than favorites, this is the natural order of things.

Also be sure to get a little bit of traffic to get you started off, submit your video to Digg and StumbleUpon and you can bring in a couple hundred free views real quick.

That's all there is to it, your video should now have the initial exposure required to gain natural viewers, who then download the free ringtone giving you $1 or so each, every day for months to come. Scale this up, do as many videos as you can, and you'll be sure to be making some nice income after about a month.