1. Make sure your up to date with the current youtube Monetization criteria rules which will help you to focus your mind on what how many views and subscribers that you need to qualify for Monetization.

Reference link
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/13/youtube-is-lowering-the-barrier-to-be-eligible-for-its-monetization-program/

2. Create a clear and strong brand header banner across the top of your channel and an strong branded and meaningful avatar sothat your audience understands what your channel is all about.
3. Use images of yourself on you video thumbnails to better connect you the creator to your channel audiences
4. Use a good video editor to create your content and edit your videos try the free video editors from filmora and Clipchamp

https://filmora.wondershare.net/
https://clipchamp.com/en/

5. Make sure you have good thumbnails to attract Clipchamp viewers to your channel. It is one of the first things that your visitors see to make them make a decision about whether they will watch your video. I recommend visiting Shutterstock or istock or try royalty images from pexels, unsplash or freeimages.com

Reference links

https://www.shutterstock.com/ (Paid images)
https://www.istockphoto.com/ (Paid images)

https://www.pexels.com/ (Royalty free images)
https://unsplash.com/ (Royalty free images)
https://www.freeimages.com/ (Royalty free images)

6. If you don’t want to create your own video content from scratch then looks for videos on youtube with the creative common license which you can download and edit. Make sure the videos that you want to reuse have lots of views and remember to change the video content around and credit the original content creator
7. Create meaningful and clear titles and description which describe what your content is about. That way the youtube search engine can easily pick up your video content. Be sure to add in relevant key words which will also make it easier for people to find your videos.

Reference links

Video IQ AI driven youtube title, description and key word generator tool https://vidiq.com/harrybcreative

8. Add subtitles to all your videos so that your videos will appeal to a wider audience and it will make your videos to stand out from the crowd. You can either hire someone one on fiver.com to manually add subtitles to your video for a fee or subscribe to veed.io for a fee and get your subtitles added from an AI which will auto generate the subtitles for you.

Reference link

https://www.veed.io/workspaces

9. Add a clear and visible subscribe button to all your videos so that your channel views can easily subscribe to your channel as it grows.
10. Once you have enough videos on your youtube channel think about promoting your tube channel to attract more viewers and subscribers.

Reference links

fiver.com – To hire someone if you’re on a small budget to promote your channel.
Google adsense – https://adsense.google.com/start/
Promolta – https://www.promolta.com/

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