Hey, if you're creating any content online, doesn't matter if it's on a blog, or a podcast, or a video channel, or maybe even on social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, whatever, you need to focus on having a great About or Bio section. 

It's really important you nail this down because a lot of people go to that to understand whether or not they should continue to follow and consume your content. 

So, we're gonna work through five different factors to make sure that you include on your About page exactly what it needs to to get people to follow and subscribe to you. And if you haven't done this yet, you know, it's about time. It's About page time. It's about--just stick around, you're gonna learn some stuff. 

Alright, number one, the first thing you need to have is an amazing hook. What is a hook? 

A hook is a way to really capture a person's attention right then and there so that they'll be intrigued to keep reading down that page. If you don't have that great hook, you have all this amazing stuff after that, if you don't have the hook they could leave and never come back. Alright, so there are lots of ways to hook an audience. 

The first way, questions, ask questions where the answer will be (laughs) where the answer will be a yes. Meaning, like, are you somebody who blank? 

Do you typically feel blank when you blank? So, really understanding the pains and problems of your audience in a way that, when they answer these questions in their head, they're gonna be like, yeah that's me. Uh-huh, yep, I do that, okay. This might be a page that'll actually help me. So, asking questions, a great thing to do to start off your About page. 

Next, and this isn't really for social media, because you don't have a lot of room usually. But if you are on your website and you wanna have a great hook you can tell a story. So tell a great story right from the start. Something that really resonates with that person. Again, making it relatable based on the pains and problems that they have. 

You wanna show that you understand exactly what this person is going through because, like Jay Abraham says, if you can define the problem better than your target customer, they're gonna automatically assume that you have the solution. And you can do that by asking questions and having them say yes, or you can do it by telling a story where their story and your story have a matching intersection. 

Now, don't ramble or go too long with a story. You wanna get to the point really quick where a person can understand oh, that's just like me. So don't ramble on and go too long, but telling a story's great, 'cause we as humans are just fine-tuned to really pay attention when a person's telling us a story. Alright number three, you can create what's called an open loop. 

So, this is really handy because people don't like it when things aren't finished or complete. Now, that's not to say you're never gonna finish or complete this open loop. I'll give you an example in just a second. 

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But it is to say, okay a person gonna be interested and intrigued, their curiosity meter's gonna go up, and they're gonna be like alright I need to find out what's going on here. You can say things like well hey I've discovered an amazing way to do X, Y, and Z. Before I give you all the information about how to do that, make sure you keep reading, because I wanna tell you a little bit more about what you can get here. 

Now there's a lot of other ways to create hooks and also ways to combine these kinds of things together to really reel a person in and have them continue to read on, and subscribe, and follow what you do, but as long as you have a hook, then that's a great start. So let's keep going with the next part of your About page or Bio. 

Alright, so the next section that you wanna make sure you include, let me erase this really quick, is you need to make sure you understand, and the person who's there understands the benefits. Benefits, not the features. Not here's what you're gonna get, but more so the why, 'cause this is what real people want. The benefit is what a person will get if they stick around. 

And the best piece of advice I can give you is to focus on the transformation. I love this word transformation, I use it whenever I create any sort of content, blog post, podcast episodes, videos, I wanna understand okay, where's the person at, but then how can I help them? The transformation is that thing on the other end of what it is you're offering. The outcome, if you will. Now in terms of the transformation, it's just really important to note for the person who's on that page, or reading that bio, well, what are they gonna get as a result of sticking around? And then by starting with the benefit, then you can add the features one after that. 

Hey, I'm gonna show you how to make more money, save more time, and help more people, too. And this is how I'm gonna do it. So, we're kinda flipping the switch. A lot of people typically add the features first and then go into the benefits. But I love to just share the benefits first, because then a person understands well, okay I'm gonna get this outcome. I don't really care how I get it. 

Well, obviously you do, but then you go into the how after that. So it's kind of the Simon, right? 

Like start with why and then kind of pull out from there into the what and where. And, finally, another really important factor related to the benefits and the features, is making sure that you share for this person what makes you, and the way you teach these things differently. 

There's a lot of people that likely want to provide, and do provide the same outcome and transformation to people. How are you gonna do it differently? That's really important to note as well. Alright, next up, and this is really important, you wanna make sure that you show people some sort of proof. In sales, in trying to get anybody to subscribe, the proof is a really important factor in having a person understand that yeah, okay, I can trust this person. 

The proof used in this fashion, because likely a person hasn't really gotten into your stuff yet at this point, the proof is kind of just part of the first impression that a person might have on your stuff. If they come across your stuff and they see that you've been featured on certain publications, if you have these accolades, if you have, you know, awards as a result of what you've done, then they're gonna be more likely to dig deeper. Now those forms of proof are important, and they are helpful to share with others, but you can take this a step further by showing proof, if you have any, of how you've already helped other people, too. 

So, on your About page and even in your Bio, you could perhaps pinpoint certain people, or groups, or companies that you've worked with that you've helped. Now there are lots of different ways to show proof. You can show proof in the form of videos, videos are probably the most powerful form of testimonials, or if you have any other people share kind of how you've helped them, that's great. If you're a speaker, perhaps, it's great to have other conferences, talk about how well you did on stage, that sort of thing. The videos are great. 

Written testimonials are good as well, but I think to take that one step further I would also include images. Anything to break up the text on that page, again if it's on your website, makes a big difference. And people can see you, people can see how you do what you do, or what you've done for others. And that's really important. 

Alright next up we have, and this is one thing that I have really understood that works really well for me, because I know I have a good one, and that is a personal story. 

Now you might have told a story already like we talked about earlier, but this is where you get a little bit deeper about how you got to this point. Why are you the person who's writing this website? What is your mission? 

And I know, for example, I have a great personal story that really resonates with people getting laid off, starting a business, being successful after getting laid off, and falling through a state of depression. It really resonates with people, and a lot of people connect with that, but more than just the story and the outcome that comes along with it, that's relatable. 

More so it just has a person on the other end realize that you are a real person, too. And the thing is people wanna do business with other people, not websites, not profiles, not even companies. But people wanna do business with other people. When you can show your personal story, something that's completely unique to you, it's gonna help you stand out from everybody else out there who's just making noise along with you. If I were to offer one side tip, one piece of advice, it's to really nail this down, practice it, share it on stage, write it a number of times, really hone in on how you can best tell your personal story. 

Because that's gonna be an amazing tool for you to build a relationship much quicker. Alright next let's talk about something really important that's tactical. It's gonna help you actually grow your business from your About page or your Bio, and that is an opt-in form. Or it could be a link if it's on, like, social media. 

When a person's reading about you and they've gotten to the end of this thing and they're like yes, I like this person, this person's speaking to me, I want more. This is the perfect opportunity to include an opt-in box on your website, on your About page and a lot of people don't do this. I actually picked up this tip from Derek Halpern from Social Triggers who actually just emailed me one day and he said, Pat, you should have an opt-in box on your About page. I guarantee you it'll increase your subscribership. 

So, I didn't have one, I put one on, I did have an email opt-in in the side-bar of my website at the time, but not directly at the bottom. A clear CTA, call to action, to get more email subscribers. And by just simply adding it in there, I increased my email subscription rate by 477% on that page alone. 

So, it does work and there are lots of different ways to do it. You can offer a lead magnet or some incentive to go along with it, which I would recommend. People don't want more emails, so don't just say like subscribe and get more emails, or subscribe for my newsletter. 

That typically won't go over as well as if you had something that relates to them and their problems, and pains, and struggles, that you can offer to them for exchange for that email address. Now out of all these things probably the best thing I could do, to sum up, what makes a successful About page is to make sure that you don't make it actually about you the entire time. Yes, your personal story will be in there and all those kinds of things, your testimonials, and all those things are in there, right? But it's mainly about the person reading the page and how you can best serve them. So, I wanna put the ball in your court. 

I wanna ask you how are you doing in each of these five realms on your About page on your website or perhaps the bios that you have here on YouTube or any other places that you have information about you online? If you cover these five things in there, especially the call to action at the end, it's gonna help you grow your business, help more people, and build a stronger relationship with those people who can then dive deeper into the content that you have to offer and help them with. 

So, if you're up to the task, number one, hook me up with a thumbs up. But number two, also leave in the comments section below which one of these things was missing or maybe underutilized with what you have going on? 

Maybe it's all five, maybe you haven't even started an About page yet, in which case now you have a structure to make sure it's gonna be great, but of the five things which one do you feel that you just needed a little more work on? I think a lotta people are gonna enjoy hearing that well, they're not alone in this process. 

So thank you guys so much for listening and watching this. I hope you just crush it with your About page, 'cause it's truly gonna help you moving forward. Especially when it comes to building those important relationships with your audience because relationships are everything. 

So make sure you subscribe to the channel below hashtag team Techy Hydra for the win. I appreciate you guys, and again, if you haven't subscribed yet do so below, hit that notification bell so you know when new videos come out and I'll see you in the next one, cheers.

Hey, this is Abhishek from techyhydra.com. 

And today, we're gonna be talking about 60 niche blog ideas. These are topic areas that you should choose to blog about with proven demand. 

So these are going to be niche topics that are already researched. They have real blogs out there already making money. So it's proven that people know how to monetize these topics and readers want answers. 

So let's get started. 

Now, the most important thing to keep in mind when you're considering a niche to start a blog about is whether or not other people share that interest with you. Because if it's an interesting area that only you care about, or a small number of people care about, chances are it's gonna be difficult to monetize. Now, if you want to start a blog for a hobby or as a reason to just diary and chronically an adventure you're going on, then that's okay. 

However, we're talking about niche blog ideas that have real true proven monetization potential in this video. First up, let's talk about some money-related niches because there's always, always, always room to teach people how to do better with their finances, right? That's a major area that a lot of people leave the house without learning much about, in my experience. So, first up, personal finance. 

Now, this alone could be considered a niche, though it can get relatively broad. So within the umbrella of personal finance, there are tons of other micro topics that you could have entire blogs about because there are so many subjects that could be covered and lots of questions out there for readers. So within the personal finance bubble, we could be talking about a niche like getting out of debt, responsibly using credit cards, how to earn more on the side, ways to set up smart investing programs with your salary earning. 

So should you get a 401k? Should you be investing in mutual funds? That kind of blurs over into the lines of investing. So the stock market is an entire topic area for which lots of people don't know much about it. And if that's an area that you are educated on or have to experience in, then there's an opportunity to teach people those skills and gather that experience for them. 

So within investing, stock market, you can then spill off into something like frugal living or minimalism, right? So you're getting how being a niche isn't necessarily this very definite thing. Like many of these ideas will sprawl into other topic areas that are somewhat related. 

And so that gives you some flexibility too, with your blog topics, to not necessarily be locked into just one definite topic area. You could sort of cross lines into other areas that are somewhat related. Small business marketing advice, tax tips, digital advertising, sales coaching. These are all massive niche topic areas for which you could write about for years and years and years, or create videos on, right? Tons and tons of topics you could cover within these broader niches. 

So you can find a more niche within; however, these are great niches to start with, and then as you start publishing content and growing, you'll also learn from your audience. So it's always good to keep in mind that your niche is something that should be a little bit flexible as time goes on, and you learn with your audience what they want, what they crave more of. 

Healthy eating, nutrition, general health and wellness, spirituality, meditation, yoga, recipes, and meal prep advice, exploring restaurants in your city or general area, exploring restaurants in different countries and major cities around the world. This can really sprawl out in many different directions. Running, hiking, trekking, climbing, mountaineering, skating, biking. 

The list goes on and on as far as outdoor activities that have very substantial online audiences, always seeking for advice, gear recommendations, tutorial content, the list goes on and on. Within the travel niche, there are tons of specialized niches that you can get into from there. So backpacking, luxury hotel stays, solo traveling, traveling as a couple, how to travel with kids, the best destinations to visit around Europe, staying in luxury hotels, the list goes on and on and on. 

And there's plenty of ways to monetize within the travel space as well. There are hotels that have affiliate programs. There's plenty of credit cards and travel-focused credit card companies that want to reward you for bringing in new customers for them. 

And so there are lots of affiliate programs in my list link below. There's a ton of travel-focused affiliate programs you can consider joining. And that's not to mention selling your own destination guides, or releasing presets for how to edit beautiful photos of your trip. So lots of potential in that niche. In the fitness space, there's also a ton of opportunities to specialize in more specific niches. You could go, talk about weightlifting. you could pick any endurance sport that you have experience with. 

Hopefully, you love it because you're gonna be creating a lot of content about it. You could talk about training for athletic events. If you're running a marathon or cycling long distances, there are lots of possibilities there too. Photography is its own entire niche with tons and tons of specialized places to go within that umbrella topic. So you could do outdoor photography. You could specialize in portrait photography, wedding photography, and naturally, there's a way to monetize with selling your own services as a photographer, to those that find your blog and wants to hire you to shoot their photos as well. Talking about sports, basketball, baseball, football, soccer, volleyball, tennis, golf, hockey. The list goes on and on. 

There are large established audiences already for these sports. They love fan gear. They love learning how to play the sport themselves. There are lots of opportunities to monetize those types of topics as well. Parenting is a niche that has lots of opportunities within it as well. You can specialize in advice for solo parents, parenting while traveling the world, for example. Advice for fathers specifically, advice for mothers specifically, lots of little specialized opportunities in there.

Action movie critiques, discussions around popular television shows like Game of Thrones. Huge online communities existed that were very, very popular, just to talk about Game of Thrones fan theories. Self-improvement, book reviews, productivity, career advice, interview tips. You can move into relationships, marriage advice, psychology, science, physics, astronomy. 

The list goes on and on and on. And I hope that these little ideas for possible niches that you could explore will plant the seed for something that you can go take and make your own and start your own blog about. And remember, the most important thing to keep in mind when choosing a niche for your blog is that you're proving to yourself that other people already exist out there who are searching for answers on this subject matter. You don't wanna start a blog that only has you as an audience. 

Now, that could be a good recipe for a personal activity; however, if you want to build a business around your blog, there need to be real people out there searching for content already. And that's proven by doing some of this research, and you wanna do keyword research to make sure that there are at least thousands of people searching for these topics every day. Now I want you to go ahead and click the link below this video. 

There's a step-by-step tutorial over on my blog that'll teach you how to pick a niche blog idea that's right for you, and actually validate it out there in the real world to prove that this is a subject that you can actually build an audience around, and then eventually monetize. 

So let's keep the fun going.

What's up, everyone. Today you're gonna learn about country code, top-level domains, or ccTLDs. Internationalization is basically what this is. 

We're gonna talk about everything that's important around country-specific domains, whether or not you should buy them, what the implications are for localized and internationalized rankings in Google and other search engines. 

Stay for the whole post. We're gonna get deep into the details on international SEO here. 

I'm Abhishek with techyhydra.com, let's get going. 

Okay, so country code top-level domains, or ccTLDs, so talking about international SEO here in a moment, but just a quick reminder before we get going on that. Thinking about the technical stuff around SEO and country-code top-level domains, we're gonna dive deep into SEO, but SEO is only one piece of a more comprehensive digital marketing strategy, so while it's super important and I'm a huge fan of it and I love it, don't neglect all of your other digital marketing channels. SEO is just one component. 

Then within SEO county code top-level domains are just one component of that. This is just one thing among many that you should be doing from an SEO perspective and SEO is one thing among many that you should be doing from a digital marketing perspective. Do keep that in mind as we dive in. Okay. Country code top-level domains. 

A country code top-level domain or ccTLD, this is just an internationalized version of what you might be familiar with. It depends on where you're from, where you grew up, or where you may have lived, but this differs from country to country and it's colloquially different as well. 

I'm from the US. I grew up in the US and for most of my life, I've heard nothing but .com. In Germany, very common is .de. In Australia, very common is .com, .Au, or .Au. Mexico .mx. China .cn. A country code top-level domain is just the domain extension.

 It generally has a country connotation or a regional connotation. It's essentially a domain that I can decide it signifies it's from a particular place. Websites that are ending in .de are designed for German users. Let's get into the weeds here. Country code top-level domains are the most powerful way to rank a domain or rank a page in a certain country. 

There are other ways to do it. 

I could technically get a page on our website, clickminded.com ranking in Germany. I would have to do a lot and talk about sort of how I would do that, but the fastest, most powerful way to do this is to get the country code top-level domain of the country in question and use that. In general, apples to apples, if you have two pages and they're exactly the same and one is on a .com and one is on a .de, the one that's on a .de is generally more inclined to rank better in the Google German version or in Google.de. Keep that in mind. Google assumes that all of the content on a country code top-level domain is designed for that country is gonna buy us rankings toward that country, but keep in mind this is unrelated to language. 

This is country-specific. Documents on a .de domain or on a .fr domain, or a .com, .Au domain, those documents are designed for Germany and France and Australia but they're not actually language-specific. These are country specifications. Stay away from country code top-level domains if you're targeting global traffic. They're a huge headache. One massive problem I saw very popular in San Francisco when I first moved there in 2011, as people were getting .it version of a site, which is the Italian domain. They were either doing IT services or they made up some cute clever name for their start-up and they were ending it in .it and then they were super confused as to why they weren't ranking in search results for the United States. It's because it's a massive signal to Google that this content is designed for Italians. They were doing great on Google.it, but not on Google.com. 

Watch out for this. 

A lot of people try and get cute with their domain names, and it hurts them a lot. It's also colloquially difficult for a lot of people to understand a lot of these domain name extensions. Wherever you are, whatever is kind of colloquially popular, just use that. It makes it way easier. One test I like to use, I call it the mom test. When you pick your domain name, you call your mom, you say your domain name one time over the phone, and if your mom is able to go to a browser, input that domain name, and get to your page without any clarification from you at all, it's a good domain name. If not, it's a bad domain name. 

The other version of this test is the crowded bar test. If you said your domain name one time in a crowded bar to someone, could they remember and visit it the next day. If you fail either of these tests, it's a bad domain name. Keep that in mind. The exception here is what is called GccTLDs, Global country code top-level domains where Google basically came out and said, "Okay, yes .de is for Germany and yes .fr is for France, but it looks like most people are buying certain domain extensions and they're not really targeting those places." .IO is for the Indian Ocean, but every single one is a start-up or an app. They basically said .io actually is gonna be global. .CO originally for Columbia, the same things, it's becoming very popular. 

A lot of people are using that kind of for their startup. .TV ... There's a list of a bunch of others, we'll list those in the resources down below. The basic idea here, though, is that if you're not a Global country code top-level domain, you're going to be biased toward whatever country that you actually are, so keep that in mind. Okay, let's go through a little list of how to think of this, depending on who you are and kind of what your business is and who you work for. There are a bunch of different questions you should ask yourself before investing in country code top-level domains or before investing in internationalization strategy. 

First of all, do you operate in a certain country and you have no plans of expanding beyond that? 

Are you a French coffee shop chain, maybe you have one or two retail locations and maybe you want to go to three or four, but you'll never expand beyond France. Fine. Get the .fr, totally fine, no issues there at all. Go for that country code top-level domain. Do you operate in multiple countries? Maybe you're in the US, in Canada, maybe over in the UK, or maybe you're in France and you'll also go to Germany, I would recommend still picking on a domain, but using country codes subfolders. It's what we did at PayPal. I managed search engine optimization for two years at PayPal.com and everything still happened on the .com, but the localized versions of the actual web application were on country code subfolders. 

All of our Mexican content was on /MX. All of our Spanish content was on /es. All of our French content was on /fr. Basically, we had the localized versions of each country-specific site in a subfolder and all of our internationalized links and the content all that would live there. But we only had one domain. This was technically much easier to manage. Every time you're adding an incremental domain, it's tough. It's technical. You gotta do a lot of stuff. You have to manage registrations and crawl budgets, Google search console, analytics, cross-domain tracking. There's so much there. If you're just getting started expanding, picking one domain and using a country-specific country code subfolder is actually an okay way to do it. That's how we did it at PayPal. 

The big dog one is this. Are you everywhere? Do you have multiple offices everywhere? Do you have content in multiple languages? Are you a massive operation? Then you can go ahead and buy country code top-level domains. I really wanna warn against this. You wanna be careful. PayPal was even big enough that they ... It didn't make sense to them, it's actually technical reasons why it didn't make sense to them ... A story for another day. 

The point here is massive companies are still in situations where they only use one domain and they use a country code subfolder. Don't think you need to do this but you can. At Airbnb, I managed search engine optimization there, we had 26-27 different country code top-level domains. There's some very complicated intricate engineering on the back end around making localized copies of each domain. A lot of management in order to do all that. 

Lots of different versions search console and analytics. Do keep that in mind. But, it's a fantastic ranking signal. All of our content was translated by local translators and on that country code specific version of the domain, it's great for search engines. It's great for users. It's extremely expensive and very difficult to maintain. Do keep that in mind. If you're not gonna expand at all ... Just to summarize ... If you're not gonna expand at all, stick with the country that you're in. If you're expanding a little bit or you're a start-up that just wants to deal with a lot of the technical overhead, pick one domain and build up country-specific versions on the subfolder. If you're a massive operation and you're willing to invest in all of the behind the scenes infrastructure you need to keep multiple versions of the domain up, then go ahead and buy the multiple country code top-level domains. 

That's it. That's all there really is to country-code top-level domains or ccTLDs. 

I hope that was useful. If was helpful and if you learned something today, go ahead and click subscribe down below for even more digital marketing tactics and tips from us. If you're on YouTube, we would love a comment. 

What'd you think of this? Are you back and forth between whether or not you should pick up your country code top-level domain? Would love to hear from you. I read every single one. 

Finally, if you want a super-comprehensive SEO checklist from us that includes internationalization and all the technical stuff you need for country code top-level domains, go ahead and click that link below to techyhydra.com to get your free SEO checklist right now. 

Thanks a lot.

Do you want to learn what is Google Adsense? How it works and How to make money with Google Adsense? 

Then keep reading this content... Hello,  My name is Abhishek.

What is Google Adsense? 

Adsense is a product from Google that you can integrate with your website, blog or you tube channel to monetize the traffic and earn some money How does Google Adsense work? 

Come let's understand this in detail If you have a website or a blog or a YouTube channel , this would make you a Publisher People who visit your website, blog or YouTube Channel are called traffic Companies that want to reach your traffic by displaying advertisements are called advertisers Advertisers display ads on your website, blog or YouTube channel via Google Adsense Advertisers pay Google Adsense to display these advertisements.

Adsense deducts some money and passes the remaining ad revenue to you, For Instance, let's say that the advertiser pays Adsense $3 for displaying an ad 1000 times AdSense will take its cut to let's say $1.2 and pass the remaining $1.8 to you This is only an example for illustrative purposes.

The money paid by advertisers depends on a no. of factors such as the country in which the website is based the topic of the website depends on the time and is not at all fixed The money paid to you by Adsense is also a guess. 

There is a range for this However as per Google a higher percentage of the revenue is given to the Publisher and not Google Advertisers pay to display ads based on the topic of the website, the kind and volume of traffic it generates One question that is frequently asked is that Is Google Adsense Free? 

Yes, it is absolutely free to integrate Google Adsense on your website, blog or YouTube channel You do not need to pay Google or anyone else any money for this, On the other hand, Google will give you a share of the income However everyone may not be able to integrate Google Adsense on their website, blog or channel.

You should be over 18 years of age Your traffic & content should fulfill their terms & conditions Let's open a new Google Adsense account. 

First of all, let's type adsense.google.com in the browser The Google Adsense page shall open If you already have an account you can click on the Sign In button and sign in If you are creating an account for the first time then click on the Get Started button A new page will open. 

The first step is to select your Google account If you already have a Google account then click on this button to sign in Else click here to create a new Google account. 

Let's click here since I already have a Google account Enter the email id and password & click on the sign-in button. 

Now we have reached Step 2 Google Adsense is enquiring about your content here It is asking you for the details of the primary website, blog, etc where you wish to display the ads If you have a YouTube channel you can directly sign up from YouTube If you have a blogger account you can also directly login to Adsense from your blogger account I will put in the details of a website here Enter the details of the website. 

Now it is asking for the language of the content Let's select English as the content language If your site is in Hindi then please select Hindi here Next are the Google AdSense Terms & Conditions and Program Policies. 

This is very important, a no. of times people open a Google AdSense account but it is closed subsequently I frequently receive queries on the reasons why the Google AdSense account was closed. 

Hence it is best to understand these terms and conditions in detail Please do not click on your own ads Please do not ask others to click on ads on your site and do not provide any incentives for doing so You cannot place AdSense on an adult or pornographic sites. 

You can only integrate AdSense if your site carries content for which you own the copyright Please do not try to integrate AdSense with material copyrighted by others such as music, films or YouTube videos Please do not create a new AdSense account if you already have one If you do not comply with these policies your AdSense account can be terminated. 

Let's click on the Continue button A new page will open You will need to enter your contact details here Let's choose the country - India The time zone for India is automatically selected Next you need to choose the account type If you are an individual then choose the first radio button If you are a business then you can choose the second radio button. 

Next, you need to enter the payee name This must match exactly with your name in your bank account If the name is dissimilar you may face issues in receiving the payment later Let's enter the payee name Next let's enter the address. 

Let's enter the city and state and the Zip Code Please note that enter the payee name carefully and you will not be able to change this later If you are below 18 years of age please open this account in your parent's name Since Google AdSense is not available for individuals below 18 years of age Enter your Phone No. 

Provide feedback on how did you get to know about Google AdSense Let's enter Friend/Colleague here Next we need to provide our email preferences I will leave it as default Click on Submit My Application.

Next, you need to verify your phone no. We need to indicate how we wish to receive the verification code - via SMS or voice call I will choose SMS Click on Send Verification Code The verification code has been sent to my mobile phone Let's check if we have received it You should receive a verification code via SMS in this manner Let's type this verification code on the screen And click on the verify button. 

The application has been submitted and is being reviewed It is not necessary that your account will be approved It will be approved if it meets their terms & conditions Let's take an example and see how to make money on YouTube with Google AdSense The first step is verification You will need to verify your YouTube channel. 

If you do not know how to do this please click on the screen to watch our video on this subject Next you need to link Google AdSense with your YouTube account Let's see how to do this I am signing into my YouTube account Click on the sign-in button This is another YouTube channel that I run - Lost in Jakarta Click on My Channel. 

Now I am in the My Channel menu Click on Video Manager I have uploaded one video previously And I have already verified my YouTube channel Click on Channel Within Status & Features this is the account status These are the features of the channel If you wish to monetize your YouTube channel.

Then you need to enable the monetization feature for your channel Click on Enable button to enable monetization on the channel Currently this channel is not enabled for monetization Click on the blue Enable My Account to enable monetization.

The YouTube Monetisation Agreement is displayed You can read the program terms and conditions and policies here Since I have read these before I will check the 3 boxes Click on the I Accept button A few options are displayed for ad formats Ads can be played at the bottom or on the side. 

There are two options that are pre-selected I will leave the default options to remain I will leave the 3rd box unselected Since I don't have a paid product placement and I am not promoting a 3rd party product Click on the Monetise button Monetisation settings are updated for one video Since I only have one video on this channel its settings have been updated Next Click on Got It. 

We come back to the Videos menu The third and last step is to monetize your YouTube video Let's go back to Videos in the Video Manager menu There is one video here There are 3 different icons here The last icon is a $ sign, For now, this video is not monetized. 

The $ icon is not colored and is grey Once we monetize the video the color of the $ icon will change Let's monetize the video Click on the drop-down menu next to Edit Click on Info and Settings Next to Basic Info is the Monetisation tab Go to the Monetisation tab Select the Monetise with ads box 3 different types of ads will be displayed in our video Just ensure that the 3 boxes are selected Click on Save Changes Go back to the Videos menu Our video has been monetized.

The $ icon is now green in color Ads will now be displayed in this video and you shall get paid for these ads Let's click on the video An ad is playing here I will not click on an ad in my own video I will pause the ad It is important that you do not click on ads in your own video because Google tracks your entire activity and if Google feels that you are trying to game the system or are doing anything wrong then they can penalize you or even block your account How does payment happen with Google AdSense? 

Payment happens through direct bank transfer or via check In some countries payment can happen via Western Union as well Payment for the month of March will be received by the 20th or 23rd of April Till your cumulative payment due reaches $100 you will not receive any payment So what are you waiting for Link your website, blog or YouTube channel with Google AdSense & earn money sitting at home These are a few videos that will help you make money from your YouTube Channel Click on the screen to watch these videos.

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Today I'm going to explain what affiliate marketing is. And how does it really work? 

Stay tuned. Hey, what's up up, guys. Techy Hydra here. If you're new to this blog let me just give you guys a quick background about me. 

My name is Abhishek by Techy hydra on YouTube. I have about 33,000 subscribers right now. And a little over ten million views. So I am a Student, Blogger, and affiliate marketer. 

Thankfully I found affiliate marketing which has given me the lifestyle of my dreams today just two years later. I live in my dream apartment here in downtown Chicago. 

You guys want to peep the view. Peep the view for a second right here. Do a little pan, nice and easy. And every single day I get to drive my dream car which is a custom Porsche 911 Turbo. I'm gonna put some clips or something right here. But anyway let's get on with the video. I want to teach you guys what affiliate marketing is. 

So I'm going to show you guys the basics and fundamentals. Just explain how it works and I'm going to hop into my computer actually. And show you guys some real examples and show you step by step how people are using affiliate marketing these days to make money online. 

And trust me when I say this, everyone does affiliate marketing. Literally everyone. All the famous YouTubers, all the tech reviewers, people on Instagram, all those fitness people. Big companies like Uber, Lyft. Blogs like Smart Passive Income. And even small food blogs, "small" food blogs do affiliate marketing. 

So, let's just hop into the computer so I can give you guys an actual click by click, step-by-step on how affiliate marketing works, and what it is. Alright, let's get into it. Alright, so we have transported inside of my computer using a little technology called Magic. 

And now I'm going to show you guys step-by-step some real-world examples of how affiliate marketing works and how it is used in the real world. But just to get things started, a basic description at its core of affiliate is that it is just referrals, okay. So affiliate marketing it's kind of a fancy term for just referrals. It's basically referring people to products and services of companies that are not your own and then receiving a commission if those people sign up or take action upon your referral. Usually through a link. So just to give you guys a quick, quick example. 

So this is my video. It's a review of a very popular headphone called the Audio-Technica ATH-M50x, which I actually have right here. It looks a little different from the video because I put some skins on them.

But basically, you guys can see 300,000 views. And if you scroll down to the description, the first thing you see here is an Amazon link. And you guys as long as you weren't born yesterday, if you watch any sort of tech review on YouTube, you're gonna see Amazon links or some sort of funny looking links in the description, And nine times out of ten those are affiliate links. And what is an affiliate link? 

Basically, Amazon Associates if I just go right here, it is Amazon's affiliate program. Let's just log out of that real quick. So Amazon Associates is Amazon's affiliate program. And as you guys can see, earn up to 10% advertising fees with a trusted e-commerce leader. So if you join Amazon Associates which you guys can do today. It's completely free but you might need to have a website in order to get approved. Some people are able to without it. But I would have a website just in case. 

Alright, guys so if you log in and then you just look up products for Amazon Associates that you can promote. As you can see here we have the M50x. And all you have to do is click here, and then get a link which basically is the personalized tracking link that you can include in your videos, on your website, on your landing page. And then this link is personalized to your account.

Now what that means is it has a tracking code through cookies. Where if somebody clicks that link it's gonna be tracked back to you. And for Amazon Associates at least, if somebody buys anything from Amazon, not just the product which is the headphones. If they buy anything within 24 hours, you receive a percentage of the commission. Now, the commission ranges. It definitely ranges based on the product category. It can range from 4 to 10%. 

So if I just look up Amazon Associates rates then we can actually see each specific product category and how much they pay. So let's just look down. If we scroll down here you guys can see there is a fixed rate for each product on that you sell. So if you sell something from let's say in the PC category. So this could be computers, laptops, DVDs, Blu-ray, et cetera. 

You get 2.5% of that sale. So if you sell a laptop for $1,000, you will receive 25 bucks basically. So basically 2.5% right there. So that's how it works at its core. Amazon Associates is the largest in terms of affiliate programs because it just has the widest range of products. But there are many sorts of affiliate networks that have more exclusive offers with the companies and with the products that may yield you a higher percentage of commission. 

So this is just a quick example right here of how people do it on YouTube. I'm gonna move on to the next example which is blogs. And my favorite affiliate marketing blog is smartpassiveincome.com. It's created by a guy named Pat Flynn who is awesome. He has an awesome podcast that you guys should check out. 

But basically, Pat's been crushing it with affiliate marketing for as long as I've been in the game basically. And if you look at this, this is his income reports. And as you can see two mills during the last 12 months. It's insane. These numbers are crazy. Six figures a month. Six figures a month when a lot of people are trying to strive for six figures a year, this guy's making six figures every single month. And it's just insane. 

But basically, if you scroll down. If I just choose the latest income report. So we'll do August 2017. I just scroll down and I'll show you guys that he actually is transparent enough to share his affiliate marketing earnings broken down by the company. So as you guys can just scroll down here you see Amazon. He made about 600 bucks, not too bad. 

But if you scroll down to some of these other companies like Bluehost, you see $19,470 from a single source of affiliate marketing. 

So from posting links guys. Again, it's that simple, it's that easy. It's a completely passive income. 

Which is one of the reasons why I believe it is the best online business that anyone can take up today? So just to give you guys a little more detail into how this works. 

Bluehost right here, they are a web hosting company and it's obvious they have an affiliate program. Because he's earning close to 20 grand from it. Now if we go to Bluehost's website. You guys can see right here bluehost.com. It's web hosting. For anyone who wants to create a website, you can sign up for Bluehost right here. With WordPress or whatever. 

But if you scroll down to the very bottom. And now this works for most companies that have affiliate programs. You will see affiliates at the bottom footer. Now if you click that it will take you right into their affiliate program. And you guys can actually see over five million paid in commissions last year alone. So as you guys can see this isn't some sort of scam or anything. 

Definitely do not confuse affiliate marketing with network marketing, which is multi-level marketing, which is pyramid schemes. Affiliate marketing is not a pyramid scheme at all. It is legit sales and commissions. So basically you're a salesman for real companies. You're not selling energy drinks and driving around base three series.

This is a real business right here. This right here I mean look at this right now. Bluehost is a legit company. They also have affiliate programs for companies like HostGator, GoDaddy. You've heard of these companies. You've seen them on TV, you've seen them on ads. These are real companies that were talking about. 

So anyway getting back into Bluehost's affiliate program. If you scroll down, as you guys can see, free to join as with most affiliate programs. You guys can see how it works. Basically, you have custom banners and links just like Amazon Associates for every visitor who clicks your link and signs up within I believe a 30 day period. 

Now Amazon's is only 24 hours. But for most affiliate programs it's usually around a 30-day tracking cookie. It's between 14 days to 30 days. 60 days, sometimes 90 days. But 30 is the industry average for tracking links. And Bluehost, they will give you $65 a pop for everyone who signs up through your Bluehost link. 

Completely free to join just like Amazon Associates. Again, this is affiliate marketing. It's very simple, it's very basic. But I figured I'd just peel back the kimono and show you guys how people are really making money online behind the scenes. Now I'll give you one more example. This is Instagram. One of my favorite YouTubers slash people that I follow on Instagram is Maxx Chewning. Been following him since the first few days back when he started doing the Full Day of Eating videos. Those were my favorite. 

Basically here is an ad. This is for MVMT watches. And this is a little different because the thing is with affiliate marketing is you usually have links right. But another way that you can do this, now some people call this sponsorship, it's all the same thing to me. 

Basically is providing coupon codes. So as you guys can see, Maxx has his own coupon codes. It's personalized, says, "MAXX15". You get $15 off your order at MVMT. And basically what is happening here is if you use Maxx's link, yes you get $15 off but he also gets attribution for your sale, and therefore he gets a kickback or commission. 

Now I don't know how much he makes off the sale. I'm not an MVMT affiliate, I cannot speak on that. But it's probably somewhere around 10, 15 bucks per sale. Which is a very nice extra source of income considering how passive it is. He just has to post one photo like this or make one video and he can continue to earn money off every single sale from that video. And as you guys can see, the power of the internet, the power of scale. 

This has over 10,000 likes. And you can bet that of those 10,000 likes, the chances of a few people buying a watch using his code are pretty high. Let's be honest. It's just math at the end of the day. Marketing is a numbers game. And if you're getting 10,000 likes, you're getting 10,000 views, you're getting 10,000 clicks. Chances are someone's buying something and you're gonna be making a commission. 

So basically those are all my big examples. It's very simple. I hope I can show you guys behind the scenes of how affiliate marketing actually works in the real world. And how people are using it to generate large sources of side income that is different. 

And it's more effective than just doing Google AdSense. Which is just showing ads. Just, for example, YouTube only pays two bucks for every thousand views in my experience. Now, this changes depending on your niche or your industry. But just to put things in perspective. If Maxx sells one of these and he makes $15, just think about the number of views he would have to get to make that same amount of money from one sale of selling one watch. 

So really less is more. You don't have to sell as much. You don't have to get as many views. But if you get sales you get more commission than getting thousands upon thousands of views. 

But obviously, if you have both then it's a win-win for everybody. Multiple streams of income always the way to go. Alright, guys so that wraps up this video. I hope you guys found value in this free lesson. And if you guys like the video please thumbs up the video and leave a comment below letting me know because I really appreciate it. 

And it will allow me to continue to make more videos and free lessons just like this. If you have any questions about affiliate marketing, feel free to leave a comment below or contact me via Instagram by dming me at odi_productions. So leave a comment, Instagram, either way, I'll get back to your question as soon as possible. 

Now for anyone who is serious about affiliate marketing and you want to use it as a vehicle to wealth and living a life of passive income and basically hopefully one day achieving your dream life like it gave me. 

Guys definitely check out my brand new course called Affiliate Marketing CHAMP at affiliatemarketingchamp.com. Where I just released my brand new course that's five hours of HD video. If you guys enjoyed my teaching style. If you guys enjoyed learning from me. And if you want me to be your mentor and your guide for affiliate marketing, then definitely check out this course.

 I share a bunch of really awesome lessons such as the best examples of successful affiliate marketing in the real world. So it's an extension of this video. I'm showing pretty much every single example out there of how affiliate marketing works. And also giving you guys a step-by-step plan on how to start a successful affiliate marketing business. 

So basically I give each step on how I've created my affiliate marketing businesses, and you guys can replicate that exact same process. And by doing each one of these steps, it increases your chances of success by that much more. 

Also, I share the most profitable niches in affiliate marketing. Which is a complete game-changer? 'Cause this could be the difference between making a thousand a month and 10,000 a month. And trust me I learned that from experience. 

Aside from that, I teach you guys how to rank on the first page of YouTube and Google while still being a small channel. I've been able to surpass YouTubers who have millions of subscribers. Millions more than I do and I've been able to surpass them on the Google rankings on the first page. And also I'm going to show you guys how to use paid traffic and show you guys a secret paid traffic source that will turbocharge your results for not much investment. 

Along with creating a Facebook ad for affiliate marketing. And even creating an affiliate marketing website from scratch. Lastly, I share my top five mistakes of affiliate marketing that I wish I knew when I got started. That would have saved me months, if not years of frustration and failure.

But that's basically the core of the lessons guys. I'm going to be adding more modules, more lessons in the future. And I'm going to keep expanding this course to be the most comprehensive and the best possible course in affiliate marketing to get you guys started today. 

So if you guys are interested in that, I actually have a $100 off discount that is going to be for a limited time. If you guys use the link in the description. So the code is gonna be already applied. As you guys can see here, there is no discount or anything like that. But if you guys apply the code, then you guys will see a $100 discount. 

And there are limited spots available. So if you guys are really interested in this I suggest you get on it ASAP. 

But if you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment below, Instagram DM me, whichever way you can reach me. And I'll be happy to answer those questions. So anyways on to the next video. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Alright, peace.

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