Understanding YouTube Traffic For Making Money on Youtube

[Mika]

The key to earning from youtube is to build traffic. Before you start building traffic on your channel you should understand what type of traffic you are getting, and where your traffic is coming from.

You have basically two types of traffic: internal traffic and external traffic.

External traffic is traffic coming from other sources such as Google search, Facebook, Twitter, blogs, websites, etc.

Internal traffic is the traffic that originates within youtube.

Understanding Internal traffic

Browse feature: When people visit the videos from the home page, the traffic is coming from the browse feature

Youtube Search: Traffic you get when people searching on youtube click on the search result

Suggested Videos: Traffic you get when people click videos from the suggested video list

Notifications: When your subscribers click on the video from the notification.

Channel pages: When your subscribers or visitors click on your videos from your channel page

Even though having more subscribers help you, you should try to build traffic from suggested videos because a large percentage of youtube internal traffic is from suggested video feature.

 

[Jasmine]

If you want to excel on youtube you need to build internal traffic. Well, external traffic helps but the major source of traffic on youtube is internal traffic, therefore, you need to get the benefit of internal traffic. There are a lot of ways to build internal traffic but the easiest one is through subscription. The more subscribers you have, the better is your reach, hence more traffic you get. Imagine you have 10k subscribers. Whenever you publish a new video, your videos will reach the feed of 10 people. If 1k people have subscribed for notification, they will be notified the moment your video gets published. Now, imagine you have 100k subscribers, your reach will be better. Another way to built internal traffic is by getting ranked in internal searches. When people search for content on youtube and if your video appears on the top search results, you will get internal traffic. Youtube search traffic is also one of the major traffic sources.