How to Support YouTubers for FREE

In a world of high traffic and unforgiving algorithms, YouTubers endure a tough life making entertaining and marketable content. You want to go above and beyond to support them but fall short financially. How can you help make sure your favorite channels don't go away? Check out my guide of how to support YouTubers for FREE.

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Sometimes the daily love and support can be shown by giving only a few seconds out of your day.  But before I continue, of course I'm going to do a shameless self-promotion of my Patreon page and Amazon Wishlist. Now, time to get to the part that you care about.

Engagement

All social media platforms (including YouTube) now reward users who have high engagement ratings. Always take the time to like AND comment on all of their uploaded content. Clicking that SHARE button could be the first domino of creating a viral video. If you can do all of this within the first 24 hours of the post going live, you deserve some tasty brownie points.

You should especially engage with a #sponsored post because 1) the company sponsoring said post will be following up with its analytics, and 2) this contributes to the YouTubers portfolio as they can charge companies more for future sponsorships. If there is a link to take you to the company's page, click on it even if you do not plan to buy. That way, the results show the YouTuber was able to spread brand awareness.

A post shared by Lesley Rowland □ (@lesleyyx1) on Jan 5, 2018 at 1:12pm PST

 Video Advertisements

Advertisements play during videos, and if you're lucky, the interface will give you a SKIP AD button. Don't click on it! Watch the entire ad. 

If the ad interests you, you should click on it. You do not need to be clicking on ads for the sake of clicking because the algorithm will become suspicious.

Speaking of advertisements, I included some in this post (and on every page of my website.) Test what you have learned in this guide already by clicking on some --but not all-- links!

Affiliate Links

Yes, those special custom links YouTubers get to track sales and hopefully reap a percentage of the benefits. But the way the algorithm is set up and the terms & conditions, YouTubers often don't make profit with their links even if they were the ones to introduce a brand, product, or service to a new customer. You can assure YouTubers make profit if you do it right.

Now, I know that this guide explains ways to support YouTubers with no cost to you. So, we're going to talk about the links that grant you profit even if you do not buy the product, such as Amazon. If you enter Amazon through an affiliation link and buy ANY item, even if it wasn't the advertised item, in that same session, the YouTuber will earn the sale. But only do this with big purchases and not every purchase so the algorithm doesn't get suspicious.

Amazon affiliation links often appear in a YouTube video's description box with the Amazon name broken down to "amzn.to/" in the URL. Other times, it can be turned into a banner (see right) and embedded into a website.

So, if you want a really nice ring light, you should definitely click on that banner ad you see.

Tell Your Friends

People are always bored seeking new content to satisfy their entertainment needs (or fill up an hour time slot with nothingness.) Recommend your favorite channels to your friends. Send links to make it easy. 

Now that you know how to support a YouTube channel, you should start with LesleyyX1 -- I heard she's pretty cool! Or go comment and share this blog post. No? Ok, well it was worth a try.