should you be blogging or should you be vlogging in other words should you start
a YouTube channel or should you start a website using WordPress now I can do a
direct comparison because I started both of those at the exact same time last
year I actually stopped this website and YouTube channel
after two months because I decided to expand the topic and talk about a wider
range of topics but you can see from this one exactly what my statistics were
and what I did so here is the website and you've got lots of articles here I
think they're about 50 articles and in some different categories but they're
all about visuals so making videos some photography and then some things about
images like that everything was about visuals and here is the YouTube channel
it's all about the same thing it's about 50 videos and it's about using images
and videos to boost your message so the same thing and you've got the videos
here so the important thing is to look at the statistics let's look at the
website statistics first the only promotion I did was using Twitter I
didn't actually get round to any other kind of promotion so if you look at the
source here you can look at some of these people came direct some came
through Google and some came through Twitter
I've got a couple of blips but not really much traffic here if you can see
the number of users a day even at the beginning only just maybe three or four
and then even now I'm just getting maybe two or three a day so not many visitors
let's compare that with the YouTube analytics or the statistics it's a lot
different here you can see for the first couple of months actually nothing
happened but then it suddenly started going up and getting lots of visitors
you can see the visitors here so it went up to about 113 visitors in one day this
is the daily statistics and even now I'm getting if you look there's a hundred
and then 70 hundred there 78 so roundabout
maybe 90 as an average even today and I stopped this I think last November
that's about three months ago so from that you can see that it's easier to get
people to look at your videos than it is to get them to come to your website and
it's understandable because YouTube has actually got its own search engine so
within YouTube people are going to be looking for something and your video can
come up also once your video comes up you can put an end screen and make them
look at other videos on your channel so there are ways to get viewers even
without doing anything there with the website you've got to start doing SEO
you've got to get backlinks or start getting customers or viewers from your
social media so I think YouTube definitely wins there here's my newer
channel I stopped the other one because it was really limited what I could
actually make videos about whereas now with exploring avenues I've expanded it
to cover my traveling which I've been doing for 28 years and working online
which I've been doing since the late 1990s so there are just so many more
things that I can make videos about so let's look at the statistics and again
the first two months nothing really happened but then it's just shot up
since then and it's it's on a straight line really if we look at the views here
it's on a straight line going up you can see here it just went along the bottom
maybe 10 or 20 views and then it started going up after two months and it's up to
about maybe 90 views on average at the moment per day and if we look at the
actual watch time we're talking about maybe 5 hours 4 or 5 hours watch time
a day which I'm really happy about so let's look at which one you can actually
make money on and I've got a few ways of making money here you can use Adsense
which is Google's way of monetizing stuff using adverts you can sell
products you can use affiliate marketing where you're getting commission from
other products or you can have patreon which is really people sponsoring you
maybe you give an extra service to some certain sector of people and they'll
sponsor you for that so which can you use and actually for all of these you
could you could use any of these for both the YouTube channel or WordPress
with Adsense it can come up on the YouTube channel I think now you have to
actually have 4,000 hours a view time before you can start and also a thousand
subscribers so you have to wait whereas with a website you can put it on there
straight away but actually this isn't really the best way of making money the
top way really is a product especially something like an e-book as long as
it's really relevant once you've got the people following you and they believe in
you then you can do an e-book which is really telling them all they need to
know in a concise way and really getting them going say it's for making a website
you could do an e-book or an e channel maybe videos and really teach them
everything they need to know and to get them started the next way here is
affiliate marketing and the good thing there is that there are so many products
that allow affiliates I'm actually not trying to make money on my youtube
channel and my new website at the moment I'm trying to just build up a following
and find out what people are interested in and give them that information but
later on I will start doing affiliate marketing
just with stuff that I believe in so stuff that I'm using and I've used and
that I find really useful the last one there is patreon and you can actually
give people a better service so you might actually have an online meeting
with a group of people once a month and answer their questions and things like
that and they can pay a certain amount per month for that so those are the ways
of monetizing either a YouTube channel or your website so which one is best
well I think it's better to get started with a YouTube channel it's easier to
get those viewers and you can find out what the viewers like you can look at
your statistics so down here I can see what people are
looking at which videos and they're kind of looking at the stock photography they
seem to be more interested in stock photography and also in Thailand
compared with my other videos so it gives you feedback you can make more
videos like that and you can build up an audience the other thing is YouTube is
really quick to start you've just got to set up an account put a header up here
and start making videos where WordPress is better is it's good for affiliate
marketing you can have lots of plugins and you can do things like this so it
actually picks out words like here we've got explaindio which is a type of
software for making videos and if you click on that word then you'll go to the
affiliate website the person clicking it can buy that software and you'll get a
commission you can also do things like shortened URLs so you could have here
blogvisuals.com/explaindio then I can use that in my youtube
channel that's just a much better way rather than having some long URL that is
actually the affiliate link because it doesn't look good on YouTube so it's
good for that it's also good for gathering emails now I haven't done it
here but you can then put a thing here to fill in your email address and your
name and click it to join an email group you can then send them an email once a
week have that all automated where you're showing your new content or
giving some advice the other good thing about WordPress and having an email list
is that those customers then belong to you you're not relying on Facebook keep
showing your different articles or relying on Twitter and YouTube because
YouTube and Facebook they can just change their algorithm and then suddenly
you go from having lots of visitors to half the visitors or maybe no visitors
you've got no control over that whereas with your website and with your email
list you have so my verdict is to start with a YouTube
channel build that up once you've gone into it maybe three or four months build
a website and then start building an email list as well and getting emails
and then use them in conjunction with each other
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