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So this channel finally got monetized, but Google kind of played with me a little bit
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before they got my channel monetized. So on July 18th, I made this little community post showing that I was at 3,950 public watch
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hours, so all I needed was 50 more. So I thought I was really close to monetization, like the next day I would have it
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I even hurried up and posted another video, because normally I only do one video a week
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but I got another video posted and uploaded on Sunday, I believe
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trying to get the extra 50 hours that I needed. And it took two days to get where I thought I was there, July 20th
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Look how close I was. 3,999 watch hours. I was one hour away from getting monetized
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So I was so close to getting monetized, I thought that I could get an email any second
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and I actually did get an email on July 22nd. 22nd this is the email that google sent me saying that my channel was ready to be monetized but then
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i looked at my channel and i wasn't ready i was at three it actually went down to like 3980 so i
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clicked the tab again to notify me when i was ready to monetize and i got another email on the 23rd
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saying that i was ready but i wasn't ready so then it was going down even further down to like 3950
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or something so I was thinking that I needed to hurry up and get another video posted. It was the
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middle of the week so I couldn't make another video so I was planning on doing another one the weekend but then Tuesday, July 24th, 25th I think it was, I get the final email saying that
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my channel is monetized and I applied and the 26th I got an email saying that I got accepted
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So it took about two or three days I believe to get accepted. So they say it can take up to
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month it only took me a couple days and this is what it looked like when I logged on to my youtube account said congratulations your channel is now
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monetized and yeah you can monetize your video and get support and I made a quick
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little video when I first found out I got monetized just going over everything
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so I'll go ahead and post this next so I just checked my youtube account this
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morning I've been checking for a while and the monetization tab keeps coming
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really close there was a time where this said 3999 I was one hour off and then the next day it said 3995 and then 3980
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I thought I was going to log on today and it say like 3950 but I logged on and it finally said 4020
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And what's funny is I got two emails from YouTube telling me that I was ready for monetization
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I got the first one and I checked and it wasn't the case
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So I had to check the box again to send me another email when I was ready
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And I did it again. And again, the hours wasn't correct. But now I logged on today
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I didn't get an email this time, but I just checked it. And it looks like I have enough hours
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So I'm going to go ahead and apply now for monetization. So these are the steps
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so first I gotta confirm the partner program just gonna read all this except
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except the terms and I gotta sign up for Google Adsense which I already have so I
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should be just connecting my account alright so I'm all linked up to my Adsense and now step three is to wait
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for them to review me. So it says, YouTube will review your channel to make sure it complies with
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YouTube monetization policy. We'll email you a decision, usually within a month. This step will
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begin automatically after you complete the first two steps. We'll help you monetize your videos
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after you get accepted into the YouTube Partner Program. So this is exciting. I can't wait for
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them to hopefully accept my channel. I don't see why they wouldn't. I know plenty of people that
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have their channel monetized in this space all my content is original so we'll wait for that and
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see what happens next so how long did it take me to get monetized well as you can see here my very
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first video i ever posted was august 2nd 2020 and it is now july 29th 2022 so pretty much it took
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basically two years from my very first video to my last video and how many videos have i posted
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I've posted 127 videos. So it took 127 videos, two years, that's basically one video a week for two years
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and I finally monetized So some of y might be here for the title of the video which is that I want to give away my first month earning from this YouTube channel
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And I have no idea how much money this channel is going to make on its first month
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I'm going to do a video at the end of August, to let you guys know how much money this channel makes on its first month
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But so far, my estimated earnings is $1.87. and the first earnings was the 26th, obviously, so 6, 7, 8, 9
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So it's been three days, and I earned $1.87, and I imagine it's a lot like Ezoic and stuff
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where the machine learning, it gets better at ad placements. So I imagine this will increase
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I'm not really sure. Let's just use our calculator here. So we'll say $1.87, and it's been three days, so divide by three
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We'll say this channel makes about $0.62 per day. Multiply it by 30
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So it might only be like $18, but who knows? Maybe I make a video that gets a lot of views
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and that is even higher. We'll have to see. But yep, I'm going to give away
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to say thanks to you guys for subscribing and watching my videos
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I really appreciate all that. So in return, I'm going to give one person the first month's earning from this channel, and I'll send it over through PayPal
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So in order to win this, the first requirement, this video needs to get 50 likes
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So like the video if you haven't. Send it to your friends. Send it to whoever
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Get this channel to 50 likes. It shouldn't be too hard. So just going over my most recent videos
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This one's only 17. my income report was 36 okay so my last one to get
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67 likes was the May core algorithm update so that did pretty good this one here got 168
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this income report got 50 likes so a lot of them get around 30 likes
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but if I'm going to do this and give away my first month's earning
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we got to get this video to 50 likes it shouldn't be too hard the second way for you to win post just post something down below that gives you the most likes in the comments for example we go to this video so you see how in the below
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there's a like button and there's a 11 a to to all scroll through the comments
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and whoever has the most likes would be the winner by the end of the next month
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the end of July, I'll do another video saying how much money I earned in 30 days after being
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monetized. Whoever posted the best comment in the previous video and got the most likes
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if there's a tie, I will put those three names on a random generator and see which one of those
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three win or which one of those win. And that person will get the first month's earnings from
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on this YouTube channel, paid through PayPal. So if you want to enter to win, just leave a comment
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and try to get some likes. And also like this video so that we can get it to 50
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Because if this video doesn't get to 50 likes, then nobody gets the money
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Also, if you want keywords, remember I do sell keywords now. So you come over here on my website, tortoiscashflow.com
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Just click this right here. You can check out some reviews before you purchase it
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And then come at the bottom. You can click on here to come to the Fiverr gig
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You can get five keywords for $15, 14 keywords for 40, and 25 keywords for 70
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So I'll leave a link down in the description box below where you can check that out. And yeah, buy some keywords
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So if you have a channel and you haven't been monetized yet, just remember it takes a while
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It was a lot of hard work. Like I said, it took me two years to get here. Somebody else could probably do it faster
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if they posted two or three times a week. But since I had a full-time job
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I couldn't I didn't really have time to do that I can only do one video a week finally got my
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channel monetized and yeah it's pretty exciting it's pretty cool never had a YouTube channel
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monetized before so for me this is a huge accomplishment and again thanks for everybody
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for watching my channel subscribing and just doing whatever really appreciate that I'm just
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going to put a YouTube recommended video right here you should watch that one next if you haven't
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seen it yet it should be one that you're interested in because it was recommended by the YouTube
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algorithm and YouTube is the master, whatever they say goes. So check out that video next
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Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video
