YouTube is one of the best ways to make money online in South Africa. If you get 100,000 views, you will earn R1500 to R 3000. The money you will make will depend on several factors. One of them is the niche of your content. The time your visitors spend on your channel also influence your income. The most important factor is where you get traffic from. Traffic from USA generate more income than traffic from South Africa.
More than 70% of YouTubers in South Africa who get 100,000 views earn R1500. There are few who make up to R5000 with 100k views. Here is the secret of making more money with low traffic.
Target USA traffic
Create content that attract traffic from USA. Your daily target should be to get over 70% traffic from USA. Once you met the target, you will make R3000 to R5000 per 100k views.
Target high paying niches
Don’t post content without knowing which niche pays the highest amount of money. The CPM for high paying niches is high. CPM means the amount of money advertiser pays per 1000 visitors. With high paying niche, you will be paid up to R30 per 1000 visitors.
Below is a list of the highest paying YouTube niches in South Africa:
- Personal Finance
- Law
- Loans
- Mortgage
- Banking
- Insurance
- Make money online
- AI content
- Web Hosting
- Email Marketing
- Education
- Real Estate
Ad quality
Ensure that your content attract high paying ads. Your channel should contain high quality content that is mostly suggested by YouTube. When the video quality is high, your viewers will view it for long, hence the higher CPM and income.
One of our friends who had operated a YouTube channel for 6 years confided on us the amount of money he earns.
“My channel has been active for 6 years. My content is about travelling. In a good day, I get 100,000 views. In a month, I average traffic of 1 million. From the 100,000 views, I earn R1800 to R2500. More than 70% of my traffic is from South Africa. When I create content and gets more traffic from USA, I can make up to R6000 from 100k views”