Monetize My Educational YouTube Shorts

I run a channel made up entirely of short, educational clips and I want to turn those views into real revenue. I’m already producing the content, but the channel still isn’t meeting YouTube’s Shorts-specific eligibility or earning as much as it could through ads. What I need from you is an end-to-end roadmap that shows exactly how to reach full monetization and then maximise it. That includes an audit of my current Shorts, recommendations on titles, descriptions, hashtags, and thumbnails, guidance on the best posting cadence, and step-by-step assistance in connecting everything to AdSense once the targets are hit. I also want clear advice on how to track performance in YouTube Studio so I can see which tweaks are working. Deliverables • Written channel audit with actionable fixes • Optimised metadata examples for at least five existing Shorts • Growth strategy outlining view and subscriber milestones and how to achieve them