Make Money from your own Clip Share, You Tube Clone Site
Video Sharing Web Sites seem all the rage right now, and a quick check on Alexa reveals that traffic to the established sites is soaring. So how to get in on the action and set up your own video sharing site.
1. Rather than aiming at a mass market, choose a niche for your video site. I niche could include, cooking video’s, car maintenance, howto’s are perhaps “bloopers” and comic video’s.
2. Choose a good domain name, the shorter and snappier the better. This goes hand in hand with choosing your niche. If you are creating a niche video sharing website, such as racing cars or say football, consider incorporating your keywords into the domain.
3. Deciding on your site hosting. To start out and test your video sharing site you can try cheap shared hosting. However if your site proves popular you may need to budget to upgrade to a VPS Private Server) or even a full dedicated server.
4. Normal web hosting might need the requirements for video sharing so check out web hosts, and Google for “ffmpeg hosting.” FFMpeg is a utility that powers a lot of video sharing sites as it will encode video in varying formats to flash video player format (.flv)
5. You visitors will want to upload their video’s. These will be in different formats. If you have used YouTube you will know that they encode your uploaded video’s into a flash format (.flv files). This requires specialist modules to be installed in your hosting account or dedicated server. These are ffmeg, ffmpeg-php, libogg
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