Make Money from your own Clip Share, You Tube Clone Site
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If you have studied the success of Youtube, Metacafe, and others enviously there is no reasons why you can't create your own video sharing website. You should eventually be able to make some money in return from advertising depending on how well your promote your site. Here are key steps to take to get your video site off the ground
1. Choose a niche for your video site. This will help in gaining some leverage initially in the search engines, and differentiate it from the very popular and well established sites such as YouTube and Google Video. A niche might comic or funny video's, internet marketing, howto's and tutorials or a particularly type of cooking.
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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Jay Newman works a Web Hosting Review Blog and also works in support at a Cheap Web Hosting Provider in London
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