Video sharing websites such as Youtube have been enormously successful and show substantial traffic growth and visitors. The trends are also showing that increasing amounts of people are visiting video sites, rather than Google to research information. This might be the time to launch your own site. Below we detail the information to get you started.
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. You'll need a good snappy domain name. Head over to one of the big registrars and see whats available. There are different approaches to choosing a domain. One way would be to include the keywords from your niche, such as "cooking videos." Another is to pick a snappy, zany name that help the site go viral.
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 may not meet your requirements for running video site hosting. For instance you will need to check that web host has installed a software utility called ffmpeg. FFmpeg is popular software that converts video in various formats, on the fly to .flv format (or any other video format).
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
About the Author:
Jay Newman runs a Web Hosting Review Blog and also works in support at a Cheap Web Hosting Provider in the UK
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