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A Karbin, Inc. eBook.
This guide will teach you how to develop a video site that generates autopilot income for you with little to no maintenance time required, drawing traffic from social media, organic search results, returning visitors, and referrals from other sites.
Table of Contents
Step 1: Picking your TV show
Step 2: Picking your domain
Step 3: Hosting your site
Step 4: Designing your site
Step 5: Adding video content to your site
Step 6: Monetizing the site through gateways
Step 7: Promoting via SEO
a. Identifying keywords
b. Creating Web 2.0 sites
c. Building links
d. Submitting a sitemap
e. Submitting Articles
Step 8: Promoting via other sites
Step 9: Promoting via social media
a. Twitter
b. Stumbleupon
c. Facebook
Step 10: Rinse and Repeat.
Step 1: Picking your TV show
This is easiest if you’re an American. The goal of this step is to find a TV show that many people want to watch that doesn’t have a lot of competition in Google and isn’t available, at least in its entirety from the manufacturer. I recommend the following:
A. Shows that are aired in the UK but not available in the US – for example, Dr. Who and other shows from the BBC such as the UK version of The Office (these are not necessarily good shows to pick, depending on the other criteria and if other purchasers of this book have already used these methods.
B. Shows that aired in the US and are no longer on air but have a cult following – Knight Rider, The West Wing, Friends, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Full house and others.
Now, take the name of the show you’ve decided on and go to Hulu and search for it. If you can find full episodes available on Hulu, don’t use that show. If it doesn’t show up there, go to Google and search for “watch [your show] or [your show online] – are more than four of the top 10 results sites similar to the one you’ll be creating? A site specifically for that TV show, i.e. watchfriendsonline.org. If there are, don’t use that show. If it passes both of those tests create or log in to a Google Adwords account and click on Opportunities in the top bar, and then “Keyword tool” on the left hand side. Search for “watch [your show]”, “[your show] streaming”, “watch [your show online]”, “watch [your show] free”, “watch [your show] episodes” and check the box use synonyms. If any of the results peak at more 30,000 or so Global search volume, this is probably a good show to use.
Step 2: Picking your domain
There are differing opinions on what a good domain TLD (top level domain) is, some people say it’s better to use .com or .net, but I’ve found no difference with .info. As .info is cheaper – only $1 per domain at Godaddy, which I use for all my domain hosting.
In your domain, you want to avoid dashes or underscores if possible, and include commonly searched for keywords. Watchyourshowonline.info, yourshowonlineepisodes.info watchyourshow.info, etc. If all variations lik that are taken, you can use dashes in your domain name
Step 3: Hosting your site
You want a host that can use WordPress, and preferably has cPanel. Personally, I’ve found the best prices and service to be with Hostgator (whom I use), but you’re welcome to use any other provider that does that, such as Dreamhost.
Step 4: Designing your site
As I alluded to earlier, you’re going to want to install Wordpress on to your domain. If you followed my advice and got a cPanel account you can use Fantastico de Luxe (has a smiley face for an icon) or easyscripts or something similar. If you don’t, go here for a guide on how to install wordpress. {Important note: You cannot use a free wordpress.org account for this.
1. Install it in the root directory of your domain, and use whatever you want for the username and password. For the site name, use something keyword rich like “Watch XXXX Online” and in the subtitle do a descriptor of the site.
2. Complete the installation
3. Go to yourdomain.info/wp-admin/ and login to your account. Then, go to Appearances > Themes on the left hand side. You’re going to want to add a new theme. Pick something with a top mounted navigation bar that can do sub menus, fixed width and some sort of colors suitable to your site. I use iNove 1.4.6 for one of my sites and find it works great. If you want to use a theme that’s not hosted with wordpress you can upload it to your /wp-content/themes section and then activate it on the Appearance>Themes page in WP admin. You can use an FTP client like the FireFTP plugin for Firefox to do this.
4. Using an FTP client, upload the plugins included with this eBook to your server. These plugins will make it easier for people to share your site on social media and for Google to find and index your site.
5. Go to the settings > Reading page in Wp-Admin and change the front page to a static page – you can make it about us to start and then edit that page alter. Use this page to put generic information about what the sit provides. For example, high quality streaming episods, some information about the tv show itself, talk about how much you like the show and how quickly episodes are added, et cetera.
Step 5: Adding video content to your site.
You will not host any video content on your site. This should protect you from any copyright infringement suits. To find the videos for your site I recommended using the following sources:
a. http:/sidereel.com
b. Your competitors websites
Good websites for video hosting: youku.com, 56.com, and megavideo.com
For the videos, what you’re going to want to do is get the embed code. This can usually be obtained from the video page and will generally start with
Once you have that code go to create new page in the worpdress Admin menu. Create a new page for each season that the show has run, and leave it blank. So a blank page with the title “season 1”, “Season 2” etc.
Next create a page for each episode, named Se[number] Episode [number] – (title of episode [optional]).
Then, choose parent page on the right hand side to be whatever season it’s in.
After that, copy and paste the embed code and the gateway code (we’ll get this in a minute) into the HTML section of the textbox (click HTML to get there from standard text edit).
Type
(this will put the two linebreaks between the video and the text we’re about to add.
Write a two to three sentence of summary of what’s in the episode. This can be paraphrased from other sites – find the information by googling “list of [show] episodes” or “[show] episode summaries”
If you’ve enabled the SEO plugin included with these instructions, at the bottom of the page there will be a box where you can fill in what will show up on the google search results for this page. In this box, use a shortened version of the summary for the description and make the title something like Watch [show] [s][season #]x[episode #] streaming online for free in HQ
Step 6: Monetizing the site through gateways
To use gateways in a whitehat way, you’re going to need to sign up with either cpalead.com or adscendmedia.com. I use adscendmedia for my gateways, as they tend to have shorter offers and pay out better. You should have no problem getting accepted when applying since you have this site already created. For adscend media, contact them on AIM after applying and ask if they have any questions you can help answer. My affiliate manager AIM name is adscendfehz and he does a great job, I highly recommend that you talk to him when applying.
Once you setup a content gateway through the website, (choose 1 seconds for gateway to come up), insert the code given at the top of all of your posts.
Step 7: Promoting via SEO
Promoting via SEO is one of the most time consuming ways to promote your sit, but also once of the most effective in the long-term. You will not see instant results, wait two to three weeks at least before you expect to hit the front page.
f. Identifying keywords
In order to figure out the keywords you want to target most, go back to the keyword analysis page in Google Adwords we went to in step one, and look at the keywords you searched for and the ones Google came up with. Which ones are the most popular searches? Pick out the top 10 or 12 there with two to particularly focus on. These are going to be the searches you aim for in your Search Engine Optimization.
g. Creating Web 2.0 sites
Create 5 web 2.0 sites. You can use the same email for all of them, as google can see them. Just use people’s names as the site domain, or something generic – nothing that is blatantly SEO keywords for your main site. On each site post a unique article about something at least somewhat related your show. For example, post an article about cars for a car TV show. Or, post an article about your favorite TV show. Break this article up into three or four posts. In each post, link to Wikipedia and then to the site’s official home page. In all but one or so of the posts, add a link to the movie site you created and then in about half of the sites you create, link to one of the other web 2.0 sites you made. You don’t want to have an unbroken link wheel – Site A linking to Site B to Site C to Site D to Site E and back to site A again, you want it to look like the blogs are having a natural “conversation” of sorts.
Squidoo.com
Hubpages.com
Quizilla.com
Zimbio.com
Wetpaint.com
Weebly.com
Wikidot.com
Twine.com
Docstoc.com
Knol.google.com
Slideshare.net
Scribd.com
Esnips.com
Blinkweb.com
Ehow.com
Blogger.com
Wordpress.com
Livejournal.com
Vox.com
Tumblr.com
Clearblogs.com
Blog.com
Thoughts.com
Blogster.com
Once you have 5 sites created, proceed to the next step.
h. Building links
Use 30 or 40 of the following sites to create an account and use the link from your Profile to your homepage to link to one of your web 2.0 sites. Do this for every site. (I know this is time consuming and sucks, but it’ll help you a lot). Use the list below for this.
www.goats.com/
www.connotea.org/
www.opencastproject.org/
www.cnet.com/
Get more from this list http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=angelae8654&btnG=Search
i. Submitting a sitemap
Using one of the plugins included with this ebook, create a google sitemap for your Website – submit this to Google at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en
j. Promoting the main site with articles
Using an article spinner, create 500 articles to post on a variety of article sites. While you can use an automatic spinner, you will have much better luck writing your own. What you should do is Write an essay, and then go back through and (using the syntax of whatever article spinner you decide to use, put in a bunch of alternative phrases for your article.
For example, for this last paragraph the first sentence with possible varieties might look like this
{Using an article spinner:While utilizing an article rewriter:In order to complete this step:To do this), {Create,write,make,spin}{500, five hundred, .5k} {to post, to submit} to a {group of, variety of, many, a plethora of } article sites.
An article spinner will choose random combinations of the choices offered within the brackets to create a large number of unique articles. Then use a program like ____ to submit these articles to a variety of directories. Some article submitters can automatically spin a different article for each directory when submitting.
This is the one I use http://tinyurl.com/yk5yjmg
If you have a little bit of income to invest in this method, you can hire an article rewriter and article submitter from Digital Point or Warrior forum to do this in the B/S/T Services/Content Creation section.
Step 8: Promoting via other sites
If you submit all of your episodes to http:/sidereel.com and http://surfthechannel.com you can get roughly 75-250 unique visitors a day just from these sites.
In sidereel, create an account and then click the link on the right hand side when viewing links to an episode of your show that says “post a new episode” or something like that. Add every episode to sidereel with a title that includes the website and season number along with some qualities of the episode like, fast, HQ, free, streaming. These terms will help you stand out from the other submitted inks.
In Surfthechannel, include only the name of the article and the Se x Episode numbers – not any advertising for your site or it will be taken down.
Step 9: Promoting via social media
d. Twitter
This is the most important method of promotion other than SEO. Create a twitter account that is named something simple, to the point and not spammy. For example “http://twitter.com/watchSeinfeld”, then download either Pheonix Twitter Desktop, or go to Bouncemedia and sign up for the premium service there. Set the program to automatically add 500 followers a day that mention your show in their tweets, or add 500 followers a day that are currently following your show’s official page. Don’t add more than 750 people a day or you run the risk of getting banned.
Then, create a text file with a tweet for every episode you have, one per line. It should read something like this:
Watch Seinfeld Se1e1, Kramer debates dating someone a subway stop down http://bit.ly/awfwea
Watch Seinfeld Se1e2, Seinfeld goes to the mall http://bit.ly/wafda
And so on. Bit.ly is a free URL shortening service, I recommend you sign up for free as it will give you detailed tracking information about how many visitors are arriving at your site through each link.
Once you’ve finished putting all of them into a text file, upload the textfile to the site or put into the schedule tweets section of Twitter Desktop. You want the tweets to be at least 10 minutes apart
Do your best to respond to @mentions and the like on twitter, it’ll help build visitor loyalty.
e. Stumbleupon
There’s a bunch of stuff that can be done here to promote your website, but the easiest is simply to create a stumble upon account and thumbs up your home page and three or four of whatever you think the best pages are.
f. Facebook
For Facebook, go to the fan pages and groups associated with the TV show (which can be found by searching) and post a link with something like “Hey guys, I just want to let you fellow [tv show] fans know that I found a website where you can watch all of the episodes for free (your link here). In addition, feel free to create a group with the title something like “How to watch [your show] for free, and invite whatever people you are currently friends with that are interested in the show.
Step 10: Maintenance
As new episodes become available for your show, add them to the site and to your twitter rotation. I find that a site with around 50,000 searches a month (average) nets me about $50 a day, and currently have 10 sites running for a cool ~13k or so a month.
Step 11: Rinse and Repeat.
Once you have one site setup and running on autopilot, create another one for another TV show or even just specifically for a single movie.
