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Originally Posted by garce
Fixed it for you. And now I'll add to the fail.
99% of the people here will never create a successful tube site. I can't do it. Don't have the wherewithal...
Sure, you can start a tube site and get a bit of a community going, maybe make half decent sales using short promo clips. Unfortunately - no matter how niche your website is - someone is going to create a tube and post full videos on it. Or start a forum with full site rips. Why even consider competing with that nonesense?
If you have little traffic, I'd suggest trying fake tube. I mean really fake. No FLV players on your site at all. For me, there is no point in competing.
Quick overview: Install a WP tube theme. Propagate with posts. Your frontpage will be covered with thumbnails and stars and durations, etc - just like a tube. When a surfer clicks a thumbnail, they go to your "video" page.
On this video page, there is no video, no flv player. Instead, there is an image of an flv video that links to a hosted FLV gallery - preferably a gallery with one video, and hopefully that video matches your thumb. They click play to watch the video, they go to sponsor site. Buh-bye. I want to sell memberships - not entertain horny 12 year olds.
It actually works pretty well - and no-one gets upset because they still get served a video.
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I'm gonna read through all replies and give my
but this post is good and I'll start here.
Most my "tubes" are WP based and focused on Search Engine traffic. Most surfers now day's are conviniant with the tube delivery system, there has to be a way to work this to our advantage. Micro-niche or no micro-niche I know what I am doing with my sites(mostly free blogs) in this market. I make a good living out of them. Now I also work for ER and they provide great content to stay alive in this game.
Coming to a conclusion with your post, I in one way agree with you but creating completely fake tube sites won't impress anyone. If you can SEO a fake site to the top and reap the benefits that way , all the power to you but the way things are looking that's mostly not happening.