Part 1 : Movies Niche : Pros and Cons

1/ Pros :

- Easy to get viral

- Low capital required

- Hard work pays off

2/ Cons :

- There're lots of work to do

- It's illegal in most countries, so you need to make sure that it's legal in your country.

- High volume competitors

- DMCA

- Time consuming


Part 2 : What you need to build a site

1/ Domain : In this niche, the most used and hard-to-be-taken-down extension is .to and .is . You can buy these domains on tonic.to or isnic.is. Tonic accepts paypal while on isnic you will need a credit card to place an order.

2/ Hosting/Server : You will need an offshore hosting, I would prefer server, or at least a VPS for better performance. After reading some threads about illegal sites here, I went with Knownsrv service.

3/ The script : You can use Wordpress and Dooplay theme (there is a thread about this, please use the Search feature to find it), or build your own script, choose the one which is easier for you to manage.


Part 3 : Getting the streaming/movies links.

This task will take most of your time. There’re currently 2 type of streaming links that all sites are using :

1/GG Link : Site owners upload video files into google drive/photo, then use these links on their sites.

- Pros : 99.99% uptime, low-to-no buffering, no ads

- Cons : need gg account, time to do the download/upload, files getting deleted.

2/Links from video hosting services : Video files are hosted on 3rd party video hosting services, such as vidoza, onlystream, upstream….

- Pros : earn extra money by getting visitors playing the video hosted on these sites. Average rate is about $40 per 10000 tier 1 visitors. You can do remote upload from other sites/servers , some sites can help you to deal with DMCA, or you can create clone of the files instead of re-uploading.

- Cons : way too many pop-up, which will make your users feel uncomfortable, therefor it will decrease your returning visitors rate. For new site, I do not recommend this type of streaming links.

When I first started in this niche, I am with 2nd option, but now moving to the 1st as it will help me to grow and monetize the site better (no one likes a site with 5-6 pop up before watching a video right?)


Part 4 : Getting the traffic

- Social network :

+ Reddit is the gold mine. You need an account with good Karma to post your link on relevant sub-reddit, and a few more accounts to upvote your link to get it to the TOP/HOT page.

+ Don’t forget to build a Twitter/FB page, it will help you to connect with your users, give them new update, or taking their feedbacks to make the site better. I always have a pop up on my site asking users to follow me on twitter or share my site on their FB, so it will reach more people day by day.

- SEO : The DMCA is so aggressive these days, SEO is not my choice. I only did on-page SEO, no off-page was done on any of my sites.

- Paid traffic : No

- Luckiness : Yes You read it right. One of my site got featured on a big youtube channel, and the traffic went from 500 visits a day to 10000 visits a day, and many keywords are in first page now – from ONLY ONE youtube video with link in description.


Part 5 : Monetizing

Once you have some decent traffic, you can begin monetizing it with Pop, CPA, and Native ads. I’m not good at this, and still learning to maximize my profit.