[Journey] First Movie Streaming Website (Local)

[Sleepshift]

Hello BHW!

First of all sorry if I have typos. The (local) in the title means that I'm running the website for my home country only. I don't see a reason to start an international website with a niche I've never explored before. I've been reading a lot of other members' movie streaming journeys and decided to give it a go. I started my website back in 16th of June 2017, but I still want to make this post and will try to include all things that I achieved so far. I will try to post updates in the comments at least once per week.

Things I Need Before Starting The Website
Domain Name
Good Hosting
Movie Wordpress Theme
Openload and Streamango Profile

After Getting The Website Online and Installing Wordpress

Day 1
Alright. The website is now online and the theme has been installed, but it's loading slow. It's time for a nice plugin! I got myself the WP-Rocket plugin which sky-rocketed my website score on GTMetrix from 86 to 92. It's not enough for me so I decided to look a little deeper and got a lot of really nice suggestions from WPMU DEV which increased my score to 94!

Now I need to start thinking about the long run. Let's pick a good SEO plugin...most of you might disagree with my decision here, but I picked The SEO Framework plugin since it's nice, clean and doesn't fill my whole Dashboard with information. I went through its settings page and opps forgot to add my website to Google and Bing's Webmaster Consoles...Okay, let's add them and finish the plugin's settings page.

Day 2
It's time to start thinking about the legal stuff. I've put a DMCA notice on the footer and created a DMCA complaint form and page with additional information. I've also created a Terms of Use and Privacy Policy page, as well as a little "This website is using cookies" notice to comply with the Cookie Law of EU.

Okay, now lets create a Facebook page...Done. It's created. 0 likes (cry face). Anyway since my country doesn't use Twitter that much I won't create a profile there for now, but I will create YouTube channel and upload a bunch of movie trailers with subtitles which will hopefully get nice amount of views, because I will put a link to the website on the description to maximize the number of traffic sources.

Day 3
It's movie time (and tv-show time of course)! So since my website is local I will need to show movies with subtitles only, which means I won't be able to automate the website for now and that will increase the amount of time and effort sadly, but I wanted to do that for a long time and I am not going to give up now. Basically, I'm getting Openload / Streamango Links from reddit and other movie websites to my profiles and then downloading the correct subtitles (you know the annoying "this movie is WEB-DL and the subtitles are for BluRe" kind of things...).

Now while I'm filling my website with movies I make sure to use the best of the SEO Framework and put nice titles, so I picked this format "Watch "Movie Name" (Release Year) Online - Website Name. Also, this theme came with a nice TMDb generator so it generates the posters and wallpapers of that movie, which means that I can just copy the wallpaper URL and add it to the SEO thumbnail image's URL. Using good keywords is also important.

On that day the website had 10 movies on it (It was late and I was tired so let's continue tomorrow).

Day 4
While going to sleep yesterday I remembered that I can add ratings to the movie so I can get the nice little star symbols that appear under the search results for your website. This will definitely boost my SEO! Before starting to add movies again lets think what is the most popular thing people in my country watch..hmm..oh I know it's Game of Thrones! Let's add all seasons and then come back to the movies. While doing this I remembered that the new season will come out in 1 month so that gave me an idea to upload the official trailer with subtitles to my YouTube account. I did upload it and 12 more trailers.

Day 5
Adding the trailers actually took me two days, so let's jump to day 6.

Day 6
Good morning Day 6! The first thing I noticed is that the Game of Thrones trailer received 200 views overnight which is absolutely incredible and because I put a link to the series in the description I received some traffic and Facebook likes too! Lets continue adding movies. At the ned of the day the website had 50 movies uploaded and around 600 visits. While browsing the other movie streaming website I noticed a link to a website that has links to all movie streaming platforms so I added mine too.I received a free 5 days VIP for that, which actually boosted my traffic.

After that, I just kept adding movies until the day in which the new Game of Thrones season came up. So I created a Facebook Ad saying "Watch All Game of Thrones Seasons Online with HD Quality" and to my surprise, the post received 600+ likes and 100+ comments. A lot of people started visiting the website daily and liked my Facebook page. When I uploaded the first episode of the new season I posted a Facebook post which got a lot of shares and more people started liking the page.

As the time went by and new episodes came out I did the same and the website was at 15 000 views per month and 2500 page likes (some of you will say that it's not a lot, but for me, it's pretty good for a first try at that niche. Some other people in other forums are stating that they received 100 000 monthly views after 2 months of keeping the website up, but that's a total BS).


Adding Ads To the Website
I know that for now the website will not make a lot of money but everybody starts from somewhere. I started with Propeller Ads. Let's see the information about the website for now.

Monthly Visitors: 30,000
Monthly Income: $10
Total Movies: 737
Total TV - Shows: 14
Facebook Page Likes: 3700

The biggest deal for me is that right now whenever someone from my country searches for an online movie they will see my website on the front page at the 2nd,3rd and sometimes 5th spot. When they search for Game of Thrones episodes my website is always on the 1st and 2nd spot.

This is it for now. I will make sure to keep it updates if something new happens. Hopefully, you liked that post and once again sorry for the typos.

 

[BestDayEver]

Hey, just wondering what country you're from? Not sure if you're comfortable with me asking this, and please don't answer if you're not comfortable with it.

Also, I like this journey because before I took action I was thinking about making my own movie streaming website, but being from the US, I'm not sure about it with the DMCA and all that, and repercussions because I'm from the US. But it's going to be interesting to see how you do, good luck.

 

[SteveWhite]

you can come from any countery doesnt matter. main thing is use whois protect in domain just 2$ / year to hide ur info in domain name lookup & get offshore hosting in neatherlands or france. these 2 are imp if ur beginning warez site and want to be safe.

time to time your categories will get removed from search after u get lot of dmca notice, uve to rename the category and 301 redirect old category url to new url. of course right after some categories get removed ull get less traffic from google, but itll pick up again.

main page will get removed from google like 3 to 6 months after u start getting traffic, u can keep changing domain, but its a never ending process, u can stick with the same domain even after the main page is gone from google, ur new pages will keep traffic from google.

just few things of the top of my mind i rember when i ran such site.

 

[nata0292]

gonna learn from u.. keep it up!

 

[Sleepshift]

Hey, just wondering what country you're from? Not sure if you're comfortable with me asking this, and please don't answer if you're not comfortable with it.

Also, I like this journey because before I took action I was thinking about making my own movie streaming website, but being from the US, I'm not sure about it with the DMCA and all that, and repercussions because I'm from the US. But it's going to be interesting to see how you do, good luck.

For now I prefer to keep that for myself. As for your second question..comment #3 gave a good answer.

gonna learn from u.. keep it up!

Thank you!

 

[Adonno]

Goos luck, did tou use btc to ourchaee the the domain and hosting?

 

[noobetic]

good luck with your journey! just a quick question, did you use Cloudflare ? if you didn't you should it will help you alot.

About Ad networks, are you going to use only Propellar Ads or are you going to add more ?

 

[Sleepshift]

Goos luck, did tou use btc to ourchaee the the domain and hosting?

Thank you! No I used Paypal to purchase these things.

good luck with your journey! just a quick question, did you use Cloudflare ? if you didn't you should it will help you alot.

About Ad networks, are you going to use only Propellar Ads or are you going to add more ?

Hey! I do use Cloudflare. 2 days ago I started using Ad-Center too. Now I use 2 Ad Networks.

following , good luck

Thank you!

 

[Sleepshift]

Hello all,

I havent been that active around here, but I wanted to make a quick update. So, I had to change hosts due to my website becoming kinda slow. While moving to a new VPS I created a brand new theme for the website and my users are absolutely loving it, since its alot different than the other streaming websites in my country. The monthly users are increasing as well the revenue

 

[Sleepshift]

Update: The monthly visitors are now 40 000

 

[roseczech]

if your still using those 3rd party players, like openload and streamango, for sure it take so much of your time editing your iframe everyday due to takedowns isnt?
Well good luck with your journey.

 

[Sleepshift]

if your still using those 3rd party players, like openload and streamango, for sure it take so much of your time editing your iframe everyday due to takedowns isnt?
Well good luck with your journey.

Not at all actually. I'm receiving 5 takedowns per month, so it's basically nothing. I would love to use Google Drive, but reuploading a video there is not that simple, like on Openload/Stremango, since my internet speed is kinda slow.

 

[roseczech]

Not at all actually. I'm receiving 5 takedowns per month, so it's basically nothing. I would love to use Google Drive, but reuploading a video there is not that simple, like on Openload/Stremango, since my internet speed is kinda slow.

ahh, i see, thats good for you then. keep up the good work.

 

[roseczech]

And by the way, it seems ad center now is accepting small streaming site, because before they have high requirements on visitors per day. On that day you got approved on ad center how much visitors you got on tier 1 countries?

 

[Sleepshift]

And by the way, it seems ad center now is accepting small streaming site, because before they have high requirements on visitors per day. On that day you got approved on ad center how much visitors you got on tier 1 countries?

Around 20k monthly I think. But I'm no longer with them since the payments were really really low. For every cent on Ad-Center, I am getting $1 on Propeller Ads.

 

[roseczech]

Around 20k monthly I think. But I'm no longer with them since the payments were really really low. For every cent on Ad-Center, I am getting $1 on Propeller Ads.

yeah, adcenter are already saturated, users nowadays are already wise. yeah Propeller is good also on cpm so good luck

 

[Deleted member 1038636]

Try admaven I'm sure they will help you improve your earnings, also exoclick and EroAdvertising they have great earnings. That depends the country you are targeting in.

 

[Sleepshift]

yeah, adcenter are already saturated, users nowadays are already wise. yeah Propeller is good also on cpm so good luck

Thank you very much!

Try admaven I'm sure they will help you improve your earnings, also exoclick and EroAdvertising they have great earnings. That depends the country you are targeting in.

Thank you for the suggestions! I will just stick with one ad network for now and will think about using others in the future.

 

[klassomm]

Around 20k monthly I think. But I'm no longer with them since the payments were really really low. For every cent on Ad-Center, I am getting $1 on Propeller Ads.

what types of ads do you use with Propeller?

 

[Sleepshift]

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