As many as you'd like. To add more sites to your KickApps affiliate account, login and choose "Add a new site" from the select list that appears on the upper-right of the Affiliate Center interface.

For now, each of your sites is completely distinct from the others, but we're working on tools to allow your communities to share media and members across multiple sites.

Check out our pricing page or feel free to contact us for more information.

You can access your KickApps-powered community platform through your widgets. Log in to the Affiliate Center, click on the Widgets tab, and create an All-in-One Widget to get started.

Remember that KickApps only provides the social networking and user-generated rich media components of a website. You'll still need your own webpages and URLs to hold the widgets that drive users to your KickApps-powered community.

For more information, see our support center .

You do! KickApps provides hosting and management tools, but your members and content belong to you.

KickApps will not distribute or share your content with other websites without your permission.

The KickApps platform accepts all common media formats.

When a user uploads a video, we transcode it for display in a standard Flash viewer. As a result, all of your community's content is accessible with any Flash-enabled browser. No third party player or client-side software required.

Your audio file may be encoded at a sampling rate that our audio player doesn’t support. As our player is built in Flash, it can only accept files that have been encoded at multiples of 11.025 kHz. Try encoding your file at 11.025 kHz, 22.050 kHz, or 44.100 kHz, and upload it again.

User-uploaded videos, photos, and audio files are limited to 100MB per file. Your members may upload as many files as they'd like.

We encode all videos into Flash (FLV) files. The full details are:

• Bitrate: 750kbps 20 frames per second (fps)
• 420px wide x 316 px high
• Codec: on2 vp6 FLV
• Audio codec: MP3
• Audio bitrate: 48kbps
• Audio sample rate: 22.05 mhz Stereo

KickApps does not need to replace your existing premium content management system. However, by contributing your premium content to your community platform you achieve a number of benefits. First, you can create Widgets that contain only your premium content and invite site visitors to "steal" those Widgets to paste on their own personal pages.

Second, the KickApps platform allows you to strategically integrate content produced by your editorial staff alongside user-generated content.

Mixing your own content into the community is a great way to seed your site and keep members coming back for more. Be an active member of your own community by contributing media.

The KickApps media management platform is designed to integrate easily with major template-based content management systems. A key platform feature is its Widget-oriented implementation: simply create some KickApps community Widgets and add them to your CMS page templates In minutes, you can link users from your CMS-generated pages to KickApps-hosted media and social networking pages.

We are also developing a suite of APIs and remotely-accessible Ajax calls, which will allow you to access platform functionality directly and integrate it into your own display code.  Look for more information in our upcoming release notes, posted in our blog.

Yes, the KickApps platform includes APIs for integrated member registration, login, and session management. Contact us for more information about our single sign-on options.

Get personally involved! Remember that your website editors and staff are also members of your community: everyone working directly with your site should create their own personal page and upload media.

Get your advertisers involved too. Active participation and word-of-mouth promotion are their best avenues to a loyal fan base.

Learn more in our whitepaper:

Nine Steps to a Successful Online Community.

All KickApps pages can be indexed by search engines. We’ve based our page code on good SEO practices, such as using relevant keywords in page links and building page HTML with semantic markup. Some Ajax-driven functionality (such as page comments) will not be indexed, but keyword-rich content such as descriptions, tags, and categories will all be captured.  If you have any suggestions for improving SEO, please let us know.

The biggest challenge in optimizing KickApps pages for search engines lies in our Widgets, nearly all of which are Ajax- or Flash-based. Search engine spiders will usually not traverse Widgets, so you should include at least one hard-coded link to a Play, List, or Profile page within your community – the spiders will find the rest of your content from there.

Need more information on this topic? Get started learning about search engines and SEO.

To ensure that comScore credits your site for hits to your KickApps-powered pages, use DNS masking to mask your KickApps-powered pages to a subdomain of your site’s root. We have confirmed with comScore that hits to pages on a subdomain like community.yoursite.com will be credited to yoursite.com.

Absolutely. Building community beyond your website with KickApps happens in two ways. First, your community members spread the reach of your community by "stealing" your Widgets and pasting them all over the Internet (e.g. on personal pages, blogs, etc.).

Second, feel free to invite other websites with related content to join your community. Expanding your community in this fashion is easy and very effective. Simply provide your affiliate websites with a variety of your Widgets to paste on their pages (e.g. "join", "login", "recent members", "highest rated videos"). The more Widgets you spread throughout the Internet the larger and more viral your community will become.

Yes, we hope you will use the KickApps platform to add social networking and user-generated content to you projects. As with any deployment, the KickApps platform is free to install and use, with premium options for full ad controls and professional services.

The KickApps platform is a white label solution with a single text link ("Powered by KickApps") at the bottom-left corner of your community's KickApps-powered pages.

KickApps is premised on the notion that communities formed around individuals with common interests are more loyal and durable. If your website provides content that appeals to a relatively specific, identifiable audience, your community will present a knowable demographic to advertisers. In other words, the context provided by your website is what distinguishes it from the large undifferentiated community portals.

Powered by KickApps, your community presents another attractive feature to advertisers. Because our media management system allows you to effectively pre-screen offensive material, advertisers looking to protect their brand will be far more inclined to pay a reasonable cost-per-thousand for your page views.

Sure thing! As soon as you create an affiliate account, you will be able to run ads through the right skyscraper ad slot on all pages.

You can also contact us if you want to control all of the ads (or have no ads) on your community pages. In those cases, KickApps earns a modest cost-per-thousand fee.

For more information on ad sales and partnerships, please contact us.