How to Embed Video into Your Website
Here’s an easy way to make the search engines love your site.
Adding video to your site or blog increases the amount of time that visitors spend on your site. The more time they spend, the ’stickier’ your site appears, and ’sticky’ sites enjoy higher search engine rankings.
The easiest way to put video on your site is to embed code from a video that you found on YouTube, Google Video or other video-sharing site. The video is served by YouTube, so you save bandwidth on your server. 
Regardless of your niche, you should be able to find relevant content on any of the major video-sharing sites that will be of interest to your visitors that you can post to your affiliate sites.
For example, to entertain my visitors at Sage-Hearts.com, I posted a very cute animated proposal video that I found on YouTube to my online dating blog.
Find out how easy this is to do by watching my own short video “How to Post a YouTube Video to Your Blog“, which is served by Google Video.
You’ll see that embedding the video is as simple as finding the video that you want to post, then copying and pasting code from the video’s page directly into your post or webpage. You will have to register with YouTube first.
For videos that you find on Google Video, you have to dig a little deeper for the code.
Click the blue ‘Email – Blog – Send to MySpace’ button, then the ‘Embed HTML’ link that comes up directly below it and lastly the code to copy appears in a box below that.
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Hey Ros. Affiliates can also add their own text message bubbles and links to videos from YouTube or anywhere esle.
So in your funny proposal video above, you could have added bubbles saying:
Now that you know how to propose..
Find the perfect match at Match.com
with your affiliate link embedded.
Pretty cool! Here’s the demo.
http://www.bubbleply.com/demo.aspx
Rosalind… my website is listed on the millionth page in Google (haha!), but most of my traffic comes from Ezine Articles, my Sig line in posts I make on niche forums, and from people who I invite back through my mailing list.
According to your video, search engines “know” how long someone is at my site. Sorry if this sounds like a dumb question, but how would Google know how long someone was at my website if they found my website in an Ezine article, Sig file, or clicked on a link in an autoresponder series they’re getting? Thanks!
Linda,
You are TOO cool! Thanks for the great info!
Cheers,
Ros
Hi Maria,
First of all, there are NO dumb questions except for those not asked.
Now, to your SMART question.
Stickiness refers to the amount of time that someone spends on your site. So it doesn’t matter how they got to your site – whether from another site, or your autoresponder series, or by bus – just that they did and they liked it so much that they decided to ’stick’ around.
Hope that helps!
Cheers,
Ros
Nice one Ros,
I’ve always been toying with the idea of adding videos to my niche websites and blogs.
With your tips, I’m starting right away. I’ve got 13 blogs so I’ve got work to do.
Thanks Ros,
Akin Alabi
I tried this in my wordpress blog…and of course it didn’t work. I’ll bet it requires a plug in, eh?
(that would be me trying to sound so Canadian – Not)
Hey Debra,
Funny, but I don’t notice ‘eh’ until I’m out of the country, eh.
And no plugin required. It just plugged right in!
Cheers,
Ros
Linda that was a cool suggestion. Ive been playing with youtube for sometime now. Not on my main biz website but on my personal site, you know for friends and family. To share the vids of my whacky six year old. I did a test where I did a quick video and posted it on a blog that i optimized for adsense and watched the clicks come in. Seems liek people like vids of kids being kids !!! and it pays!!. Dont think it’ll be a regular thing, wouldnt want my kid to sue for the proceeds!! I actually am doing a “case study” on my blog about web traffic using vids. I’m wating till this week is done to post a one week final result. Wish me luck!!!
Ros,
I had the same confusion as Maria, and I still don’t think I understand. When you say in the video that sticky-ness is something Google rewards, how does Google know how long someone is at your website if your traffic doesn’t come from Google in the first place?
Harry
i finally caught the bug too and added audio and video to my customer review application so that people can run review sites based on their own audio and video clips. it doesn’t use YouTube or Google, but i guess i could think about that. on the one hand using YouTube or Google means saving on bandwidth, on the other, you don’t have total control over the clips appearing on your site…
oops I forgot to ask, Ros where did you get the aff link for that and can I have one too!!! Please !!!!!!!!
Cheers and beers from snowy ottawa
Shane
Where can I find your instructional video?
“Find out how easy this is to do by watching my own short video “How to Post a YouTube Video to Your Blog“, which is served by Google Video.”
Hi Ros, me again. I should have mentioned you can e-mail me if you don’t/can’t answer in your blog.
I really want to know how search engines know how long a visitor is at a website. You mentioned that a lot towards the beginning of the video presentation.
Thanks, and love your blog!
Ros, I could not post a YouTube video either – looks like your running wordpress 1.5.2 – mine 2.05. I did see that wordpress.org does not work unless you have a plug-in – and wordpress.com works?? wondering how you got the video up so easy…tim
Hi Ros,
Your method of including videos in your Blog didn’t work for me ; however, not everything is lost.
As a WordPress blog owner, you can downloado a plugin at http://an-archos.com/anarchy-media-player/ which you install and then, when you wirte a post, there will be a small icon on the editor which you can click, enter the URL address of Google Video, YouTube, etc. and done.
Best regards,
Jennifer
It’s true that google like video blogs (vlogs). I run a video blog and it has the highest PR rank amongst all my blogs although I don’t post that often to this one.
Humm — I got a YouTube video to load just fine — but when a viewer plays it, it only plays half-way and then quits. I’ve done all I could think of including re-embedding it — still the same thing. Anyone have any thoughts? You can try it yourself -
Howdy Everyone..
Instead of adding the entire EMBED code use the Wordpress tags..
[youtube=INSTERT-ENTIRE-YOUTUBE-URL]
So basically simply add the YouTube URL Between the brackets (after the = sign is where you add the URL.. [youtube=]
Peace
Jerry
thank for your guide, now i can put nice video to my blog
Hey Ros, went to Sage Hearts, but the video didn’t load for me, nothing visible, not even a placeholder.
I’m on a Mac, would that make a difference?
Hi Maggie,
Eeks, I guess that went missing when I sent everything over to 101Date.com. Will look into fixing that when I get back from Hawaii.
Cheers,
Ros