This is a popular question. Tells me that video is going to continue to grow. Putting a YouTube (or any other) video in a blog post is as easy as copy-and-paste. In fact, it is copy-and-paste.
We’ll use a video I put on YouTube earlier this year as the example. The video is a short toot-orial on how to hyperlink an image in your post.
Once I find the video on YouTube’s site, I look for the code that I can embed in my post. It’s usually right next to the word EMBED. Here’s what it looks like at YouTube (click image to enlarge):
Then, I come back to my blog admin area and click on "EDIT HTML" – if you don’t do this, the code (not the video) will become part of your post:
You can always resize the video to fit your site or post. Here is a resized version of the video we’re using so that it fits neatly to the right of this paragraph.
You can use this same practice with SlideShare, Scribd and other content sharing sites. Just look for the code to EMBED.
One other note. Many RSS Aggregators won’t pick up the embedded video. So it’s always a good idea to place the URL right in the post. Like this:
RSS readers can view our example video on hyperlinking an image too.
UPDATE: WordPress users should read Char’s comment on disabling VisualEditor before pasting the code. Thanks Char!
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