Adding a YouTube video to your site

You can easily embed a YouTube video in any blog post or page:

• Get the URL for the YouTube video – watch the video on the YouTube site and you’ll see a URL panel to the top right of the video. Copy the URL (not the embed)
• In your web page or post, paste the URL

Here is how a directly embedded YouTube link looks:

And this is the result.

Customising the size of the embedded video

See: Customising the size of embedded WordPress media.

Creating and uploading your own video

You can create your own video (or get someone to do it for you) and then upload your video to YouTube. Once on YouTube, it is an easy task to add it to your website.

A lot of people search for video content using YouTube, and your video may draw traffic in its own right. Your post or page will still be indexed by Google, and provides a second chance for your content to be indexed and rank.

YouTube is also optimized to play back video, and has features we can’t match in terms of speed and quality.

To create your own YouTube account, simply go to YouTube.com and click on the Sign Up link. Once you have an account, follow the Upload Video links to upload your video.

Other embeddable content

You can embed a lot of shareable content this way – check out the embedding list.