As with most of the posts I will make, this has been covered before ad infinitum; but my goal is to cover these topics in a clear, consise format that’ll mean even a complete novice can follow them.

My first HowTo is on how to embed YouTube and Google Video’s straight into a blog entry. It’s not hard, when you know how, but has baffled many including myself in the past!

So go ahead and start a new post or create a new page as you normally would.

You have to place a small bit of code in to your post which tells your Blogging program to grab the video from Google or YouTube. So - go to Google Videos or YouTube and find the video you want to include!

YouTube

If your video is on YouTube, then look just to the right of the video; you’ll see the following sections:
Embedding a YouTube Video into a Blog Post

What you need to do is select the entire text that appears in the “Embed” field - click and hold your mouse from the beginning of the “Embed” field and drag it to the right to select all the text (there’s quite a bit there mind you!). When you’ve selected it all, release the mouse button and the text should still be selected; now Right-Mouse button somewhere on the text and click “Copy”.

Google Videos

If your video is on Google Videos, there’s a couple more steps - but it’s pretty much the same.

First, look to the right of your video: there should be the following:

Hpw to embed Google Videos in a Blog Post

Click the button that says “E-mail - Blog - Post to MySpace” and the click “Embed HTML” that appears directly below that button.

You’re then shown a box with the code in; click and hold your mouse from the beginning of the code field and drag it to the right to select all the text. When you’ve selected it all, release the mouse button and the text should still be selected; now Right-Mouse button somewhere on the text and click “Copy”.

For both - continued…

Now you have your code - you should be able to “Paste” it directly in to your Blog posts. Some blogging software doesn’t allow code to be posted, or use a “Visual” editor instead of a plain old one. If that’s the case, try going into a standard editing mode (sometimes called “HTML” mode) to complete the final steps.

Now simple right-mouse button anywhere on your new blog post and click “Paste”. You’ll see the code appear - now try publishing your post and you should see the video appear. Once you get the hang of where to position them and copying the code, this’ll become very quick.

Remember: You can post more than one video on a single blog post, and you can even post a Google Video in the same post as a YouTube video. There’s other video providers out there, but as YouTube and Google are the most popular, they’re the most important to cover.

I’ll happily clear up any confusion anyone may have - hopefully that’ll help you add videos to your blogs a bit easier.

Happy Blogging!