How to Embed a Youtube Video into Your Website
Hello Everyone!
In this tutorial, I'm going to teach you how to embed a YouTube video into your WordPress website quickly and easily. This is a great way to enhance your site's content with engaging media.
What You’ll Learn:
- Choosing a Video: I’ll start by selecting a YouTube video that you want to embed into your website.
- Simple Embedding Method: Learn the straightforward process of copying the video URL from YouTube and inserting it directly into your WordPress post.
- Previewing the Video: I'll demonstrate how to ensure the video displays correctly on your site.
- Advanced Embedding Options: For those who want more control, I'll cover how to use the YouTube 'Share' and 'Embed' features, including starting the video at a specific time and adjusting player controls.
- Custom HTML Embedding: Discover how to embed the video using HTML code for a more customized look.
- Performance Considerations: Understand the impact of embedding YouTube videos on site speed and user engagement, including potential traffic leakage to YouTube.
Embedding YouTube videos is a great way to add rich content to your site without slowing it down.
If you have any questions or need further help about adding Youtube videos to your website, don’t hesitate to drop me a comment below.
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So this is something that I figured out a few weeks back, that I would have to upload videos to YouTube. Here’s the catch, when it’s a YouTube short video it won’t upload to Wordpress. I have tried every way that I know to get the YouTube short videos to play. They won’t
You should be able to share youtube shorts there as well, in the same way you can share other videos. If you want to add a Youtube short to your page and share the link with us (where it is not showing) do so and we will have a look.
Do know that Shorts don't show well on desktop devices, they are more geared for mobile devices.
Hey Kyle! I love watching your videos on things I've learned from you 10 years ago. Now that I'm getting back into WA, it's like, refreshing validation that the process of embedding the video is still the same. I'm old school. I still embed via the HTML code and even type in the position of the video. LOL
Yeah, still the same. Not a new process. The ways in which we can make money online is evolving, and there are more avenues than other...all of which we are going to be helping the community here with and that we are teaching through 2025.
Being old school still works in many respects, just make sure your are keeping up with AI as well. It is a world that I feel everyone should stay on top of and we are going to have a lot of ongoing training in that space as well. ;)
OK Kyle I am blowing through this training today and I have a question about this section.
Using the HTML way to paste the article into your post I see how you can tick the box for when to start the video but is there a way (there used to be years and years ago) to...
1. stop the video before it gets to the end? Is there HTML code to manipulate the end time of the video also?
2. is there a way to eliminate all of the other youtube videos that pop up if someone pauses the video or when the video completes playing?
Is there other video training about Youtube here in WA that might teach us that?
Thanks again.
1. You still can, with a bit of code. Embed as usual, (2) make sure it works, (3) then go into the HTML editor by clicking </> at screen bottom. (4) Add the following immediately after the question mark that ends the video identifier: start=272&end=525;
And then use YOUR correct number of seconds, obviously.
2. And yes, you should be able to remove relevant videos. Copy the embed code for the video and then Add &rel=0 after the URL in the code. Then, paste the code into the HTML editor of your website and publish. You should be good to go.
If you search "Youtube" in the top search, there is lots of training. And you are going to see a Traffic section of Youtube training right within your Hub.
http://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/hubs
Let me know if you have any further questions moving forward. :)
Very good! I'll see if I can tackle it. I will definitely look up the more training. Thanks Kyle.
I just thought about something else.
You just gave me instructions how to do a task based on my numbered question to you, thank you... Can I or could I use this same type of formate for any technical question and enter it into ChatGPT? Will it understand such a question or other techie questions and give me other detailed steps to accomplish other techie things I ask of it?
Awesome work.Very simple. I have a concern about those things:
1.At this stage, should we open a video channel for ourselves to use it or not ?
2.If we want to add a video ( Which is not ours,like the one related to mark Cuban). When we uploaded in our channel, does there is any rules or stuff restrict that?
3.What is the suitable time to embed a video in a content? Maybe after 20 blog post? And what about the time for starting new channel video business related ? Does WA provide this training.
Thank you very much
Happy to help you out here Karima:
1.At this stage, should we open a video channel for ourselves to use it or not ?
Sure, you absolutely can. If you think you can dedicate some time to creating video, then you may want to start a Youtube Channel.
2.If we want to add a video ( Which is not ours,like the one related to mark
Cuban). When we uploaded in our channel, does there is any rules or stuff restrict that?
You cannot add copyrighted information, and pretend that it is yours. But you can curate content, and discuss particular ideas, referencing other videos. That is fair use.
3.What is the suitable time to embed a video in a content? Maybe after 20 blog post?
Add a video where it makes sense to do so, and adds value to your audience.
Don't add just for the sake of adding, you want to consider that if the Youtube video is not yours, it could lead to traffic leak (if someone clicks on the video to go to source (Youtube). So it can serve as a distraction, but in some cases can lead to more value when it helps explaining something within your content with more detail.
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Are there any repercussions should you choose to leverage someone else's YouTube content? I.e. Claiming ownership of the content that it relates to or something of that regard. Just need to make sure despite it not being physically added to the website, if it would still be of concern using someone else's content
Thanks!
It is part of YouTube's terms and conditions that you can embed their content on your website. The concern is you send some one out of yor site that brings no benefit to you
As long as you see a share button under the you tube video it is fine to embed it in to your website
People want you to embed their content on your website, they get more views/traffic, and this can also help boost their rankings within Youtube. Not only that, it can lead to traffic to Youtube itself, and the actual video/description where they may be generating revenue promotion products/services.
There are benefits for you as you get to share value, and there are benefits to Youtube and the content creator as it drives revenue and exposure to them.