
Videos are a powerful and engaging way to communicate with others online. That’s why it should be So it’s no surprise that having videos on your website can be a crucial part your marketing strategy when it comes to building credibility for your company brand as well as your products or services.
Embed a Video
Perhaps one of the easiest ways to display video on a website would be to “embed” it within your web page. Why?
Advantages of Embedding a Video within your website.
- Ease of implementation. Doesn’t require having web coding skills…literally requires just copy and pasting of code or video URL if using a plugin.
- Improves performance and Saves money. Avoids using up bandwidth and file storage on your hosting provider’s server thus avoiding issues with slow/laggy video streaming and saving you money by not having to pay for a hosting plan with more resources.
- Search engine marketing. When using a popular video platform such as YouTube, videos can potentially reach many thousands or millions of people, driving more visitors to your website.
How to Embed a Video within your website.
- Go to YouTube and sign up to create a channel.
- Upload your video. YouTube accepts a variety of video formats including 3GPP, AVI, FLV, MOV, MP4, MPEGPS, WebM and WMV, however, YouTube recommends uploading your video in MP4 format.
- Once your video is uploaded to YouTube, make sure that you click “Publish” to finish uploading a public video to YouTube.
- Go to the youtube page where your video is displayed and find the “Share”.
- Click on “Share” and then click on “Embed”.
- Copy the embed code and paste into the section of your web page where you would like the video to be displayed.
- Save and publish your web page.
WordPress Website Video Embed Plugins
YouTube Embed Plugin by EmbedPlus Team
Feature packed embed plugin for YouTube and best of all, it’s FREE.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/youtube-embed-plus/
Video Embed & Thumbnail Generator
This is a great video embed plugin with many useful features and best of all, it’s FREE.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/