How do I embed Google Video on a Blog Entry or Web Page?

I've been blogging for a while now and am having a good time, but I'm now a bit puzzled about how to expand into the next wave of content: video. Specifically, I bump into funny or informative videos on Google Video but have no idea whether I can embed it on my own page and if I can, how to do that. Can you offer some pointers?

Dave's Answer:

By coincidence, I faced the same dilemma just a few days ago myself. A video of one of my blogging talks, at the Affiliate Summit, was uploaded to Google Video and I really wanted to include on my own weblog, but since I hadn't spent any time with Google Video prior, had no idea how to proceed. Fortunately, Google did its usual good job of making it pretty clear.

Let me step you through how I add the video itself to this very Web page and I think you'll see how you can do the same on your own blog entry or Web page.

First off, I searched for my name to find the video, which comes up as video.google.com/videoplay?docid= followed by some long, incomprehensible numeric value. Okay, I can click on that and get to the page that includes the actual video.

On that page, to the right, is where people can rate the video, add tags, and, most importantly, obtain the code to include the video on their own page:

Notice the button in the middle labeled "Email - Blog - Post to MySpace". Click on it and a small additional set of options appears:

Google Video: Navbar: Include Video in Blog Entry or Web Page

The link you want - unless you have Blogger, MySpace or similar -- is "Embed HTML", which opens up yet another little box:

Google Video: Navbar: Embed HTML in Blog Entry or Web Page

The material in the little text box is what you need to copy. It looks like this when pulled out:

and when we actually make it active HTML code, here's what happens:

That's all there is to it. Hope that helps you get rolling!

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Categorized: Blogs and Blogging , HTML, JavaScript and Web Site Programming (Article 6753, Written by Dave Taylor)
Tagged: google video, myspace, video blogging, vlogging, youtube
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Reader Comments To Date: 20

Jeffrey Wolfe said, on September 25, 2006 4:18 PM:

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stephen said, on October 19, 2006 11:04 AM:

Your post is the exact answer I am looking for. Been looking thru google video page for the last 2 days and can't figure out how to add the video to my site. Thanks alot!

prole said, on November 3, 2006 4:23 AM:

thanks for the info, it's useful

chris said, on November 24, 2006 11:57 AM:

how do you set the volume control if you embed a movie into your site it starts at 100 right now i want it at 50?

matt said, on February 16, 2007 4:18 PM:

i did this, but the video won't load on my Blogger blog, it's just a black screen instead.

Zoky said, on February 26, 2007 12:46 PM:

Is there any option to show ful screen video just like on google video page?

Justin :D said, on March 21, 2007 4:50 PM:

Thanks for this, it helped me out.
Google can be a bit clearer in showing where to find that code.

27amDotCom said, on May 11, 2007 11:20 PM:

Do you know of a way to autoplay the video?? Thank you.

pete said, on July 13, 2007 10:15 AM:

It all made lots of sense, but - when I tried it on a network54 forum, it either (I tried it several times) came out as a 'blank' box with the url of the google site next to it, or a blank box on its own. Is it something I'm doing wrong or is it something to do with network54?

I wasn't inserting it into the page itself, but into a message on the page. Any help would be appreciated :)

Alastair said, on July 24, 2007 6:21 PM:

Is there a way to avoid the "click to use this control" in IE6/IE7? I have searched the net and have found a few examples, but none of them seen to work with the Google embed tags?

Cheers,

Alastair
http://www.txtlocal.com

John Equinox said, on September 11, 2007 4:40 PM:

i did exactly what you said. the video comes up but when i hit play it starts buffering and never plays. if i hit play again it turns black? someone please help!!!!

Justin said, on September 17, 2007 8:03 AM:

First of all I could not find the to post on myspace, blogger etc on the video which I wanted to embed. It only allows to send by email. Anyway I used the coding from this page whith the id of video I wanted and it still did not work. Just a blank page. Any idea what can be the reason and how to correct it?

Thanks.

lalit nagrath said, on December 15, 2007 1:28 AM:

hi dave

how can i stop autoplay by some vdos

what code i need to add in this Embedded code
Reply ASAp

Nedra said, on December 18, 2007 3:40 PM:

Hello Dave!
Oh gosh, this is driving me crazy . . . I'm building a makeup/beauty website, and now I want to include videos on certain pages. Well, I have this one video that autostarts when the page is uploaded, and I desparately want to stop it. I want visitors to click on a start icon if they wish to view the video. Any advice? Also, is there a way to get rid of those ads as well.
Here's a link to the page:

http://www.ethnic-beauty-central.com/apply-foundation-videos.html

How can this be solved?????

Nedra

Beto said, on January 8, 2008 8:28 AM:

Hello Dave: Thank you very much for this information - it was exactly what I was looking for!
Beto

Vera P. said, on January 18, 2008 12:51 PM:

didnt work for me :(

diana said, on May 2, 2008 10:33 AM:

I did the same exact thing, its showing up but its not playing?

http://www.gracerestaurant.com/index.php/grace/reviews_video/

Autumn said, on August 15, 2008 12:13 PM:

Dave, thanks for your helps. I am excited to actually watch the full hour from that conference link you shared. Problem #1. I have NO sidebar on my right when viewing google videos!!! Ah. This is so frustrating. I have embeded 30 videos on my blog from different sites and can recognize the code but simply do not see one on google video? Also, is it possible to have a google channel? Thanks!

Margarita said, on January 10, 2009 10:23 AM:

Thanks so much for putting this up! I was panicking a few minutes ago! :)

gail said, on February 8, 2009 9:51 PM:

Thank you for this helpful article...I searched for days to learn how to upload a video for a friends site 3WarVeteran.com . Thanks to you it is now up and running!

I do have a lot to say, and questions of my own for that matter, but first I'd like to say thank you, Dave, for all your helpful information by buying you a cup of coffee!

I do have a comment, now that you mention it!

How do I embed Google Video on a Blog Entry or Web Page?

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