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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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Tagged: google video, myspace, video blogging, vlogging, youtube
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Posted by: Jeffrey Wolfe at September 25, 2006 4:18 PM

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!

Posted by: stephen at October 19, 2006 11:04 AM

thanks for the info, it's useful

Posted by: prole at November 3, 2006 4:23 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?

Posted by: chris at November 24, 2006 11:57 AM

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

Posted by: matt at February 16, 2007 4:18 PM

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

Posted by: Zoky at February 26, 2007 12:46 PM

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

Posted by: Justin :D at March 21, 2007 4:50 PM

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

Posted by: 27amDotCom at May 11, 2007 11:20 PM

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 :)

Posted by: pete at July 13, 2007 10:15 AM

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

Posted by: Alastair at July 24, 2007 6:21 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!!!!

Posted by: John Equinox at September 11, 2007 4:40 PM

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.

Posted by: Justin at September 17, 2007 8:03 AM

hi dave

how can i stop autoplay by some vdos

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

Posted by: lalit nagrath at December 15, 2007 1:28 AM

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

Posted by: Nedra at December 18, 2007 3:40 PM

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

Posted by: Beto at January 8, 2008 8:28 AM

didnt work for me :(

Posted by: Vera P. at January 18, 2008 12:51 PM

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

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

Posted by: diana at May 2, 2008 10:33 AM

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!

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