
If you want to include any video on your website, we recommend uploading via YouTube channel, then embedding on your website.
Uploading website videos to YouTube can have many benefits, including:
- Improved search engine ranking: Google automatically indexes videos on YouTube, which can help your website rank higher in search results.
- Easy to embed: You can easily embed YouTube videos on your own website.
- Track performance: YouTube provides tools to analyze your viewers and the performance of your videos.
- Easy to share: Videos on YouTube are easy to share on social media.
- Increased visibility: YouTube’s search engine and related videos can help your videos reach more people.
- Improved brand awareness: YouTube’s large user base can help you reach more people and increase brand awareness.
- Free hosting: YouTube hosts your videos for free, so you don’t need to worry about bandwidth.
- Respond to feedback: You can respond to comments and feedback on your videos.
- Unlimited video bandwidth: YouTube can handle heavy traffic and sudden spikes in demand.
Here we walk you through how to add a video to your website using YouTube.
Log in to YouTube, or create a new YouTube account if you don’t already have one. For businesses, it’s KEY that you create a business YouTube channel, rather than using a personal YouTube account.
- Click the “Upload a video” icon.
- Select options and choose the video file to upload from your computer.
- Enter video information. Be thorough, YouTube uses this info to help Google index your video.
- Publish the video. It can take a few minutes or a few hours for the video to become live on YouTube, depending on the quality and size of the video upload.
- Let us know when the video is published! As soon as YouTube notifies you the video is live, let us know, so we can add the video to your website.
Other things to consider:
- Closed captioning should be made available on the video for viewers that are hearing impaired (accessibility is important!)
- A “thumbnail” placeholder image should be created for use on devices that won’t autoplay or won’t display video (for example, older phones, or limited bandwidth connections).
- Unless the video is very short and purely design-oriented, we do not recommend autopay.
If you have any issues, please let us know. We’re here to help.
Tutorial created 2025-01-21
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