How to embed Youtube videos in your Blogger or other blog

There is a little trick to being able to embed a youtube video in your blogger or other blog.

Let's start with the idea that videos can be a great asset to many different types of blogs. They can add some really rich content.

The trick is to get the video embedded in Blogger.

Here is a little step by step guide

1. Start a new post in Blogger.
2. Find a video you want to include in your blog. Often you will find a video posted on another blog. Start playing the video.
3. Look at the bottom right of the youtube player. There should be a little gizmo you can click. When you click it, you will see 3 choices stacked on top of each other. Choose the bottom icon.
4. What you should see next is a choice of embed or link. You can copy the code from the embed area. Note that some Youtube publishers disable the ability to embed
5. ALTERNATE - as an alternative, you can usually double click an embedded youtube video which should pop up a new window with the Youtube page for that video. You will see the code for embedding near the top right of the Youtube page
6. Once you have the code, you can paste it into your Blog post. The trick is that you have to go into the EDIT HTML mode. Look at your compose page in blogger. You should see two tabs at the top right of where you enter the body of your post. They should be labelled EDIT HTML and COMPOSE. Normally, you work in the COMPOSE mode because you can format your text and add pictures more easily.
7. In this case, when we are in COMPOSE mode, we want to postion the cursor where we want the video to appear. It helps to have a blank line or two before and after that point.
8. Now, click the EDIT HTML tab. Your cursor should be in the correct position. Then choose and EDIT PASTE and hit RETURN. You will see about 10 lines of HTML code. That is the code to embed the video.
9. Now, you can go back to COMPOSE and finish your post. When you are done publish the post.
10. View your post to see if things went right or not.

There you have it. It should work for you. Once in a while, you will not get the entire embed code when you copy it. The code should end up being over 8 lines or so when you paste it.

enjoy!!!