How to Link a Video to Your Website
If you want to make your website more entertaining for visitors, you should consider linking videos on pages of your site. Videos from sites like YouTube and Facebook will help to keep your visitors coming back and cause them to spend more time on your site. Embedding videos from popular video sharing sites is relatively simple and involves little more than copying and pasting some HTML code into your Web page.
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Instructions
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Browse to the Web page that contains the video file you want to link to or embed on your website.
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Click the "Embed" or "Link to" link on the video Web page. If the site does not automatically copy the HTML code in the link box to the Windows clipboard, highlight all of the text, and then press the "Ctrl" and "C" keys at the same time.
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Open Windows Notepad or another HTML or text editor program, then browse to the HTML file on your computer in which you want to insert the video link code. Open the file in the editor.
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Scroll to the position in the HTML code where you want the video or link to display. Press the "Ctrl" and "V" keys at the same time to paste the code into the document. Save the file in the editor and close the program.
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Browse to the control panel application for your website, then open the "File Manager" or other similar application. Upload the HTML file to your website.
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Browse to the Web page file you uploaded. When you open the Web page, you should be able to play the video if you chose an embedding option or a link to the video if you chose not to display the actual video on your site.
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