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How-To: Embed a Video in Your Blog

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Services for Real Estate Pros with Yelling Mule

Video, video, video. It's the hot topic in real estate these days, and it's popularity and applications will only increase in 2009. Whether you're shooting a video tour of a property, a community video, or doing a vlog (video blog), video can help you get your message across in ways text can't.

A future post will cover all the uses for video in real estate, tips for viral video, etc, but todays post is a simple how-to for embedding videos to your blog. Whether you're posting videos on YouTube, Viddler, WellcomeMat, ZIPVO, or any other popular video site, this video tutorial will show you how to add them to your blog posts.

Here are some screenshots to show you where to find the embed code on some of the popular video sharing websites:


YouTube

WellcomeMat

Viddler

ZIPVO

This video tutorial will show you how to take that embed code and add it to your blog post:

And that's it! It only takes a minute to add video to your posts so start using video today!

Michael Neville
Keller Williams Realty Atlanta Midtown - Atlanta, GA
Intown Atlanta Realtor

thank you - I'm actually working on this on one of my upcoming listings --- this is perfect timing on great info

Feb 10, 2009 01:00 PM
Tristan Emond
Mindful Living Realty - Rapid City, SD
Rapid City Homes Sales Specialist

Thanks for more great tips.  It's great to be able to easily incorporate videos.  Not that I have done much of it yet.  It's one of those things that I want to do, but haven't done it...plans, plans...

Thanks for the information.

Feb 10, 2009 04:08 PM
Anonymous
Ian J Snead

check out http://vzaar.com they are a video site built for business. They also submit their video site map to Google so its indexed and in addition to that they allow you to insert the url of where your video will be on your site so when a searcher selects your video/listing in Google it goes to your site and not vzaar. If you are thinking of adding video to your business site then I strongly suggest vzaar. I love Youtube for my personal videos but when it comes to my business I want a clean looking player without other peoples videos being offered up at the end.

 

 

 

Feb 10, 2009 11:43 PM
#12
Lyn Sims
Schaumburg, IL
Real Estate Broker Retired

Gee, I don't know what people are smoking that videos don't fit into real estate?  Anyway, thanks for the tututorial, you made it EZ.  I tried it the other day and it didn't work and I sent a help request to AR. 

Feb 11, 2009 03:50 AM
Bruce & Sandy Soli
Sierra Sotheby's International Realty - Incline Village, NV
Tahoe Lifestyle Experts

Have you tried LiveVideo.com as well?

Feb 19, 2009 04:48 PM
Harold "Hal" Benz
Transformative Action Coaching & Consulting, LLC - Westfield, NJ
Business & Life Coach For Agents & Entrepreneurs

Thanks for the tips. This is something that I'm going to work on for future blogs.

Feb 22, 2009 12:47 PM
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Feb 23, 2009 07:26 PM
#16
Winston Westbrook
Westbrook National Real Estate Co - Victorville, CA

Good stuff James. I haven't incorporated videos onto my blogs as of yet but that seems like something that would stand me out of crowd. Thanks for the post

Mar 04, 2009 08:30 AM
Christine Donovan
Donovan Blatt Realty - Costa Mesa, CA
Broker/Attorney 714-319-9751 DRE01267479 - Costa M

This is great information. I like adding video to my posts and think it adds interest to the post.

Oct 30, 2009 03:00 PM
Momentum Realty
North Orange County CA Real Estate Specialists - Yorba Linda, CA
Orange County CA Real Estate Agent

Great post! The screen shots make it so much easier to follow! Thank you!

Oct 30, 2009 05:32 PM
Melissa Zavala
Broadpoint Properties - Escondido, CA
Broker, Escondido Real Estate, San Diego County

Thanks for the tips. I've only done this a few times, and I always get confused!

Oct 31, 2009 01:04 AM
Georgie Hunter R(S) 58089
Hawai'i Life Real Estate Brokers - Haiku, HI
Maui Real Estate sales and lifestyle info

Boy am I glad to find this post!  Thank you thank you. (scavenger hunt!)

Oct 31, 2009 12:22 PM
Lora "Leah" Stern 914-772-4528
Coldwell Banker, 170 N Main Street, New City NY 10956 - New City, NY
Real Estate Salesperson

Thanks for the helpful info.  You're my scavenger hunt entry.

Nov 01, 2009 07:03 AM
Mary Douglas
United Country Ponderosa Realty, Red Feather Lakes, Colorado - Red Feather Lakes, CO
REALTOR, Red Feather Lakes, Colorado

Hi James, I appreciate the tutorial, and have a diificult time soometimes switching back & forth from Html -- thanks for the excellent tutorial!

Nov 01, 2009 08:14 AM
Gina Chirico
Lattimer Realty - Fairfield, NJ
Real Estate Agent - Essex County, New Jersey

James, thanks for the information...off to conclude the scavenger hunt!

Nov 01, 2009 08:50 AM
Cari Anderson
Danville, CA

Thanks for the tips for video addition.  In our opinion it is very important to keep the viewer in the same page while getting the information you are trying to provide.  Better than a link for sure. ~Doug

Jan 31, 2010 06:29 AM
Barbara Jenness
Barbara B. Jenness, P.A. - St. Augustine, FL - Saint Augustine, FL
St. Augustine FL Real Estate

Thank you, thank you, thank you James! I've been spending too much time this a.m. trying to figure it out between the WSISYG and HTML tabs.

Feb 02, 2010 11:56 PM
Kim Darling
Keller Williams Westland Realty BRE# 01864461 - Fresno, CA
CRS,GRI, "Your Home Team" Fresno/Clovis Homes

Thank you!!!  I was having trouble.  I couldn't figure out how to save, duh!!!, and switch to html.   I got it now and posted my first video and blog here on Active Rain, now hopefully practice will help make it better!!!

Cheers,

Kim

May 05, 2010 02:00 PM
Michele Hanigan
Keller Williams Realty Plano, Texas - Dallas, TX
Realtor - Dallas & Plano Real Estate - (214)738-5555

What a great, simple way to add a video to my blog.  I now realize what I was doing wrong the first time I tried, but I think I've got it now.

 

Thanks for the tips!  

Jun 16, 2011 04:23 AM
Becky Brand
Shorewest Realtors - Oconomowoc, WI

Thanks for the video - it's been a while since I needed to do this but you made it easy! 

Sep 25, 2011 02:28 AM