No More Video Embeds!
Don’t embed YouTube videos (or any other multimedia) into blog posts.
- Instead, take a screen shot of an engaging frame of the video.
- Link to the site that hosts it.
- Ask your readers to watch it at YouTube (or SlideShare or whatever.)
Here’s why I quit embedding: many of my RSS subscribers request email updates instead of online feedreader updates.
Video embeds are slow to download on most email servers. (They slow down the blog, too!)
Try linking out instead of embedding in. This approach is kinder to your customers. It’s “pull” instead of “push”.
And “not embedding” makes a blog load faster, too!
Here’s a seven-second example of how it might look to link instead of embed:
Click on the image (yes, it’s a steamrolled tuba), and it takes you to the 7-second video. Push to play…
Simple. Fast. No email problems. No embed issues.
What’s not to like?
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