Adding video to your blog is a geat way to engage your audience and create some buzz. The best way to do this is to “host” all of your video on YouTube, where you can also benefit from the traffic you can generate from the huge community there.

The first thing of course is to have a YouTube account, and then some video to post there. Assuming that you already have that base covered, actually adding the video to your blog is simplicity in itself.

Here are the steps:

1. Open a Page or Post on your blog where you would like to present your video
2. In a separate browser window or tab, go to the YouTube video page for the video you would like to present
3. In the right-hand column, next to the video, there is a grey box with the account name and description, and at the bottom of the box are two fields named “URL” and “embed.” Click into the embed field to highlight all the code there. Copy that code into memory and return to your other open window with the blog post open.
4. Now, at the top of the editing window for the Page/Post, there are two tabs—Visual and HTML. You want to click the HTML tab to enter the code for your video.
5. Scroll down to the place on the page where you want the video to appear… Somewhere before or after an appropriate paragraph. When you find the right location, simply hit RETURN to create a new line, and then PASTE the code you collected from YouTube into that empty line.
6. That’s it! Switch back to the Visual tab of your editing window, scroll to the place on the page where you added the code, and you should see a blank yellow box representing the video. You can click next to it and use the Center tool if you want it centered on the page. But otherwise, you’re done.

Here’s an example of a video on a post…