opinion needed: where to place a video

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so i have a short 2 minute video that i want to place on my website
i feel as thought it is important for the home page
but alas no good place for it on the front page
what are acceptable solutions to users a light box pop up?
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  • Profile picture of the author scrofford
    You could create a "Videos" page with a tab to click on and place your videos there. I did that with a blog I had and it worked out fine.
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  • Profile picture of the author spearce000
    You could create a YouTube account and link to it from your home page.
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  • Profile picture of the author Patrick
    If you are using Wordpress, then sidebar should be a good place.
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  • Profile picture of the author designtech44
    yes I've used the youtube linkage and that seems to have a good effect
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  • Profile picture of the author tfos4941
    Place a link on your homepage and maybe a thumbnail of the video which links to a video page would probably work. Thats what i would do.
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  • Profile picture of the author zudierh
    if i got my own website, i 'll try to put it on the 'catchy area'. eg after a main headlines.

    I see all the success IM using this technique just to catch a visitor. Usually all the visitor maybe like me most likely to click a video rather than read a whole salespage.

    Just my own opinion.

    Thanks.

    Zudie
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  • Profile picture of the author Giani
    I think sidebar is a good place for video
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  • Profile picture of the author AnitaCross
    Originally Posted by theturd View Post

    so i have a short 2 minute video that i want to place on my website
    i feel as thought it is important for the home page
    but alas no good place for it on the front page
    what are acceptable solutions to users a light box pop up?
    I created a short video for a physical product I sell. I uploaded the video to Youtube, and then I embedded it on my site. I put a link in my left sidebar, and when someone clicks on the link, it opens up in a lightbox. This has the added benefit, for my site, of having the video accessible from most pages.

    If you'd like to look at it, the site is www.SimplySilkTM.com.

    I used a free script. If you're interested, I'd be happy to dig up the link and either put it up here, or PM it to you.

    -Anita
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  • Profile picture of the author ButterflyGarden
    I agree that you should create a video section that you can expand it. In addition you should consider distributing the video to video sites using TubeMogul
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  • Profile picture of the author julesw
    Slight sidenote but

    This is quite a fun quiz which surveys how well Videos do eg autoplay or not etc

    Video Marketing Quiz 2010

    (I am not connected to this company!)
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  • Profile picture of the author theturd
    yeah see my thing is i feel it is vital for new potential clients to see so i will definitely make a videos page, but at the same time I kinda of want to make sure everyone sees it if that makes sense because i feel it is vital to the sell .... if you look at my front page not really a good place for it .... I could have a slide made that stated something that would take them to the video page maybe? like "to see my video on why i think you need this click here" ??? lol
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  • Profile picture of the author julesw
    I heard a webinar from a top chap at google who deals with you tube video and search

    this stuck in my mind if search is important to you

    use just one video per page
    dont use a multi-player with lots of video inside it, one video, one player
    create a video sitemap

    I imagine a pop up player isn't search friendly but could be wrong.
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