How to embed Facebook Videos

During our webinar last night, I spoke of embedding Facebook videos.  Most people know that you can embed YouTube videos on your website or in your blog.   The embed option is very apparent, but the Facebook embed is not.  This is the embed option on YouTube.

As you can see it is pretty straightforward.    You can take this code and paste it directly in any html setting.

There is no such embed prompt for Facebook, but the process is still pretty easy.  Every item on Facebook has its own custom url.  Upload the video or find a video that you would like to use.  Scroll to the very end of the url in the web address bar.  There will be a number at the end of the address that looks like this. Only the highlighted numbers in the picture matter.

Copy these numbers and place them into the code in place of the red text.  Be sure not to delete the quotation marks!

<object width=”400″ height=”224″ >
<param name=”allowfullscreen” value=”true” />
<param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always” />
<param name=”movie” value=”http://www.facebook.com/v/place numbers here” />
<embed src=”http://www.facebook.com/v/place numbers here” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash”
allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”400″ height=”224″>
</embed>
</object>

You can change the size of the video by changing the height and width in both areas.  Copy the new code and place it into your website or blog.  Here is the result.

The great thing about embedding the Facebook video is the opportunity to tie it in with your Facebook page.  The Facebook logo in the upper left hand corner is actually a link back to the Facebook page which hosts the video.  Once they go back to the Facebook page they see a prompt to like the page.  This will help drive traffic to your page.  Be sure to visit us on Facebook at http://facebook.com/socialmediadentist.

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