When you grab the embed code for your video, you know you click “share” first under the video, then “embed”, then “show more” and then remove the checkmark on the box show suggested videos.
Or if you already have the code in place on your site simply add ?rel=0 (that’s a zero for show none) at the end of your YouTube video link.
Super simple and fast! Here’s my own updated testing video so you can check it out.
Here are a few web video tips you may find helpful as you consider if you are ready to expand your video postings on your website.
Google loves it when a site uses YouTube for videos, but customers hate putting web videos on YouTube due to the ad overlays.
I recently ran into an issue where we were putting a video on the home page of a website in a key position that is the very first thing any visitor will see. Once loaded to YouTube and embedded in the website my first reaction was URGH look at those ads mid-stream and at the end of the video that stay up obscuring my clients work.
There are two things that you can do to prevent ads on your videos. 1.) Turn off monetization in your YouTube account so ads do not appear on your videos. 2.) Use a free service like the Basic Vimeo account.
You can watch these videos for nice instructions on how to turn off ads in YouTube. It is a 2 step process. First turn off ads and then go into the info/settings of each video travel to the monetize section and turn off for each video. This video shows you how to turn off the pre-video ad in your channel settings. This is a nice video that explains the second process. What is important to know is that you are in control of the monetization of your own videos. But by default, it looks like if you don’t manually turn monetization off, Google will slap ads all over the start, middle and end of your video.
Alternatively you can use Vimeo. I like the interface and like that you can customize the player. The downside is that Google loves it’s owner properties. I see YouTube videos in the search results all the time, but would be hard pressed to say that I regularly see Vimeo videos in the search results.
The choice is yours which service you’ll use, but for now, I am actually using both.
Here’s one video my client and I are working on that is now ad-free!
Come back Wednesday 1/18 to learn how to turn off the suggested videos at the end when you embed a video.
Copyright infringement, what can you do? Have you found your website content on another website? Found others using your trademark name? Found a website that has snatched your own personal images?
How to resolve copyright infringement
It is smart to look for your copyrighted content on other websites and take action.
There are several things you can do to get the offending site owner’s notice and protect your own copyrighted content.
The first step is to send a notice with a formal takedown request. Give the website owner 10 days to take action or respond. Make sure you keep copies of your email or written correspondence.
Be specific in your request, but reasonable. Ten days to remove content or images is about the norm.
At the end of your time period review if the copyright infringement has been resolved. If not, now it’s time to contact the webhost.
Go first to Who Is Hosting This, and do a search on the site’s domain name. Then contact the web host and ask that the site that is infringing on your copyright be taken down. Make sure to mention the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and ask for a DMCA site takedown.
The host will typically take immediate action and take down the entire website, contact the site owner, and demand the offending content be removed before the host will relaunch the website.
You’d better believe that this gets quick action from the website owner who may have initially disregarded your removal notice. Don’t just take copyright infringement, protect your own intellectual property.
AdWords is updating the AdWords call extension, and it is worth taking a quick look in your AdWords account to assure that all is as it should be.
AdWords sent out a notice this past week that it would pick up the phone number from the Google My Business account for the AdWords call extension instead of the phone number that you may have listed in your AdWords account, but only if you are using location extensions. If you are not using location extensions, this is not an issue for you.
Check Your Numbers
Here’s what you should do to assure that you have the phone number you want to show properly update in the AdWord call extension.
Check first your AdWords call extension phone number.
Then click the synched link for your location extension. This will take you to a data page that will show the address and phone number on record for you with Google My Business. Check to make sure you like what you see.
If you don’t make sure to login to your Google My Business account and update the phone number to your desired number.
Google clearly wants the Google My Business page to be the primary place you would do address, phone and service updates.
If you need help with AdWords, I invite you to visit our website and check out our AdWords services and pricing today.
