{"id":432,"date":"2008-02-02T07:09:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T11:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccordwebdesign.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2008-02-02T07:09:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T11:09:41","slug":"why-you-should-add-video-to-your-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2008\/02\/02\/why-you-should-add-video-to-your-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Add Video to Your Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Universal Search being delivered web wide, you really should consider as part of your marketing plan to add video to your website in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>I like video for clients as when the video is loaded onto Google Video as well as shown on the site, the video can\u00a0actually appear as a link above the organic search results showing text listings.<\/p>\n<p>My tip is to create video for your own website use, but also make a copy for Google Video and YouTube at the same time and then load all of them. 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