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Use Youtube to Host Your Videos and Embed Them on Your WebStarts Website

Youtube is a free video hosting service that almost everyone uses and loves. What you may not know is that you can host all of your videos with Youtube and embed them directly into your free website. There are many good reasons to host your videos on Youtube_

1. Since your videos are not hosted with your website, you are not using up your storage space. Whether you have the free account or the pro plus account, you still have a limited amount of storage available. Hosting your videos on Youtube and embedding them will save a lot of space.

2. Youtube is a social network. On youtube.com, users can search for your videos, comment on them, rate them, like them, etcetera... Why not have the video hosted on Youtube where people can interact with you? You can still embed the video on your website and it will appear just as if it were hosted in your WebStarts account.

3. Youtube can increase traffic and search engine ranking. If you place a link to your website in the description of your video, people who find your video can navigate directly to your website. Also, placing a hyperlink in your description creates a backlink to your website that the search engines will like.

These are just a few advantages to hosting your videos on Youtube. To get started, build a free website with WebStarts, then use the following instructions_

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