Reply To: Creating a Blog Post with PT Filming Today- Best Way to Add Videos to Blog Post

[Erica]

I would do whatever you think would provide the best user experience.

If you think a series of images would be most helpful, do that. If you think a quick video of each exercise would be best, do that. If you think a gif of the motion would be most helpful, do that!

If you’re going to use videos, just make sure you’re hosting them elsewhere, like on YouTube for example, and just embed the videos in the post (don’t upload them to your site.)

Also double check and make sure you have the WP Rocket setting turned on that shows the image thumbnail as a placeholder for the video until someone tries to watch it cause that will help w. site speed.

Note that these videos inside the blog post won’t rank in Google video search, since they recently decided to de-index all videos that aren’t the “main content on the page”, but they could still be good for the user experience and increase user engagement signals on the page.