Getting youtube videos to fit on your blog now that the minimum width of Videos on Youtube is 640 pixels needs to be done since they just didn’t fit into my blog right. My post column width is 555 pixels and changing it to 640 just would not look right to me. I wanted this link building video to fit. When working on video seo everything needs to look good and work.
Chopping off the width pixels then changing the height pixels so the video looks correct takes a little math.
Shooting for 550 pixel width I divided 640 into 550 and got .859375 then took multiplied the height by .859 and got 330.715 so I changed the pixels in the embed code from YouTube to 550 x 330 witch works just fine.
NOTE: there are 2 places in the embed code where the size of the video is stated, you must change both. I also unclick the show related videos checkbox when I grab the videos, I think it looks better on my blog that way.
so to review for the pop quiz that will happen when you try this and it pops up right when you save the page that is 640/550=.859*385=330
or original width divided by width I want to get percentage of difference then multiply that result times the original height to get the height it needs to be to keep the same proportions as the original.
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