Point And View Videos In Blogs, Comments, And Forums With VideoSurf’s Video Link Enhancer Sep 29, 20096:59 PDT

Turn video links in your posts and comments into playable in-line videos, right in your blog!

The VideoSurf Video Link Enhancer creates an in-page player from your links to embeddable videos.

VideoSurf is proud to introduce a way to play videos from anywhere in your page, including comments and forum posts, without the need for a bulky embedded player or a link that takes your readers off your page. Our new Video Link Enhancer takes links to millions of videos and creates a video player right over your page for embeddable videos from hundreds of sites, including YouTube, Hulu, Metacafe, Blip.tv and many more. To see it in action, simply hover your mouse pointer over the links in this article (if viewing in a feed reader, click here to go to this article on VideoSurf.com).

Adding video to your blog, forums, or web site is as easy as posting a link.

When your page links to an embeddable video from sites like Hulu or YouTube, the Inline Video Viewer finds that link and automatically makes it into a video player right on your page. When your readers and forum members move their cursor over the link, a player appears on your page, letting them instantly watch the video you linked to, without having to click away from your site or what they were reading. Your readers will get more context and spend more time on your site, and you will be able to add multiple videos without the need for crowding the page with multiple embeds or forcing users to click away.

For example, say you wanted to write a story about Kanye West. Not only could you write about his recent incident interrupting Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards, but you could also mention his fight with photographers at the LAX airport, his famous comments about George Bush, and the parody of West on Saturday Night Live.

Highly Customizable Behaviour

Developers can exert fine-grained control as to which links on the page are transformed. For more on customizing the way video links on your page are enhanced, please see our Video Link Enhancer documentation.

Simple to install

We built VideoSurf Video Link Enhancer based our belief that whenever a video is mentioned on a site, the optimal experience is one that allows the user to watch the video referenced without ever having to leave the page.

Setting up VideoSurf’s Video Link Enhancer is super easy. Simply copy the following line and paste it into the code of your site’s template, on any page where you would like the Video Link Enhancer to run. It’s best to add it to the bottom of the code, just before </body>.

<script src=”http://www.videosurf.com/js/video_link_enhancer”></script>

WordPress users can install the Video Link Enhancer as an add-on from the WordPress plug-in page.

That’s all there is to it. With our one line installation, giving your readers inline video instead of video links is just a copy and paste away!