First an explanation of why to use an outside service and which one. Google is the world’s largest search engine. Google owns YouTube. That makes YouTube the world’s largest search engine for videos. That means you should put your video on YouTube so that it can be found easier. You will get credit from YouTube and move up in their search ranks each time someone views your video on your own website.

Here are the steps on How to put a video on your website:

1. Login to your account on www.youtube.com
2. Upload your video
3. When viewing your video on youtube, on the right hand side, copy the embeded code. You can first click on the small gear icon next to it to change some of the formatting such as size, colors, etc
4. In your wordpress (or website editor of your choice) post, click on the HTML tab and paste the embeded code there.
5. When you switch back to the vidual tab in wordpress it will just show a box with an f (for flash) in the middle. This is correct.
6. Click preview or publish to see the results

Additional Tip: If you want the video to play automatically rather than having someone click on it to view it, then add this syntax at the end of your hyperlink: &autoplay=1

To shut off the autoplay use a zer0 or this code: &autoplay=0

Hopefully that helps you learn how to put a video on your website or blog.  Feel free to contact me via comments here if you have any questions.