
Embed videos that won’t be indexed by Google or viewable by the public.
You might want to create a video and put it on your website, but you don’t want the rest of the world to find it via search engines or YouTube.
You may have a blog, and you want to give a few people access to a video that no one else will be able to watch.
Here’s a protected video embedding solution:
- Upload your video to Viddler.com
- Click Edit Sharing Options

- Give the video privacy setting “Just You.” This prevents anyone else from seeing your video.
- Click Enable next to Secret URL

- Copy the Secret URL code
- Click Embed This

- Choose your player type and size options

- Copy and paste the embed code from your video into your blog
Here’s the vital part:
- Find the “secreturl” part of your Secret URL code from Step 5.
http://www.viddler.com/explore/your-username/videos/1/?secreturl=123456789 - Edit your Embed This code from Step 8
- You’re going to be adding “
0/yoursecretcode” to the end of two parts of the embed code. The added parts are shown in bold below. This allows your private video to be embedded publicly. Be sure to update the code for both the movie PARAM and the EMBED. <object classid="clsid: D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="437" height="370" id="viddler_aaa2e747"><param name="movie" value="http://www.viddler.com/player/aaa1a232/0/123456789" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed src="http://www.viddler.com/player/aaa1a232/0/123456789" width="437" height="370" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" name="viddler_aaa2e747" ></embed></object>
- You’re going to be adding “
- That should be it! Save your post and you’re done.
Thanks goes to Colin Devroe from the Viddler.com staff for presenting his solution. I wanted to share this with the world, because it’s hard to find a protected video solution that works well. They say it doesn’t work anymore, but I have tried it, and it does. Hush, hush!
What’s your solution for private, embedded vidoes?
I wanted to use Vimeo or YouTube, but their solutions didn’t really work for me. Do you use or know of any other, better options?
