How To Add NACHI.TV Shows to Your Website

[Dominic Maricic]

Here's how to add NACHI.TV videos to your website. Some of the videos NACHI offers have great content and help keep visitors interest. Also from an SEO standpoint, create a new page for each video and put a description of the video below it containing some of your keywords.

For an example, to embed episode 35, the Well Testing video, use the following code (Scott Gilligan just asked me how to do this which prompted this tutorial with Nick's permission).

Make sure you click on the SOURCE button of the page you're editing and copy the following text. Change the 35 the episode you want (i.e. 8,24, and 36 are great :mrgreen: )

Code:

<center><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.nachi.tv/episode35.js"></script>
<br>View more episodes at <a href="http://www.nachi.tv">NACHI.TV</a>
<noscript>To view this <a href="http://www.nachi.tv">NACHI.TV</a> video you must have JavaScript enabled.</noscript></center>

Viola!

[Ian Niquette]

I think I sleep less than you, but I can't keep up with all this. thanbks, great idea.

[Dominic Maricic]

No problem

[Joel E. Smith]

Dominic,

If I wanted to change the video screen size for a NACHI video, say to 400 x 326 pix, what would be the code and where would it go in your example? When I inserted one of those videos on my site it overlaps my navigation menu too much.

Joel

[Dominic Maricic]

Check out http://www.marylandenergyauditor.com/home-energy-audit-nachi-tv . I edited the .js file to change the size. The problem is it crams the buttons in a bit. What do you think?

[Joel E. Smith]

Just right, thanks. I don't know what the .js file is, but is it something I can adjust if I want to add other videos (keeping in mind I don't know html)?

[Dominic Maricic]

Yes it's a single file that you just save and load from your site rather than the NACHI site. You just need to edit one line in the file that has the size. I need to enable your ability to upload .js files though.

[Joel E. Smith]

Let me know when you enable uploading .js files, since there are a couple of other videos I'd like to install. I assume that by right clicking and "save link as" on the selected file I can save it then upload.

But how do I alter the file code other than after loading the file as an image from page edit mode, and clicking on Source. However, in the code of the file you modified on my site I don't see any code related to the screen size (but I'd probably not know it if it was there).

Is there something else involved?

[Dominic Maricic]

Notice the source code for your video is now:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.marylandenergyauditor.com/sites/marylandenergyauditor.com/files/userfiles/episode35.js"></script>

. In particular note that the episode35.js file is now saved on YOUR computer , not NACHI's. The original file was:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.nachi.tv/episode35.js"></script>

What I did was type in http://www.nachi.tv/episode35.js into my internet browser and clicked file save to save the file (your browser might ask you automatically).

Open the file in notepad (Start->Programs->Accessories->Notepad.

Look at the last file:
swfobject.embedSWF(base + "player.swf", "player", "520", "480", "8", "expressInstall.swf", flashvars, params, attributes);

The 520x480 is the size. I adjust them here to 450x415 so it's still in the correct ratio. Saved the file. Then upload it to your site by clicking on My Account and Files and upload it. Then you can point directly to it. The main location for your file would be the same as above but you'd change the file name.

Let me know if this makes sense and if anyone else needs help.

[Scott W]

http://www.sehomeinspection.com/septic-tank-questions.html

This is episode 60 and it wont play properly on my site.

[John Adrian Sopher]

Hey Dom, I'm trying this out and having a little problem.  I created a menu item for the video's then created a page for the video I wanted but when I click on the menu it says page not found. 

I want to create a sub list under the Video menu item that takes people to a page for that video. 

What did I do wrong?

[Dominic Maricic]

http://www.sehomeinspection.com/septic-tank-questions.html

This is episode 60 and it wont play properly on my site.

Scott,

Looks like Chris has the javascript files setup improperly for 58-60. You can email him and let him know the following is not pointing correctly:

var flashvars = {
   File: "http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/nachi/na",
   Thumb: "http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/nachi/nachitv.jpg",
   ScrubMode: "normal",
   AutoSize: "off",
   AutoPlay: "off"
};


John,

Looks like you added a menu link but no content page. Setup the content page first.

[Davin Strand]

Great tip Dom,

This worked great. You did forget about video 55 though.

[Dominic Maricic]

Yup, definitely embed that one!

[Davin Strand]

Dominic,

What a great system you have. I took your tip above with NACHI videos and did it with a youtube video I had up. The ability to take a video on my camera upload it to youtube then put it on my website the same day to help inform the potential client and make my site stand out above others is awsome!!!

Thank You

[Dominic Maricic]

No problem Davin. Glad to help! It'll be great to see your sites in a few months once they get out of the Google sandbox and really start getting a rank boosting.

[Davin Strand]

Yea, it has been kind of funny watching each site on google. They will both be working there way and then one will just vanish and I can't find it. It always comes back about 3 to 4 days later higher than when it left. The home inspection web site just disappeared last night and it was at the top of page 3, if the pattern stays the same It should come back in a few days hopefully on page 2??

[Dominic Maricic]

Happens a lot when you have young sites and Google is changing its algortihms around. You also have tens of thousands of Google servers and can rank differently on different servers.

[Bert de Haan]

More than a year ago that the last post was written on this thread so possibly things have changed.
Are the Nachi TV videos only available to members of Nachi tv?  Ie. those who pay the $8.25/month?

I tried copying the code you provided in the first post but all that shows up is "View more episodes at NACHI.TV"  No video though.
I also entered http://www.nachi.tv/episode35.js in my browser.  It brought me to the Nachi tv site but it said "Sorry, but that page was not found on this system."

[Dominic Maricic]

NACHI now changes their system so that you have to pay to view videos. Even if you pay you don't get code to insert into your site. If there's a video you really like, email Nick at fastreply@nachi.org and ask if you can get the code to insert the video to your site. He'll pass it off to Chris. Once you get the code, post it here for others to use.