YouTube Suggested Videos Fix for Website Embeds and Blog Posts
I got a question the other day asking about how to prevent unwanted videos from showing up as suggested videos when embedding a YouTube video on a website or blog post. Sometimes these videos are your direct competition, and other times they can be other videos that as a business owner you would not want your customers or clients to see.
Up until 2018, YouTube had a feature customizing the embed code for a YouTube video to completely eliminate video suggestions upon completion. This is no longer available, yet their is a small alteration you can make to the embed code to suggest only videos from your channel. The code is: ?rel=0
Here are the steps to edit the embed code to display suggested videos from your channel.
- Visit YouTube, and open your video that you would like to embed on your website or blog.
- Click on 'Share' and copy embed code.
- When in source mode (which is <>) on your website, paste embed code. Notice in the example below, I also used <center> and </center> to center the video iFrame.
- Add ?rel=0 immediately behind the video link. I've bold the HTML in the example below.
- Save.
To check, go to the end of the video, and let it play out. The videos that are suggested should be other videos from your channel. Example of Modified Embed Code<center><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/e-6lBdCP8G4?rel=0" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></center>
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