I suspect that the reason the videos are "below the fold" is because loading up 15 video embeds would involve a huge amount of bandwidth and lag, each video is 300kB or so.
Yes. As I mentioned before, the old web main page that had 5 embedded videos on it in each post is (so the developers tell me) bad design and will be punished by google in the ranking. Google doesn't like more than one embedded video per page, hence the new layout of having an image and short description with the link, and only the latest highlighted video on the main page.
This of course leads to the conundrum of having the latest embedded video, and then the exact same image from the blog post below it.
The old site would just show a test blog post if it was was my last entry. So now it's better having a videos always right at the top under the menu ready to play, because, well, this is a video blog after all.
Yes, but I'm talking about the individual video pages - once you click on one in the 'latest posts' list. I see a page with the video title, the usual few lines of blurb, then a ruddy great blank space because the video is shoved down the page by the 'related articles' links on the right. It just seems peculiar that they're given greater priority in the layout than the actual content the user has clicked on to view.
Fixed. I just changed that in the template settings, easy.
Next major step is going though at categorising every single video, so they can be sorted on the menus etc. Big job, perhaps for David2.