Enough is enough! YouTube, the monopolist of embedded video on the Web has censored the most popular Web video of 2009 (the JK Wedding entrance Dance). I have embedded it on SEOptimise as well a while ago. You can’t access it from Germany (where I live) anymore for “copyright limitations reasons”. Orwellian newspeak has been Google’s (the owner of YouTube) specialty ever since they collaborate with the Chinese dictatorship. Plus, you might have guessed it:
YouTube is awful for your SEO unless you want to get viral on YouTube.
There is a viable alternative around: Embedding an open source FLV player instead of the proprietary YouTube player everybody uses without thinking of the consequences:
