After facing criticism that its new policy of penalizing pirate sites might unfairly favor Google-owned YouTube, Google has come out to say that most popular sites are unlikely to be penalized…

…[It is] unlikely that sites such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and IMDB will be penalized

You can read the whole original article at Gizmodo

Here’s our take away though.

There’s been a lot of buzz lately about “negative SEO”, link removal, bad links and cleaning up your link profile.

That’s why we thought this article interesting. Not that YouTube, et. al. will not be penalized, but that YouTube is still going to be an effective part of your social media marketing mix.