Comments on: Watch Your Widgets They Can Hurt Your Business

By: James Wheelock

James Wheelock — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:45:42 +0000

I recently had a run in with a troubling video that came up as a related video on one of my subdivision videos which I embed in my niche blogs. The video was of a girl in a thong and the thumbnail pose resembled pornography. Needless to say at the time I just had to take it down and felt a bit embarassed as it was brought to my attention by someone in my field. A big thanks to Linda Johnson. Anyways Eric Blackwell was nice enough to offer a way to have control over this issue. He provided a string you can add to the youtube URLs in the embed code that gets ride of the related videos. Just add &rel=0 to the end of the URLs in the embed code and you can avoid this problem entirely. I decided to post this because I have seen other real estate blog sites have similar issues. James Wheelock´s last blog post..Humble Single Family Housing Inventory

By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:33:51 +0000

Joe,

Great point. Thanks for dropping by the Lab.

Have a Great year.

By: Joseph Ferrara.sellsius

Joseph Ferrara.sellsius — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:29:59 +0000

Excellent advice.

I see this happen with YouTube videos imported to blogs and websites. There is a “attach related videos” button which is pre-checked on YouTube, sometimes causing other unwanted videos to be viewable as thumbnails (and clickable). If you borrow a video from YouTube, uncheck this box.

By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:30:30 +0000

yumi,

I don’t think he even knows that series of images came up in the rotation.

By: yumi

yumi — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:27:26 +0000

the owner of that site must not be serious about his business or else he knows something we don’t know. Maybe this is diversity at its best

By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:22:04 +0000

Bobbie,

There is. : )

By: Bobbie McGowan

Bobbie McGowan — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:16:13 +0000

Wow, thanks for the heads up! Seems like there should be a way to still have those widgets and not worry about bad links/pics/videos/etc leaking through. Good info to share, thanks!

By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:18:21 +0000

Sean,

Thanks for dropping by the Lab and confirming how easy it is for this to happen.

Have a great 2009!

By: Morgantown Real Estate

Morgantown Real Estate — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:13:31 +0000

Hey Dave,

How true it is. I found that out the hard way a few years back when I had a video reel on my site. One day when I was doing some site maintenance I came across a video that was not what I would have liked to see on my site.

If people do have these types of widgets on their sites…be sure to check on them frequently .

Great Site you have here by the way!

Highest Regards,
Sean

West Virginia Real Estate Search