Disclosures

How to Make Effective Disclosures in Digital Advertising

This is part eleven of the One Week Blog Challenge series. By now you should have your blog all setup and ready to launch. The first post I would recommend writing is the About Me page/post. Worpress automatically includes an about page with some dummy text. Personally, I like deleting that page and writing a …

If you are a blogger or site owner in the U.S. and you are making money in any way, or if you are receiving free products or services for giveaways, reviews or the like, you should be concerned about this issue. In short, make sure you are properly disclosing in your posts.

Ok, it’s time to get serious. There is something going on in the blogging world from small blogs to some of the biggest blogs out there. For some reason, bloggers are withholding the fact that they are being compensated for endorsing a product. According to the Federal Trade Commission (found here at ftc.gov), you are …

When and why a blogger should use a disclosure policy, with tips for writing your disclosure policy and placing it on your blog.

If you a blogger and monetizing your blog, this post will explain how to include a proper blog disclosure statement in all your sponsored content.

How and what should you disclose about a sponsor or affiliate relationship? Get blogger disclosure examples for Facebook, Pinterest, Google+, Twitter, more.

Hey, bloggers, social media influencers, and celebrities, think the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”)’s rules regarding disclosures do not apply to you? Think again. While the FTC – a governmental agency tasked with promoting consumer protection, and eliminating and preventing anticompetitive business practices – has thus far chosen to focus its energies entirely on the advertisers that it deems to be more responsible for such potentially illegal behavior, it does in fact, also have the authority to take action against bloggers individually.

The big news yesterday? Blogging is finally being taken seriously. The Federal Trade Commission announced that they will begin going after bloggers – as well as the companies that compensate them – for any false claims or failure to disclose compensation, free gifts, and other conflicts of interest. This isn’t really a surprise. Content marketing Read More...

This Compensation Disclosure has been provided for your protection and to fully disclose any relationship between this sites product or service recommendations and the owners of those product or services.

Do you know that you're supposed to use no follow links when sharing sponsored blog and social media posts? Here's how and why.

Do you need to tell your readers when you got free product or something in a swag bag? What if you're posting about something else and happen to mention a freebie? Here are the things you need to know about the do's and don'ts from the FTC.

Details on how to write disclosure statements for your blog posts.