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FTC to Penalize Questionable Blogging Practices

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Specifically, the agency now requires bloggers to disclose relationships with sponsors, whether the blogger is paid or merely receives “free” products and services; and for celebrities to disclose their paid relationships with sponsors. an advertiser hires a blogger to test out and then review a new body lotion.

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Five Things Jesus Looks for in a Blog Post

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I was chatting with a friend about the motivations behind the sensationalistic and predictable headlines bloggers use to attract attention. So a certain style of titling blog posts and articles has evolved. There are many other blog post headline writing techniques. The simplest explanation is that the system is gamed.

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A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter

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Twitter is excellent for distribution , but if you’re going to communicate original ideas, you’ll need a blog (or something similar). They are most often using Twitter as a super-news-feed, and as a way to drive people back to their blog, web site, etc. A blog is less dominated by spam than Twitter.

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Affiliate Marketing Tips and Tricks for Beginners

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It gives bloggers a chance to start selling on their sites without going through the mind-numbing process of making their own products. For example, a marketer who runs a fashion blog would be best suited to promote clothing, fashion accessories, and other related items that visitors would be interested in buying.

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Who Are Your Twitter Fab Five?

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Vruz is an example of what makes Twitter amazing: You’ll meet people from different walks of life, half way around the world, that you would never have met IRL. Check out his exemplary Tumble Log aka Tumblr blog, United Colors of Vruz. She’s one of the auto industry’s best observers and bloggers.

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How Social Is Your Company, Really?

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So you have a blog, maybe two, a couple of Twitter feeds, a YouTube channel and a Facebook page. Do you have a company blog? For true engagement, your blog needs to have comments enabled, and moderated (reviewed by an editor prior to posting). Your company is truly social, isn’t it? Everything on the checklist is in place.

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Live Tweeting Requires Ethical and Legal Considerations

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If you were at the movie theater, neither the studio nor the theater operator would permit you to videotape portions of the movie to post on your blog. The best guidance for whether live blogging and live tweeting is acceptable comes from the Fair Use provision of U.S. I did not find a UC policy covering other fair use guidelines.).

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