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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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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. She’s one of the auto industry’s best observers and bloggers. He’s always supportive, to an extreme. Vruz had a green avatar before anyone else on Twitter.

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How Social Is Your Company, Really?

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Do your bloggers, or appropriate company spokespeople, respond to comments and post these on the blog? These are just a few quick examples of the difference between the tools, which can be static and faceless, and true engagement, which only happens when smart, empowered people step in. Do you have a company blog?

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Live Tweeting Requires Ethical and Legal Considerations

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Last year, the Associated Press announced it would “attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The A.P.’s Bloggers and tweeters are NOT professional journalists. ’s copyright.”.

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Debunking Five Social Media Myths

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The concept that e-mail is in decline, rather than dead, is too complex for many bloggers, and the technique of declaring things “dead&# is a tried and true blog traffic generator. Gizmodo, for example, responded with Email is Dead? Unfortunately, the Journal didn’t say e-mail was dead, but reported on Oct.

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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. Now that I have your attention, this isn’t really about Jesus, but he factors in. The simplest explanation is that the system is gamed. They rise in search rankings.

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