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You May Also Be at Risk for This, Don’t Let the FTC Shut You Down, Part 2

Posted by David on in Other Stuff

In my last post, I talked about recent U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigations into certain marketing practices that you may unknowingly and innocently do.

ftc logo You May Also Be at Risk for This, Don’t Let the FTC Shut You Down, Part 2 While the specific investigation was on “fake blogs” it isn’t a far leap to many of the review sites out there that aren’t really more than affiliate promotion advertising pages.

There is talk that FTC will require explicit disclosure of these sites including social media sites like Facebook, Squidoo and even possibly Twitter.

We also looked at how a possible further step was the move to stop cloaked affiliate links.

There is also a second investigation going on that is also a common enough practice in our Internet Marketing world and I’m pretty sure that that this investigation will result in a ruling that will require some changes into the way some people do things.

Again, you may not do or you may unwittingly do it but you need to be aware of it and change now before the ruling.

What I am talking about is…

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