CMP.ly Helps Bloggers With FTC Disclosure
Most home based business professionals who blog or otherwise have websites for their businesses are aware of the FTC Disclosure requirements passed earlier this year.
If you in any way, shape or form make money or have the potential to make money from content on your site, you have to disclose that to your readers.
This includes affiliate links or buttons and any kind of review you post on a product or service that you received compensation for.
Compensation could be receipt of a sample or actual payment for doing a review.
I found a terrific resource from CMP.ly that helps bloggers and website owners comply with the FTC Disclosure requirements.
Their four solutions programs are for Bloggers, Brands, Agencies, and Affiliate Marketing.
When you sign up for a free account with CMP.ly, register your site and then choose the type of disclosure you need.
The site has easy to understand explanations of which disclosure you need for which kind of activity you are doing.
- Post contains author’s own opinions and he has not been paid or has no material connection. Author may receive unrelated payment.
- Post based upon a review copy or sample. Author is not paid but did receive an item related to post.
- Post based on a sample or gift received that author was not paid for.
- Post based on an advertising relationship and author has been paid.
- Author is an employee or a shareholder.
- Author has included affiliate links on her site.
- Custom disclosure allows author to create a disclosure that is not covered in the previous 6 disclosures.
{information excerpted from CMP.ly Blogger Solutions.}
They also give you tips on whether a disclosure can be in your sidebar or if it needs to be directly in the post.
It is well worth your time and effort to take advantage of this free service if you rely heavily on your blog or other website as a form of income.
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Karen
mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com