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Copyblogger points to an article that indicates that Affiliate Marketing Disclosure may become Mandatory by law. This will be a fascinating one to watch and could have implications for bloggers on many levels. The article states: “The Federal Trade Commission yesterday said that companies engaging in word-of-mouth marketing, in which ...more

I’m getting ready to run the last ProBlogger Group Writing Project for 2006 but before announcing the topic I’m looking for some amazing Prizes to tempt participants with (if you don’t know what a group writing project is you can see the last one here). If you have a prize ...more

Yesterday we reported that AdSense were testing new ways of showing the ‘Ads by Goooogle’ links on their ad units. Today there’s confirmation that it is indeed a test which is being done on a minimal number of impressions of publishers ads. The following was the response from AdSense to ...more

This is post 3 in the Adding a Personal Touch to Your Blog Series I can hardly believe that I’m encouraging bloggers to be more emotional in their blogging (blogging is a medium that is sometimes accused of being too emotionally based) but I think quite a few entrepreneurial blogs ...more

This is post 2 in the Adding a Personal Touch to Your Blog Series 2. First Person vs Third Person While there is definitely a place for third person writing in blogging – I know that I am much more drawn bloggers who place themselves inside their posts by writing ...more

There’s lots of discussion at Digital Point forums today on A New Type Of Ads By Goooogle that AdSense seem to be besting on their ads. Previously they’ve had ‘Ads by Gooooooogle’ in text above or below each ad unit – but now they seem to be experimenting with images ...more

BlogKits has launched it’s long awaited Affiliate Marketing Network for bloggers. So I thought I’d ask it’s founder, Jim Kukral, a few questions about it and what he’s learnt along the road in developing it. What is BlogKits? (give us your elevator pitch) Our business model is simple… Help 99% ...more

Some days when I check what was bought via my Amazon Associate’s affiliate program the previous day I just have to laugh. Here’s a random sample of 10 items from yesterday’s sales which I think has to be the oddest collection of sales I’ve every had in a day. Waring ...more

Last week’s post ‘7 reasons why personal blogs rock‘ got a great reaction from readers. One of the recurring pieces of feedback I had from other bloggers was that my style of blogging was quite ‘personal’ even on my ‘non personal’ blogs. One ProBlogger reader commented via email: ‘Sometimes I ...more