new "ruling" is no different.
Ok, I do understand about making false claims (no Acai berries will not
make your penis hard or take you from 450 pounds to 120 overnight),
but come on here - most folks online are not being irresponsible.
But tell that to the FTC! They are using a shotgun to kill a mosquito
and everyone is paying for it. Read it here.
It means, in a nutshell that:
those you get from your affiliate merchant (makes sense).
endorsing unless you can prove it (makes sense too, because if they
buy your stuff and don't use it - you're on the hook).
follow your endorsement (sorta makes sense - transparency and all
that).
What bothers me about this? Except for the knuckle heads that use an
affiliate letter 'word for word' and haven't a clue what they are promoting,
the rest is common business practice.
When I buy a product it's a given that it does me no good if I don't use
it! Maybe on first reading it was something that simply pissed me off, who knows.
So to keep it simple, here's a snip from Randy Smith for a product he's promoting on his site:
(It might not, You may completely waste your money buying this,I'm not typical, I'm not a lawyer, I will be paid a commission if people buy this through my link, I haven't paid for this product, I got it cos I'm friends with the creators, and yes they are hoping I'll promote it, I don't promote product I think are crap, I think this is cool - but what do I know, repeat - I'm not a lawyer...etc.)
Now that's what I call 'Covering Your Butt'!
Only a couple tools you may be interested in checking (no affiliate links) out
if you're an affiliate.
This one is for those of you using Wordpress on your own hosting account. Allows you to host different ads with more ease than trying to make those suckers line up to fit your template.
This one is from the same guy and for Clickbank affiliates. Nice he thought to add this one for those of us in more than one niche.
This one I haven't used as yet but intend to. You install a piece of code on your pages to give you a visible way to track what people are doing and where they're going on your site. The basic install is $9 a month but you can put it on 10 pages, and track up to 10,000 visits per month. Currently I use only Google Analytics, but adding this may save a bit of time weeding through all the numbers.
That's it for today and I leave you with this -
"The most handicapped person in the world is a negative thinker" ~ Heather Whitestone, former Miss America
