Affiliate Disclosure

[freinhm]

Hi Lynn,

On affiliate websites do you need to put a disclosure
notifying your visitors that links to external site may
may result in a commission in the event they make a purchase?

What are the best practices?


Thanks
Lester T.

[deniseoberry]

Lester --

Lynn has a good post on her blog explaining this. You can find it at http://www.clicknewz.com/2142/how-ftc-guides-affect-social-media-marketing/

On my blog, I mention it on my about page, have a permanent disclosure below every blog post (under the subscribe box after the post) and will add a note to many posts (depends on the content. A good example of one where I added an extra note is here (plus you can see my permanent disclosure there too).
http://www.deniseoberry.com/index.php/2010/02/25/need-a-new-mobile-phone-chance-to-win-hp-ipaq-glisten/

[freinhm]

Thank You Denise for your reply the
resources helped me a lot. :)


Lester T.

[Debra Conrad]

I'm working on putting this at the bottom of every blog (in the footer):

Purchases made through links on this site may result in commission being paid to the blog author

[lindastacy]

I've had a disclosure in my website terms of use for quite some time. Now I've addressed affiliate links specifically on my about page, have a "disclosure" link to that at the top of my blog, and when I put an affiliate link in a blog post I mark it with a note at the bottom of the post again linking to the disclosure. Overkill I'm sure, but....