Why do you need disclosure policies for paid blogging?


Since I’ve decided to try out the Pay Per Post program, I’m trying to be as transparent as possible in my blogging. It’s a good thing that the Pay Per Post folks have started a site called Disclosure Policy.

The site asks a series of 6 questions that help you determine a good disclosure policy for your site. The questions are easy up until the sixth question. At that point you need to look closely and determine which option applies to you.

I used the site to create my own disclosure policy that will help folks understand where the source of posts come from. Feel free to let me know what you think of it.



Blog Disclosure Policy

This policy is valid from 25 November 2006

This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please contact  pgrote at gmail dotter com.

This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.

This blog abides by word of mouth marketing standards. We believe in honesty of relationship, opinion and identity. The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content.

The owner(s) of this blog is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the owner(s) of this blog receives compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers’ own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

This blog does contain content which might present a conflict of interest. This content will always be identified.

To get your own policy, go to http://www.disclosurepolicy.org

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