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All those FLOGS!!!

by Jay Lange
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I have to laugh when I see all of those phony blogs on Yahoo!

You know the ones I'm talkin about...They mimic a newsletter and pretend to be interviewing a successful work at home mom. They have the geo-ip script so it always looks like the woman is neighbor.

Being in the business for over 4 years I obviously know they are fake and wonder how people even believe that they are real! People are obviously making money with them otherwise there wouldn't be so many.

I guess my point is this...I thought the FTC was supposed to be cracking down on this type of promotion? I remember reading awhile back about some sweeping changes that were going to affect the affiliates do business and clean up the market place. It doesn't look like it was too effective.

I guess more power to you guys...buyer beware!

What are thoughts?
#flogs
  • Profile picture of the author Web Content By Jim
    There is always going to be people doing things like this - once all the flogs are gone, (if this is ever the case, which I doubt) something else just as ridiculous will come up.

    I just ignore them and think of more respectable ways to run my business. That's all I can do...there is no use in worrying what others are doing.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    I think the FTC is going after the advertisers before they bother too much with bloggers, although if the flogs come in their radar due to complaints ... that's a different story.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sylonious
    They've done a lot:

    1. They've pressured Visa and Mastercard into cracking down on Negative Option Billing.
    2. The announcement alone scared Google into banning a ton of affiliates from Adwords.

    This is a real slippery slope you are dealing with begging the FTC to regulate something that they really don't understand.

    I understand that flogs are bad, but average joe affiliate marketers are really the ones that have to deal with all these new guidelines. Not these international companies that make millions of dollars a year pumping out flogs and advertising on big sites like Reuters.

    If things get too hot for them they just pack up and move to another country.
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  • Profile picture of the author DogScout
    According to Whoisit many are hosted on Ukrainian servers. Wonder how the FTC will do up against the Ukraine mob?
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Originally Posted by DogScout View Post

      According to Whoisit many are hosted on Ukrainian servers. Wonder how the FTC will do up against the Ukraine mob?
      If it ever reached the point of direct action, my guess is that "FTC" are not the letters that would be involved...
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  • Profile picture of the author Raydal
    I thought these would have disappeared with the new ruling as well
    but I see that they just changed their fine-print to say that the
    testimonials on the site are NOT TRUE! How they get away with
    this I don't know. They also say that they are not real newspapers.

    So in a sense they have changed the fine-print, but they are still
    deceptive.

    -Ray Edwards
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