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  Andy Beard: […] The word (Copyblogger) in Blogland (Andy Beard) and elsewhere (Washington Post) is that Pay-Per-Post bloggers and other online affiliate marketers may have to disclose they are being paid for their endorsements. WOMMA, the Word of Mouth Marketing Association, read the staff opinion letter as applying to stealth or ninja marketing, which they also condemn, not the friendly, non-deceptive buzz or word of mouth marketing that is fair play. (via Cosmos)

Copywriter :: Peter Stone: I post irregularly so if you would like email notification of each post, just add your email address in the box under my photo. I'm about to fill you in on what will make for certain success in your copywriting business, what will provide you with the kind of definiteness that, when you approach a new project, will give you nerves of steel, freeing your creativity to generate bounding energy that produces dependable winners, a reliable font of clients and much more. (via Cosmos)

Connecting you to the Internet Marketing community | Internet Marketers Network: A blogger will now be required to disclose s/he is being compensated when making a post about an advertiser's product or service. "This isn’t a perfect fix for PayPerPost", says Michael Arrington of Techcrunch, "advertisers can still require a positive post about their products, and the disclosure does not have to be within the post itself." (via Cosmos)

The Copywriter Underground: Copywriting Beyond the Words :: Modern Marketing Strategies for Copywriters & Businesses: I found a few I’d overlooked, and even “Bloglined” a couple. He also announced his copywritersblog.com “group” blog, and though the jury’s still out on that one, it’s worth watching. (via Cosmos)

 [Blog.searchenginewatch.com] Google, Yahoo, MSN Unite On Support For Nofollow Attribute For Links: As for MSN, Working Together Against Blog Spam explains how the company made a snap decision today to support the tag, though the idea was something it had considered during its Search Champs meetings with bloggers and search marketers several months ago. It promises that its crawler will begin respecting the attribute in the coming weeks.

 [Mattcutts.com] Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO » Handling noindex meta tags: My current concern over robots.txt is that one of the Googlebots (Adwords-Bot) knowingly and deliberately ignores it! See http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=38197, which reads “Note: In order to avoid increasing CPCs for advertisers who don’t intend to restrict AdWords visits to their pages, the system will ignore blanket exclusions (User-agent: *) in robots.txt files.”

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