Tag Archives: ethical blogging

FTC looks to punish dishonest bloggers

ReadWriteWeb has reported on recent guidelines released by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that will allow them to fine bloggers who do not disclose their connections to companies and affiliates when endorsing a product.

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Ethical Blogging: Sourcing Images

Another Wednesday, another post on ethical blogging! For those who are just coming to Future Conscience, I have recently started a series of posts on what we feel are some good blogging practices. Today I’m going to take a look at a very important aspect of blog posts: images.

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Ethical Blogging: Monetisation and Advertising

The second post in our ongoing Ethical Blogging series – this time I’m going to take a look at the idea of monetising websites, and in particular the use of advertisements.

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Ethical Blogging: Why do you want to blog?

One of the things that every blogger has in common is that first moment of inspiration, that point where we say to ourselves ‘I’m going to start a blog!’. So I wanted to look at what makes a good basis for starting a blog. What are the ethical ways to start blogging? More importantly, are there any unethical reasons for wanting to blog?

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Ethical Blogging: Black, white, grey hat SEO?

I found this great post over on SiteProNews that explores the ethics of search-engine optimisation (SEO), and just who gets to define what is and isn’t acceptable (hint: Google). It really is a great introduction to some of the ethical issues that surround blogging as a medium, and I want to use it as a chance to spring-board a new post series that I will be beginning in the very near future.

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