{"id":56,"date":"2022-04-09T10:33:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T10:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loveandsugarkisses.com\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2023-01-15T11:14:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T11:14:49","slug":"disclosures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/loveandsugarkisses.com\/disclosures\/","title":{"rendered":"Disclosures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This page explains how I make money on my blog. There actually are FTC guidelines for bloggers, and you can bet I aim to meet \u2014 even exceed \u2014 those guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Following is an explanation of income to the blog and how I deal with various issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Google Ads:<\/strong>\u00a0The largest share of\u00a0income for the blog comes from the Google ads featured on each post and page, and on the Forum. Google allows up to three ad units per page. The way I understand it, every visitor to the blog may be getting different ads, depending on your interests and web-browsing history. I have little control over these ads, although I have \u201copted out\u201d of anything that seems inappropriate for my G- or occasionally PG-rated blog. Contact me if you get anything served up that you consider offensive, and I will see if I can block it. You can read more about how Google and its other third party ad networks uses cookies and similar technologies to serve up ads to you in my\u00a0<a title=\"retro renovation privacy polidy\" href=\"\/privacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Other Ads and\/or Affiliate Programs<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 If it looks like an ad, all design-y like, I\u2019m likely an affiliate and earn a spiff, or earn money directly for the placement. If I am an affiliate and mention the company or one of its products in a story with a live link, I always try to remember to put a parenthetical \u201c(*affiliate link)\u201d next to such hotlinks or otherwise note it conspicuously at the top of the story.<\/li>\n<li><strong>NO Text links<\/strong>: I do not sell text links. Kissing cousins:\u00a0<strong>I do not take guest posts from writers who are being paid by commercial interests to get their links online in a sneaky way.\u00a0<\/strong>That is: \u00a0Shame on all the\u00a0so-called \u201cwriters\u201d who are proposing a guest post\u00a0without your being 100% upfront about who you are working for.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sponsored posts<em>\u00a0RARELY<\/em><\/strong>: I am open to the idea of \u201csponsored posts\u201d \u2014 that is, companies pay me to publish a story about them \u2014 and I have done a handful\u00a0so far. (I have turned down or ignored many other such requests.) When I run a sponsored post, I seek to make it\u00a0conspicuously clear\u00a0that these are sponsored, that is: paid for. As per Google\u2019s rules, all outbound links are no-follows. (FYI: Google considers such outbound links in sponsored [paid-for] posts to be equivalent to paid text links. They do not want websites to to \u201csell PageRank.\u201d)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Giveaways:<\/strong>\u00a0I don\u2019t typically charge money for retailers to provide items for giveaways. I do these as a surprise and delight to readers \u2014 and to grow my newsletter list.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Consulting<\/strong> \u2014 In addition to being a blogger writing about vintage laminates and laminates available today for midcentury style kitchens and bathrooms, I have worked to launch a capsule collection of 7 new colorways for their boomerang laminates. They promote these laminates on the blog with an ad. I disclose our involvement when we write about this collection. If I write about any other such projects I\u2019ve been involved in, I will disclose that.<\/li>\n<li>In general: I don\u2019t want my editorial coverage to be affected by advertising or other revenue sources to the blog\u2026<\/li>\n<li>\u2026and\u00a0<strong>I believe in, and strive for, transparency<\/strong>\u00a0when it comes to calling out financial relationships where they may occur.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Disclosures related to direct payment, in-kind payments and samples for review:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>I seek to comply with FTC guidelines requiring \u201cconspicuous\u201d disclosure of any direct payments or in-kind payments (products supplied) by companies or vendors seeking to promote their products. If I end up doing a review of a product supplied from a company or individual vendor (yes, I\u2019ve received samples), I note these with a\u00a0<em>Disclosure:<\/em>\u00a0up top conspicuously in the story. \u00a0My general policy is to not take any free products for review unless they are relevant to readers, and I do not promise a story even if a sample\/product is sent.<\/li>\n<li>Similarly I am occasionally invited on media trips to review new products. I may accept these if I think they are relevant to my readers. No coverage is promised in return. If I end up doing a review, I will aim to conspicuously note that the trip has been paid for by the inviting company with a\u00a0<em>Disclosure:<\/em>\u00a0 in the story.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page explains how I make money on my blog. There actually are FTC guidelines for bloggers, and you can bet I aim to meet \u2014 even exceed \u2014 those guidelines. Following is an explanation of income to the blog and how I deal with various issues: Google Ads:\u00a0The largest share of\u00a0income for the blog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loveandsugarkisses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loveandsugarkisses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loveandsugarkisses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loveandsugarkisses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loveandsugarkisses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/loveandsugarkisses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"http:\/\/loveandsugarkisses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loveandsugarkisses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}