Internet Law and Business Blog

If you don’t really know how to market online without sending unsolicited commercial email (spam), you should invest your time in learning how to avoid breaking the law. It only takes a few complaints to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to land in hot water simply because you broke anti-spam laws (such as the [...]

Based on what we’ve seen the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) do in recent years, here’s a few things you should be wary of while marketing your business on the Internet.
1. Increased anti-spam enforcement. The one-hit wonders in the info marketing crowd are starting to panic because price points have dropped. Packages that sold for [...]

Jennifer Laycock provides an interesting take on NoFollow, blog spamming, paid text links, and the role of the Federal Trade Commission and Google. I do see the FTC taking a more active role against blog spammers, including the covert paid word-of-mouth campaigns one sees that are really no different than the e-mail spam that [...]