greenpsycho
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As for reviews/previews, unless the title says "review" its NOT a review. This has been implicitly understood by our readers for 22+ years. In the past, I tried to separate review/preview content with tabs on the sectional pages but Google didn't like that. I also tried to separate reviews/previews into the new 2 column layout of the site but it would make pages with thin content in one category look wrong. Perhaps we can add a disclaimer at the bottom of preview articles stating it's a preview but honestly, the 5 or 6 critics here would likely just find something else to complain about my site and this hasn't been a problem for our readers.
I don't think we need to make this thread into an attack on audioholics. But gene, please take this feedback and make good out of it. If something is implicit that means you fell short. I'm not saying it's necessarily an FTC violation, although maybe some of it is pretty close, but you need to be explicit about what is and is not a review/sponsored content etc. That's just how the law works, and that's the bare minimum. Everyone in publishing should be better and do more than the bare minimum. Please do that for yourself and for us.