• Direct Marketing News, Wednesday, January 4, 2012 9:30 AM

A sponsored post campaign for Google's Chrome browser violated the company's paid link policy, according to reports. 

For the campaign, Google paid bloggers to write about Google Chrome and embed within the post a video that spotlights how King Arthur Flour, a small business in Vermont, benefited from using the browser. Posts featured the text “Google Chrome helped this small business in Vermont go global. What can Google Chrome do for your future?” and notified readers that the posts were sponsored by Google Chrome. One blogger, who published a sponsored post, also included a link that directed to the Google Chrome download page, violating Google's paid link policy, which was first reported by Search Engine Land on Jan. 2. The link in that post has since been removed.

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