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Of course, I just found out that one of my clients has been driving traffic to their site by offering a chance to get prizes (via a free drawing) if they go to the site and post a comment or testimonial about a business or article.

Not everyone who posts a comment gets a prize (since its a drawing) but it still poses a problem in that the person who DOES win DID get compensation.

Sigh… thanks again for the perspective!

I would encourage you to read the guidelines themselves, http://www.ftc.gov/os/fedreg/2009/index.shtm, especially Section 255.2 regarding endorsements and examples. I pasted it below for you, but the examples given in the Guidelines will help you better understand different scenarios. You can certainly use endorsements, but they have to be real, by people actually using the product of service, and represent typical, not atypical results. So I might consider placing a page on a site that says “Hear from our customers” and note underneath- “These are unpaid, unsolicited letters, comments etc. from our customers- If you’ve used our product, let us hear from you and we’ll post your comment here!” That both groups the comments together as all unsolicited, and invites future comments as well- a win-win.
I think the goal of the FTC is to corral hyperbolic and inflated claims, and make sure consumers understand what typical versus atypical results are (think diet commercials…) and again, all of this goes into play on 12/1/09. If you are using a testimonial page, I would add language to that just as a matter of course.
The examples the FTC gives are pretty straight forward and should provide you with the guidance you need based on your individual case and facts. The law is pesky in that the full set of facts needs to be looked at, in context, to determine what complies and what may not.
I hope that helps- let me know if I confused rather than clarified this for you.

§ 255.2 Consumer endorsements. (a) An advertisement employing endorsements by one or more consumers about the performance of an advertised product or service will be interpreted as representing that the product or service is effective for the purpose depicted in the advertisement. Therefore, the advertiser must possess and rely upon adequate substantiation, including, when appropriate, competent and reliable scientific evidence, to support such claims made through endorsements in the same manner the advertiser would be required to do if it i.e., without using endorsements.Consumer endorsements themselves are not competent and reliable scientific evidence.
(b) An advertisement containing an endorsement relating the experience of one or more consumers on a central or key attribute of the product or service also will likely be interpreted as representing that the endorser’s experience is representative of what consumers will generally achieve with the advertised product or service in actual, albeit variable, conditions of use.
Therefore, an advertiser should possess and rely upon adequate substantiation for this representation. If the advertiser does not have substantiation that the endorser’s experience is representative of what consumers will generally achieve, the advertisement should clearly and conspicuously disclose the generally expected performance in the depicted circumstances, and the advertiser must possess and rely on adequate substantiation for that representation.
(c) Advertisements presenting endorsements by what are represented, directly or by implication, to be ‘‘actual consumers’’ should utilize actual consumers in both the audio and video, or clearly and conspicuously disclose that the persons in such advertisements are not actual consumers of the advertised product.