Every website needs a privacy policy to disclose
information pertaining to how the site gathers visitor’s data. One of the
requirements to run a Google adsense advertisement on your website is having a
privacy policy. The policy is for visitors to read and understand the basic
workings of the website.
Blog owners are also required to include the policy on
their blogs. The reason is simply because the website must adhere to certain publisher’s
terms and conditions.
There are four ways to create a privacy policy the first
is to ask a webmaster if you can use the wordings of his policy or generate
one. Another method is using a generic private policy found online or an
aggregator to create the content.
Once you have found one you do slight alterations, make a
post and backdate. You then include a link of the policy on your home page.
There are a number of places to add you link on the
homepage, however the frequently used areas are the sidebar, top or footer.
Many websites applying for Adsense fail because they don’t have a privacy
policy on their website.
How to
Get a Policy
The first step is getting the document to put on your
website. To get one you can type private policy generator in a search engine to
get lots of websites offering this service.
All they need is your domain name and email address. Once
you have generated the private policy copy it into a word document or note pad.
Go to
Blogger
Then log into blogger account and select the blog you
want to place the policy. Click new post and past the policy you copied earlier
into your content field. The title should be ‘Privacy Policy’ then backdate the
post.
You need to backdate the post under the ‘post options’ on
your right. Click on the editor and a
drop down menu will appear.
Then change the
date from current time by setting the date to Jan, 1, 2001 and time to 12:00.
Once you have backdated the post, publish the privacy policy.
Check
the Blog Post Arrangement
To confirm if your backdated post was properly done it
will be at the bottom of your blog posts. Once you locate the post with title "Privacy
Policy" click the preview to open the post.
Copy the URL of privacy policy from the browser and past
on a note pad or word document. You need to shorten the URL to use in a code.
How to
Shorten Code
It is easy to shorten your code if you haven’t tried it
before just search for shorten code generator/tool. Take the full URL of the policy
you copied earlier and paste in the bar then press Shorten- Code.
The free tool will generate a short URL you will use in
creating the link. The next step is to edit a code I will provide below.
<a href="SHORTENED URL">Privacy
Policy</a>
You edit the code by replacing SHORTENED URL with the
short code.
How
to implement the code on the sidebar or top of homepage
To implement the code on your sidebar go to blogger
dashboard. Select layout of the blog you want to add the policy. Go to your
sidebar or top of the page and click add a gadget.
On the gadget a pop up window will appear and you select
"HTML/JavaScript. Once the window opens type Privacy Policy as the title
of the gadget.
The next step is to add the edited code to the content
section of the "HTML/JavaScript gadget. The code should look something
like this <a href="URL.COM">Privacy Policy</a> then save.
The link should be added to your blogger home page.
How to
Add Privacy Policy link to Attribution
Go to blogger dashboard then click layout and scroll down
to attribution. You find attribution at the bottom of the blog page. Open the
attribution widget by clicking edit. All you need to do is paste the edited
code inside the box and click save.
Test
the Gadget
To check if the
privacy policy is properly implemented and working. Click save arrangement and
go to view blog. You should see the policy link either beside the attribution
on the footer or sidebar or top of page depending on the position your chose.
Click the private policy link and see if it opens to your
policy post if it does then it works perfectly.
Conclusion
There are other things you can add to your new website
such as About Us page, including Terms and Conditions. To improve SEO don’t forget
Alt text, title text,caption and attribution for images.
Make sure your blog has a clean and easy to navigate look
and include a sitemap. Other important tools are social media share buttons.
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