How To Create Privacy Policy Page For Your Blog

Folks, it's a good day again and I just figure out that since am giving you tutorials on blogging especially for my folks in Tanzania then it is very important to have a Privacy Policy page on your blog. This page is one of the important this to have. It contains legal statements on the use of information over the internet.  A Privacy Policy is a disclosure information about how the site gathers any information from the visitors and about the ads served.

It's very necessary since it provides a credibility and trustworthiness to your blog. Many ad serving programs and networks including Google AdSense and Zhakkas looks for a privacy policy on your blog before approving you in their advertising network.

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OK, let's take a lesson on HOW TO CREATE A Privacy Policy Statement.

In this article, I will tell you how to create a privacy policy page and add it to your blog.

You can either create a privacy policy yourself if you have required knowledge but most of the bloggers do not know how to create a perfect privacy policy for their blogs especially crafting the content to relect the blog niche content. However, that shouldn't scare you away, technology is advancing hence there are several third-party privacy policy generators which will do the work for you for and definately free. In this tutorial,  let's see one example of the software I have once used before, The Privacy Policy Statement service is provided by SerpRank.com Follow the steps below:-

• Go to the SerpRank privacy policy generator page.
• The page will ask for your Site URL and Email Address.
• If your blog use cookies (if you are serving advertising, your blog is most likely using it), select Yes, we use cookies option.
• In the advertiser information, select the advertising solutions you use to monetize your blog.

• After filling up the form, select Create my Privacy policy.  The created policy page will appear and you can Now Copy this information to a text document.

Let's see HOW TO ADD The Generated Privacy Policy To Your Blog?

• For Blogger Blog: Open your Blogger Dashboard > Pages. If you are using WordPress Blog then go to your Dashboard > Pages > Add New

• Create a new blank page and paste the copied privacy policy in the text body and give a title to your page as “Privacy Policy“

• Publish your page and refresh you blog to see the result( For blogger make sure you added the page link to Privacy Policy button.

You have successfully created and published privacy policy for your blog and you can enjoy blogging. By adding a privacy policy to your blog, you will increase the trustworthiness of your readers. It’s a good practice to have a privacy policy visible to your readers. Even Google AdSense in their terms and conditions require you to have a privacy policy for your blog. So, go and make one before you apply for any advertising network to make money from your blog.

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