How To Protect Your Online Content From Thieves

As you all know, that writing and posting valuable content for your website or blog takes a lot of time and hard-work. All the efforts in creating a fresh and valuable content for your blog gets copied or stolen by thieves by just few clicks. Your content is your most important asset and you can't allow anyone to come and copy it somewhere else.

Protecting your content from such thieves is the duty of every webmaster. It is not easy to look for each and every post of your site but you must do some hard-work to protect your blog's content as much as possible. In this post, I am going to tell you some methods by which you can protect your online content.

Disable Right Click

This is the very simple and most useful tip in preventing online content. Most people don't copy your content by typing line by line,  rather they just select and copy the content into their page. By disabling right click of mouse on your web pages, people can't select and copy the content. This is the best way to protect your work from thieves.

Disable Right Click In Blogger

It is very easy to disable right click in blogger blog. Just follow these simple steps given below.

1. Login to your blogger's account.

2. Open your blogger dashboard and go to layout menu. Add a new gadget HTML/Javascript.

3. Copy and paste the following code into it. 

<!--MBW Code--><script language='JavaScript1.2'>function disableselect(e){return false}function reEnable(){return true}document.onselectstart=new Function ("return false")if (window.sidebar){document.onmousedown=disableselectdocument.onclick=reEnable}</script><!--Code End http://mybloggersworld.blogspot.in>

4. Save the gadget.

Now, you will see that the right click is disabled on your blog. 

Disable Right Click In Wordpress

It is much easier to disable right click on a wordpress blog than a blogger blog. There are so many plugins available for a wordpress user. Click here and install this plugin on your blog to use this feature on it.

Add Watermarks and Copyright notice

Copyright notices are the 2-3 lines of text which shows or tells the readers that the written post belongs to you and copying some or whole of it is against laws. These notices works great because by seeing such notice they will fear that they are breaking a law. Also, it don't take too much of time in adding such copyright notices with your post. 

In similar way, you can also protect the pictures of your websites by adding a watermark. Adding a watermark makes the picture completely belongs to you and your site. People usually don't copy such pictures because using those pictures with your watermark will be awkward for them also.

Sometimes it also happen that people are not aware about copyright issues. They simply copy the content and not aware that they are stealing something. By using watermarks and copyright notices, you can avoid those people from copying your content.

Set Google Alerts

Protecting your content is one thing and catching the thieves who already copied your content is another important thing. After using all the necessary measures, there is always a chance of your content getting stolen by others. Google Alerts is a way to catch those people who are using your original content.

Whenever someone copy and post your content, you will get a alert. To get an alert, you first copy few lines of your post and creates alerts to be notified when this content appear online. Creating multiple alerts for the same post works best. Also, it is better to set alert from the first paragraph because people usually copy first paragraph more than the rest.

By knowing who has copied your content, you can check whether they provided a link to your site or not. 

If your content is already copied ?

The above methods are the best measures to protect your content from thieves but, what about the content which may have already stolen by someone. How to know whether your post is republished at any other place and if yes, how to find it ?

The answer of above question falls in this section. Here, I am going to show tell you about the 2 best tool to search your content on the web.

Search Your Content

There are so many tools available to conduct a search of the web for any content given by you. One of such tool is Copyscape. Copyscape is a website on which you can put the URL of your post and then it searches the web for a web page containing the same content as in your link. It will tell you whether your content is safe or stolen by some thief.

Search Your Images Using Reverse Image Search

Like text, you can also search for images. If you have a particular image and you want to know if there is any copy of it on the web, then you can use a reverse image search tool. In this kind of tool, you simply have to upload the image (no matters what name you have given to it), then it will search web to find out its exact copy and show you the results. If that image is not stolen then it will only show your website in the result.

Google Images is the best tool for this purpose. Click here to try it.

How to deal with theft ?

After doing so much of hard-work to secure your content there is always chances of getting your work copied. Whenever you came to know that your content is copied, your next step is to contact that website owner and discuss the matter. 

Prepare your evidence

It is important to prepare your evidence first before contacting the person because there is no proof that he copied your content from your website. You should be ready with proper proof that you were the first to publish that content online.

If your content is indexed on Google then you can show that date as a proof because you posted that content earlier than someone else.

Contact the Thief

After creating all the necessary evidences, its time to talk to that person. First, you should send a friendly message telling the person that he copied his content. You can decide whether you want that content to be removed from that site or you want a back link to your site indicating that you are the first one to publish that article.

In most of the cases, the blog owner will remove the content and your blog's content and ranking will be saved. If you get a negative reply to your friendly message or the blog owner not giving any reply then you can follow the next step.

Contact hosting provider

Now, its time to become serious and punish that person. You should contact their hosting provider and tell them what this website owner done to you. Here, you have to show your evidences and prove them that you are owner of that content. 

After this, their hosting provider will force him to remove that content and it is also possible that they will permanently remove his account. I am sure that till here your problem will get solved but if still you are struggling, then move to the last and most important step to remove that stolen content.

File DMCA Complaint

DMCA stands for Digital Millennium Copyright Act. You can submit a complaint to DMCA to tell them to deindex content which was stolen from your website. This is a very quick process and the stolen content will get removed within a short period of time. 

DMCA also provides you so many useful tools to protect your online content.  

These are some of the ways by which you can protect your online content. I hope you liked it.

Now its time to share your thoughts with me and the others.

Thanks for reading and don't forget to share it with others.

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How To Use Google Disavow Link Tool To Remove Spam

Many webmasters regularly face the problem of spam links on their website. You may have also discovered unnatural linking of your website on different sites and directories. It is important for us to remove those links as to protect our content and prevent our website from losing its rank.

You can spent days on removing spam links and still you might facing some problem to remove some of those spams. Google introduced a tool which helps to remove any kind of spam link. They named the tool as 'Disavow Tool'. This tool will help webmasters to remove those spammy links which are linking to your website. By using this tool, you are informing the search engines that they should not count those link which are from a unwanted source. In this post, I will show you how you can use this tool to remove the spams from your website.

How To Use Google Disavow Link Tool To Remove Spam

• Go to Google Disavow Tool
• Now, you will see the list of your websites which you already verified on google webmasters tool. Select the one out of them from which you wants to remove spam. Click on 'Disavow button'.

Note : This is an advanced feature and should only be used with caution. If used incorrectly, this feature can potentially harm your site's performance in Google's search results. We recommend that you only disavow backlinks if you believe that there are a considerable number of spammy, artificial, or low-quality links pointing to your site, and if you are confident that the links are causing issues for you.

• Now, you have to upload a text file containing the those links which you wants to remove. Given below is a example of it.

http://spammedlinks2.com/here-is-spam-links.html
http://spammedlinks2.com/spam-is-bad.html
http://spammedlinks2.com/another-spam-link-database.html

Write the links in a notepad file and save it to your hard disk. Now upload the file on this tool as shown below.

• Click on submit button and you are done with it.

Use this tool only when you are unable to handle the spammy links on your own. As mentioned above, this tool is not for everyone. So, use it very carefully. 

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How To Declare Website Language In Blogger

Do you ever thought of declaring the language for your website. Declaring a website language doesn't means anything to the readers because they already know what language you are using and that's why they are reading your content. Declaring a language helps the search engines to detect the content language faster. So it means that it is a good way of Search Engine Optimization. Your content will be indexed faster because it is now more easily crawled by crawlers.

Most of the blogging platform have built-in language declaration facility but, blogger don't have this feature. We have to do this manually in a blogger blog by adding HTML or XML attribution. In this small guide, you will learn how to add language attribution in your blog.

How To Declare Website Language In Blogger

Step 1 : Open your blogger account. Go to Template and edit the template in HTML form.

Step 2 :  Search for <html tag and paste the following line just below it.

lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"

After pasting the above code in your template, your template will look like something given below.

<html  lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US" 
b:version='2' class='v2' expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' 
xmlns:b='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/b' 
xmlns:data='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/data'

Step 3 : Save the template and you are done with it.

Note : Change the language code 'en' with the desired language code of yours.

Given below are the ISO language codes for different languages across the world.

Language	ISO Code
Abkhazian	ab
Afar	aa
Afrikaans	af
Albanian	sq
Amharic	am
Arabic	ar
Aragonese	an
Armenian	hy
Assamese	as
Aymara	ay
Azerbaijani	az
Bashkir	ba
Basque	eu
Bengali (Bangla)	bn
Bhutani	dz
Bihari	bh
Bislama	bi
Breton	br
Bulgarian	bg
Burmese	my
Byelorussian (Belarusian)	be
Cambodian	km
Catalan	ca
Cherokee
Chewa
Chinese (Simplified)	zh
Chinese (Traditional)	zh
Corsican	co
Croatian	hr
Czech	cs
Danish	da
Divehi
Dutch	nl
Edo
English	en
Esperanto	eo
Estonian	et
Faeroese	fo
Farsi	fa
Fiji	fj
Finnish	fi
Flemish
French	fr
Frisian	fy
Fulfulde
Galician	gl
Gaelic (Scottish)	gd
Gaelic (Manx)	gv
Georgian	ka
German	de
Greek	el
Greenlandic	kl
Guarani	gn
Gujarati	gu
Haitian Creole	ht
Hausa	ha
Hawaiian
Hebrew	he, iw
Hindi	hi
Hungarian	hu
Ibibio
Icelandic	is
Ido	io
Igbo
Indonesian	id, in
Interlingua	ia
Interlingue	ie
Inuktitut	iu
Inupiak	ik
Irish	ga
Italian	it
Japanese	ja
Javanese	jv
Kannada	kn
Kanuri
Kashmiri	ks
Kazakh	kk
Kinyarwanda (Ruanda)	rw
Kirghiz	ky
Kirundi (Rundi)	rn
Konkani
Korean	ko
Kurdish	ku
Laothian	lo
Latin	la
Latvian (Lettish)	lv
Limburgish ( Limburger)	li
Lingala	ln
Lithuanian	lt
Macedonian	mk
Malagasy	mg
Malay	ms
Malayalam	ml
Maltese	mt
Maori	mi
Marathi	mr
Moldavian	mo
Mongolian	mn
Nauru	na
Nepali	ne
Norwegian	no
Occitan	oc
Oriya	or
Oromo (Afaan Oromo)	om
Papiamentu
Pashto (Pushto)	ps
Polish	pl
Portuguese	pt
Punjabi	pa
Quechua	qu
Rhaeto-Romance	rm
Romanian	ro
Russian	ru
Sami (Lappish)
Samoan	sm
Sangro	sg
Sanskrit	sa
Serbian	sr
Serbo-Croatian	sh
Sesotho	st
Setswana	tn
Shona	sn
Sichuan Yi	ii
Sindhi	sd
Sinhalese	si
Siswati	ss
Slovak	sk
Slovenian	sl
Somali	so
Spanish	es
Sundanese	su
Swahili (Kiswahili)	sw
Swedish	sv
Syriac
Tagalog	tl
Tajik	tg
Tamazight
Tamil	ta
Tatar	tt
Telugu	te
Thai	th
Tibetan	bo
Tigrinya	ti
Tonga	to
Tsonga	ts
Turkish	tr
Turkmen	tk
Twi	tw
Uighur	ug
Ukrainian	uk
Urdu	ur
Uzbek	uz
Venda
Vietnamese	vi
Volapük	vo
Wallon	wa
Welsh	cy
Wolof	wo
Xhosa	xh
Yi
Yiddish	yi, ji
Yoruba	yo
Zulu	zu

I hope this small guide helped you to declare the language of your blog. Don't hesitate to ask anything related to this in the comments below.

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How To Stop Search Engines From Indexing Your Blog

When you start a blog you will be looking to get some traffic from the search engines. But, in the starting days of your blog, you will be adjusting the theme, adding more gadgets, and keep changing the layout of your blog many times. Also, the content will be very less. In that case, when a visitors will arrives to your blog, your blogs puts a negative impression on the user. Your blog will have a higher bounce rate and it will get a very low rank in its starting days.

There are some other people in this world who don't blogs for money. They write for their own and not to show to the world. It can be anything from their personal events to their study notes. In all cases, they just want to hide it from the world.

So the solution for above problems is to hide your blog from the world. In this post, I will show you how you can avoid search engines to crawl your blog's content. Once done correctly, search engines will stop indexing your content and search results will not show any of your post. 

Stop Search Engines From Indexing Your Blog

To stop search engines from indexing your blog's content, you have to make certain changes in your blog's settings.

First, open your blogger account and then go to Settings>>Basic>>Privacy.

When you edit Privacy settings, you will see two options first for avoiding search engine from crawling your blog's content and second for not allowing your blog to be listed on Blogger.

Now, select 'No' on both the options and save the changes so that your blog is no longer be indexed by search engines.

Once, your blog ready and filled with a lot of content, then you can simply change the above two options back to 'Yes'. It will allow search engines to crawl your blog and starts showing your post in the search results. 

This was a very simply guide to avoid your blog to show to the world. I hope this helped you. If you like this blog, then don't forget to subscribe to get all the new post directly in your mail box.

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Automatically Remove Spam Links In Blogger Blog

You might have noticed some links in the comments on your blog or may be some other blog. Sometimes they relate to the topic and sometimes they are just useless. Once I have also seen beauty related blog links on my blog. These are just unnecessary things people do it to get back link.

It is very annoying for bloggers and they don't want it on their blog. You can do remove all your spam comments manually but it is a very long process. In this post, I will show you a very simple method to remove spam links from your blog's comments.

Automatically Remove Spam Links In Blogger Blog : Method 1

Step 1 : Open your blogger dashboard. Go to 'Template' and click on 'Edit HTML'.

Step 2 : Now click anywhere inside it. Using the keys Control+F, open the search box.

Step 3 : Search for  ]]></b:skin> 

Step 4 : Paste the following code just above it.

             .comment-content a {

display: none;
}

Step 5 : Save the template and you are done.

If this method don't works for you then you can try next method.

Automatically Remove Spam Links In Blogger Blog : Method 2

Step 1 : Repeat Step 1 and Step 2 from above method.

Step 2 : Search for <body>

Step 3 : Paste the following code just below it.

             <!--Stop Blog Comments -->

<script>$('.comment-content a[rel$=nofollow]').replaceWith(function(){return ($(this).text());});
</script>
<!--Stop Blog Comments -->

Step 4 : Save the template and that's all.

I hope this tutorial helped you to protect your blog from getting spam links in comments.

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How To Make HTML Sitemap For Your Blog

A HTML Sitemap is a kind of page which shows all the post links on your blog from the start of your blog. It usually creates list of post in a systematic manner such as according to post's months and years or according to labels or categories.

When a blog becomes old, then it has a huge number of posts, may be more than 500, then it becomes difficult for the users to reach all the posts. Even labels and categories are not enough to maintain all clearly. So, in this case, the importance of Sitemap becomes even more because it helps to search and look for all the previous posts very easily on a single page.

Some benefits of a Sitemap are -

• Makes your blog more user friendly
• helps in improving page views 
• useful for crawlers
• more chances of your articles getting bookmarked by the users

In this post, I will show you how you can also create a Sitemap for your blog by just following some simple steps.

Make/Create HTML Sitemap For Your Blog

Step 1 : Go to XML Sitemaps

Step 2 : Fill the required details of your blog. Choose frequency according to your need. Keep other field unchanged and click on Start.

Step 3 : Now you will see list of sitemaps in different formats. Download the HTML sitemap as shown below.

Step 4 : Open the downloaded file in notepad, you will see HTML code, copy the whole text. Now open your blogger's dashbaord and create a new page and name it as 'Sitemap'.

Step 5 : Now edit the page in HTML form and paste that copied code there.

Step 6 : Publish that page and you are done with it. You have successfully created a sitemap for your blog.Open that page and you will see all your previous posts.

I hope this post helped you. If you face any problem using it, then feel free to comment below.

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How To Avoid URL Redirecting To Country Specific URL In Blogger

You may have noticed many times that when you open a blogspot blog, the URL of that page redirects to the extension based on your location. For example, when you open a blog with name example.blogspot.com from India, then it will automatically redirects to example.blogspot.in. This happens with every blogspot blog and every time depending on the users location. Generally, most of the bloggers don't care about this and they simply ignore it. But you may be surprised to know that it has some negative effects.

Following are some negative effects of URL redirecting to country specific URL -

• Social media stats like Google+1s, Facebook likes and tweet counts for your blog posts may be diluted because the URL of the same post will become different for different users.
• If you are using an external commenting system then it may cause problem in time of comments.
• It will affect your Alexa rank because the number visits is divided between different countries.

You can avoid this URL redirection by following these simple steps given below.

Avoid URL Redirection To Country Specific URL

Step 1 : Open your blogger's dashboard. Go to 'Template' and click on 'Edit HTML'.

Step 2 : Click anywhere inside the code and then using the keys Control+F, open search box.

Step 3 : Search for </head>

Step 4 : Now copy and paste the following code just above it.

              <script type=”text/javascript”>

var blog = document.location.hostname;

var slug = document.location.pathname;

var ctld = blog.substr(blog.lastIndexOf(“.”));

if (ctld != “.com”) {

var ncr = “http://” + blog.substr(0, blog.indexOf(“.”));

ncr += “.blogspot.com/ncr” + slug;

window.location.replace(ncr);

}

</script>

Step 5  : Save the template and that's it. You are done with it. Now your blog is permanently set to example.blogspot.com.

I hope this tutorial helped you. Please comment here if you have any queries.

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Benefits Of Using a Custom Domain For Your Blogspot Blog

When you start a blog and you have don't any past knowledge, then it is likely to you to use free platform like Blogspot or Wordpress. You will have a domain name like name.blogspot.com and this is known as free domain name. A custom domain name don't have the word blogspot in it. It will look like name.com and you can see that the second one looks more beautiful.

As a new blogger, you don't want to put your money at risk so you prefer to go with the free domain name, but if you are serious about blogging or you wants your blog to get good rank and earn money then it is the biggest mistake. In this post, I will tell you why this is the biggest mistake and why you must invest 10-12$ per year in your blog.

Many bloggers who are using free blog on Blogspot and Wordpress don't care to buy a custom domain for their blog. They just keep on blogging for several months and years. They starts to get a good traffic and then they realize to go for a custom domain name but it will be too late at that time. There are tremendous examples of free blogs which receives a good amount of traffic but still using free domain.

Their are so many benefits of using a custom domain and I think most of the bloggers already knows about it. They just think to establish that blog and pay the price of domain by earning from the same blog. They need to understand that profit comes after investment. Given below are some of the disadvantage of not using the custom domain right from the start.

Disadvantages of delaying the use of custom domain name 

1. Suppose you are blogging for more than 1 year or may be 2. Then it is a sufficient period to get ranked well for a blog. Your blog will have a Google and Alexa rank depending on its content and backlinks. Now when you change the domain name from free to custom, then your new domain name will not have that same Google and Alexa rank. It will be treated as a new blog and you have to start from beginning. No doubt, this time your blog will rank faster than before, but you have to work again from the start.
2. If you have a feed at feed burner for your blog, then you have to change its name. Doing this will lead to the unsubscription of some of your previously subscribed readers. This will directly reduce the amount of traffic on your blog and also the earning.
3. If you are using Google analytic and webmasters tools, then you to update that also.
4. Search engines would not index your newly added custom domain for few days. It will take some time for search engines to get updated your links from old domain to new custom domain.
5. You will have to update your domain name on every social media platform which you are using to promote your blog.
6. It may also happen that you will not get the name of your brand. For example, if your blog name is apple.blogspot.com then it may possible that you will not get the name apple.com for your blog. In that case you have to change your brand any other similar term like redapple.com. This will be a serious loss to your blog. You have to start building your name from the start. The previous reputation among the readers will be wasted.
7. You have to submit your blog to Google and other search engine and directories.
8. You will have to work again in building backlinks. Otherwise, you will not reach your old pagerank easily.

As you can see there are plenty of disadvantages of not using custom domain name right from the start. The cost of a domain name is nothing in front of the price which you will pay later. I know there is a risk that you may not make your blog to make money but in that case also, your major loss is the precious time which you invested in your blog and not the 10$ of domain name.

Now I described you about the disadvantage of delaying the use of custom domain name. Given below are some of the benefits of using custom domain name over free domain.

Benefits of using custom domain name

1. Using the custom domain name from the start will help you to rank fast in the search engines. Search engines always prefer the clean domain name rather than free one, so you will have more chances to get your blog on higher search results.
2. You can have your brand name from the start.
3. Your blog will receive more traffic from the search engines and therefore it helps you to make more money.
4. If you wants to monetize your blog with Google Adsense, then using a custom domain name increases your chances of getting approved. 
5. Your Alexa rank will be improved much faster because Alexa don't like free domain names.
6. Using custom domain name makes your blog more Search Engine Optimized. 
7. The most important is that you don't have to suffer from the problems listed above. You just have to work on improving your blog and there is no looking back due to changing of domain name.

I hope you understands the importance of this point. If you are really serious about blogging and wishes to make money from blogging, then you must follow this important step. 

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Beautiful Guest Author Info Widget For Blogger

Guest Blogging is a most useful technique to get traffic for your blog. If you are blogging over a long period then you must have heard of that term. This post is for those who have a well established blog getting good traffic. If you have a successful blog then you may be getting guest post by others blogger. Guest post are very important when you are busy and you don't have time to write new post in your blog. These guest post updates your blog regularly and keep growing the traffic.

Guest bloggers are giving their work and time to your blog. So, in return, they also wants good backlinks. It is very helpful if you show their profile at the end of the post. You have seen this in many other blogs.

Add Guest Author Info Widget Below Post

1. Open your bloggers dashboard. Go to 'Template' and click 'Edit HTML'.

2. Click anywhere inside the code and then using the keys Control+F, open the search box.

3. Search ]]></b:skin> 

4. Now copy and paste the given below code just above it.

    /****My Online Destination*****/

.mod-author-box {
background: #f6e4db;
margin: 5px 0 20px 0;
padding: 12px;
border: 1px solid #e3e3e3;
border-radius:5px;
box-shadow:2px 2px 1px #e3e3e3;
overflow: hidden;
color: #3b3b3b;
font-size: 14px;
font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;
line-height: 1.6em;
}
/****www.myonlinedestination.com*****/
.mod-author-box p {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
.mod-author-box img {
background: #FFFFFF;
float: left;
margin: 0 10px 0 0;
padding: 5px;
border: 3px solid #e3e3e3;
}

5. Save the template.

6. Now edit the post in which you wants to show the author profile.

7. Edit the post in HTML.

8. Paste the following given code at the end.

   <div class="mod-author-box">

<img alt="author-pic" height="85" src="IMG" width="85" /> <strong>About Guest Blogger</strong><br />Write the information of guest blogger here</div>

Customization

• Change the IMG with the URL of the image of your guest author
• You can change 'About Guest Blogger' with any other heading as you want

9. Publish the post and you are done with it.

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How To Create Privacy Policy Page For Your Blog

A Privacy Policy is a statement or legal document that discloses some or all of the ways a party gathers, uses, discloses and manages a customer or client's data. A Privacy Policy page is must in a blog because it makes your blog to look more professional. Also, Google Adsense and some other advertising networks looks for privacy policy page to approve you in their advertising network.

You can make a Privacy Policy page by yourself if you have that kind of knowledge. However, most of the bloggers don't have that skills to make privacy policy page. In this post, I will teach you, how you can create your privacy policy page for your blog in less than 5 minutes.

Create Privacy Policy Page For Your Blog

Step 1 : Go to www.serprank.com and register a account.

Step 2 : Now go to http://www.serprank.com/member-tools/privacy-policy-generator-google-adsense/. You can also find this in "Members Tools" section.

Step 3 : Now fill your blogs URL and Email address. 

Step 4 : If your blog uses cookies,(if you are showing advertisement then your blog is likely to use it) then select 'Yes, we use cookies' otherwise select 'No, we don't use cookies'.

Step 5 : Now fill the advertiser information, mark the advertising platform which you are using to monetize your blog.

Step 6 : Now click on'Create my Privacy Policy'. You have successfully created a privacy policy page for your blog. Now copy that text shown to you.

Step 7 : Open your bloggers dashboard and create a new page in "Pages" section. Name your page "Privacy Policy" and paste the copied text in that page and Publish it.

That't all you have done to create your privacy policy page for your blog. I hope this tutorial helped you. Please leave a comment if you feel satisfied.

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