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“How do I make my Privacy Policy live up to Google’s requirements for AdSense Publishers?”

I get asked this question so much I thought I’d make a post about it.  Lots of people don’t realise what they need to include in a privacy policy to please Google when using the AdSense system.

Well there’s not too much to it.. If you look at my privacy policy you’ll see that I have a very personal approach because I’m a more personal person than most like to be when running websites.  I believe it portrays a more wholesom character.. But most will try to act 100% professional when making privacy policies so heres a template I’ve drawn up for you to use.  You may copy it directly or you can change it to your desires.  Either way, here’s a simple template:

On-Site Advertising

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our website in order to serve relevant advertisements.

Google’s use of the DART cookie enables the service of advertisements to our users, based on what pages and content you choose to view within our website.

Google offer you the option of removing yourself from this service if you may choose.  You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

I hope this helps many of you create or simply serve an AdSense compliant Privacy Policy for your website.  This template covers the most recent privacy policy update notice you will have recieved sometime in March 2009.

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Google PageRank has updated!

This blog has achived PageRank 2, which is great for such a new site!  Hopefully by the next PR update I will have achived great things here which will in turn reward me with a greater PR.

I am going to mess around with a few methods of increasing PR, and will release my methods here as I do so!

I hope you all got the PR you were hoping for.  Having looked around at peoples PR changes, I havent noticed such dramatic increases or decreases this time around! Hopefully this will change for the better next time!

I will post later about methods of increasing PR, so stick around for more information and resources on optimisation for SERPs and PR.

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We now have a Google pagerank checker tool!

If you’re not sure how this works, all it involves is you typing in your website’s URL, and it’ll retrieve your PageRank from the almighty Google!

Go to the PageRank Checker page now to check it out! Perhaps check how your sites are doing for PR?

I hope this gets some use… It’s there on a trial basis for now, if nobody uses it (I will be checking the my useage statistics) then I’ll remove it, because I hate things lying around redundant!

Hope you find this useful!

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