Adsense Privacy Policy

[retired_member33]

Have decided to start using Adsense again on a couple of sites on which affiliate ads dont seem to convert into sales.

To make sure I am not being banned I am implementing a privacy policy but I am unsure which one to use and how to handle this.

Is it ok to use a standard privacy policy from a privacy policy generator page such as http://www.serprank.com/privacy-policy-generator/ or would google see this as duplicate content?

And what would be the right thing to do.. Just index it or add a Noindex tag?

What do you guys use on your Adsense site?

Thanks

 

[Blossom]

It's fine to use a standard one. I personally would leave it to be indexed, maybe add a nofollow to it if you're fussed.

 

[retired_member33]

Thanks Blossom.

But Nofollow would mean Google wont be spidering the page? Wouldnt a Noindex be better?

 

[ratboy]

I can't see it being a real problem - they want to read a link to their privacy page i'd imagine to cancel automated warnings - but it'd be normal to have a few T&C and PP the same across sites surely?

 

[Blossom]

With nofollow Google will still see it but not count it for search rankings (at least that's what they say). If they have an automated process for checking to see if Adsense sites have a privacy policy (I don't know if they do or even if they check at all) then noindex would run the risk that it's not seen at all.

To be honest I'm not a big fan of internal nofollows or noindexing other than in the case of shopping baskets, potentially popular login pages etc. I don't tend to do it myself, a privacy policy is not a page that's going to attract attention or links. Having a one-off index page link rather than site-wide would help too.

 

[Sussexite]

If you make sure that your privacy page is in your sitemaps, then you don't have to have too many links to it from the rest of your site.

Google will find it, note it, and move on but you won't waste much link juice on it.

 

[AuthorityDomain]

Privacy policy is important and can affect if ads are shown or not and could ban your site or whole account if you don't have a privacy policy. I've had first hand experience and got banned but managed to get the ban cleared by adding a privacy policy and contacting the Adsense team and luckily they did accept it.

I've left my privacy policy as index,follow and seems ok although I have had unique content done for it just as a fail safe. Shouldn't matter too much.