Google Adsense Auto Ads not working on Blogger blogs

Google recently introduced Auto Ads to allow Google to automatically publish ads on websites. The advantage for website owner is the ease of Google Adsense implementation, ad optimization as Auto ads will identify any available ad space and place new ads there, potentially increasing your revenue.

But, Google Adsense Auto Ads does not work with Blogger Blogs, another Google Product. (as on 2 June 2018).

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How to add a cookie consent notification to Blogger? Cookie Consent Code Generator and Cookie Policy Page Generator

European Union (EU) laws require websites to give EU visitors information about cookies used on website. In many cases, these laws also require websites to obtain consent from the visitor.

Blogger is a blogging platform from Google and as such the platform is managed by Google. As a blogger, we are only using the system to post content. The management of the Blogger system is not in our control. Thankfully, Google have we have added a notice on Blogger to help meet these regulations. The notice lets visitors know about Google's use of certain Blogger and Google cookies on the Blogger blog, including Google Analytics and AdSense cookies.

To check the default cookie consent notification implemented by Blogger, refer to our previous blog post here - How To check Cookies notification in Blogger for European Union countries outside EU ? 

In case, if you are not satisfied with the default notification and you want to apply your own cookie notification, you can do so following the below steps.

To save you time and to use an existing tool/services for this purpose from silktide, we shall use an online cookie consent code generator to generate a code which can then be added to Blogger to generate the cookie notification prompt.
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How to add a cookie consent notification to Blogger?

Cookie Consent Code Generator

• Go to the link https://silktide.com/tools/cookie-consent/download/
• Choose a theme - where the cookie consent notification should appear. There are six options - full width top, full width bottom, pop-up right with dark and light background. Choose any one you desire and click 'Continue'
• Customize the message and button text displayed if desired.
• Add a link to your cookie policy page if you have. If not, leave blank to use the default link.
• Click Continue
• Copy the code generated as per the settings applied above

Integrating with Blogger:

• Login to your Blogger dashboard
• Click Layout > Add a gadget > Choose HTML/Javascript
• Paste the code generated from the above step
• Save
• You may keep the gadget anywhere
• Save Arrangement
• View your blog to check out the cookie notification.

If you need to edit the message, you can do so by going to https://silktide.com/tools/cookie-consent/download/, re-customize and get a new code. You can also edit the message by editing the contents of the HTML/JavaScript gadget you added.

How to add a cookie policy page to Blogger?

If you would like to add a custom cookie policy page on Blogger, you can do so by following steps.You can write your own cookie policy page by including details of cookies used on your website. Or to save time, you may also use a cookie policy generator and include it in Blogger.

Online Cookie Policy Page Generator

• Go to : https://cookiepolicygenerator.com/generator
• This online cookie policy generator presents a series of questionnaire for you to answer. Select the appropriate information relevant for your website.
• Based on the inputs, a cookie policy is generated
• Copy the final output.

• Login to your Blogger dashboard
• Click on Pages from the left sidebar
• Click New Page
• Give a title to the page. E.g. Cookie Policy
• Paste the output you copied from the online cookie policy generator
• Check some grammatical and punctuation errors if any
• Click Publish when done.

Note: If you want the cookie consent notification prompt to link to this cookie policy, go to https://silktide.com/tools/cookie-consent/download/ and include this link in the cookie policy URL field and regenerate the code as described above.

How To check Cookies notification in Blogger for European Union countries outside EU ?

European Union (EU) laws require websites to give EU visitors information about cookies used on website. In many cases, these laws also require websites to obtain consent from the visitor.

Blogger is a bloggin platform from Google and as such the platform is managed by Google. As a blogger, we are only using the system to post content. The management of the Blogger system is not in our control. Thankfully, Google have we have added a notice on Blogger to help meet these regulations. The notice lets visitors know about Google's use of certain Blogger and Google cookies on the Blogger blog, including Google Analytics and AdSense cookies.

In this post, we will check "How To check Cookies notification in Blogger for European Union countries outside EU?"

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How to hide / Show Blogger Widgets/Gadgets In Home Page, Post, Static Pages, Archive Page etc.

Blogger allows various gadgets or widgets to be included in Blogger blog. Also, apart from the default Blogger widgets, we can also include HTML or JAVASCRIPT codes in Blogger blogs. At times, we may not like to display the widget on all pages. Instead, we may want to hide widgets on certain pages. In this post, we shall see how to 'Hide / Show Blogger Widgets/Gadgets In Home Page, Post, Static Pages, Archive Page etc.'

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How to disable country specific redirection of Blogger Blogspot sites?

If you are using Blogger Blogspot, you might have noticed that Google redirects Blogger Blogspot sites to country specific URLs. For example, if I open this blog whose URL is techubber.blogspot.com, it gets redirected to techubber.blogspot.in, since I am from India. Similarly, a visitor from UK would see techubber.blogspot.co.uk and so on. You can find the reason from this update here why Google chose to implement country specific domain. In a nutshell, Google implemented country specific domains so that is a site need to be blocked in a certain country but made available on others. 

But for bloggers, it creates issues especially with social stats like Tweet counts, Google+, Facebook Likes and even Facebook comments. Therefore, many users prefer to disable the domain redirection. In this post we will see how to implement Blogger from redirecting to country specific domains.

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How to show labels widget expanded instead of collapsed in new Blogger theme 2017?

Google released new themes for Blogger in 2017 and they are great! If you haven't seen them, check them out here - Check out new responsive Blogger themes released by Google! They are modern and elegant design.  I have already blogged on some posts related to the new Blogger themes which you can find from this link - Blogger Themes 2017.

Now, one thing I wanted to change in the new Blogger theme I have applied on this site was to display labels expanded. Yes, the new Blogger theme show all the labels collapsed. So, a user has to click on the title or drop down to see first few labels and then click on "Show More" to see all the labels selected during the widget setup. I wanted to display at least the first few labels at least.

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How to resolve - Missing Facebook comments on Blogger sites due to country specific redirection

If you have applied Facebook comments on Blogger blog and you are not able to see some of the Facebook comments, this post is for you. In this post, we will discuss  how to resolve - missing Facebook comments on Blogger sites due to country specific redirection by Blogger.

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Facebook comment on website - Also post on Facebook - where is it displayed?

This is a post w.r.t a question I got via Facebook comment on a blog post on "How to add Facebook comments on Blogger site?" in another post (link here). The questions are given below. I won't be able to reply to him with screenshots in a Facebook reply. Hence, this post. And may be it will also be useful as a reference for others too. So, in this post, we will discuss what happens when a Facebook user comments on a website with Facebook comments integrated and where the comment appears when "Also post on Facebook" is selected by the commenter.

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How to display Google Adsense after the featured post or first post on Blogger new theme 2017?

Google introduced new themes for Blogger in 2017 and if you have applied those to your blog, great! Congratulations! In this post, we shall see how to display Google Adsense after the featured post or first post on Blogger new theme 2017. Not just Adsense, we can add and display anything else if desired.

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