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 the-blogger-tricks.blogspot.com, it gets redirected to the-blogger-tricks.blogspot.in, since I am from India. Similarly, a visitor from UK would see the-blogger-tricks.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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How to show Google Adsense after the first post on Blogger home page (mobile and desktop)?

Google Adsense is the preferred advertisement platform for most Bloggers. It is very easy to implement. It can be added to the Blogger site in so many ways. But basically, in three ways -
1) By choose to auto display ads by Blogger
2) by adding the Adsense code in HTML/JavaScript widgets or
3) directly adding in the Blogger template.

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How to add Google Adsense in the middle of post content after read more in new Blogger themes 2017?

Have you checked out the new Official Blogger themes from Google? If you have not, then I recommend you to check out the previous post - Check out new responsive Blogger themes released by Google! And, if you have, then I am wondering if you are thinking how and where to place Google Adsense in the new official Blogger themes. You can also check out different regions where you can place and display Google Adsense ads on new Blogger Themes here.

Besides automatically displaying Google Adsense ads from Blogger or manually adding Google Adsense ads via HTML/JavaScript widgets / gadgets, if you intend to place Google Adsense ads in the middle of post content, then you can do so in the following steps.

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Different places to put Google Adsense in the new Official Blogger Templates 2017 (Notable Theme)

Have you checked out the new Official Blogger themes from Google? If you have not, then I recommend you to check out the previous post - Check out new responsive Blogger themes released by Google! And, if you have, then I am wondering if you are thinking how and where to place Google Adsense in the new official Blogger themes.

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Check out new responsive Blogger themes released by Google!

Image Courtesy: Official Blogger Blog

If you are one of those people who use Blogger to blog and are bored of the same old themes, you might want to check out the new Blogger themes released by Blogger! Officially announced on the Official Blogger Blog here on 20 March 2017, there are four sets of new Blogger themes released. Each theme seems to have been designed with mobile and responsiveness in mind. They look sleek and modern.

An excerpt from the Official Blogger Blog reads:

To make it easier for you to express your unique style, we�ve created a new set of blog themes for you to choose from. Each theme comes in a variety of colors, is fully customizable, and can be added to your blog with just a few clicks.

These themes aren�t only designed to look great, they�re designed to work great too. Each one has been built to automatically adjust to any screen and load quickly, so you can rest assured that your readers will be able to easily see your work whether they�re on a computer, phone or tablet.
Source: Official Blogger Blog

And if you are one of those people who think it was due, I agree. Blogger is used by many, and new themes should be released every few years at least.

Here are the four sets of new Blogger themes released this year ( March 2017):

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How to make Blogger widgets visible in Blogger Mobile template (also make Adsense visible in mobile template)?

In Blogger, the view on desktop computers and mobile devices are shown differently. By default, the template on mobile devices are stripped down and responsive. Not all sections or widgets displayed on desktop computers are visible on mobile devices. Most widgets manually added to Blogger will not be view-able on mobile devices. Adsense added from Blogger's Adsense widgets are visible however their display regions are only on the top and bottom of the page. Google Adsense code if added manually to the blog using Blogger HTML/JavaScript widget won't display on mobile devices. In order to show widgets visible on desktop to also show on mobile devices, including Google Adsense widgets, do the following changes.

How to enable widgets to display on mobile devices?

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How to order, add new videos to YouTube playlist automatically and embed YouTube video playlist in websites and blogs

In this post we shall see how to order videos in YouTube playlist, add new videos to YouTube playlist automatically and embed YouTube video playlist in websites and blogs. As you might already know, videos uploaded to YouTube can be groups by playlists. Playlist settings can be configured to order the videos in a playlist, add videos to the playlist automatically by defining rules for the playlist. The playlist can then be embedded to websites and blogs and the order of videos is maintained as you desired. Likewise, even new videos uploaded are automatically added to the playlist by rules defined in the YouTube playlist settings.

Check out this video for the steps to order YouTube videos, auto add new videos to YouTube playlist:

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Blogger Video Bar broken? Displays "This content isn't available over encrypted connections yet."

Blogger has a gadget or widget called "Video Bar" which allows us to display YouTube videos on our Blogger blog. The video bar has few settings that allows us to specify whether we want to display Most Viewed Videos and Top Rated Videos from YouTube. Or we can also specify channel(s) and keywords to filter and display.

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How to resolve Twitter is not displaying any images twitted from your blog or website? Check this.

Trying to share a link from your blog or website to Twitter but images are not showing up on Twitter? This post would probably help you to resolve the issue. Follow the steps in detail given below to show images on Twitter. Is it important to show images in tweets? Well, yes. People are generally more interested in checking out tweets if there are appropriate images along with the text. "Picture speaks a thousand words" still is common around here.

Usually, when we share links from our blogs or websites to Twitter, we don't want just a bunch of texts, hash tags and the URL but we expect some image to show up on our posts. But I found out the images does not show up on Twitter. Since, you are here, I am sure you have found out and looking for ways to let image appear on Twitter. So, let's get on with it.

Images on Twitter tweets are what Twitter calls "cards". There are four types of Twitter cards:

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How to make "You May Also Like" Related Posts or Link Within widget appear on mobile devices?

Showing "Related Posts" on blogs is a good way to keep viewers engaged with your blog. Once they are finished going through a particular blog post, your visitors may want to browse related posts on your blog. If you have a "related posts" or "you may also like" section, they can easily check out other articles on your blog. This is also good for reducing bounce rates. In my previous post, I discussed about how to add a "you may also like" or "related posts" section on Blogger blog using a free service from "LinkWithin". If you have not yet added a "related posts" or "you may also like" section on your blog, you can check out my previous blog post here -How to add "you may also like" or related posts widget for blogger? Though the article is about adding "You may also like" or "related posts" on Blogger blog, you can also use the "LinkWithin" service for other blogging platforms or websites as well.

"You May Also Like" Related Posts or Link Within widget not appearing on mobile devices?

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How To Setup A Custom Domain For Blogger Blog

In this post, we will discuss how to setup a custom domain for a blog on Blogger. By setting up a custom domain, the blog on Blogger will be accessible using the custom domain. Example: "www.yoursitename.com" instead of "yourblogname.blogspot.com". The first thing required for setting up a custom domain for Blogger blog is to have a custom domain name. So, if you do not have one already then go ahead and buy one from any domain registrant such as Go Daddy.

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