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WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO BLOG LEGALLY?

You put a lot of time and effort into your blog so it’s important to blog legally and not get yourself in any trouble. Not only do you want to protect your own content, you also want to protect yourself from lawsuits or fines.

Complying with the law

In certain states and countries you are required by law to have legal pages on your blog. If a resident from one of these countries visits your blog, your blog has to be compliant with these laws, even if you don’t live there.

Complying with third party rules

A lot of third party services require you to have legal pages on your blog. Affiliate programs like Amazon won’t approve you as an affiliate if you don’t have a privacy policy and disclaimer in place.

If you use Google Analytics it’s a legal requirement that you have a privacy policy on your blog. Google Analytics tracks personal data and uses cookies which you have to be transparent about with your site visitors.

Ad networks like Monumetric, Media Vine and Google Adsense all won’t accept you if your blog doesn’t have a privacy policy in place.

Increase Credibility

Your site visitors are used to seeing privacy policies, disclaimers and terms & conditions on blogs. If your blog doesn’t have these pages you might lose credibility in their eyes. Having all required legal pages on your blog will increase credibility and trust within your readers.

Okay, so now we’ve discussedwhy you should protect your blog legally, let’s have a look athow you can achieve this.

7 STEPS TO MAKE YOUR BLOG LEGAL

1. Add legal pages to your blog
2. Create original content
3. Use fonts that are licensed for commercial use
4. Only use photos that can be used commercially
5. Add affiliate disclosures
6. Know if you need to be GDPR compliant
7. Find out if your blog needs to be CCPA compliant