Are you wondering on how to set up Google Adsense Ads.txt on your blog or you just log in to your Adsense account, a pop-up notice appeared telling you that your earnings are at risk? because you have not implemented Ads.txt on your site
Ads.txt is a new initiative Introduced by (Interactive Advertising Bureau ) IAB Lab Technology, Ads.txt is short for Authorize Digital Seller, to enable publishers to take control over who can sell their ad inventory
With this measure in place, Advertisers will get full details of how their Ads were served including the impression source
It was aimed at weeding out Fake and invalid Traffics from Publishers and prevent Frauds in order to protect Advertisers from ad frauds. If you are using Google Adsense or any other Adserving platforms, it’s one of the required steps that are required before you can start showing ads,
Failure to comply may lead to limited Ad Serving or No Ads at all on your blogs, Google has been on the frontier to ensure there is transparency on how advertisers are billed and this is a Must-do action for anyone intending to use Google Adsense
So I am going to Show you how you can Quickly Add Ads.txt on your Blog, This implies WordPress, Bloggers or any other platform your using
How to Setup Google Adsense Ads.txt Quickly on your Self Hosted blog
The easiest way to do this is to create a text file using notepad in your windows computer or any other
Go to Start on Windows 7, 8 or 10 and type notepad
copy the code google provided for you which looks like this
google.com, pub-0000000000000000, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0
Replace the “Pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxx” with your Adsense ID, you can find this by logging into your Adsense account
When you click on Account your account Information will display like this
Copy your Pub ID, I cleaned out mine in the picture, use it to replace the Pub-000000000000 in the original text.
login directly to your website control panel or you can use your site FTP and upload the text document you just created. name it “ads” the extension will end in “txt” ( ads.txt)
After Uploading it on your root Public_html folder it should be accessible like this www.yoursite.com/ads.txt
Another Way to Add ADS.TXT on WordPress using Plugin
Login to your WordPress admin Panel click on plugins, Click on “Add new” enter “Ads.txt” in the Search box and install the Plugin or you can also download the ADS.txt plugin directly here and upload it to your WordPress
After Installation of the plugin go to Settings as shown in the image and click on Ads.txt then change the pub-0000000000000000 to reflect on your own publisher’s ID, then save
That’s All
It will Take up to 24hrs for it to clear out from Google Adsense Notification
How to Setup Google Adsense Ads.txt in Blogger Account
Login to your blogger account, locate your account settings as you can see in the picture,
Locate the settings, Click on Search Preferences
locate Monetization and enable the |Custom ads.txt, a text box will appear just copy this code and past in the box replacing your publisher’s ID
google.com, pub-0000000000000000, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0
Click on save , that’s All and wait for 24hrs for the message to clear up
This is pretty easy and can Take less than 6 seconds to setup, So if you are not sure on how to setup ads.txt on your custom blog just upload the txt file in your root folder.
I did it on this blog myself, Let me know if you succeed, or was the error still popping out after 24hrs?
Learn More How you can get Google Adsense Approval if you had not applied yet
Hi, I am Joshua Nwankwo, The CEO of Startup Ng and the founder of Afripals Interactive, Well I am a Civil Servant in Day time, a farmer at noontime and a Blogger in the evening.
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