Earnings At Risk – You Need To Fix Some Ads.txt File Issues To Avoid Severe Impact To Your Revenue

by | Aug 19, 2019 | Web Development | 0 comments

I got this message from Google Adsense not too long ago and finally got around to addressing it. Don’t be intimidated by this task – it’s not as difficult to resolve. There’s a neat guide provided here: Google’s Ads.txt Guide. The guide is good BUT there was a lot of extra information I didn’t need. A couple of steps that helped me are listed below for quick reference. Take note that I only use WordPress self-hosted sites and a few Blogger-hosted sites.

  1. Go to your Google Adsense account and at the top, you will see a message saying “Earnings at risk – You need to fix some ads.txt file issues to avoid severe impact to your revenue.” To the right of this message will be two links: “Fix Now” and “Learn More”. Click on Fix Now. A download link button will be available for you not too far down the page with a list of sites you’ve associated with your Google Adsense account. Click the download link and take note of where your Ads.txt file is saved.
  2. For WordPress self-hosted sites, I use a cool plugin called File Manager. You could go to cPanel for this step but I opted to do it all from within my WordPress backend. With File Manager installed, I simply navigated to WP File Manager on the left-hand side of my WordPress backend and selected my “public_html” destination which is the root level of my website and simply drag-dropped the Ads.txt file in there.
  3. For Blogger hosted-sites, it’s a little different because they have a specific custom ads.txt “tool” which you can edit and save. So first you need to copy the contents of the previously downloaded Ads.txt file which will look something like this “google.com, pub-0000000000000000, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0”. Once this was copied into my clipboard, I logged into my Blogger account and navigated to Settings>Search Preferences and looked for Custom ads.text under Monetization. Enable Custom ads.txt and click edit, then paste in the contents of your Ads.txt file in here and click save. Your set!
  4. Test out by navigating to your sites ads.txt location. Sample www.abc.com/ads.txt, if all was done correctly you’ll see something like “google.com, pub-0000000000000000, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0”.

Sources:

  • https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/7532444?hl=en&ref_topic=7533328
  • https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-file-manager/
  • https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/1269077?hl=en

The Winchester Mystery House

Houzz TV: “Beyond the Ghost Stories of the Winchester Mystery House.”

Identifying Your Apple Device

The links below provide a comprehensive list of Apple Device models. macOS devices MacBook MacBook Pro MacBook Air Mac Pro iMac Mac mini iPadOS devices iPad iOS devices iPhone iPod watchOS devices Apple Watch tvOS devices Apple TV AirPort devices How to find the...

Meet VARRAM, A Smart Robot For Your Pet

A friendly, pet robot with a mobile application to keep your pet active, happy and healthy while you’re away.

Top 20 Safest Airlines for 2019, end of 4th Quarter

Air New Zealand takes the lead at the end of the 4th quarter of 2019 as the safest airline, according to airlineratings.com‘s Airline Safety Rating Tool.

Buy One, Get One FREE Pretzel!

Who loves pretzels? Whether it's for your own indulgence or for sharing, buy one and there's free one for taking! This offer is valid at participating U.S. Auntie Anne’s locations, expires Sept. 6, 2017. One coupon per purchase.

Layers

“Computer-generated dark and brutal geometric monoliths are dissected by invisible 3D objects to reveal the layers of the colorful and emotionally vibrant inner structures.” – Maxim Zhestkov

Pacific Rim: Uprising Trailer #1 (2018)

I really enjoyed the first film and after seeing the teaser and this trailer... this one looks like it has good potential to become a family favorite. Looking forward to this.

Meet da Vinci, a leader in robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery

“Transforming the field of minimally invasive surgery.” – Intuitive Surgical

Spider-Man Speed Painting by Nicolás Valese

Nicolás Valese Speed Paints Spider-Man.

Spider-Man: Homecoming Trailer #1 (2017)

I will admit that when I saw Spider-Man featured in one of the Avenger movies played by Tom Holland I wasnt convinced that the new Spider-Man could fill in the shoes of Tobey Maguire's take. However after watching this trailer I'm fairly interested again AND Marisa...