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Owlsonline Admin Posted March 30, 2022 Posted March 30, 2022 I've got a message on my adsense login which requests to prevent loss of revenue download an ads.txt file then upload the file to the root level domain As a newbie to the community where does this go/how do I upload it? I've opened the file and seen some code, does that need inputting somewhere?
My Sharona Posted March 30, 2022 Posted March 30, 2022 ACP > Pages > Pages Management; Pages > Add Page > Page Name; ads.txt > Content > [add content] > Save
Owlsonline Admin Posted March 30, 2022 Author Posted March 30, 2022 Thanks My Sharona, think I've managed to follow your instructions. Well, I'll soon see anyway! My Sharona 1
Stuart Silvester Posted March 30, 2022 Posted March 30, 2022 If you're adding it via Page, make sure that you've disable the "Use Suite HTML Wrapper" setting. edsovn and My Sharona 2
Owlsonline Admin Posted March 30, 2022 Author Posted March 30, 2022 Brilliant, Thank you Stuart. I've just done that now and re-saved it. Hostingunlock 1
Owlsonline Admin Posted May 25, 2022 Author Posted May 25, 2022 I've just had another message from Adsense like the original one, but nothing has changed as far as I know.... I've added in the ads.txt file again... Is this something that happens from time to time? Is there somewhere else to input the ads.txt too that I'm missing?
Mark H Posted May 25, 2022 Posted May 25, 2022 If you created that file in the Pages app following the steps in the guide carefully, it should have satisfied the Adsense requirement. Can you please double-check that you do have that Page created, that it still is shown in the ACP, and that it is set up following the guide? (Make sure all fields or menu choices match what the guide says.) EDIT: That guide is somewhat generic, so for ads.txt you have to fill in the info required by Adsense. The "Content" sub-tab field would be the code block which Adsense provides.
Randy Calvert Posted May 25, 2022 Posted May 25, 2022 Can you post a link to your ads.txt? It should just be www.yourdomain.com/ads.txt. I'm just wanting to check to make sure you've properly disabled the default HTML wrapper.
Owlsonline Admin Posted May 27, 2022 Author Posted May 27, 2022 google.com, pub-3725914185598757, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0 On 5/25/2022 at 6:50 PM, Randy Calvert said: Can you post a link to your ads.txt? It should just be www.yourdomain.com/ads.txt. I'm just wanting to check to make sure you've properly disabled the default HTML wrapper. That's exactly what it is Randy.. Just the domain and the ads.txt and as you can see from the image above, the HTML wrapper is disabled On 5/25/2022 at 6:49 PM, Mark H said: If you created that file in the Pages app following the steps in the guide carefully, it should have satisfied the Adsense requirement. Can you please double-check that you do have that Page created, that it still is shown in the ACP, and that it is set up following the guide? (Make sure all fields or menu choices match what the guide says.) EDIT: That guide is somewhat generic, so for ads.txt you have to fill in the info required by Adsense. The "Content" sub-tab field would be the code block which Adsense provides. It's definitely there and I followed the instructions. It's been fine ever since I first created the page (date at the start of this thread) but changed this week!
Randy Calvert Posted May 27, 2022 Posted May 27, 2022 Can you actually browse to the ads.txt file and see the contents correctly? If so… you can ignore the warning. It will be fine.
rastafari Posted May 27, 2022 Posted May 27, 2022 Why you don't upload ads.txt at the root of your server? ptprog and Owlsonline Admin 1 1
My Sharona Posted May 28, 2022 Posted May 28, 2022 (edited) On 5/27/2022 at 10:46 AM, Randy Calvert said: Can you actually browse to the ads.txt file and see the contents correctly? If so… you can ignore the warning. It will be fine. Randy is correct here. If you click on the "Learn More" option to the notification, you will see what AdSense is expecting to be in your ads.txt file. Open your own ads .txt file with the following url; xxx.tld/ads.txt/ and see if it contains what you need to have there as specified by the, "Learn More" notification. Edited May 28, 2022 by My Sharona Owlsonline Admin 1
Owlsonline Admin Posted May 29, 2022 Author Posted May 29, 2022 (edited) On 5/27/2022 at 3:46 PM, Randy Calvert said: Can you actually browse to the ads.txt file and see the contents correctly? If so… you can ignore the warning. It will be fine. Yeah, and it's the same as the download. So hopefully it will go away! Edited May 29, 2022 by Owlsonline Admin
Owlsonline Admin Posted May 30, 2022 Author Posted May 30, 2022 On 5/27/2022 at 7:00 PM, rastafari said: Why you don't upload ads.txt at the root of your server? Is there a 'how to' on this? Sorry to be a pain!?
Randy Calvert Posted May 30, 2022 Posted May 30, 2022 39 minutes ago, Owlsonline Admin said: Is there a 'how to' on this? Sorry to be a pain!? If you have FTP access (meaning you're not hosted in the IPS cloud), you just create a file called ads.txt with that content and put it in your root folder of your site. If you're hosted on IPS cloud, you don't have FTP access and you would have to use the article noted above to create the file.
Owlsonline Admin Posted May 31, 2022 Author Posted May 31, 2022 (edited) It's weird as that 13 hours ago, Randy Calvert said: If you have FTP access (meaning you're not hosted in the IPS cloud), you just create a file called ads.txt with that content and put it in your root folder of your site. If you're hosted on IPS cloud, you don't have FTP access and you would have to use the article noted above to create the file. I am hosted on cloud, but It's strange as this above is exactly what I've done with the ads.txt file/details. It was all fine, then all of a sudden, not! do I need to put the robot.txt in too? The adsense learn more link doesn't say so Edited May 31, 2022 by Owlsonline Admin
Randy Calvert Posted May 31, 2022 Posted May 31, 2022 Again this could be a false positive issue. Has your earnings dropped to almost 0? If not it’s most likely simply a false alarm.
CheersnGears Posted May 31, 2022 Posted May 31, 2022 20 hours ago, Owlsonline Admin said: Is there a 'how to' on this? Sorry to be a pain!? I'm assuming you are owlsonline.com. If so, the url owlsonline.com/ads.txt returns a text file with txt that looks quite similar to mine but with a different publisher id, which means as long as your publisher ID matches what you see in your adsense console, you should be fine and you're good to go. Owlsonline Admin and andavis 1 1
Owlsonline Admin Posted June 1, 2022 Author Posted June 1, 2022 20 hours ago, Randy Calvert said: Again this could be a false positive issue. Has your earnings dropped to almost 0? If not it’s most likely simply a false alarm. It has dropped, below but not too dissimilar to what it was this time last year. And it seems like things have sorted themselves out now, the warning has gone. So all should be good... THANK YOU EVERYONE, you're all legends! CheersnGears 1
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