I'm guessing it's an Adsense anomoly, but since moving to IC5, I've had the Ads.txt was not found error

Now, I've not changed anything, but all of a sudden in recent weeks, it's kept cropping up... Has anything changed with this process? So I can ensure the site continues to pick up revenue? I know obviously the rates can change of course.

Could I just check you have your ads.txt set up within the advertisement section of your admin CP? I have seen some set up in pages, which is not how it has been done for quite some time

Maybe that's it. I've got a client ID etc in the advertisement section but it looks different to the ads text blurb I used to have in 'pages'. SO I'm guessing that's where its falling down?

Sorry for the layman post! Would I just stick the adstxt in the HTML code box now then?

If you're using version 5, you'll want to use the ads.txt in the Advertisement Settings. You will need to paste in what your advertising provider has provided you.

I've done it, but now my 'earnings' today are $0.00.

I use adsense.

You would need to contact google if you have issues with those. We can only state where it is you need to add those correctly

Marc, is it just a case of popping the Ads.text in the advertisement section? And nothing else?

Because I'm getting an error which states - No ads.txt file was found when the site was last crawled.

57 minutes ago, Owlsonline Admin said:

Marc, is it just a case of popping the Ads.text in the advertisement section? And nothing else?

Yes, you would select "Yes" to "Set custom ads.txt?" and paste in your ads.txt in the available area. You will also want to rename or remove your Pages version of ads.txt as that may create a conflict.

Cheers Jim. I'll give that a whirl

Same issue with my cloud hosted site.

AdSense can't find the ads.txt file because it doesn't have Guest permissions. Any guest will see:

If an account is logged in they can access the ads.txt file.

I don't see anywhere to add Guest viewing permissions.

24 minutes ago, Tim Tyler said:

Same issue with my cloud hosted site.

AdSense can't find the ads.txt file because it doesn't have Guest permissions. Any guest will see:

If an account is logged in they can access the ads.txt file.

I don't see anywhere to add Guest viewing permissions.

Yeah, no.

Anyone can see your ad.txt file simply by appending your url with, /ads.txt.

Also... Google is quirky with regard to the ads.txt file. I used to get the same message and after checking my url with the, ad.txt appendage, I understood the file was there and it was an issue on Google's end. As such, after awhile I just learned to ignore it and after a couple days, the notice goes away. Though it does come back and then after a few days, goes away again. Wash, rinse, repeat, to whenever. Ultimately it does go away though.

YMMV

Sorry - but I can access the file via the url/ads.txt if the browser is logged in, but if the browser is logged out I get the Error I posted above. True story :)

Are you both adding it from the location shown by my colleague above?

Yes.

My ads txt URL started working as expected on Sunday morning.