How to fix ads.txt file issues for Blogger
Ads.txt file stands for Authorized Digital Sellers.This File is very important if you are applying for Google AdSense.Having your own ads.txt file gives you more control over who can sell ads on your site and keeps buyers from being shown fake inventory.But somehow on blogger people are not able to authorized the ads.txtOn they are blogs All websites. In this article I am giving you the solution of the ads.txt file will be shown on your Google AdSense account as authorized.
Fix ads.txt issues in AdSense for blogger / Blogspot
This solution is provided by the Google help forums for the blogger websites whose extension is blogspot.com. follow the below steps
Create an ads.txt file for your site
AdSense provides a personalized ads.txt file that you can download from your account. The personalized ads.txt file includes your publisher ID. Your publisher ID must be included and formatted correctly for your ads.txt file to be verified.
Sign in to your AdSense account.
If there's an alert on your homepage, click Fix now. Otherwise, click Sites.
Click the Down arrow to open the "Create an ads.txt file for..." message.
Click Download. Your ads.txt file is automatically downloaded.
(Optional) If you’re using another ad network, remember to add that network to your ads.txt file. Contact your ad network for their ads.txt information.
Upload your ads.txt file to the root directory of your site. The root directory of a site is the directory or folder following the top level domain (ytguruji.com/ads.txt).
To verify that you published your file correctly, check that you successfully see your file's content when you access the ads.txt URL (https://ytguruji.com/ads.txt) in your web browser. If you can see the file in your web browser, it's likely that AdSense will successfully find it.
Add your publisher ID to an ads.txt file
If your publisher ID is missing from your ads.txt file, you can copy it from your account and add it to your ads.txt file.
Sign in to your AdSense account.
If there's an alert on your homepage, click Fix now. Otherwise, click Sites.
Click the Down arrow to open the "Add your publisher ID to these ads.txt files" message.
Click Copy.
Paste the line into each of your ads.txt files.
Your ads.txt file should now look like this, where pub-0000000000000000 is your own publisher ID:
google.com, pub-0000000000000000, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0
Fix ads.txt issues in AdSense for blogger for Custom Domain
If you buy a custom domain for your blogger website then some steps are different which you earlier see and particularly if you buy a custom domain from godaddy.com then you have to change some DNS settings which I giving you.But if you are very new in this custom domain then I will suggest you can take help the GoDaddy customer service who helps you to perform the following steps.
@ or blank -> A -> 216.239.32.21
@ or blank -> A -> 216.239.34.21
@ or blank -> A -> 216.239.36.21
@ or blank -> A -> 216.239.38.21
and two CNAME records:
www -> CNAME -> ghs.google.com.
your-security-code -> CNAME -> gv-your-security-code.dv.googlehosted.com.
Please follow steps 2 and 3 in this help article:
Set up a custom domain
Also delete A-records with these IPs:
15.197.142.173
3.33.152.147
34.102.136.180 or similar
Disable "Forwarding" and "Parked" on GoDaddy, their team will tell you how.
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Wait for about an hour and refresh your HTTPS settings:
go to your https://www.blogger.com dashboard
open Settings tab
make sure "Redirect domain" is enabled
scroll down to "HTTPS"
disable "HTTPS availability"
wait 5 minutes and refresh the Settings tab
enable "HTTPS availability" again
wait 15-60 minutes* and refresh the Settings tab
enable "HTTPS redirect" - only if the status is "Available / OK"
then: clear the cache in your browser.
* Your SSL certificate will not be generated immediately, that's why you have to wait.
I hope this article will help you to fix the problem with ads.txt. if the problem still exists do let me know in the comment section.
