My Google AdSense Account Approval and How to Fix the ads.txt File Issue

October 26, 2022

[Introduction]

So today is the day. [Short greetings] I feel delighted for my girlfriend’s sister ’cause today is her wedding day. Congratulations to the beautiful bride. 👰💒🎊

And as for me, I feel ecstatic as well because I received an approval letter for my Google AdSense application. Hooray! 😄👏 (Who wouldn’t be?) It took a while for the news to totally sink in though.

After months and months of working on my website; with all the studying, planning, engaging through applied learning with countless trial and error, designing, programming, and writing; I can say that getting the approval somehow paid off my tedious work, not completely of course. Once I see the numbers I want on my “Earnings” page, that’s the time I can say that it’s worth it. And that’s what I’m gonna be doing next, drive traffic to my website and create more blogs.

Anyway, I immediately logged in to my account and saw this notification.

WHAT IS THIS WARNING MESSAGE??? [Earnings at risk – You need to fix some ads.txt file issues to avoid severe impact to your revenue.]

I didn’t wanna panic so I just followed what Google AdSense suggested me to do.

[For your information] The ads.txt file contains your AdSense publisher ID which you need to declare as your advertising platform for your website. It should be uploaded to the root directory of your site.

If you are a WordPress user like I am, here’s what you should do.

First, download the ads.txt file from your Google AdSense account.

Log in to your WordPress account. Go to Plugins » Add New.

Search for Ads.txt Manager. Click Install Now » Activate.

Go to Settings » Ads.txt.

Copy the information from the downloaded ads.txt file to your clipboard and then paste it here. Click Save Changes and you’re done.

To confirm that you published your file correctly, go to your website in this format: https://yourwebsite.com/ads.txt If you can see the file in your browser, then you successfully configured the plugin settings.