Earnings at risk – You need to fix some ads.txt file issues to avoid severe impact to your revenue.

Earnings at risk – You need to fix some ads.txt file issues to avoid severe impact to your revenue.

Issue:

I'm facing this issue on my blog.Earnings at risk – You need to fix some ads.txt file issues to avoid severe impact to your revenue.i have entre correctly my adsense id to monetization section but this statement still showing my adsense.

Solution:

Even if you correctly added the ads.txt then it can take up to a month for that warning to go away. Yes, you read that right. The issue happens when you have multiple advertising system displaying their ad. You need to properly add all of them in the ads.txt file. Let's figure out how to verify that you have correct ads.txt file.

Intro:

The ads.txt Specification was developed in the spring of 2017. This document is the final ads.txt
Specification Version 1.0.2; a peer-reviewed standard developed with the support of the
OpenRTB working group. This document is available at https://iabtechlab.com/ads-txt.
The ads.txt specification focuses on protecting advertising inventory hosted by the website
publishing the ads.txt file. To meet the requirements for software applications distributed
through mobile app stores, connected television app stores, and other distribution channels of
that nature, refer to the companion app-ads.txt specification, also available at
https://iabtechlab.com/ads-txt.

About IAB Tech Lab

The IAB Technology Laboratory is a nonprofit research and development consortium charged
with producing and helping companies implement global industry technical standards and
solutions. The goal of the Tech Lab is to reduce friction associated with the digital advertising
and marketing supply chain while contributing to the safe growth of an industry.

FILE FORMAT

The data is encoded as a formatted plain text object, described here. The HTTP Content-type
should be ‘text/plain’, and all other Content-types should be treated as an error and the content
ignored. A complete description of the syntax of this format is given in section 3.4 below.

The format logically consists of:

● A non-empty set of records, separated by line breaks. The records consist of a set of
lines of the form:

<FIELD #1>, <FIELD #2>, <FIELD #3>, <FIELD #4>
or
<VARIABLE>=<VALUE>

Field #1 : Domain name of the advertising system --This field is required
Field #2 : Publisher’s Account ID --This field is required
Field #3 : Type of Account/Relationship --This field is required , It could be ‘DIRECT’ or  ‘RESELLER’
Field #4 : Certification Authority ID --This field is optional

Example:

SINGLE SYSTEM DIRECT
The first example is a website with only one authorized system that is directly controlled/operated by the website owner.

http://example.com/ads.txt
greenadexchange.com, XF7342, DIRECT, 5jyxf8k54

SINGLE SYSTEM RESELLER
The second example is a website with only one authorized system that is operated by a
separate company doing resale of inventory. Their advertising system has not been
independently certified, so no the optional fourth field is omitted.

http://example.com/ads.txt
redssp.com, 57013, RESELLER

 MULTIPLE SYSTEMS AND RESELLERS
The third example is a website with multiple authorized systems and multiple resellers. Some of
their authorized advertising systems are independently certified and have an ID issued.

http://example.com/ads.txt
# ads.txt file for example.com:
greenadexchange.com, 12345, DIRECT, d75815a79
silverssp.com, 9675, RESELLER, f496211
blueadexchange.com, XF436, DIRECT
orangeexchange.com, 45678, RESELLER
silverssp.com, ABE679, RESELLER

Create an ads.txt file for your site

1. Sign in to your AdSense account.
2. In the alert on your homepage, click Fix now.
3. Click the Down arrow Down Arrow to open the "Create an ads.txt file for..." message.
4. Click Download. Your ads.txt file is automatically downloaded.
5. Upload the file to the root level domain of your site (for example, https://example.com/ads.txt).

Root levels are one level down from what’s listed in the public suffix list. For example, "google.co.uk" is a root domain of "co.uk" but "maps.google.co.uk" is not.

Reference : https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/7532444

How to create ads.txt file on Blogger?

1. Log in to your Blogger account and select the blog.
2. Then click on settings and search preferences
3. On the ads.txt box write down your own ads.txt file code. And Cheers! Happy Blogging.

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