How To Easily Fix Missing Ads.txt File Notification in Adsense

Which reads:

Dear Publisher,
We’ve noticed that the ads.txt file on one or more of your sites that you monetize through this AdSense account (pub-0000000000000000) is missing the correct publisher code.
From mid-October, Google will stop buying ads on sites with ads.txt files which don’t include the correct publisher IDs. We recommend you update your ads.txt files immediately to prevent impact to your earnings. Make
sure that the ads.txt file for each site you want to monetize through this account contains the snippet below:

google.com, pub-0000000000000000, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0

At some point, Google advertisements stop serving / displaying on my site (the ad’s space will go blank), but I noticed the page views kept on increasing.

1. Your domain of the advertising system
2. Your Publishers account ID
3. The type of relationship existing between and partner (either DIRECT or RESELLER if you are working with a third party)

There is an optional 4th field which is the TAG ID of the source if the Trustworthy Accountability Group certifies them. Once created simply upload that file to your webserver so that it is visible at example.com/ads.txt and you are done.

Google is pushing hard on ads.txt. While they haven’t said that they will stop bidding on inventory that doesn’t have a corresponding ads.txt file, they will stop buying and selling unauthorized inventory in Q4 2017. In practice, that means that there is a more immediate risk to AdSense and Ad Exchange publishers from badly implementing ads.txt than not applying it. This makes it doubly important to ensure that: If you use an ads.txt file, You must include declarations for an AdSense and Ad Exchange accounts that you serve Those declarations need to be correct

If you publish ads on your blog or website through Google AdSense and want to implement ads.txt, You need to locate your publisher ID First. This can be found by logging in to AdSense account and then navigating to

Settings => Account => Account information. You will see Your publisher ID is in the format of pub-99999999999 with the nines replaced by your own 16 id digit number.

The entry of ads.txt for a publisher’s own Google AdSense account will then look like below:

google.com, pub-0000000000000000, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0

Please note: The TAGID for Google is always f08c47fec0942fa0.

1. Go to your Blogger Dashboard
2. Select which of the blogs affected as stated in the notification this is very important, That’s If you have multiple blogs on the same blogger account. (Mine was TECHZUMA)
3. Click on Settings Gear button
4. Click on Search Preferences
5. You will find a new option called Monetization which was recently added by Google, and by default, it will be disabled.
6. Click on it to enable it and then move to next step of operation.
7. Open your Adsense Account, you will see notification at the top of the dashboard telling you that Earnings at risk – One or more of your ads.txt files doesn’t contain your AdSense publisher ID. Fix this now to avoid severe impact on your revenue. It in red color, Click on the action button and you’ll be taken to your Adsense sites management page.
8. Google will automatically generate an Adt.txt file for you, now copy the code which will look similar to this google.com, pub-XXXXXXXXXX, DIRECT, XXXXXXX (please note that each Adsense account has his own unique code). Yours is different from mine.
9. Then paste the code You have copied from your Adsense dashboard into the Monetization space in step 5 above.
10. Now save your changes and wait for at least 12 to 24hours or 48hours in some cases before Google to pick up your changes and your authorizations. in my case it was just 5 hours.