Adsense ads not showing and ads.txt warning

Marketing
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Hi,

For some reason, my Adsense ads have stopped showing on my websites. Today I noticed a warning in my account saying:

“Earnings at risk – One or more of your sites does not have an ads.txt file. Fix this now to avoid a severe impact on your revenue.”

I have now added this file, but the ads are still not showing and the error message is still showing.

Does anyone know how long this takes to update?

Thanks

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Once an ads.txt file is set up on your domain, the Google crawler will:

  • Attempt to crawl the file every 24 hours.
  • Parse the content of the file to determine seller IDs that are authorised to monetise your inventory.
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Thank you.

Does this explain why my site doesn’t show the ads anymore? When I check the sites, the space that an ad normally takes up is there, e.g. a square. There is just nothing there.

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From what I understand it should not stop the ads being displayed. I should dig around in your AdSense account and see if there’s anything amiss. If not, check your code.

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Nothing has changed including code.

I’ve googled it and it says the account is suspended, but i’ve checked my status and the account is open.

Any ideas?

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Ah well, if the account is suspended that would account for your ads not showing!

If there are no clues as to why it’s suspended and no way to re-activate it, you’ll need to contact Google. I doubt the account was suspended because of the ads.txt file.

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Thanks for the reply

My account is not suspended- it’s open

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Hi,

I’m still a bit at a loss as to why my ads aren’t showing.

The ads.txt file was added after they stopped appearing.

And this is what is on that file:

google.com, pub-XXX, DIRECT, XXX

I have also recently made a change to my robots.txt file which has the following in:

User-agent: *
disallow: /company/
disallow: /company/*
disallow: /company-dashboard
disallow: /phase-2

My account is saying open in the status.

Does anyone have any ideas why they would stop showing?

Thank

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