Detailed Help On Setting Up Ads.Txt For Blogger/Blogspot

What is Ads.Txt

Authorized Digital Sellers otherwise known as Ads.txt is an empowerment by Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) which its sole purpose is to make sure your Ad is sold only to sellers which has been identified as Authorized; Example of such sellers are Google Adsense, Media.net and more.

Creating an Ads.txt file enables you to have control over who is allowed and who is not allowed to sell ads on your website this thus helps prevent Ad fraud and counterfeit inventory from being presented to the advertiser, if you are adding multiple Advertisers then you need to include a separate line in the file for each authorized seller, however each line in a publisher’s ads.txt list requires three pieces of data (plus a fourth optional field) separated by comma.

How to Manually Set up Ads.Txt for Blogger

Sign in to your Blogger account and on the left, click on Settings
Under “Settings,” scroll down and click on Search preferences.
Under “Monetization,” you will find “Custom ads.txt” click yes and click Edit.
Copy the settings given to you from your third-party monetization provider and paste them in the text box.
Then Click Save settings.

How to Set up Ads.Txt For Adsense on Blogger Blog

With the above details and guide you can manually declare that Google Adsense is fully authorized to sell your Ad Inventory, simply copy and paste the below code in the ads.txt box

google.com, pub-0000000000000000, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0

Replace pub-0000000000000000 with your own "Adsense Publisher ID"

How To Find Your Adsense Publisher ID

Publisher ID serves as a unique identifier for your Adsense account, here is how to find it below:

Sign in to your Adsense account. (Continue if you are already signed in)
In the left navigation dashboard, click on settings.
Click Account, and then click on Account information.

You can also find your Adsense Publisher ID by viewing your source code just type view-source:yoursite.com on your computer click on Control+F and type Pub- before you finish typing you will be presented with your Publisher ID.

When you have successfully added Ads.txt file to Blogger you can check the content on your Ads.Txt file by going to http://yoursite.com/ads.txt.