Ads.txt And Adsense Update Plus Other Stuff And Nonsense

I've just checked the date and it's been four days since I posted, oh my, how time flies when you're having fun. I use the word 'fun' loosely. It's just been hectic, which is good. It's been many years since I've sat and twiddled my thumbs, that's ironic, as I only have one and a half thumbs any way. No twiddling ever going to happen here. Now it would seem the ideal opportunity to update you on all things Ads.txt and Adsense, plus some other stuff and nonsense.

Just gonna 'ad lib' a bit here, no notes. Nothing 'phases' me anymore. Life's too short to get all hot under the collar when something 'irks' you. Ignorant drivers, rude shop assistants and random item breaking one day after the guarantee runs out. What is, is. Stuff bothers me but never to the extent that the polygraph needle would go berserk. Phrases like 'That's interesting' 'Not a problem, don't worry about it' and 'I'm sure you're right' seem to cover most situations.

One little 'bugbear' of mine, apologies in advance if any of you are offended, is the generic 'update' newsletter. From friend or family, once a year. An update of all that they have done, neatly typed with images and you name handwritten at the top. I would receive the occasional one and it was tolerable, then, a few years a go my sister started sending them. Blood or not, it got binned before reading. My bad but hey that's how I roll.

A few posts back I wrote about the 'Adsense' extravaganza.

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/twack/blog/google-adsense-ma...

After posting, I had noticed a few other posts concerning 'ads.txt' issues. No idea what they were but I pointed someone in the direction of a couple of other posts that seemed to address the 'anomaly'. Thought no more about it. I went to my 'Acceptance' email and clicked on 'Get started' Logged into the Google Adsense area and was pleased to see that I didn't need to do anything as there was already 'code' on my site, sit back and watch the 'Ads' appear, they said.

Before I indulged myself I clicked on the notifications. There for all to see was one about 'ads.txt'. Pretty much the same as the posts I had seen. 'Revenue seriously effected' or other such words. What to do ? Well, I read the little bit of info that Google supplied under 'Learn more'. I had heard of some nightmare issues and having to contact 'Site Support' so the outlook wasn't good. However, I had a hunch. One of the plugins on my site is 'Ad Inserter' (I think I first added this during the 'adsense ' part of the training. Adding code to 'header' sections was above my paygrade). I logged in and went to the plugins page, clicked on the 'settings' for the one in question and had a look round. There was a help section and one of the headings was 'ads.txt'.

Rather than trying to explain in detail, the bottom line was, I downloaded the 'ads.txt' code from Google and used the plugin to insert it. It took a couple of attempts as I forgot to 'save' but once I had done that, it was sorted. Within half an hour there were ads on the site. Simples. Had I not had the plugin, it may well have been carnage but you can only go with what you have.

As far as the adverts themselves go ? Well they look just fine and dandy, thank you.

Everything

seems to be 'big' on my site so the ads sit in quite well and so far haven't been 'In you're face'. I have since logged into the Adsense dashboard and everything is up and running, so all is good.

Other stuff and nonsense will have to wait, sorry, places to go, people to see, rights to wrong. I mean wrongs to right, Freudian slip, whoops.