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



Are your Google AdSense Earnings at risk?

This a common error message users see in their Google AdSense account when the ads.txt file has some issues on your website.

The message reads:

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

Well, this article is a full guide to solve your Earnings at risk issue in your AdSense account. Follow the steps and you will be able to solve the ads.txt error to fix the risking Adsense earnings error.

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

Cause:

Earnings at risk – message occurs when your website is missing the complete ads.txt file or missing the AdSense publisher ID in your ads.txt file.

Ads.txt is an important file if you show digital advertising from different ad networks and ad exchanges.

Google Says:

Authorized Digital Sellers, or ads.txt is an IAB Tech Lab initiative that helps ensure that your digital ad inventory is only sold through sellers (such as AdSense) who you’ve identified as authorized.

Creating your own ads.txt file and publishing it on your site gives you more control over who’s allowed to sell ads on your site and helps prevent counterfeit inventory from being presented to advertisers.

When your ads.txt file is missing or the AdSense publisher ID of your AdSense account is missing in your ads.txt file, you will see a red warning message in your Google AdSense account.

How to Fix “Earnings at risk” in AdSense?

Follow the soltuion step by step to fix the “Earnings at risk” issue in Google AdSense.

If your publisher ID is missing from your ads.txt file, you can copy it from your account and add it to your ads.txt file.

  1. Sign in to your AdSense account.
  2. If there’s an alert on your homepage, click Fix now. Otherwise, click Sites.
  3. Now hit the Download button to download the ads.txt file for your site generated by Google.
  4. Then open your site File Manager or FTP. Upload the file in root folder of your domain(s).
  5. After uploading, access your ads.txt file by visiting your site. Example: example.com/ads.txt
  6. Now wait for a few days. AdSense crawler bot will crawl your site and fix the issue for you.

Your can also create an ads.txt file directly on your website root folder. The file should look like this, where pub-0000000000000000 is your own AdSense publisher ID:

google.com, pub-0000000000000000, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0

Wrap up

This issue is very common among AdSense publishers and it can be fixed easily. Just make sure your ads.txt file is not blocked anyhow for the AdSense crawler bot.

And if you make any changes for your current issue wait for 1-2 weeks for the changes to show in your AdSense account.

NEXT READ: Fix AdSense Error “You have ad crawler errors, which can result in lost revenue.”

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