Adsense issue

Technical Details

Forum version : #phpBB3
Position : Founder
Concerned browser(s) : Google Chrome
Who the problem concerns : Yourself
Forum link : http://anorakzone.forumotion.com/

Description of problem

I realise this is a very common forum support issue, and I've looked at previous threads on the topic, but I cannot get my Google Adsense ads to display.

I've added the code,, edited the text.ads, paid for the upgrade, etc... but it still won't work.

Any help much appreciated, thank you.

Hi @Anorak123

Don't forget you have to have the ads disabled for guest and members.
Read the following tutorial in order to know exactly how this works
https://help.forumotion.com/t155625-monetization-of-your-forum#1070898

Best regards.

Hello,

Aside from what mpelmmc said. It also takes a few days for the ads to start showing up.

-Brandon

It takes from 1 hr up to 5 days to work this is down to google or the host crawling your site for the ad's link on your forum. Then they turn it on their end.

Thank you, it does seem like I've done everything I need to do... there's no button I need to press to let their bots visit or anything, is there?

No, they should come on their own. It just takes a few days.

One thing that the other end is still registering (and I should have mentioned this, sorry) is that it claims I haven't put the publisher's ID in the ads.txt file... even though I have.

There are 2 places you have to add things for the ads.

AP > General > Forum Promotion > Search Engines
Meta Tags

AP > Misc. > Ads.Txt

SLGray wrote:There are 2 places you have to add things for the ads.

AP > General > Forum Promotion > Search Engines
Meta Tags

AP > Misc. > Ads.Txt

Thank you, I'll try that and see how it goes.

There does seem to be an issue with needing to upload a HTML verification document from google. Is there a way I can do this?

Thank you.

I still don't seem to be seeing the ads after a couple of weeks.

When I check your CSS, I can see that there should be ads.  It could be that you have something that is conflicting with the ads' coding.

SLGray wrote:When I check your CSS, I can see that there should be ads.  It could be that you have something that is conflicting with the ads' coding.

Thank you. Would you have any idea as to what?

Hello @Anorak123

We don't see any Adsense ads on your forum because we didn't add your line in the ads.txt of the root domain (available on https://www.forumotion.com/ads.txt).

We will update it this week and it will solve your issue

The Godfather wrote:Hello @Anorak123

We don't see any Adsense ads on your forum because we didn't add your line in the ads.txt of the root domain (available on https://www.forumotion.com/ads.txt).

We will update it this week and it will solve your issue

Thank you.

(Does this mean I get an extension on my upgrade, given that it wasn't active and I lost some revenue as a result?)

No sadly we can't give you any more days as the system is installed automatic

APE wrote:No sadly we can't give you any more days as the system is installed automatic

Well, thank you for your help with resolving the issue. Though it's a shame a product I've paid for hasn't worked for a month.

Maybe @Shadow or @The Godfather may have a way of helping you but I don't think they can.

Lets see if they reply back to you on it

Hello

Anorak123 wrote:Well, thank you for your help with resolving the issue. Though it's a shame a product I've paid for hasn't worked for a month.

Google has announced since 2017 that the ads.txt file at the root of the subdomains would be taken into account from the beginning of the year 2018:

Google wrote:In 2017 Google will only crawl and enforce ads.txt files placed on root domains, ignoring files placed on subdomains. Ensure that sellers authorized for your subdomains are included in the ads.txt file you place on your root domain. We are planning to crawl and enforce ads.txt files placed on subdomains beginning some time in early 2018. We will provide further details when this feature is available.

At the end of last month, Google removed this mention on its websites without making any announcement. This problem is really specific to Google Adsense. You can contact Google for any complaint regarding this fact.

So we will update the ads.txt file this week as soon as possible

The Godfather wrote:Hello

Anorak123 wrote:Well, thank you for your help with resolving the issue. Though it's a shame a product I've paid for hasn't worked for a month.

Google has announced since 2017 that the ads.txt file at the root of the subdomains would be taken into account from the beginning of the year 2018:

Google wrote:In 2017 Google will only crawl and enforce ads.txt files placed on root domains, ignoring files placed on subdomains. Ensure that sellers authorized for your subdomains are included in the ads.txt file you place on your root domain. We are planning to crawl and enforce ads.txt files placed on subdomains beginning some time in early 2018. We will provide further details when this feature is available.

At the end of last month, Google removed this mention on its websites without making any announcement. This problem is really specific to Google Adsense. You can contact Google for any complaint regarding this fact.

So we will update the ads.txt file this week as soon as possible

Thank you.

Hi,

This problem still hasn't resolved itself. Grateful for any help you can provide.

Hi, this still doesn't seem to be working?

Hello,

Our Ads.txt files are up to date and we sent them back online at the end of last week. if despite this the problem persists, it unfortunately does not depend on us. As previously stated :

The Godfather wrote:...This problem is really specific to Google Adsense. You can contact Google for any complaint regarding this fact.

Thank you for your understanding.