Where is the ads.txt file?

@chrissmit, thanks for getting in touch.

The ads.txt and app-ads.txt URLs generated by this plugin are stored in the database similar to WordPress pages and posts. The files are not created so it’s expected that you can not see them when browsing the file listing on your server.

You can edit the contents of each in Settings > Ads.txt and Settings > App-ads.txt within the dashboard.

Hi

Thanks for the answer.

Why do I read on the Adsense page you should put the ads.txt file in the root directory of your site?

How can Google otherwise check if the necessary data is there?

Or is there anything else I should be doing? Like add this ads.txt file in my root directory?

By root directory of your site, they are referring to the URL rather than file location. So having the contents accessible at https://culturematters.com/ads.txt is meeting their expectations even though it’s dynamically generated rather than a actual file sitting on the server.

Thank you!

Why does the Site Kit plugin (Adsense) still tells me my ads.txt is ‘Unauthorized’ ?

@chrissmit you’d likely need to ask via the Site Kit support forum but I suspect they’re looking for an actual file in the directory instead of seeing what Ads.txt Manager renders at the expected URL.

I think I solved it. Not sure how. But it seems to work.

Thanks for the help!