AdMob starts implementing support for app-ads.txt

问题:

I received a mail today titled AdMob starts implementing support for app-ads.txt files

Ensure that the app - ads.txt file is executed correctly before enforcing execution

At Google, we’re always committed to protecting your apps for the profit you want. One of the key challenges for applications is fraudulent publisher inventory from some abusers. To help publishers meet this challenge, we’re ready to support and implement app-ads.txt files in all ad systems to ensure that what advertisers spend reaches the desired publishers.

What is app-ads.txt?

App-ads.txt is an addition to the original ads.txt standard, which provides a mechanism for web publishers to advertise digital media vendors. It is designed to protect app publishers from fraud in the publisher inventory by fraudsters.

What changes will happen, and what do they mean to you?

We are happy to announce the support and implementation of app-ads.txt files in AdMob for publishers who have published the app-ads.txt file in their app developer domain, starting 2019-08-08.

To prepare for this change, please make sure that the app-ads.txt file published in your app's developer domain does not contain any errors or spelling problems.

How can you make sure that the app-ads.txt file is executed correctly?

If your file contains any errors or spelling problems, this will expose your ads to blocking, because any files posted are a source of verification for execution.

Therefore, it is extremely important to properly execute the file and correct any errors before 2019-08-08, otherwise the file will be unpublished from your domain to avoid any unwanted loss of profits.

As such, we invite you to carefully review the app-ads.txt file if you have published any files before the implementation date. The file must be published in the root directory of the website displayed in your listing on the Android Play Store or iOS App Store. You can get more details on the IAB hosting specifications.

I understand that the app-ads.txt is like Google Adsense ads.txt and is currently in the /ads.txt extension after the domain name, so How do I add the code to the new extension /app-ads.txt ?

回答1:

Ad Network Company has lunched app-ads.txt to prevent Ad Frauds and Here I Explain to you How to use app-ads.txt in Ad Network?

First of all, buy new domain relevant to your applications and add this domain(website) to your application store listing page now generate an app-ads.txt file from your Admob account

• Click on Apps from the left sidebar
• Click View All Apps
• Now click app-ads.txt file to generate publisher id.
• Now copy this code snippet and save it in app-ads.txt and put this file in the root directory of your domain.

Google will automatically crawl this file within 24 hours

回答2:

AdMob App-Ads.txt without Domain

There is no need to buy a domain name. If you don’t have a website, you can follow these steps.

1. Visit app-ads-txt.com
2. Register an account
3. Add your application
4. Generate your APP-ADS.TXT
5. Publish your APP-ADS.TXT: You will get one link to publish on your Developer Console (Store listing Website option) and wait 24 hours.

回答3:

You don't forgive this redirect:

This is in 'Custom Redirect', it works for me!

回答4:

I know this question since long time ago, but after a lot of searching and focusing I found the answer

1. Go to your Blog Dashboard > Settings > Search Preferences.
2. Now Under Error and Redirections, you will see Custom Redirects
3. Click on the edit link placed next to it.
4. Then click New redirect and enter non-existing or removed post URL path followed by root domain in From block. (/your-shorten-keyword) in our case (/app-ads.txt)
5. Next, enter the URL path followed by root domain in To block to where you would like to redirect. (like /p/page.html or /20xx/xx/post-title.html) in our case /ads.txt

For ease you can check the picture below :

Click Save changed and you're done!

Source

回答5:

The best solution i found is using Firebase Hosting (for FREE)

Then you don't have to have a website/domain for your app-ads.txt. You can host it for free on Firebase.

here is a HowTo from Google on how you can achieve this. Publish app-ads.txt with Firebase Hosting

The beauty of this solution is that you can still redirect to Firebase Url created to any website you want.

For instance in you Google Play account, you published the URL of your social Media as you website. without the redirection you have to put the Firebase URL there, but with the redirection, you can still have your own Website/URL in the Google Play Console and redirect the firebase URL to it. the user will not see any difference or changes.