AdMob starts implementing support for app-ads.txt files

Question

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

Ensure that the app - ads.txt file is exe

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

You don't forgive this redirect:

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

Answer 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.