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How to resolve Ads.txt Status Not Found error reported by Google adsense for the wordpress site?

When I was adding  WordPress website to my existing Google AdSense account using the Site Kit plugin by Google. My site ownership was verified and the Google AdSense snippet code was automatically placed on my website header section. The code is as follows. I replaced my publisher ID with the zeros.

<!-- Google AdSense snippet added by Site Kit -->
<script type="text/javascript" async="async" src="https://pagead2.
googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=
ca-pub-0000000000000000&amp;host=ca-host-pub-0000000000000000"
 crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

<!-- End Google AdSense snippet added by Site Kit -->

After that, I was asked to request for review and I got the following message We will run some checks on your site. This usually takes a few days, but in some cases, it can take 2–4 weeks. Learn more about site approvals. Then I visited the Google Adsense Sites section where it shows my Site URL, Approval status as, and ads.txt status as Not found. Then I clicked on the question mark next to Ads.txt status and it showed me the possible status and its meanings.

Check the status of your ads.txt file:

Not found: No ads.txt file was found when the site was last crawled.
Authorised: Your publisher ID was found in the site’s ads.txt file.
Unauthorised: Your publisher ID wasn’t found in the ads.txt file, and AdSense can’t show ads.
Not applicable: Your publisher ID isn’t needed in the ads.txt file.

This makes me realize that I forgot to create a ads.txt file on my new WordPress website root directory. When I checked  ads.txt on the website using this URL https://mywebsitename.com/ads.txt, I found 404 pages opened.

how to Add or place an ads.txt File in the WordPress root directory.

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  1. Admin

    You can create an ads.txt file in your WordPress website root directory by following these steps.

    1. Go to your WordPress website Dashboard.
    2. Click on Plugins in the WordPress menu.
    3. Click the Add New Plugin button at the top of the Plugins page.
    4. Type Filester in the Search Plugins area at the top right corner. This will search the plugin and bring in the results of File Manager Pro -Filester, an advanced File Manager and code editor.
    5. Click on the Install Now button on the filester plugin.
    6. Once the plugin is installed, click on the Activate button. Your filester plugin will get activated on your WordPress website, and a new menu option File Managerwill appear in your WordPress website dashboard menu.
    7. Click on the File Manager option on the menu. This will open the Filester plugin page, and in that, you will notice the public_html folder in the left menu as a main option under other folders like .private, wp-admin, wp-content, and wp-includes and on the right side, you will see these folders and other files like .htaccess, index.php, robots.txt, and others.
    8. Right-click on the right side, where all the folders and files appear, and a dialog will appear. Select, and a new continuous dialog will appear next to the first dialog box. Select TXT: Plain text. This will create a NewFile.txt in your root directory.
    9. Rename the NewFile.txt to ads.txt during its creation or right-click on the NewFile.txt and select the option Rename on the appearing dialog box.
    10. Once the file is renamed to ads.txt, Right-click on the ads.txt file and open the file in edit mode by selecting the option Edit File, and then TextArea editor, the ads.txt will be opened in edit mode.
    11. Now, you can copy the default ads.txt code mentioned in point 5 by visiting the Ads.txt Guide page.
    12. For your convenience, I am writing that code here as well. Here, pub-0000000000000000 is your publisher ID. google.com, pub-0000000000000000, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0
    13. Replace pub-0000000000000000 with your publisher ID, Therefore to find your publisher ID then go to your AdSense account. Click on the Account option on the left menu. The Account option will get expanded and you will see the Settings option under it, click on that, and the Setting option will further expand and you will see the Account Information option under it. Click on that option and the first thing you will see next to the menu options is your publisher-ID.
    14. Once the code is pasted to the ads.txt file. Click on Save. Now your ads.txt file is ready and the next time when Google bot crawls your website it will find the ads.txt file on your website and will change your ads.txt status.
    15. You can also verify the ads.txt presence on your website by just adding /ads.txt to your website URL on the browser and pressing enter. You will see the code that you added to the ads.txt file.https://mywebsitename.com/ads.txt