“Existing Ads.txt file found”

Sorry to hear that! I wonder if somehow your site is responding to the check in a way that’s the same as if the file were actually there, I actually have a little bit of a suspicion as to what it is but would love to be able to confirm if you can give me a little more info.

Could you possibly share your site’s address as well as the URL you get when you’re on the Ads.txt editing screen? And when you say WordPress.com website, do you mean one that’s on a business plan there so you can install plugins?

In the meantime, if editing and saving still gives you the expected results, you can safely ignore the notice, and hopefully we’ll get a fix out soon so that doesn’t keep bugging you!

Hey! My website link is dottzgaming.com

And yes! i am on the business plan so i am able to install plugins

let me know what you find out and if you need anything else!

Agh, yeah, so I think what’s happening is that when it goes to the detection it’s actually hitting WordPress.com’s own ads.txt file. We’ll take a look at getting that fixed up, and in the meantime you can safely ignore the warning ??

Awesome, thank you so much!!

If you’d like to follow along with what I think the issue is, I’ve opened it here: https://github.com/10up/ads-txt/issues/48

I have the same problem. Please help me. I have the Manage Ads.txt and this is the message.

I copy the code that Adsense gave me. And I added it and saved it. And I receive this message.

An ads.txt file on the server will take precedence over any content entered here. You will need to rename or remove the existing ads.txt file before you will be able to see any changes you make on this screen.

Please I dont understand very much about blogs and my English is limited, Can you fix it for me or explain me very very clear so I can understand? Please Helen..

p.s. I dont understand the link that you share. Can you please check my site?
https://www.shalomparatiyparami.com

Thank you !

I have the same problem. Please help me. I have the Manage Ads.txt and this is the message.

I copy the code that Adsense gave me. And I added it and saved it. And I receive this message.

An ads.txt file on the server will take precedence over any content entered here. You will need to rename or remove the existing ads.txt file before you will be able to see any changes you make on this screen.

Please here is my site link: “https://www.islamreligionguardian.com” for verification

Hi,

I have the same issue and it is really frustrating because I am loosing money. I would really appreciate it if someone looked into this as soon as possible. This is the message I am seeing

“Existing Ads.txt file found

An ads.txt file on the server will take precedence over any content entered here. You will need to rename or remove the existing ads.txt file before you will be able to see any changes you make on this screen.

Removed the existing file but are still seeing this warning? Re-run the check now”

My website is https://simshomekitchen.com/

Thank you,
Jen

Hello everyone – if you’re seeing the expected content at yoursite.com/ads.txt, then don’t worry, you can ignore the message! In the meantime, we are hard at work on a release that will hopefully be smarter about not showing that message if it doesn’t actually apply to your site setup.

Hi Helen,

I am not seeing the expected content at the given url. I would really appreciate some help with this because I am loosing money from my Google ads because of this error.

Thanks,
Jen

@simshomekitchen Could you open a separate topic for your issue so we can troubleshoot that separately from this thread? Thanks.

hey plz help me out ,I’m getting this message -“An ads.txt file on the server will take precedence over any content entered here. You will need to rename or remove the existing ads.txt file before you will be able to see any changes you make on this screen.

Removed the existing file but are still seeing this warning?”

and problem is im unable to even see ads.txt in my website

https://www.egyantalks.com/ads.txt

plz solve it thanks in advanced

Hello,

I am getting the same message. I updated my ads.txt using the ads.txt manager and it says,

Existing Ads.txt file found

An ads.txt file on the server will take precedence over any content entered here. You will need to rename or remove the existing ads.txt file before you will be able to see any changes you make on this screen.

My updated ads.txt is not present on https://www.thehealthfoodiee.com/ads.txt

Thank you in advance

hey even I am getting the same message.
I have removed all the ads.txt files from the cpanel and file manager even from the trash.
I am getting the notification on google Adsense of ads.txt so I used your plugin but it’s giving me that error is it just some bug and I can ignore it and the plugin will work as it’s supposed to with the msg?

please let me know I am facing loss on google Adsense.

this is the error

An ads.txt file on the server will take precedence over any content entered here. You will need to rename or remove the existing ads.txt file before you will be able to see any changes you make on this screen.

Removed the existing file but are still seeing this warning?

• This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by varunbarve.

Hi everyone – we decided to remove this warning because it seemed to be triggering a lot of false positives and we need to spend some time chasing down the various causes. The error message itself was just a warning and did not affect functionality. If you’re seeing other errors after updating to the latest version of Ads.txt Manager, please start new forum posts so that we can troubleshoot individually. Thank you!