Ads.txt Manager vs Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense

Create, manage, and validate your ads.txt and app-ads.txt from within WordPress, like any other content asset. Requires PHP 7.4+. What is ads.txt? Ads.txt is an initiative by the Interactive Advertising Bureau to enable publishers to take control over who can sell their ad inventory. Through our work at 10up with various publishers, we’ve created a way to manage and validate your ads.txt file from within WordPress, eliminating the need to upload a file. The validation baked into the plugin helps avoid malformed records, which can cause issues that end up cached for up to 24 hours and can lead to a drop in ad revenue. Technical Notes Requires PHP 7.4+. Ad blockers may break syntax highlighting and pre-save error checking on the edit screen. Rewrites need to be enabled. Without rewrites, WordPress cannot know to supply /ads.txt when requested. Your site URL must not contain a path (e.g. https://example.com/site/ or path-based multisite installs). While the plugin will appear to function in the admin, it will not display the contents at https://example.com/site/ads.txt. This is because the plugin follows the IAB spec, which requires that the ads.txt file be located at the root of a domain or subdomain. What about ads.cert? We’re closely monitoring continued developments in the ad fraud space, and see this plugin as not only a way to create and manage your ads.txt file but also be prepared for future changes and upgrades to specifications. Ads.cert is still in the extremely early stages so we don’t see any immediate concerns with implementing ads.txt. Can I use this with multisite? Yes! However, if you are using a subfolder installation it will only work for the main site. This is because you can only have one ads.txt for a given domain or subdomain per the ads.txt spec. Our recommendation is to only activate Ads.txt Manager per-site.

The ultimate ad management plugin for WordPress Advanced Ads is the most comprehensive ad management tool available. It strikes the perfect balance between ease of use and powerful features, trusted by thousands of companies and businesses. We took the pain out of advertising and made it easy to embed ads, banners, or any other code automatically—all within minutes and without the need for theme file editing. If you are looking for the best plugin for ad management, you have found it. 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Affiliate Marketing Easily integrate affiliate marketing with a comprehensive toolkit. unlimited affiliate ads and banners text link support affiliate disclosure automatic affiliate ad insertion advanced targeting dedicated AAWP ad type (Amazon Affiliate WordPress Plugin) integrates with other affiliate plugins like Pretty Links, Thirsty Affiliates, Lasso, and many more support for all Amazon ad formats compatible with all affiliate networks link masking and link cloaking (Pro) affiliate ad tracking (Tracking add-on) Ads.txt generates an ads.txt with custom content adds the content for AdSense to the ads.txt automatically Add-Ons all add-ons include priority email support All Access – includes all available add-ons Advanced Ads Pro – powerful tools for ad optimizations: cache-busting, more placements, lazy loading, ad blocker module, ad refresh, click fraud protection, geo targeting, parallax ads and many more Tracking – track ad impressions and ad clicks with local methods or Google Analytics AMP Ads – make your ads compatible with AMP and convert Google AdSense ads automatically Google Ad Manager Integration – a quick and error-free way to load ad units from your Google Ad Manager account without touching any ad codes Sticky Ads – increase click rates with fixed, sticky, and anchor ads Fixed Widget for WordPress – turn sidebar widgets into performant fixed sticky ads PopUp and Layer Ads – display ads and other content in layers, popups, and interstitials Selling Ads – allows you to sell ads on your website fully automated, including payments and advertiser profiles Ad Slider – create a simple slider from your ads Full Feature List Ad Blocker basic features to prevent ads from being removed by ad blockers prevent ad blockers from breaking sites where plugin scripts are running dedicated visitor condition to target ads to users with activated ad blocker show alternative content to ad block users and improve the monetization of your website (Pro) ad blocker fallback ads (Pro) show an overlay to ad blocker users (Pro) redirect ad blocker users (Pro) learn more in our ad blocker tutorial. Thank you for motivating us with your positive review. Localizations: Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese If you have problems with Advanced Ads, please open a new topic in our forums on wordpress.org, or reach out to our premium support, if you have an active license. Integrations Advanced Ads integrates with plenty of other plugins: BuddyBoss – How to integrate ads into BuddyBoss BuddyPress – How to add ads on BuddyPress pages bbPress – How to show ads on bbPress pages? Cookie Consent, Borlabs Cookies, Complianz, GDPR Cookie Consent, and other privacy and consent manager – How to show ads based on visitors’ consent Elementor – How to create and implement ads in Elementor GamiPress – How to target ads on GamiPress websites Genesis – Genesis Ads add-on IAB TCF 2.2 consent – hide ads until users give their consent. Integrating with any CMP, Quantcast Choices, iubenda, Google Funding Choices, cookiebot, etc. LearnDash – How to integrate ads into LearnDash MailPoet – How to integrate Advanced Ads in MailPoet Newsletters Paid Memberships Pro – How to manage ads on membership sites running Paid Memberships Pro Polylang – How to target ads to multiple languages in Polylang TranslatePress – How to target ads to multiple languages in TranslatePress Weglot – How to target ads to multiple languages in Weglot WPBakery Page Builder – Displaying Ads with WPBakery Page Builder WPML – Showing different ads per language with WPML Youzify – How to integrate ads in Youzify