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You can check the approval status and ads.txt status of a site in your AdSense sites list. Learn how to access your Sites page and check your AdSense site status.
- Sign in to your AdSense account.
- Click Sites.
- In the list of sites, find your site and check its approval status and ads.txt status.
Tip: Use the filter
at the top of the page to quickly find sites in your sites list. You can either use the preset terms or enter your own search term. - (Optional) Click a site to get more details about its status.
at the top of the page to quickly find sites in your sites list. You can either use the preset terms or enter your own search term.Approval statuses for sites
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| Requires review |
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| Needs attention | You need to fix some issues before your site is ready to show ads. Learn what to do if your new site is not ready. |
| Getting ready | We're running some checks on your site. This usually takes a few days, but in some cases it can take 2-4 weeks. Note: Make sure you don't remove your site and resubmit it because this can delay the process. We’ll notify you when your site is ready to show ads. |
| Ready | Your site is ready to show ads. Learn how to set up ads on your site. Note: Make sure you follow the AdSense Program policies at all times to continue showing ads. You'll find detailed information about policy violations on your site in the Policy center. Learn how to resolve policy violations in your Policy center. |
Ads.txt statuses for sites
Note: AdSense Direct accounts do not support ads.txt files. AdSense Direct publishers can ignore the ads.txt status value.
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| Not applicable | Your publisher ID isn't needed in this site's ads.txt file because the ads.txt file is managed by a platform. No action is required. |
| Not found | No ads.txt file was found when the AdSense crawler last crawled this site. Learn more about creating an ads.txt file. |
| Unauthorized | All ad requests from this site are being rejected because your publisher ID was not found in this site's ads.txt file. To prevent any impact to your revenue, add your publisher ID to the ads.txt file. |
| Authorized | Your publisher ID was found in this site's ads.txt file. No action is required. |
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