Host app-ads.txt at your root domain
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Place app-ads.txt in your site's publish directory. For most frameworks this is public/ (Gatsby, Eleventy) or static/ (Hugo). The exact directory is the same one configured in your netlify.toml or Netlify dashboard as the "Publish directory."
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Commit and push to trigger a Netlify deploy. The file will be served at https://yourdomain.com/app-ads.txt.
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Verify at https://yourdomain.com/app-ads.txt.
Allow the Google-adstxt crawler in robots.txt
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Place robots.txt in the publish directory:
User-agent: Google-adstxt Allow: /app-ads.txt User-agent: * Disallow:
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Deploy and verify at https://yourdomain.com/robots.txt.
Set up a 301 redirect (if needed)
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Add a _redirects file to your publish directory:
/app-ads.txt https://yourdomain.com/app-ads.txt 301
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Alternatively, configure redirects in netlify.toml:
[[redirects]] from = "/app-ads.txt" to = "https://yourdomain.com/app-ads.txt" status = 301
Done setting up?
Run a free scan to confirm your app-ads.txt is reachable and correctly configured.
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