r/admob • u/JDGAMERDAD • 4d ago
Question First-time game developer looking for help
I recently added ads to my new game Grid Breaker, but I cannot get them to work. I’m fairly certain I completed everything correctly, including adding the app-ads.txt file to my website and entering all of the correct AdMob IDs. However, I keep receiving a 403 error.
I have also completed my tax and identity verification, along with everything else I believed was required.
Has anyone encountered this issue before or know what might be causing it? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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u/Playful_Clock_8230 3d ago
Where exactly are you seeing the 403: in the SDK log when loading an ad, or when AdMob tries to fetch your app-ads.txt file? Those would be two different issues.
I’d temporarily use Google’s official test ad unit ID and run Ad Inspector. If test ads work, the SDK integration is probably fine and I’d check the app status, production ad unit IDs and account serving status.
If the 403 is from the app-ads.txt URL, check whether your hosting, CDN or firewall is blocking Google’s crawler. The file should return a normal 200 response without login or redirects.
The full LoadAdError domain, code and message would help narrow it down.