14 DAY TRIAL // Today, I've published an article saying that Microsoft is advertising its products using Google AdWords, but many users also reported that the giant is also using AdSense, another advertising platform provided by Google. The search engine developer is continuously striving to update its solutions because it's obvious that the clients are looking for a perfect service. Although the employees are hardly working to fix all the problems of AdSense, a new bug was discovered in the advertising platform.
The bug concerns the AdSense Control Panel and shows a robots.txt error that sustains you are blocking the Google AdSense mediapartners bot from crawling your webpage. Google was already informed of the issue and the company said its employees are working to fix the issue.
Search Engine Land, the website that identified the bug, posted a message on their official blog to announce the problem and to present Google's official statement. Jennifer Slegg from Search Engine Land said on the blog that they informed the search giant about the issue and the company sustained the bug is being fixed.
"If you have looked in your site diagnostics tab in your AdSense control panel lately, you will see a bug that displays a robots.txt error, meaning you are disallowing the Google AdSense mediapartners bot from crawling your site. The only problem is that it is displaying errors based on the Google cache URL, instead of one of the publisher's URLs.
I spoke with Google, and this error is being fixed. However, it does not affect ad serving, if someone views your site in Google cache, they will still see ads which are credited to the publisher with their intact publisher IDs still in the code. It just makes it hard to find any other issues in the site diagnostics tab, especially if you have a site with a lot of cached page views," it is mentioned on the Search Engine Land webpage.