You are here because you just got approved by Adsense and you want to place ads.txt in your blog. But, you don’t know where to begin. I’ve the simple solution for you to serve ads.txt from your hugo blog.
Authorized Digital Sellers, or ads.txt is an IAB Tech Lab initiative that helps ensure that your digital ad inventory is only sold through sellers (such as AdSense) who you’ve identified as authorized. Creating your own ads.txt file gives you more control over who’s allowed to sell ads on your site and helps prevent counterfeit inventory from being presented to advertisers.
Hugo allows you to customise the robots.txt but not the ads.txt and it’s impossible to serve through layout design patterns. Instead, It’s recommended to place the ads.txt file in your static folder.
static
├── ads.txt
This is the best way to place ads.txt in your blog and once you place that file in static folder then it will be available in localhost:1313/ads.txt