Troubleshooting: Why didn't my ad code verify?
In order to finish Step One of being set up with the SHE Media Partner Network, you need to verify the installation of your ad code.
If your ad code did not verify, please try these steps:
1. Did you let the verification check run? It takes a little bit of time for our server to reach out to your site and search for the code. Please give it at least 10 minutes, and then come back.
2. Did you install your ad code? The checkboxes create the code that you can place on your site, but we do need you to do a little bit of setup on your own. We need you to install our header code, as well as an individual ad tag in order for the verification to mark this as complete.
For WordPress sites, install our plugin SHE Media Infuse!
For Blogger/Squarespace and other builds, please refer to these instructions for manual setup. And then follow these steps to setup your ads.txt file.
3. Did you input a URL with our code on it? Some sites have landing pages that do not display any ad code - or the code is only on a subsection of your site. If that’s the case, find a URL that does have the ad code on it, and run the verification check with that URL. (And if the code is only on a section of your site, make sure to update your URL in the settings to reflect that)
4. If you’re on WordPress, and your ad code is installed (you’re seeing ads from us), but we aren’t detecting it… Please make sure that you aren’t optimizing our ad code. Some optimization plugins will wrap our code, and is a problem. Any plugin that talks about decreasing page load times, improving site speed - that might be the culprit. The good news is that, most of these plugins will let you exclude things to optimize. You’ll want to log into your dashboard and find our scripts to exclude.
If you go back to where you either downloaded Infuse or got your ad code - go to the Manual tab. The tag at the top is your header code. And you’ll want to copy it, and then paste the two urls that end in .js into the settings page for your optimization plugin that lets you exclude certain scripts from being optimized. Make sure it’s the full url, starting with an https:// if it strips that out.
It should look something like this:
https://ads.blogherads.com/static/blogherads.js
https://ads.blogherads.com/1/2/3/4/5678/header.js
Once you’ve completed these quick checks, try the verification again! If it still does not complete, please reach out to support@shemedia.com so that the SHE Media Partner Network support team can determine just what’s going on.