Site Kit Adsense - Loading Bar forever

[CandyShakes]

I connected adsense to my wordpress site for the first time. I've also disabled adblocker.

I installed Site Kit and connected AdSense. The loading bar has been on for 2 hours (twice). I refreshed after 1 hour, retried installation, still loading forever. Here's an image of my issue: [imgur.com...]

The first time I installed this, I disabled adblocker mid-way through the AdSense installation on my wordpress site. The second time (after I reinstalled the Site Kit plugin), the adblocker was disabled completely.

I found this on the internet: [github.com...]

^^ That describes my issue perfectly. I can't proceed further with installing AdSense at the moment.

[martinibuster]

Just remove ad blockers altogether they are completely unnecessary. Chrome based browsers are capable of blocking ads by themselves. Just poke around in the settings and you'll see. Ad blockers have been known to track users and show their own ads or ads they've been paid to allow. They're parasites posing as good guys, imo.

Maybe download a new browser like Edge, Chrome Canary or Vivaldi and start over, without an ad blocker?

[CandyShakes]

No difference, downloaded Firefox and the loading bar takes forever. I'm going to leave it on for one or two hours and see what happens.

[CandyShakes]

Still nothing after 30 mins. Loading bar is still going on and on and on..... I'm just going to leave it at this.

[CandyShakes]

Any more help is greatly appreciated, I've spent half my day sorting out what should've been a 10 minute task :(

[not2easy]

If your AdSense account is new, it can take some time to have inventory for your site. Have you added your ads.txt file and have you seen the media bot crawling? Has your site been approved?

[CandyShakes]

I just used this video tutorial I found on YouTube --- I got stuck around the 5 minute mark.

I've never been told to include an "ads.txt" file or don't know how to see the media bot crawling?

I'm up to the step where it says "Connect your site to AdSense". They give you a code, but they tell wordpress users to use this guide instead: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/7527509?hl=en_GB

I'm stuck at Step 6 in google's guide because the site kit loading bar is taking forever.

[edited by: not2easy at 2:44 pm (utc) on Feb 18, 2021]
[edit reason] please see Charter [/edit]

[not2easy]

Hi CandyShakes and welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]

I have read through the posts from your first to the most recent but I do not see any mention that you have created an AdSense account and that your site has been approved. Without those steps, a plugin isn't going to be able to work. I apologize if I have missed that detail, but I only see the mention of the problem with using the Site Kit plugin and not the part that comes before that.

When you sign up at AdSense, they tell you that your site will need to be approved for AdSense and once it is approved you may use the plugin. That is where you will learn about adding your ads.txt file. It is possible that the plugin deals with that step, I can't tell you because I've never used it.

Log in to your AdSense account and then visit https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/10019450?hl=en&ref_topic=3373519 to learn more about how to optimize your AdSense ads for your site.