1
Identify a sub-domain for the Gamezop Game Centre
For this document, we will assume you own
footballnews.com and you want our Game Centre on games.footballnews.comThe sub-domain should be of a root domain which is already approved for Google AdSense / Ad Exchange monetisation.
2
Get your Gamezop Unique Link
Follow the steps mentioned here to get your regular Gamezop Unique Link.
3
Contact your IT team to make CNAME records
3.1: Domain set up: Ask your IT team to set up a CNAME record on your domain. You will need to CNAME your subdomain from Step 1 to your Gamezop Unique Link from Step 2.Let’s assume your Gamezop Unique Link is
3025.play.gamezop.comIn that case, you will set a CNAME record for games.footballnews.com with the alias as 3025.play.gamezop.com3.2: SSL validation: In order to be able to run our Game Centre on your domain, we need to have an SSL certificate linked to your subdomain from Step 1. This allows us to run everything on the recommended https protocol.To generate this certificate, we need to add another CNAME record, which your Gamezop Account Manager will provide to you. It is your responsibility to ensure this DNS record is not removed at any point of time, or users may start to see safety warnings from browsers when they visit your games subdomain.4
Get your domain verified on Gamezop's Google Ad accounts
Add this line at the end of your root domain’s Your
ads.txt file:ads.txt file must be hosted on your root-domain. For example, in this case above, it would have to be on footballnews.com/ads.txt . Learn more about ads.txt here.This is needed for us to get your domain added to our Google AdSense / AdExchange accounts, so that we can start delivering ads.5
Make ads.txt entry for the games subdomain
In the What this does is that it instructs ad networks to also look within the
ads.txt file hosted on your root domain, add an entry to reference your games subdomain. In the above example, you would add the following line to the end of your footballnews.com/ads.txt file:ads.txt file of that subdomain. Since the sub-domain is managed by us, it will always have our latest ads.txt entries.