Do you find that your text ads work better if they blend in with your site or stand out from it?

So far I seem to get better results when they blend in, but I seen many sites with bright pink adsense ads as well. Was hoping to get a feel for what works overall for everyone.

I think you should have some blend in and some stand out honestly. Its all about the uniqueness of how the users see it and if they want to click it.

Blending in the ads has helped my ctr and earnings greatly.

Blending = Great for the CTR and it has helped in getting additional clicks.

I've gone by the angle that I wanted my Adsense ads to stick out so dramatically that they burn in the reader's eyes. So I've gone with bright red or purple text where as the other text is black on white.

Originally Posted by vincent

I've gone by the angle that I wanted my Adsense ads to stick out so dramatically that they burn in the reader's eyes. So I've gone with bright red or purple text where as the other text is black on white.

I bet your ctr (and user return rate) is horrible

I like blending them in so the visitors can't purposely ignore them

Definitely blending works better for my sites:thumbup:

I vote for ads that blend in.

By blending them, I even sometimes accidentally click my own ads hah :x

Blending works best - looks like content!

yea i would say blending in, even though my ads and site are different lol, except for my forum, it kinda blends in, both dark lol, im gonna fix up my main site later on

My click-throughs aren't the best, but blending in seems to be the way the "pros" go, so that's what I do as well.

Joel Comm & the Adsense-Videos guy both emphasize the blended approach, and it's definitely working for those guys!

I have both that does quite well.
However, for stand out ads, you must make sure you move the ad placement once in a while to counter ad blindness.

Originally Posted by obenix

I have both that does quite well.
However, for stand out ads, you must make sure you move the ad placement once in a while to counter ad blindness.

Yup, I use the Joomlaspan module for Joomla and it rotates 5-6 colors at a time making my ads appear new. My CTR never drops

Great share Hoang..

Originally Posted by BamaStangGuy

I bet your ctr (and user return rate) is horrible

Actually I thought my CTR was pretty good. Varies between 1% - 15% depending on the page, but overall average about 3-4%.

The traffic on those sites is very low and they are all fairly plain i.e. black print on a white background so I thought the other colors like red and purple might capture the eye.

I've just changed over to blending in.. let's see what happens..

If the ads blend in with the website people are more likely to click them. If they stick out like a sore thumb people are less likely to click them.

I like the former because it means more money.

I like more money.

Originally Posted by vincent

I like more money.

Don't we all.