Know your AdSense font
In today’s newspaper, we can see that ads are put on the first page and designed in such way that it will look like a breaking news. This will make the reader read through the article and until then, they will realize that they are reading ads. But in AdSense context, you cannot alter the way of the ads look like, in order to have the same effect. But you can alter you content, so that the ads don't look like ads. The colour blending is a well-known tip but to make the ads are really blended, you must also consider the font sizes. Every ad unit has its very own font face and size.
768×60 Ad unit:
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..title a, title a:hover,.title a:visited {
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text-decoration:underline;
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color:#b85b5a;
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}
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.title {
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line-height:12px;
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font: bold 11px verdana,arial,sans-serif;
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text-decoration:underline;
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color:#000000;
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cursor:hand;
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}
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.desc {
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line-height:12px;
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font: normal 10px verdana,arial,sans-serif;
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text-decoration:none;
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color:#000000;
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cursor:hand;
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}
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.url {
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line-height:12px;
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font: normal 10px verdana,arial,sans-serif;
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text-decoration:none;
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color:#000000;
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}
300×250 Ad unit:
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..title a, title a:hover,.title a:visited {
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text-decoration:underline;
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color:#b85b5a;
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}
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.title {
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line-height:14px;
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font: bold 11px arial, sans-serif;
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text-decoration:underline;
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color:#000000;
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cursor:hand;
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}
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.desc {
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line-height:14px;
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font: normal 11px arial, sans-serif;
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text-decoration:none;
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color:#000000;
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cursor:hand;
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}
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.url {
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line-height:14px;
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font: normal 10px arial, sans-serif;
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text-decoration:none;
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color:#000000;
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}
234x60 Ad unit
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..title a, title a:hover,.title a:visited {
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text-decoration:underline;
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color:#b85b5a;
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}
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.title {
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font: bold 11px verdana, sans-serif;
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text-decoration:underline;
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color:#000000;
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cursor:hand;
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}
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.desc {
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font: normal 10px verdana, sans-serif;
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text-decoration:none;
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color:#000000;
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cursor:hand;
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}
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.url {
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font: normal 11px verdana, sans-serif;
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text-decoration:none;
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color:#000000;
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}
P/s: But for Ad unit 300x250, not all the time the unit is filled with ads. For a typical unit, four ads will be shown. But if your page is lack of keywords, the ad unit will no be filled completely and the font size will change. The colour code is depending on your Adsense colour code.
Related link:
5 Google Adsense Secrets, Tips and Tricks
The Real Adsense Navigation Bar
It is a simple yet great Adsense tip that some of you may already know. Removing the borders from your Adsense Ads and aligning them in a way to show up as additional Navigation Bar. This technique can definitely increase your CTR and make you more money. Sabahan.com also suggests us to use the colour of the links in the content as your 'navigational' Adsense links colour, which will make 60% to 70% more money.
But the trick used at SapiensBryan is worth to be tried. Instead of just removing the borders and aligning as Navigation Bar, he makes it looks like a real Navigation Bar.
It is called QuickSense. At first glance, I cannot tell that that is Adsense. On the top of every link, there is semi-rounded square, which make them as navigational bar. The real navigation bar is put on the sidebar. This is a part of his Wordpress theme, Ads Minded, which is also available in wide version.I've tried to integrate QuickSense to my theme, but it still doesn't work in IE.
If you are very concerned about AdSense TOS Violation (and you must actually), Sapiensbryan has sent an email on May 7, 2006 to Google AdSense Team. AdSense Team replied and gave a green light to Ads Minded theme. The screen shot of the email can be found here.
World Cup 2006 Electronic Chart
World Cup 2006 Germany is just around the corner, another five days to go. On 9 Jun 2006, Germany will face Costa Rica in the opening game. As we know, World Cup is the biggest sport occasion in the world. The celebration is even bigger than Olympic Games. In conjunction with that, I’ve something for all of you, Fußballliebhaber (football fans in german language). An electronic World Cup Chart!!! This chart is powered by Microsoft Excel and created by Akukaya3732 from Jiwang Forum. What you need to do is, fill the final score of every match and the group table will be updated automatically. Till then, eat football, sleep football, and drink Coca-cola. May the best team win.
