Using Google default color scheme

Good or Bad?

[Khensu]

My site is designed in the defalt Google color scheme.

Do you think I should change it to keep from appearing as a MFA?

Does anyone know the best click conversion color scheme? (if there is one)

[sven1977]

Most people say (and I include myself, even though I'm not 100% convinced yet) that blended ads generate the highest click through rates (CTRs). Blended means make the ads' background and border color the same as your webpages. Make the ads' link-color the same as the color of the regular links on your pages (which is usually blue).

[Khensu]

Yes sven1977

That is the way I have it, blended. It is just most of the MFAs have the same color scheme. I have ziped downloads of graphics and very little copy. The people come for the freebies and they are quasi-captive until the download finishes. The site design can be any colors, I was wondering if anyone found a color scheme that was more libedo senseitive than others. (I know this is a nuance but I can glean another 100 clicks with sexy colors so be it) I would love to make the ad boxes transparent so I could use a cool tile in the background but I think that this can't be done.

[hunderdown]

I personally think something close to the default works well, but that may be because my site colors happened to be close to the default. All I had to do was add purple.

[Khensu]

Ok, that is one vote for keep the same I will not gain anything by changing.

Do I hear a second?

[david_uk]

If it matches the site theme, then leave it as it is.

I'm not sure what you mean about MFA's having the standard Google colour theme though. All ads (MFA or real) will show in whatever colour scheme you select.

[Khensu]

Most of the ones I see have the mother earth palette blended, the first one Google shows you. I actually took my site colors from the Google scheme only to find out later that was dominant in the MFAs