colour combination of site and adsense code

do this colors blend well with adsense

[ishika]

i am thinking of making a website with red or dark brown background colors and the adsense code text in yellow color.do this combination or this dark colors sites are good for adsense or in particular for any sites .or should i stick to simple traditional white and some other light colors.
this is bcoz when i seee some dark color sites i feel that adsense code doesnt look like ads so the probability of clicking increaes
please give any suggestions for colors.

[Hobbs]

It's a matter of taste and also topic, try and see, the ad colors can blend with whatever colors you choose.

[ishika]

ya definitely its a mater of taste but still does this color combinations seems to go rite.

[crick]

You are quite right. I think something like yellow on black would be good because everything seems a lot more compact and the ads look more like links than ads, red background would be too much of a strain on the eye. Its OK to do this if your site is entertainment, games related, but if its to provide information, I would stick with white background.

[david_uk]

Whatever style you think looks good! There aren't any rules really. Your visitors may well appreciate a slightly funky look - especially if the look suits the site's content.

I do agree with the previous poster that if your site has articles that require some reading, to reduce eye strain use the traditional white background and black text. Remember also that some of your visitors may be colour blind, or may have poor sight. The traditional black text on white background is used by many people for a reason!

[ishika]

my site is not of nay entertainment category it is to provide information which people will have to read again and again.so cant think of colors which can cuase starin on eyes.so according to your opinions it is preferable to stick to traditional white and black color.or some combination of this.

[david_uk]

First of all you have to consider your site visitors, and get them to read you content and come back again. get that bit right and Adsnse rewards will follow.

If there are going to be articles you want people to read, then you have to make it as easy as you can for them to be read. I really would stick with the traditional black text on white - it's what people expect and you can't go wrong. You can ad colour for site navigation and other page elements to make the page stand out / ads blend in as much as you want, but stick to the convention for the article text.

People really do like the conventions. I don't like the way links turn violet once visited. I think it messes up the page look, therefore I made them revert to the original unvisited colour. I got an email telling me that the site was hard to navigate as he couldn't remember what pages he'd seen and what ones he hadn't. So the moral is that what looks good to you might annoy the hell out of your visitors who are expecting your page to conform to conventions!

As regards blending the ads, it works for some but not others. Some people find that having ads that clearly stand out as ads works best for them. So I wouldn't be too fixed on exactly what you want to do just yet - experiment a little to find out what works best for you.

[ishika]

thnks for your valuable suggestions david.i have understood that i should basically stick to conventional style for writing text and should experiment with ads colors which i can frequently chnage to see whats working or now.