adsense link colour...

Discussion in 'AdSense' started by goldfish, Jul 17, 2007.

  1. #1
    Is it against Google Tos to hide link in ad unit, by giving same colour of background ?
     
    goldfish, Jul 17, 2007 IP
  2. Micromag

    Micromag Well-Known Member

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    I don't think that is possible to set a background color in a way that you hide any text on a text ad -- if the colors get too close (text color and background color) the system overwrites setting a fixed color for text and it will always be visible.

    The only thing that I know that is against TOS regarding this is that you can not use elements on your site to hide part of an ad.
     
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  3. goldfish

    goldfish Active Member

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    #3
    It is possible
    try yourself....
     
    goldfish, Jul 18, 2007 IP
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    netjobs Banned

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    No, it won't work, better you can change ad formats to banner format etc..
     
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  5. ahelpinghand

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    Yes, it is.
     
    ahelpinghand, Jul 18, 2007 IP
  6. Micromag

    Micromag Well-Known Member

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    Is it possible? How?
     
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  7. LeoSeo

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    #7
    It's not possible to hide "Ads by Google" thru color adjustment, you can't decide it's color so it autosets to an opposite color, however i guess he/she's talking about the google_url_color which is possible to hide, but surely against TOS.
     
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  8. Abhik

    Abhik ..:: The ONE ::..

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    #8
    nope.. you cant decorate any part of the adblock
     
    Abhik, Jul 18, 2007 IP
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    #9
    ye it won't work!
     
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    #10
    I don't think you can do that and even if you could, don't do it as it's not allowed. Google puts that link there for a reason, if it was allowed to not be shown the the general user then whats the point in them having it in the ads.

    Saying that though, google theirselves hide a partial bit of the link in some of the ad formats because they are not big enough for all of the ad.
     
    john269, Jul 19, 2007 IP
  11. goldfish

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    Yes it is possible
    Have a look one of my blog
    http://parishiltongallery.blogspot.com/
    I made link colour and background colour same...
     
    goldfish, Jul 19, 2007 IP
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    Google engineers have thought about this. It will go back to black automatically.
     
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  13. goldfish

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    I coudn't get you...
    Please explain..:confused:
     
    goldfish, Jul 19, 2007 IP
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    #14
    you can change the position of your ads...
     
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  15. LeoSeo

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    If you mean the www... part in the ad, it doesn't show it on 468x60 if there's a 2 line description in the ad no matter what color you've chosen, if you use a box or leaderboard you'll see there will show the URL's.
     
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  16. goldfish

    goldfish Active Member

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    #16
    Please come point...
    My doubt is this
    hiding Link, by choosing background colour is against google tos? what ever the ad format is...
     
    goldfish, Jul 19, 2007 IP
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    Just make it same color as ad text and it won't be that visible ;)
     
    Scriptona, Jul 19, 2007 IP
  18. LeoSeo

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    Besides the fact you can't actually hide it, if it were even possible, i'd think they'd make a "transparent" option if they allowed it be hidden, so it'd violate TOS is what i think. Last comment :)
     
    LeoSeo, Jul 19, 2007 IP