no, not directly. however, a good color combination can sometimes, make the content better readable, which in turn can increase visitor retention which will increase you SEO rank. bad color combination = user cant' read or see the content that he came to your site for.
A nice combination of colours will definitely make the website more pleasant (at least in my opinion) and I think can somehow influence the number of people that will come back to your website. Also, how competent123 said above, a good choice of colors will make content more readable.
Use the colors in the Google logo - it will attract the Google bot and increase your SEO. That will result in more visitors and more money.
Color combination is very important for search engine as it is one important aspect to value a site. A good combination of color for our blog is any color that match with the niche. For example: We are going to develop a simple blog with health niche. It is a site that will encourage others for donating their blood to save the others whom need it. Main color used in theme: White Ornament/ CSS element: Red The combination of both White and Red is just like 'red cross'. Font Color is Black. Title and Link Color is blue. Using different color for Content (Font) and Theme (Base Background) is necessary as it will emphasize in 'trust level'. If you carefully inspect popular site, they always use different color for the background and content. Most search engine encourage webmaster to use contrast color for both content (font) and background. Anyone that use (almost) the same color would get lower rank or even penalty for 'content cloaking'. Better trust mean awesome rank. great rank may result in higher traffic. Moreover, great color will make visitor really love our blogs. So, a good color for our blog is any color which match with the niche and use different property for both background and content (font). For best color, I have no idea about that. Other may able to give you better answer and suggestion. Arick.
Might I also add that: it is a fact that colors influence a person's mood. For example; 1. Green - represents health, a healthy body, represents starting over 2. Red - increases the pulse, sense of urgency 3. Blue - has a soothing affect, calming, trusting 4. White - is a neutral color 5. Black - powerful 6. Yellow - represents joy, happiness Let me give you an example of success in colors; Facebook's color scheme: blue
You really should learn more about what search engines and websites are, before inserting your foot in your mouth so far it's going to take a proctologist to help you extract it. That is one of the DUMBEST statements I've seen about websites this side of "use jQuery". Search engines don't have eyes, they don't SEE STYLE, that's why we have semantic markup and should practice separation of presentation from content. As such, what colors you use on a page mean jack **** to search engines. To say there is any relation whatsoever is some outright ignorant bull. This of course goes hand in hand with what we've been told since HTML was invented, say what things ARE in your markup, NOT what they look like since it's up to the UA (and now CSS) to customize the appearance according to the designers wishes or the capabilities of the target device. Hell, if you used semantic markup with NO style inlined in the markup -- go into the web developer toolbar in FF and "CSS > Disable Styles > disable all styles" -- poof, that's what search engines "see" for your page. Style is NOT about 'increasing visitors' -- the only thing it can provide is accessibility which can help RETAIN visitors, and colors is just a small part of that. Generally speaking people will even put up with accessibility failings (like say... the ones on these forums) if there is content of value... but there does become a point at which being a steaming pile of accessibility /FAIL/ will bite you in the ass and result in far too many bounces. So if choosing colors is about accessibility, how do you do it? It all comes down to how bright the colors are in the visible spectrum (luminance) and the difference between the foreground and background colors once converted to their black and white luminance equivalents. I outline this in an article I wrote for a friends tech site here: http://techtalkin.com/Thread-So-what-s-wrong-with-your-website-PART-1 Proper contrast between foreground and background can be a make or break for a design --- too bad it's an alien concept for most of the idiots who sleaze out their 'pretty pictures' in Photoshop and then have the cojónes to call themselves "designers" while not knowing enough about HTML, CSS or accessibility to be designing a blasted thing for the web. Important to accessibility? YES... Important to search? Absolutely not, completely unrelated and anyone telling you otherwise doesn't know enough on the topic to be flapping their gums about it! Though I'd not be surprised to see more SEO-tards making outlandish whack-job claims since like pretty much all their other claims, it often seems they just make up fiction based on whatever they think will make a client open their wallet.
And I have nothing to say rather than agree with your statement. If we look carefully on the title, we could see the real question is. Very odd question if I have to say. Edit: And I am glad someone with knowledge would jump in and help all of us here. ^_^ My answer is just to help new blogger whom thinking using 'same color' for background and font (I call it keyword stuffing). The rest of your statement is very interesting. Lots of resources which I believe would take some time to learn. By the way, I always use lynx, to find out what SE think about the site.
Sorry if my response was a bit harsh -- It's what I do I think (If I understand you) that's called "content cloaking" -- attempts to hide content on a page from users but make it visible to search engines; one of the few uses of style search engines MIGHT look for, though usually that is more an issue if you get flagged for a manual review. Content cloaking is bad, partly for wasting bandwidth on things the user won't see, partly because you run the risk of search engines slapping you down... That's why it's old-school SEO dimestore hoodoo, five and ten voodoo that you really don't see anymore. That's another good way to check it... I can't be bothered to install or use lynx anymore though -- it's far easier for me to either use the web developer toolbar, or Opera 12/lower. (Opera 12 in particular, ESPECIALLY with the steaming pile of pathetic crippleware O15+ is)
Don't worry about that. I completely understand about it. I always say "I do respect anyone whom speaking the truth with 'harsh' word rather than nice words but 'non constructive" (quoted from this page). That is what I was referring to, 'Content Cloaking'. Well, I am not an expert in SEO nor HTML. How could I said 'Keyword Stuffing' when it is actually 'Content Cloaking'?. I must be sleepy. Even a teacher just like me sometimes make simple (but embarrassing) mistakes. I am glad you correct it. A typical web developer surely would only use the best and efficient method such as a method you already said. I am not web developer (I am bad in coding stuffs) but I think I would try your method. As for opera, I only like the old version. New version is not compatible for all sites (Loading forever - just my personal opinion). Edit: I would like to edit my first post in this thread but I unable to edit it (time to edit already expired). For anyone whom reading it, I hope they read the whole posts in this thread.
The color scheme of your site is about more than just accessibility. Some people touched on it with the visitor retention remarks. The fact is, good choices of colors (and good design in general) can have a great effect on how users perceive your site. Good design shows professionalism. Combined with good content (good content > good design), it can make users feel the site is more personable (it's not just a robot-site). A website is marketed to people, not search engines. True, making it easy to find on a search engine helps the people that would like your site find it, but it's ultimately the people (users) that give you your paycheck. So, give them a good experience and they're more likely to come back and more likely to tell others about it. If you have no color-coordination skills, I suggest you hire a designer or use well-made theme. But, maybe you're wanting to learn design and good color combinations. Try out kuler.adobe.com. It's a site that makes it easy to make good combinations of colors and if you click on "Explore" at the top, you can see popular color schemes to get an idea of what's good and what's not.