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Definitely ditch the border. The idea is that you try and blend your ads with the background as best you can.
3 advice to increase your ctr: Remove the border, change the url color to match the description, and remove advertise on this site.
thanks for the advice from all of you. I will definitely remove the border....as for "advertise on this site" I didn't put that there...it must be from google....
You can get rid of the 'advertise on this site' bit by disabling it in your adsense account. I would not advise that though.