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How to Match Your Adsense Unit Color with your Theme by ColorZilla

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Multicolored Flower

Colors have limits!

One of the most successful adsense tips that works is put your ad in a place so that visitors can see them, but make it completely same as your other contents on the same page. That means, if you make your adsense unit no different than other contents at your blog, readers are more likely to click on them. This is even recommended by the Google Adsense team. But sometimes you just fail to find out the exact color reading that your theme is using.

Let me show you the easiest way how you can match your adsense unit color with that being used in your theme, or wherever you are about to insert adsense.

First, you need to be using Firefox as your browser, because I’m about to tell you about a Firefox plugin that lets you find out the color code of any color visible in the page. The little plugin will tell you the exact color code which later you can use as the color of any part for your adsense unit.

Installation

To install colorzilla in your Firefox browser, click here and click the “Add to Firefox” button. The browser will then start downloading and installing the plugin. You need to wait a moment until the installation completes and the add-on box pops up with a notification. Now, you need to restart your Firefox to activate ColorZilla. You can restart immediately or anytime later at your convenience. Whenever the brower is restarted, the plugin will begin to work.

Find Color Reading

To simply find out the color reading or color code of any pixel of the page opened, click on the ColorZilla’s eyedropper icon at the lower left of your browser (very left of your status bar).

ColorZilla

Once clicked, your cursor will be activated as colorpicker and will change its face. Now, move anywhere on your page and click on your desired area to get color reading of. By default, you will be seeing a preview of the color at the colorzilla icon and color reading at the statusbar as you move your cursor. Once you click somewhere, it will remember it and then you will get additional options to copy color code or make any change in settings, such as copying color code with or without # at the beginning.

See the following images.

Color reading

colorzilla options

Match with Adsense

Now, you can simply find out the color code of any area of your blog or website. For example, find out the linked text color and get the reading using colorzilla. Then simply go to adsense and put color of Adsense ads’ title text exactly what color code your theme is using for linked texts.

In the same way, you can also find out the background color of your blog and use it as adsense background color to match them both perfectly.

Need Help Inserting Adsense?

If you’re a novice user or don’t want to get puzzled with codes for inserting adsense in your post, I recommend using All in one Adsense and YPN plugin for adsense that makes inserting adsense ads in wordpress posts a childplay. Click here to read out a review about it and give it a try. I’m sure it’s worth using on your blog for simplifying the process.

However, if you want to try out yourself without help of any plugin, here’s how you can do so.

If you want to put adsense as a widget in the sidebar, then you can do it by yourself. Just copy the javascript code generated by Google Adsense, place a text widget on the expected position, paste the code and save. That’s all.

Still in need of Help?

I will be happy to help you in any way I can. Just shoot your question, comment, or problem in the comment box and I will dive into researching for a solution for you.

Also, share your experience with color choice of adsense unit in your blog or website. Don’t you think the plugin ColorZilla is extremely useful especially for Adsense?

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  • For beginners its a great problem to find out the color code for desired shade. Thanks Sajib to share this nice tool that facilitates to pick up any shades color code with ease.
  • Thanks for your comment. I find this plugin extremely useful so I thought why not let my readers know about it.
  • Thats great help, I've always wondered what the best way to do this was for adsense... Thanks!
  • You're welcome, Ben. I found this plugin long ago and since then I could do all color-related jobs pretty easily.
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