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Match Google Adsense Font Type and Size to Increase CTR
October 5th, 2006Everyone talks about rotating and blending Google Adsense ads with your site layout and theme to increase CTR (click through rate). Basically there are 2 approaches to this – contrast the ads or blend them. Those who like the blending way, it is essential you match your ads exactly to your text in terms of font style and font size. This is a standard trick and probably you already knew it, but seems helpful enough to share it.
How to find the Google Adsense Ads Font Type and Size?
Remove the guesswork out of your web design. If you view the source code of the page, it will only reveal the javascript code.
In Firefox – Right click the ad, Select “This Frame” then “View Frame Source”. A new window shows you the whole source code with the CSS code too.
In Internet Explorer – Just right click the ad, select View Source.
For the leaderboard
Title
line-height: 12px; font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;
text
line-height: 12px; font-size: 10px; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;
For the large rectangle
Title
line-height: 14px;font-size: 11px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;
text
line-height: 14px;font-size: 10px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;
Remember, it is right click. If you left click, the ad will click through. It is better to try on someone else’s ads rather than click your own ads by mistake. Always avoid these common adsense mistakes. In a similar manner as above you can easily find what the exact Google Adsense size font face / font family and font size is and blend your website better.
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Yeah.. The trick works. My CTR boosted.
Good article
Thank you for the tips, good blog ..
so the idea is to follow adsense’s font on your blog? I dont think we can change adsense’s fonts am i correct? Thanks for the tips! Going to change my site a bit now..
No. you can’t change adsense’s fonts, except for the ones that they allow (ariel, times, verdana) … unless you’re a premium publisher
Thanks guy, Good article
I’m afraid, that’s all false! Adsense changes always to an:
- other font
- other size
- other line-height
if you choose the same font, size etc…
cheers!
Great articles! I’ve learned a lot reading your articles.
Wow Thats Great, so l can mofiy my pages with this font now and visitors can hardly understand if its adsense or not:)
Hehehe Thanks..
l also want to know if l can make “google search box” like u have in this page, How l do it ?
Your article only goes half way – so you need to make a change to the Adsense javascript which is refferenced. But that javascript is a held by Google, so do you create an alternative, host it and point it at that? You dont seem to have done that on your ad’s? Other blogs are saying that Adsense automatically changes its appearance to distinguish itself! I’m confused, help me!
You cannot change the adsense code as that is against the terms of service.
The idea here is to match the fonts on your site with the adsense for better blending and higher CTR.
The article tells you how to find the Google Adsense Ads Font type and size, so that you can tweak the css of your site.
Please increase size of font
Thanks pal for the info.
Great article. Thanks for the tips.
Great article, i think it will definetely help those of us using adsense who are blending ads. Thanks again!
I have ready by to you aouyaidjas
I don’t think adsense changes to be different from your page.
I have come across a site today which is for sale on sitepoint and I went to look at it. I was amazed at how indistinguishable his ads were from his content at first glance.
I’m not going to give the URL because I don’t want to be accused of spamming but those were my observations
This is really a good tip
Thanks for the blending tip, even though you said most of us already know that, it was one of those thing I didn’t think of. Great topic. Respect.
Is there any software can we increase CATULL Font of google?
In doing this, can this be against Google Adsense TOS?
Garry – the idea is not to edit the adsense code in any way, which will violate TOS. Here we are finding what the Adsense font size and type are and then editing our text content size and type to match them so that Adsense blends better.
great tip, implementing it on my website now. thanks a lot
Thanks for the tip!
Great tip. Thanks
Thanks for this little tut. My adsense links do look different from the content links and I’ve been trying to find a way to make them uniform.
Thank you for this information , from long time I was lookin for this information. before i tried so many fionts but it not work. Thank you again
Thanks for this information can I share this information with my site visitors.
Good tip. Thanks for that.
Thanks for the information! Looking for the code for some handmade ads :)
Nice ideas Thank You. But, when I opened the frame source, the text has viewed as scrambled. I wonder how you have obtained this much info. Great work.
Pretty cool. Useful article.
You violate the TOS of Adsense
http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/03/another-look-at-optimizations.html
Just be careful.
I agree with jeff, but some points are noteworthy
These are worthful posts indeed. So strange that Google doesn’t update their tips more often, should raise their cashflow too.
I realize this article is pretty old, but still useful. Thanks for the tip!
i recently feel the difference between my ads and content, and found this page, its best fot the adsense fonts related and solve it properly…thanks
We just start a test in our website, and for now it seems to be that the blended ads win from the contrast ones. The increase is more or less 20% more generated clicks. greetz, V
This post direly needs a quick update. There were various changes in the last two years and some of the things mentioned here are no longer relevant.
I was searching for how to increase the text link ads font and size. But reading your article I could come to know that I can not do that. Rather I can change the font and size of my own site text. But will I continue changing my site font and size as the ad units size and font may be changing time and again. Thanks.
Great information, just what I was looking for, just have to wait and see muy revenue improve (if it will!)
Thanks
Good tip! Thank you for posting this information!
Greetz,
Angela
You can also use Firebug (Firefox add-on) to inspect the different link elements.
Read more about it here:
http://www.0092ff.com/web-development/firefox-add-on-firebug-130
May i ask what you ctr is right now?
My ctr is 4 % for google adsense.
Thank you for information.
i don’t think that font will help to earn more !! attractive and related ads will do :)
Adjusting your websites’ Font style and Font size to the Google Font size will increase your ctr, because people cannot tell which Link is an Advertisement and which link is not. So I will not adjust Font style and Font size.
Thanks for the info. Appreciated. I find two different fonts used by google for link ads and text ads.
Whenever you use Google adsense, you should consider it to be an external banner (which it is in fact). You want to get revenue out of the adds, so it’s logical to create adsense for your website which stands out, compared to your website.
For instance, when your website is using colors like this one (white and blue), a banner with the color Red and Grey font would really catch the eye of the visitors. By using images besides your adsense, like a person looking at the adsense, you can increase the direct CTR.
This is al basic website usability.
I am not able to change the font size.
Even when I click the large font in the display preferences, fonts shown in the ad are only small.
Any clues?
Good article!
Thanks for sharing the information.
Angela
Thank you for sharing this information. It works with me, thanks! Regards, Bram
Very nice article with really working techniques! Thanks for sharing. Regards, Jasper
Thanks for the tips!
Thanks a lot for info, I had always problems with AdSense configuration.
This is really a good tip, it works for me.