Let’s Get Banned From Adsense!

Life’s a journey, not a destination. You only live once. Just do it.

Hearing all those nice sayings makes we want to live life to the fullest. And one thing I haven’t done yet is get banned from Adsense. Have you? If not, let’s get moving!

There are plenty of ways to do it. A popular one would be to put images beside our ads. Or place our ads on proxified pages of a proxy site. Hell, we could just click our own ads all day.

But I’d rather push one of the grayer areas (and ride the wave into the black.)

This gray area is blending your ads into your website. There are plenty of legitimate ways to do this, which is why it puzzles me right now, but I know some ways are darker than others.

But before we start blending, we have to figure out how to match the ads to our website. The catch is… we can’t manipulate the ads. So we must manipulate our websites around the ads!

John Chow posted about blending Adsense ads last year, so read his post to get up to speed.

Basically we are going to view the CSS for the ads (using Firefox) and then match our website colors and fonts to those same styles. It’s a great technique and it’s allowed by Adsense, you just can’t blend the ads into the rest of your content. If you did, the user wouldn’t know what was an ad and what was a navigation link!

Wait! Does that mean that we’ll get lots of extra ad clicks and make more money because of this? I bet it does!

Now I know what to do this weekend! [insert evil laugh here]

***2008 Update*** Blending your ads is now against Adsense terms…

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