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Adsense Tips – CSS links

July 1st, 2007

Ok so when you build or generate a page for Adsense and only for Adsense whats the aim of the page?

Click ! – Yup thats right you need the visitor to click and fuck off as soon as possible, whilst they are browsing they are eating bandwidth and the risk of them finding something useful to read is increasing.

Whats the best way to make sure that happens whilst remaining legal? What I do is make sure that my links arent easy to spot and i make sure that the ads are the brightest thing on the page.

More about making the ads stand out soon and more about making the page as dull as possible too but today we are just going to make the links dissapear via css.

I dont add navigation links in a list, mine are often just in the middle of the content and look like another paragraph of content. Heres the css I use to make them dissapear: -

<code>
<style type=”text/css”>
<!–
body {
color: #666666;
}
a:link {
color: #666666;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited {
color: #666666;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
color: #666666;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:active {
color: #666666;
text-decoration: none;
}
–>
</style>
</code>

More on why the text isnt black its dark grey another day but all your links have faded into the general content and your click happy visitor will be reading those ads with their finger on the money button :)

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2 Responses to “Adsense Tips – CSS links”

  1. SEO Ranter says:

    Revolutionary! What kind of link structure do you go for?

  2. SEOidiot says:

    Build in batches – link the pages together in each site reasonably randomly -

    cross link between sites in a batch using a % to decide the probability of each page linking out to a random page on another in the same batch….

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