Jan
Adsense Color Test
I’ve been unhappy with the way Adsense has been performing on my Myspace Layout Pimper site, so I’ve decided to run a week long test. The test is going to be very simple. All I am doing is changing the colors.
The previous colors for the ads on the site were that light sky blue color. I have since changed it to something more bold so it will stand out… red. One of the best ways to increase your earnings is to experiment. And that is something I don’t do. I often set something up and just leave it.
So I’ll give a quick rundown of the stats this January for LayoutPimps.net
January 1-7
- avg daily unique 1,215
- avg daily adsense pageviews 28,862
- avg daily clicks 76
- avg daily earnings $4.32
January 8-14
- avg daily unique 1,528
- avg daily adsense pageviews 33,301
- avg daily click 103
- avg daily earnings $4.22
January 15-21
- avg daily uniques 1,665
- avg daily adsense pageviews 33,049
- avg daily clicks 135
- avg daily earnings $3.67
So as you can see… traffic has been going up, as well as the number of clicks per day. However, my earnings are going down. So something is up. Hopefully this test can help give me a better understanding of changes I need to make. I will also be monitoring the different ad sections. I have them set up in unique channels. Maybe I will only have to change a few of them.
So if you have a site running adsense and its a site you never have to work on. Try changing the colors up a bit. Give it a week and see if it changes your earnings. It’s worth a try.


This should be very interesting, finding out if the ads will work better if they are well blended or if they stand out. I take you’re planning to publish the results?
The earnings might be going down because the ads getting clicked on are those extremely cheap ads. You might want to look into blocking some of them and you might find your earnings going back up once again.
Of course I will publish the results.
I did an ads blacklist thing a few months ago and blocked all those awful sites, but maybe I need to redo it again.
Hmmm, maybe i need to do this someday. Given the fact Adsense counts at least 15,000 page impressions a day and sometimes 1000 clicks, the change in earnings should be significant.
Allen.H
Hi, thanks for the info. I really hope you can publish the results. I’ll be keeping track on them.
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