New colors for referral buttons
The AdSense team must be trying to wrap up a few projects before Christmas. I already mentioned the new holiday themed ads option and the ability to email reports. Well, there's more:
- As Jensense notes, there are two new colors (green and blue) available for the AdSense referral buttons. I don't know why they don't just provide a wide range of these, it should be easy enough to automate the button-building process within Google.
- There are link unit improvements. The link units themselves haven't changed, but the page they link to has. Try it on your own site — you can click link units without fear as long as you don't click the ads themselves on the landing page. The changes aren't immediately obvious to me — bigger fonts, maybe, to match the new bigger font sizes on Google's search results page?
- You can now remove the Google logo from the Google search box by replacing the “Submit” button with one labeled “Google Search”. I still wish they'd offer more flexibility here, though AdSense for search isn't really that widely used and is not a big money-maker for anyone so it's not a priority for most people.
Wonder what other changes are in store before Christmas?
Eric Giguere is the AdSense expert who wrote Make Easy Money with Google. Subscribe to his AdSense newsletter for more tips and advice on AdSense and content monetization.
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December 14, 2005 | Filed Under AdSense