I do not know if the color of a Google AdSense search box have any
effect on the earnings that one can get from displaying the search box.
But one thing I know. If you don't blend the color of the search box to
the colors of the website, the attractiveness of the site.
The first step is of course to sign into your AdSense account, and the first page displayed will be a report of your earnings. There are 3 tabs at the top of the report - Report, AdSense Setup, My Account. Click the AdSense Setup tab. By default you will initially be in the Products sub tab and 3 choices are presented to you in the page below the sub-tabs - AdSense for Content, AdSense for Search and Referrals.
Click "AdSense for Search". It will be much faster if you choose to do everything in the same page, rather than having to configure page by page and waiting for the new page to open. Click "Single Page" at the top of the page. If you are doing a sitesearch box, type in the URL of the site you want searched. Make sure you don't add a / to the back of the URL. If you are copying the URL from the address bar or other means, remove the backslash /.
By default, you will only have 3 choices for the background color of your search box - black, white, gray. If you want more choices, you will have to get rid of the Google logo by ticking ""Google Search" on button" and you will be presented with more choices of color plus specifying the color using HTML color codes (see screenshot below, click to enlarge).
The first step is of course to sign into your AdSense account, and the first page displayed will be a report of your earnings. There are 3 tabs at the top of the report - Report, AdSense Setup, My Account. Click the AdSense Setup tab. By default you will initially be in the Products sub tab and 3 choices are presented to you in the page below the sub-tabs - AdSense for Content, AdSense for Search and Referrals.
Click "AdSense for Search". It will be much faster if you choose to do everything in the same page, rather than having to configure page by page and waiting for the new page to open. Click "Single Page" at the top of the page. If you are doing a sitesearch box, type in the URL of the site you want searched. Make sure you don't add a / to the back of the URL. If you are copying the URL from the address bar or other means, remove the backslash /.
By default, you will only have 3 choices for the background color of your search box - black, white, gray. If you want more choices, you will have to get rid of the Google logo by ticking ""Google Search" on button" and you will be presented with more choices of color plus specifying the color using HTML color codes (see screenshot below, click to enlarge).
If you want more choices that the white, black, gray, green, blue, red,
yellow, purple that you can select from the drop-down menu, you will
have to choose "Use HTML codes". To make your choice more accurate, you
will have to get a color picker to get the colors found on your site. Go
to Iconico
and download their ColorPic. With this tool, you can place your cursor
(mouse) on any part of your site and the color plus HTML code will be
displayed on your ColorPic tool. If you find the color not changing,
press ctrl+G.
You have a choice of completely merging the background color of your search box with the color of the part of your site where you want to place your search box, like this blog: Guide to Japan, or choose complementary color for the search box background, like this one: Guide to China, where the color of the search box stand out slightly from the background.
This is how it is done. The first example is easily done. Just open ColorPic and place the cursor (mouse) over the part you are going to place the box, note the HTML code and enter that code into the appropriate field in the AdSense page. In the second case (Guide to China), the easiest is I just describe how I did it.
With ColorPic, I noted the color of the sidebar (#556655) and the main column (#CCDDBB). I then go to Color Blender, and entered the 2 HTML color codes into the 2 extreme color (Color 1 and Color 2). I then have to select the number of mid-points (complementary colors in between) that I want (the choice is from 1 to 10). I chose 10, and the 10 complementary colors in between the 2 are generated (see screenshot below, click to enlarge)
You have a choice of completely merging the background color of your search box with the color of the part of your site where you want to place your search box, like this blog: Guide to Japan, or choose complementary color for the search box background, like this one: Guide to China, where the color of the search box stand out slightly from the background.
This is how it is done. The first example is easily done. Just open ColorPic and place the cursor (mouse) over the part you are going to place the box, note the HTML code and enter that code into the appropriate field in the AdSense page. In the second case (Guide to China), the easiest is I just describe how I did it.
With ColorPic, I noted the color of the sidebar (#556655) and the main column (#CCDDBB). I then go to Color Blender, and entered the 2 HTML color codes into the 2 extreme color (Color 1 and Color 2). I then have to select the number of mid-points (complementary colors in between) that I want (the choice is from 1 to 10). I chose 10, and the 10 complementary colors in between the 2 are generated (see screenshot below, click to enlarge)
I chose the one nearer the color of the main column (#B2C3A4) so that
while the search box appear apart from the background, it does not stand
out too much.
The rest is selecting whether you want your search result page to open
in the same window (default) or new window and if you want a custom
channel.
When done, the script will be in the box at the bottom of the page ready for you to copy and paste into your site.
When done, the script will be in the box at the bottom of the page ready for you to copy and paste into your site.
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