Comments on: Friday Link Express

By: Ryan Shamus

Ryan Shamus — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:05:32 +0000

Thanks for the link love Minx!

I’m sure you’re busy checking your growing Adsense account, so I’ll leave you alone!

Good tips though..and I agree, I’m all about the blue links. It’s Internetly correct.

By: richminx

richminx — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:59:35 +0000

Heh you ended on a cliffhanger! Just like Prison Break. But I think I got the message

By: Jon Symons

Jon Symons — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:38:23 +0000

You’ve got it now. Just sit back and watch the clicks pour in!
Of course, if you were to embed that AdSense block right into the arti….. oh, nevermind

By: richminx

richminx — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:24:52 +0000

Ah, okay, done. I’m not sure if that blue’s very clear in the posts, though. What do you think?

By: Jon Symons

Jon Symons — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:48:18 +0000

Okay master Minx. Impressive immediate implementation!
We still have a slight disconnect however.
In AdSense, the URL is the part at the bottom of the ad and the Title is the top part.
Ex.
Title: Make $200 a Day on Clickbank
URL: PileOCash.com/ClickbankRocks
Currently on your site, you have the URLs blue, and the titles black. You want to have the titles blue and the URLs black.
And you may want to try #000080 as the shade of blue, a little easier on the eyes and clinically tested by Obi-Jon to have the highest CTR.

By: richminx

richminx — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:41:43 +0000

You’re welcome. Any minute now…

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:26:35 +0000

Thanks for the link! Here’s to making $4m a minute!

By: richminx

richminx — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:02:08 +0000

Okay, I’ll give it a go Obi-Jon. You can have 5% of my seven-figure income

By: Jon Symons

Jon Symons — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:52:01 +0000

“But if I made my urls black then the red titles wouldnâ€™t match my linksâ€¦?”

You want the titles to match the links in your articles. The urls in the ads should be black just to de-emphasize them.

It is a visual cue-ing system. You are telling your visitor: “everything important, that you can click on to find more great information is in red.”

Since people have already been trained by early Internet standards to believe that links “should” be blue, you would see a further increase in click through rate if you changed the color of all your links (in your posts and AdSense) to blue.

By: richminx

richminx — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:17:55 +0000

Well, sometimes we need reminding of the basics

But if I made my urls black then the red titles wouldn’t match my links…?