How to Customize the Colors of Your Google Ads for WordPress

There must be tons of articles and blogs written about the Google Ads on the Internet – but I just want to share my glee for my BIG success tonight. It’s really a big deal for me because I’m not a computer geek. I am just a middle-aged housewife without any computer background. All I want to do is write blogs. It’s up to smart kids to do the tweaking as per my endless instructions. Sometimes, I over-demand and this drives my kids crazy, he-he.

As you can see, the body theme of my brand new blog is white and red. Strangely, I found the vivid blueness of small-lettered titles of the Google ads quite awkward to see. They attract and distract, at the same time. Since I just exhausted my volunteer assistant and was now sleeping happily, I was forced to read through the Help section of Google Adsense. (Gosh, it took my hours!) And during those grueling hours, I suddenly appreciated this quote by Newt Gingrich: “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”

Step-by-Step Guide:

1. Log in to your Google Adsense account. Click the tab “Adsense Setup”; then, choose “Manage Ads”.

2. Under the “Name (#ID)”, look for the banner size and creation date. If you’re not sure which one to choose, take a look through “Preview”—before clicking the “Click Ad Settings”.

3. On the page “Edit Adsense unit”, go to “Colors” and create your personal color palette.

4. During the palette creation process, you can see the changes you’re doing on the “Sample” ads on left side. Or—click “Preview this Adsense unit” to see the actual look.

5. Once satisfied with the new colors of your ads, save this palette here: “Save as new palette”.

6. Last but not the least—click the button: “Save settings”.

7. Back to page “Manage Ads”, take a preview first before you click “Code”. (Remember: changes may take 10 minutes to be seen on actual page—so don’t panic.)

8. Click the “Adsense unit code” inside the gray box; once highlighted, right-click the mouse and click “copy”.

9. Go to your WordPress Dashboard, click “Installed” under “Plugins”. My plugin is “Quick Adsense”. Click “Setting”, scroll downwards to “Adsense Codes”.

10. Highlight and delete the code script on “Ads1”; then, right-click the mouse inside the now empty box and click “paste”. Repeat this step on all boxes, but only if they’re all used.

11. Click “Save changes”.

***This procedure may be used to both banner sizes: 468×60 and 250×250.***

Whew! I hope this post will help anyone with the same fetish to colors. Tee-hee! ‘Til next issue!