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Google is not letting my links be blue

Discussion in 'Placement / Reviews / Examples' started by Jesse Abram, Dec 13, 2005.

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    Check out my banner near the top of my site, with the white links. The colour that I specified is 0000FF, which should be pure blue. Why are they showing up white? 00FFFF makes sort of a teal bluish green, so the colour blue seems to be working, just not by itself???http://forums.digitalpoint.com/images/smilies/confused.gif
    http://www.spacecowboysoftware.com is my site.
    Any help would be appreciated
    Thanks,
    Jesse
     
    Jesse Abram, Dec 13, 2005 IP
  2. MorgansMom

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    Personally, I think you should stick with the white and don't go blue. Blue text on black background I find is hard on the eyes and hard to read.
     
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    Well, if you think the white is visible enough. Thanks for the input! I still think it's weird that I don't seem to be able to pick blue even if I want to, though...
    Anyone had this experience?
     
    Jesse Abram, Dec 13, 2005 IP
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    If the colors are very similar and there is a chance the link will be obscured, Google will change it to the default.

    This is to stop the old hidden text trick
     
    yfs1, Dec 13, 2005 IP
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    Int'resting... Perhaps that's what's happening. Well, I'm not going to lose sleep over it, my biggest site issue right now is geting more visitors, not banner optimization.
     
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    oh, and thanks.
     
    Jesse Abram, Dec 13, 2005 IP