Guide: How To Randomize Adsense Colors

I know this might not be ture but what if google keep a record of the color combination when you generate the code? They can easily check if you have modify the code without using their code generator. Also, even though no one knows, you are still breaking the TOS.

 

i mailed google, and here is the answer:

"...Please be sure that you
don't make any changes on your own server which affect the display,
behavior, targeting, or the AdSense code as it appears in the HTML source
of your pages..."

that means, using this function is completely ok with adsense.

 

This code does not violate any TOS from what I can tell.
Now, allow me to state my reasoning.

The code manipulates the color that the ad is displayed, and is random. Now, if the code hid or removed the Google Ad from the page, that would be against the TOS, but because it shows it and does not distort the ad, it is not.

The coding does not affect the advertisers - in fact it may benefit them, as random colored advertisements would draw more and better attention to their ads.

I think that if the background color became randomly the color of the text and URL and title of the ad, that would be against Google's TOS. But I'm pretty sure Google's javasacript detects that and fixes it automatically because I've run into an instance similar to that where Google displayed their own colored ad to make it readable with the background.

 

thank you EGS.

also, i tried my best to make sure that no color is same with background.

color codes are variables between 0-255 for each color (red, green and blue), 255,255,255 being pure white.

in my example, the closest possible color to the white is 200,200,200. as you can see:

	$r = rand(0, 200);
	$g = rand(0, 200);
	$b = rand(0, 200);

Code (markup):

so the script can not make text colors same with background color. (this applies only if you have white background. you need to edit the numbers for other background colors as i said in my first post.)

 

The code shouldn't violate the TOS. As others say, when you right-click view source you should only see the html code not the php parser codes. If it does, than we can just make an adsense rotation, and still thats not against the TOS.

DP forums itself is doing this itself obviously. From changing the colors at the top right banner, you can tell it changes colors, etc.. from time to time and there has been no conflict with DP and Google from what I've seen so far. And as for revenue sharing feature in the DP forums, it is similar of generating a random color, but instead generating a random adsense client id from the DP members that have submitted their id's for revenue sharing.

 

update:

it's much more safer now:

function randomcolor()
{
	$r = rand(0, 160);
	$g = rand(0, 160);
	$b = rand(0, 160);
	
	$r = base_convert($r, 10, 16);
	$g = base_convert($g, 10, 16);
	$b = base_convert($b, 10, 16);
	
	if (strlen(strval($r)) == 1) {$r = "0".$r;}
	if (strlen(strval($g)) == 1) {$g = "0".$g;}
	if (strlen(strval($b)) == 1) {$b = "0".$b;}
	
	$colorcode = $r.$g.$b;
	echo($colorcode);	
}

Code (php):

 

They can't be keeping a record of your generated colors. If you click "Single Page" while setting up your Adsense code, the color combinations are changed in the code box in real time. No data is being sent back to Google, as you aren't submitting the form.

On top of that, the logistics of keeping track of every change every Adsense publisher makes would render this near impossible. Google would need to double their resources just to either manually or automatically scan every publisher's page for deviations from the generated code.

And, finally, what is the difference if you are breaking the TOS, if theres no way for them to know you are? Is it a moral issue?

I would actually sort of look forward to St Peter questioning me on my Adsense color schemes.

 

Its better to do it like this --

google_color_border = ["FFFF88","FF8888","8888FF","88FF88","CC0000","CC0000"]; 
google_color_bg = ["FFFFCC","FFCCCC","CCCCFF","CCFFCC","FFFFFF","FFFFCC"]; 
google_color_link = ["000066","000066","000066","000066","0000FF","000000"]; 
google_color_text = ["222222","222222","222222","222222","006600","000000"]; 
google_color_url = ["222222","222222","222222","222222","000000","000800"];

Code (markup):

No TOS issues & doesnt require PHP

 

PHP is a lot easier and does not violate TOS.

 

this is awesome, thanks for posting this!

 

PST, PST, have you seen the banner in the top right of your screen?.

it changes color everytime!

So whichever the method, I don't believe that could be a break of TOS

 

^^ i guess people have been ad-blind to that ad too