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I’m sure for all you affiliated marketers out there reading this (probably like 2 of you guys), you know website colors can affect a conversion or not. But can the same thing be said about making money with your blog? Does color really have such an impact on your daily lives that it could influence you to not click on an ad or visit a specific site? Well, the answer is yes .
Color does affect many aspects of our lives. For instance, they say red symbolizes power, intensity, passion and courage. Now, have you ever wondered why so many businessmen wear red ties?
Now, let’s stick with the color red example. On the other hand, some people say red can symbolize sexual impulses, danger and quite possibly shame. Now, have you guys ever been to a porn site before?
Yes, you say? *cough* Pervert… just joking, I mean, it’s pretty hard to avoid stumbling across one nowadays, huh? But a large majority of porn sites have some sort of red theme, and most of them that have that color know that red symbolizes sexuality and sexual impulses.
Now, I’m not saying every site would or should have red but that was just a simple observation.
Since we’re stuck on red , did you guys know that the percentages are higher for red cars to get pulled over by a cop than any other colored car? Also, car insurances are usually higher for red colored cars as well.
Can you believe just a simple color can affect our daily lives?
I recently read on Uberaffiliate.com and Paul mentions that landing pages for affiliate marketing should have “happy colors” such as blues , greens , oranges and reds . According to Paul, “The most popular color is probably blue, although I’ve had some success with orange pages on a white background. In most cases keeping the background white is better, black looks much too dark and almost depressing.”
He also mentioned the fact that people should stay away from gloomy colors like grey (did you guys notice me changing my colors last week?).
Now, Paul is an “Uber Affiliate” marketer, he obviously has lots of experience with landing pages. And the color schemes can be said about blog themes too!
What I’m trying to say is colors can affect your daily life, but at the same time, it can also help you adjust to have readers stick around a little longer. Maybe have an additional conversation? Maybe get a few more ads clicked on?
Some tips about website color schemes that I have read:
- Black text on a white background is dull but it is the most readable and pleasing to the eye
- Yellow text on a light or white background is not only unreadable, but causes eye-strain which equals people not staying on your site very long
- Blues and white backgrounds work best for business sites
- Maternity sites should consider using some pink
- Golf or lawn sites should consider green
- Food sites should consider red
I’m sure I left some off but I hope you guys get the point: website colors can affect your blog as well; if your visitors can barely read your site then I bet you won’t have many people returning. And if you don’t have people going to your website that means you’re probably not going to make money.
Please note: This is not a paid review.
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If you guys want to check your site to see what keywords are most popular and what position rank you are within the search engines, seodigger.com is a great site for that.
Seodigger is a “online free SEO tool detecting search keywords” which should help a lot of people make adjusts to their meta tags and increase your traffic. It will provide you information about the keywords that are searched for the most, and you can also check your competitors as well.
Personally, I have not tested out the theory if it will drastically increase your search engine placements, but supposedly for tons of people it has. I actually just signed up for it not to long ago, and it’s worth a try, the registration is free.
If you are trying to get your page rank up, you should submit your blog(s) to as many directories as you can. Feel free to read “Simple Steps to Increase Google Page Rank” for more information.
But in addition, you should also submit your feeds to RSS Feed Directories as well. But before you do, I would just suggest verifying if your feeds at FeedValidator.org. This is just a simple but helpful tool.
Just go try it out already!
I’ve been focusing on SEO and keywords primarily in the past week, so I figured I’d add a helpful tool for everyone – a SEO Keyword Suggestion Tool.
As you guys may already know, SEO is important but without keywords, it makes it very hard. Please feel free to read more on SEO in my articles, “Two Word Searches in Google are the Most Popular”, “Add HTML Meta Tags to Increase your Traffic/SEO”, and “Put Keywords in Blog Title to Help with SEO.”
Feel free to type in some keywords below:
