Can you blend in ads like this site does?

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I can't tell the difference between the sites content and the ads, how do they do it? Accounting Jobs And Vacancies | Simply Hired UK
There's no x to remove the ad either, how did they make it like that?
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  • Profile picture of the author Kalambur
    Originally Posted by tommybc View Post

    I can't tell the difference between the sites content and the ads, how do they do it? Accounting Jobs And Vacancies | Simply Hired UK
    There's no x to remove the ad either, how did they make it like that?
    So, what's the problem? If you're running your own website, you can code it as you want. They did that.
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  • Profile picture of the author SlfMastery
    It looks exactly like SearchTempest.com, which is a site listing all the craigslist search results. So, I assume you have to have a site that lists its content in a clickable link list format.

    Have you tried searching for a website template that can pull in search results?
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    • Profile picture of the author pookiepal
      Isn't SearchTempest against Craigslist's Terms of Services? Didn't they crack down on sites that scraped their results?
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    What do you mean? The site is clearly defining witch part of it is ads.

    I'm not sure if that's Google's Custom Search Engine, but they've had something like this for years. A search for your own page that you can customise.
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    • Profile picture of the author tommybc
      Originally Posted by SlfMastery View Post

      It looks exactly like SearchTempest.com, which is a site listing all the craigslist search results. So, I assume you have to have a site that lists its content in a clickable link list format.

      Have you tried searching for a website template that can pull in search results?
      I have a similar site but my ads don't blend in like these do, do you have to edit the appearance of the ad in the adsense settings, or is there any plugin that can make the ads blend in better?
      Originally Posted by nettiapina View Post

      What do you mean? The site is clearly defining witch part of it is ads.

      I'm not sure if that's Google's Custom Search Engine, but they've had something like this for years. A search for your own page that you can customise.
      Yes but it uses the exact same color and fonts while my sites ads are clearly distinguishable from the rest of the content (though i have a similar looking site) , i'm wondering how they made it like that, edit it in the adsense ad appearance settings?

      I clicked on the link and it was a google ad
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    • Profile picture of the author tommybc
      Originally Posted by nettiapina View Post

      What do you mean? The site is clearly defining witch part of it is ads.

      I'm not sure if that's Google's Custom Search Engine, but they've had something like this for years. A search for your own page that you can customise.
      Actually i just seearched and you may be right, which ads are usally better, adsense for search or the content adsense ads?
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  • Profile picture of the author Brent Stangel
    There's no x to remove the ad either, how did they make it like that?
    It's a super secret plugin.
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  • Profile picture of the author tommybc
    would i need to edit the sites content or the ad itself to make it blend in better?
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  • Profile picture of the author Rory Singh
    The first top 5 results on this page 'are' Ads (from ADZUNA) and this is 'above' the fold. Every visitor sees ads on this website so there really isn't that much blending.
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  • Profile picture of the author tommybc
    Those are sponsored jobs which would have the same font as the rest anyway, as they are only jobs that have been bumped to the top, you must have adblock on as you should see ads by google at the top which looks exactly like the rest of the content but on normal adsense ads they are clearly distinguishable (on other sites)
    i don't see any difference in their adsense compared to their own content, would they do this by editing the adsense ad settings so it has the same colours and using the same width as the job listings on the site? also normal adsense ads have an X at the top right but these dont
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Lee
    SimplyHired is a premium publisher for Adsense... they get to play by very different rules than the rest of us, and get a lot more control over how their ads look and are laid out.
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  • Profile picture of the author tommybc
    Google said simply hired is using adsense for search, but i don't know how to set it up in the adsense settings to make it similar to simply hired, anyone know how?
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    • Profile picture of the author RoiJB
      Originally Posted by tommybc View Post

      Google said simply hired is using adsense for search, but i don't know how to set it up in the adsense settings to make it similar to simply hired, anyone know how?
      The secret sauce is in the HTML and CSS coding, they obviously paid a professional web designer to set up the website.
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