Many Blogger Users Requesting for AdSense Transparent Backgrounds
As an Adsense user myself, I would love to see transparent backgrounds available for Adsense ads. We get requests for help in creating this on the BHF all the time, especially with all the new templates available with photo backgrounds and transparent foregrounds. I realize that Blogger is probably not the bulk of sites that are using Adsense ads but they must still be a large portion and the templates they offer are close to what regular website designers are coming up with as well. I read previous threads regarding this issue and it seemed like it boiled down to Adsense being worried that users would place ads that weren't readable due to transparency. Well, what I have found is that users are just choosing not to use the link and text ads on their blogs because they can't adjust the color to match their blog's transparent foreground. Adsense should be concerned about meeting both the needs of the advertiser but also the needs of the website designer/owner as well, ...