Adsense URLs

What do you think

[mlduclos]

Hello

Google system requires the link in very long URLs, like [pagead2.googlesyndication.com...] of stuff here)

Well, I see 2 points on this:

1. Some dummy people dont like to click on URLs like this, because they think it can run a script with virus, spyware or trojan, they get frightened with all that numbers & symbols and think his computer can get infected with maliciou cookies forever. The fact of the domain be googlesyndication difficult to identify with the well-know google.com URL.

2. The Ad of google and the URL contains the URL of advertisor. This is right? Some of the people above can get interested in the content of ad and simply type the url directly in the browser, without click in adsense.

Should URLs be shorter? Should google remove URLs in the Ads?

thanks

[inbound]

I'd agree that it's not ideal, but there may be technical difficulties in shortening the url due to the sheer number of ad impressions google serves.

I'd like to see a change to the whatever.googlesyndication.com domain, maybe moving onto a more recognised domain such as www.google.com/thenlongstring , this would allay a lot of the concerns but, again, may cause a technical issue in handling the traffic to that domain.

There has to be a better way, but I'd rather that they fixed some other problems first. (click fraud, Adwords quality score inconsistencies, a direct link to my sites from Google.com homepage ;)

[cabowabo]

Some dummy people dont like to click on URLs like this

Do you really think that the average web user is smart enough to even look? I recently read an article that 7% of web users don't scroll down a web page because they "don't know how".

Now, THAT is scary.

Cheers,

CaboWabo

[abbeyvet]

Some of the people above can get interested in the content of ad and simply type the url directly in the browser, without click in adsense.

Which is fine, especially if you are the advertiser. I cannot imagine urls in the ads being disallowed finding universal favour with those buying AdWords, unless it was optional.

I do it all the time, especially if I find myself on a cruddy made-for-adsense site - I might want to visit the advertiser but I have no desire to send any income to the site.

Granted there are few regular surfers who will think like this, but then they will probably not be aware of any of the things you are pointing out as problems.