Why can't Google have normal text referrals?
I'm on the road for a few days without a computer, but thanks to my BlackBerry and AvantGo I can still keep up with what's new in the AdSense world. Just don't expect long postings or a lot of links, these small devices are a challenge to use for blogging.
There are a lot of smart people at Google, but sometimes they just don't get it. When I and other publishers ask for text referral links, what we want is the ability to do something like this:
http://adsense.google.com/?ref=xxxxxxxx
In other words, act like every other referral program on the planet! I don't know why they feel compelled to control the links so closely. Let me place them in plain text emails. Let me encourage people to sign up for AdSense. It's not like there's an immediate payout or anything.
That's all I'll say for now, we're off to the Ford factory tour in Dearborn…
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