{"id":13292,"date":"2016-08-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pharma-mkting.com\/uncategorized\/redirect-url-survey\/"},"modified":"2019-03-01T12:12:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T12:12:25","slug":"redirect-url-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/surveys\/redirect-url-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Pharma Advertisers Use Redirect URLs in Search Engine Ads?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Should Pharma Advertisers Use Redirect URLs in Search Engine Ads?              <\/p>\n<p> (Survey started 14 May 2010; ended 7 June 2010; N=23 respondents; restarted 7 November 2012)<\/p>\n<p>  This survey solicits reader opinion on pharma advertiser use of redirect URLs in paid search engine ads. <a href=\"#results\">Preliminary Results<\/a> are presented below.                      <\/p>\n<p> <b><a track=\"on\" href=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/293SXN2\">Take the survey Now!<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>            Your comments are confidential (anonymous) unless you specifically provide your contact information at the end of the survey and allow us to attribute comments to you personally.         <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"#Resources\">See Resources &amp; Further Reading below&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <b>Background<\/b>              Google&#8217;s Adword (paid search ad) editorial policy states that &#8220;Your display URL must accurately reflect the landing page URL of the website you&#8217;re advertising. It should match the domain of your landing page so that users will know which site they&#8217;ll be taken to when they click on your ad.&#8221;         <\/p>\n<p> However, Google and other search engines, give pharmaceutical advertisers and their agents an exception to this rule and allow them to use display URLs such as www.ManagingMyBloodpressure.com instead of www.benicar.com, which is where the consumer is sent when he or she clicks on the ad (see examples below).         <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>             <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/HypertensionSearchRedirectAds.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\"\/>         <\/p>\n<p> This survey asks your opinion of this practice. It asks specifically to indicate your level of agreement\/disagreement with the following statements about Pharma&#8217;s use of paid search engine ads:         <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Regardless of search engine rules that may allow pharma advertisers to use redirect URLs (&#8220;vanity URLs&#8221;), pharma should ONLY use display URLs in ads that ACCURATELY reflect the landing page URLs of the websites being advertised (ie, pharma should obey the rules established for all other advertisers).<\/li>\n<li>Pharma advertisers should be allowed an exception to search engine rules regarding redirect URLs because FDA regulations prevent them from displaying a drug brand name in short ads, even when the brand name is only part of the display URL.<\/li>\n<li>Redirect URLs should NEVER be used by pharma advertisers because they mislead the consumer into believing that the links will take them to independent disease information websites, not branded drug sites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>   <a name=\"results\"><b>Survey Results:<\/b><\/a>         <\/p>\n<p>Preliminary results are summarized in the chart below.                      You can view a more detailed, complete and up-to-date online Summary of Responses                      after taking the survey yourself: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/293SXN2\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>             <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/RedirectURLSurveyChart_ALL2.png\" alt=\"Redirect URL Chart\" width=\"575\" height=\"314\"\/>                  <\/p>\n<p><p> <b><a track=\"on\" href=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/293SXN2\">Take the survey Now!<\/a><\/b>         <\/p>\n<p> <a name=\"Resources\"><b>Resources &amp; Further Reading:<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pharmamkting.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/google-no-longer-allows-pharma.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google No Longer Allows Pharma an Exception to Its Ban on Paid Search Redirects (UPDATED)<\/a> (podcast)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pharmamkting.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/redirect-urls-in-adwords-who-knew-what.html\" target=\"_blank\">Redirect URLs in Adwords: Who Knew What When?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pharmamkting.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/next-fda-concern-may-be-use-of-redirect.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Next FDA Concern May be the Use of &#8220;Redirect&#8221; URLs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveys.pharma-mkting.com\/surveys-hp.htm\">Return to list of surveys&#8230;<\/a><\/i>         <\/p>\n<p\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This survey asks your opinion about Pharma&#8217;s use of redirect (aka &#8216;vanity&#8217;) URLS in paid search engine ads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1204],"tags":[],"topic":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Should Pharma Advertisers Use Redirect URLs in Search Engine Ads? 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