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Is Google Checkout Tracking Affiliate Commissions?

There has been a mad rush this week for the UK Affiliate networks to get their tracking pixels setup to work with Google’s new Payment Gateway Google Checkout.

Google Checkout is a new payment gateway for merchants, it has been out in USA for a few months, but has recently been released to the UK market.

It is basically Google’s version of Paypal, and I’m sure it will be a big hit with end users and merchants alike. It has however caused some uproar this week within the UK affiliate industry as it means some affiliate commissions won’t be track.

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The problem is that the UK affiliate networks have not all been approved and that means their tracking pixels (used to log affiliate sales) are not in place, meaning an affiliate sends traffic to the merchant who uses Google Checkout, and any sales generated will not be reported back to the network.

Currently there are around 40 networks that have been approved by Google Checkout and should be setup fine for logging affiliate commissions. Google are working through the other networks, so make sure you keep checking back for an updated list of networks.

 

List As Of 22nd April 2007 :

 

  • Advertising.com
  • AdWords Conversion Tracking
  • AffiliateFuture
  • AffiliateShop
  • Affiliate Window
  • Atlas
  • BlueHornet
  • BlueStreak
  • Certona
  • Channel Intelligence
  • Cheetah Mail
  • ClearSaleing
  • Commission Junction
  • Converseon
  • ConversionRuler
  • Coremetrics
  • Did-it
  • Dotomi
  • Efficient Frontier
  • iCrossing
  • Jellyfish.com
  • JROX.COM
  • LinkConnector
  • Looksmart
  • NexTag
  • Offermatica
  • Omniture
  • Overture
  • Paid On Results Ltd.
  • Performics
  • PriceGrabber
  • PriceRunner
  • Quigo Tracking
  • Rimm Kaufman
  • Searchmarketing.com
  • ShareASale
  • Shopzilla/BizRate
  • Sitebrand
  • TradeDoubler
  • WebSideStory
  • WebTrends

 

For an updated list Check out http://checkout.google.com/support/sell/bin/answer.py?answer=55005

 

Here are some links to a few other forums and Blog posts with updated information on the roll out of Google Checkout, be sure to keep monitoring to make sure your not loosing any commissions and dropping your ROI!

 

Other Blogs and Forums

 

http://www.a4uforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=58308

http://www.affiliatemarketingblog.co.uk/google-checkout-uk.html

http://www.affiliateprogramadvice.com/

http://blog.affiliatetip.com/archives/google-checkout-ruckus-in-the-uk/

 

 

 

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