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PPC advertising company — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:36:21 -0000

I never thought that Commission Junction has been affected with these programs before, CJ&#39s for me is one of the best affiliate host but nevertheless they still have some downside.. thanks for showing us these information. I&#39ll be taking a note on this one.

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PPC advertising company — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:36:21 -0000

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Dickies Scrubs — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:41:36 -0000

i think the information may be true but google checkout is nice and tested tool to be used in the market.

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George — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:16:14 -0000

The problem is not the big one as now google has solve the problem and cj still use it as one of the check out option.
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Auto Insurance Florida — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:40:37 -0000

Google is really making affiliates&#39 life hard these days. Will Yahoo profit from it all?

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Live lead transfer — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:59:05 -0000

Well.. If the negotiations between ValueClick and Google succeed.. this will produce a big effect to everybody..

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boston area movers — Sun, 17 May 2009 12:01:42 -0000

If the negotiations between ValueClick and Google turns out to be well, then expect the influx of clients moving into their side. I just hope that there&#39ll be no major setbacks between the negotiation for its further progress.

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fresh flowers — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:59:09 -0000

wonderful working of google checkout explain in the blog.ValueClick is in negotiations with Google at the moment deciding if they want Google to insert the CJ tracking pixel into Google checkout, or not. This will depend on the revenue impact to the publishers.

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ilia seo — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:12:24 -0000

I was going to say that this issue is pretty much sorted now when I had a look at this date your post was created.

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Danielle — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:01:07 -0000

It is true that Google released support for third party tracking, BUT you have to read the fine print -- the tracking will only work if the third party is on their list of "approved" vendors.

http://checkout.google.com/...

It's a pretty short list. Obviously it's great for affiliates that CJ is on this list, but for any website that uses conversion tracking in Yahoo! (Overture), MSN Adcenter or most other third party marketing tools, Google will ignore any URL tracking data you send through to their cart. The biggest issue is that Google's vendor "approval" is based on the third party's privacy policy, and as of yet, MSN and Yahoo! have not passed muster.

For all those people who think that Google might have nefarious purposes for launching their Checkout without a third-party tracking solution, the inability to track their two main competitors' conversions just adds fuel to the fire.

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Danielle — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:01:07 -0000

It is true that Google released support for third party tracking, BUT you have to read the fine print -- the tracking will only work if the third party is on their list of "approved" vendors.

http://checkout.google.com/...

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Carsten Cumbrowski — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 23:47:42 -0000

Hi Kyle,

Thanks for your feedback. Matt Cutts posted a comment about this feature at my SEJ post on Friday (http://www.searchenginejour....

I responded to him that this solution does only work for merchants that use the API of Google Checkout. Google Checkout offers 2 additional options which are easier for the merchant because little to no programming is required on the Merchant side.

The options I am referring to are the "Buy Now button" and "the e-commerce partner" option (Google checkout shopping cart).

I can imagine that larger merchants prefer using the API to be able to use their existing order processing system to fulfill the order instead of the Google Checkout Merchant Center. Smaller merchants probably do not mind as much when it comes to the decision to use 2 systems for order processing instead of one to get around the API implementation (which is not possible for some merchants that use "out of the box" e-commerce solutions and software.

I made some recommendations for those in my blog post at SEJ. You might want to have a look. Thanks for your help though. I am sure that I can speak for everybody here that we really appreciate your efforts to solve the existing problems as soon as possible. Cheers.

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Kyle — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:08:37 -0000

Hello All ...

We recently released support for third party conversion tracking in Checkout. Checkout the docs at ....

http://code.google.com/apis...

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Carsten Cumbrowski — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:47:42 -0000

Hi Kyle,

Thanks for your feedback. Matt Cutts posted a comment about this feature at my SEJ post on Friday (http://www.searchenginejour....

The options I am referring to are the "Buy Now button" and "the e-commerce partner" option (Google checkout shopping cart).

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Kyle — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 17:08:37 -0000

Hello All ...

We recently released support for third party conversion tracking in Checkout. Checkout the docs at ....

http://code.google.com/apis...

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Jeff Molander — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:36:07 -0000

Webtrends, Coremetrics, etc. This problem spells nothing but opportunity for them. Unfortunately, some of them are tied (but how exactly are they bound?) to affiliate networks via marketing arrangements.

Why track manually using multiple systems when you can track with one?

Why pay on a variable % of sale on one of your tracking/reporting systems?

The only reason affiliate networks are used at all to track affiliate marketing relationships is the belief that they are the only means to quckly, painlessly access affiliates. This is simply not true.

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Jeff Molander — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:36:07 -0000

Why track manually using multiple systems when you can track with one?

Why pay on a variable % of sale on one of your tracking/reporting systems?

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Carsten Cumbrowski — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:07:29 -0000

Hi Brian,

If you get involved hands-on with integrating solutions for one or the other merchant, it would be great, if you could collect those experiences and put them in a guide of some sort for AM's AND their Web Development team. A lot of Merchants across all Networks would benefit from that.

Cheers

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Thomas — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:22:56 -0000

Hi Affiliates/Partners,
I'm the Affiliate Manager at eBags and I want to clear up/re-assure you regarding the tracking for Google Checkout orders.
At the moment, you are correct that no Google Checkout orders placed at eBags.com are tracking back to affiliates through CJ. However, we are receiving tracking information internally, and are able to recognize which sales belong to which affiliates. Consequently, after the holiday period is over, I will calculate the commissions owed to EVERY affiliate from Google Checkout orders, and will manually credit you for this amount. I can assure you 100% that I will be creditting you for all Google Checkout orders placed during the holiday period.
We are currently working with Google and CJ to rectify the problem as soon as possible but at present we do not have an estimated date of resolution.
If anyone is still unsure, or would like further assurance, please feel free to send me an e-mail at thomas@ebags.com or through the CJ interface, and I will send you a prompt reply.
Don't let this affect your holiday sales with eBags - you will be given credit for your orders.

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Carsten Cumbrowski — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:07:29 -0000

Hi Brian,

Cheers

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Thomas — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:22:56 -0000

Re: Google Checkout Affecting CJ Program Commissions

Brian Littleton — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:59:47 -0000

Carsten,

(I posted this earlier but seems it didn’t make it…)

I think you are making assumptions that you probably shouldn’t in this case.

As with ALL merchant checkout choices, the merchant needs to make sure that measures are in place to track transactions. This is no different from phone orders, PayPal, check payments, etc… We always work with all our clients on each one of these just as we do with Google Checkout to make sure that tracking continues to work.

As with any issue, if a merchant doesn’t consider the affect on a shopping cart change, etc… there isn’t much we can do until we notice. On account of the fact that Google Checkout is gaining such popularity with Merchants - we are reviewing the entire merchant base and notifying those using G of the potential problem, and how to fix it. Many of our current base have already spoken to us when considering implementation of G which we have worked with them on as well.