They’re Baaack!
Google gets it’s pixels on!
That’s the word from Matt Cutts (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pixel-tracking-in-google-checkout/).
The documentation on pixel tracking in Google Checkout also just went live. So, Google has slapped together a quick resolve to their affiliate lack-of-tracking issues and picked an Industry sweetheart … the tracking pixel.
Our thanks to these folks for pushing, urging and down right threatening Google to get a resolve and get it fast:
http://affiliate-blogs.5staraffiliateprograms.com/2006/12/04/google-checkout-affiliate-tracking/ and http://affiliate-blogs.5staraffiliateprograms.com/2006/12/06/google-checkout-affiliate-sales/
http://www.threadwatch.org/node/10494
http://www.webmasterworld.com/ecommerce/3179902.htm#msg3182906
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=4059