Google Checkout and Issues Beyond Affiliate Marketing
Jonathan aka “TrustNo1″ who the frequent readers of ReveNews are all familiar with, did tip me off earlier this evening about Google Checkout and issues that emerged for several Merchants with Affiliate Programs. Actually the other way around, issues for the Affiliates that are affiliated with a CJ Merchant that uses Google Checkout. Not all of them though.
Todd Martini opened this can of worms actually tonight at ABestWeb after he received some disturbing information from rep at Commission Junction with the name Ziggy Kopetti.
Well, my fellow ReveNews.com blogger and affiliate Connie Berg from FlamingoWorld.com did break it in the blogosphere, at her ReveNews Blog and provided us with her thoughts on the issue
Also Sam Harrelson over at CostPerNews.com posted about it. and provided some insights.
I took the time to look into this a bit more and by doing so, did I realize that not only affiliate marketing, specifically commission junction in this case, or Affiliate Programs that use 1 pixel images for tracking are affected, but search marketing (PPC) as well.
You can read the full post here (LONG POST WARNING, CLICK ON YOUR OWN RISK). 
Update: 12/4/2006
For affiliate marketers is the discussion at Sam’s and Connie’s Blogs and ABestWeb of the most interest. I will try to make the PPC/SEM community aware and involved of this issue via my SEJ post. The more loud complaints about it the better and the sooner will Google be forced to do something about it. This is no blatant promotion of my “other” story and if you still believe that, sorry. I’d rather live with that than Google not doing something very soon before the holidays are over.
