One month after the launch of Google Checkout, I am directly benefitting as an affiliate.

Four weeks ago I wrote a post on A4uforum saying how the new Google Checkout was not tracking affiliate sales. The post kicked off an interesting and animated discussion.

In the last couple of weeks though, I noticed a steady shift of consumer interest. My traffic analytics showed I had a healthy set of visitors looking for “Google checkout shops” via Google and landing on my site. So I thought I may as well push it far as I could.
Last week I’d gone as far as building a dedicated page showcasing these shops that had the £10 bonus and that also had an affiliate scheme.

In the last few days I’ve made some “Party Delights” sales and I wouldn’t have even signed up to that programme if it wasn’t for GC.

I’ve also made a few Findmeagift sales. Theirs is a particularly good offer as you save £20 if you use the discount code as well. Before GC, I made few sales despite promoting them prominently across the Shop Codes site.

Elsewhere, I managed to get the Bedworld page out of the Google supplemental index by including it on this page.

So, all in all I’ve made a handful of sales that I wouldn’t have made without promoting Google’s £10 bonus.

What a bonus!