Adwords Pixel Piggybacking

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AYGJoe

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Alright, its been a long time since I've ran an offer off a network through Adwords. However, I got one the other day at a decent CPA and knew I could smash it. Built out 10 campaigns, 40 adgroups each. Each of them is budget capping at my standard .25 CPC starting, and ironically enough its just over the break even point out of the gate at around 5% ROI.

The problem I've got is my Adwords pixel isn't firing. I tried piggybacking it off my own pixel, which used to work with 99% of networks. Basically make your own js page, inside it place analytics + whatever other pixels you want and it fires fine giving lots of data to optimize off of.

This network? It doesn't fire, had to place the Adwords pixel directly into there panel and now it only fires about 10% of the time. What the fuck causes this?

Asked my Google rep to show me some documentation and naturally he's a dumb idiot that knows nothing...

Asked my AM to show me some documentation and even see if she could place the pixel directly on the offer, and of course she couldn't. Fucking worthless...

I should mention this network uses the 'cake marketing' platform. (getcake.com)

Anyone have any idea's for this? I guess I could break out prosper and try it that way with different subid's for each adgroup?

I can blow this fucking offer up if I can just get the damn pixel's to fire.

Anyone that gives me a workable solution gets a nice present in there paypal...
 


Can you not just place all the pixels on a single page and then iframe it? Should fire everything on the page.
 
AYGJoe said:
Alright, its been a long time since I've ran an offer off a network through Adwords. However, I got one the other day at a decent CPA and knew I could smash it. Built out 10 campaigns, 40 adgroups each. Each of them is budget capping at my standard .25 CPC starting, and ironically enough its just over the break even point out of the gate at around 5% ROI.

The problem I've got is my Adwords pixel isn't firing. I tried piggybacking it off my own pixel, which used to work with 99% of networks. Basically make your own js page, inside it place analytics + whatever other pixels you want and it fires fine giving lots of data to optimize off of.

This network? It doesn't fire, had to place the Adwords pixel directly into there panel and now it only fires about 10% of the time. What the fuck causes this?

Asked my Google rep to show me some documentation and naturally he's a dumb idiot that knows nothing...

Asked my AM to show me some documentation and even see if she could place the pixel directly on the offer, and of course she couldn't. Fucking worthless...

I should mention this network uses the 'cake marketing' platform. (getcake.com)

Anyone have any idea's for this? I guess I could break out prosper and try it that way with different subid's for each adgroup?

I can blow this fucking offer up if I can just get the damn pixel's to fire.

Anyone that gives me a workable solution gets a nice present in there paypal...
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the best advice I can give you is to run firebug to see what is going wrong. Cake marketing right? I think there's a test pixel option
 
stupidbodo said:
the best advice I can give you is to run firebug to see what is going wrong. Cake marketing right? I think there's a test pixel option
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There is a test option, and every test I run says the pixel fires. But when it comes to Adwords, only about 5-10% of the conversions go through and show up in the Adwords reporting panel.
 
Couple of ideas:

- Get the network to send you a dump of the thanks page html output so you can see whats actually happening with your pixel
- Check/test in different browsers
- Could it be http/https related? Adwords pixel is set up to autodetect, but maybe your iframe/js or other pixel isn't and is using the wrong protocol, causing an overall fail?
- Try testing the adwords pixel with the protocol hard-coded?

I recently had an issue on entire https site that worked perfectly in FF and chrome, but IE totally refused to even load due to ssl 'trust' issues. I discovered that although the ssl was set up fine, it wasn't set as the default cert on my vps...thus causing problems. For sure worth testing cross-browser anyway to see if you get warnings or whatnot. See if the advertiser will let you place some test transactions so you can at least see whats happening live on the confirm page.
 
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