Bother with offers that can't place tracking pixel?

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playaction

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Is it worth bothering with offers that cannot place the PPC tracking pixel? For whatever reason, the ad network says the merchant cannot place an adwords/ysm conversion pixel for some offers.

I could be missing an obvious solution. I was thinking of writing a tool that pulls all the data from the ad network and the PPC engines via API. Then I can correlate the data and generate a report. Maybe there's something that already does this?

For my first campaigns, I found I was spending a lot of time manually comparing ad network conversions to the source costs in adwords/ysm. I know some of the "super affiliate" blogs say don't even bother with offers where a tracking pixel cannot be placed, but there are a lot of juicy ones that can be profitable.

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I just export a URL report from Google or Yahoo, and export a sub-id report from the network, throw them into Excel, and do the comparison manually. I'm sure there are easy macros or formulas to automate the process, but I just haven't spent the time on that.
 
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