This was a very helpful article!
@Alessandro_G - I'm not quite sure what you mean by a verified site. Can you please elaborate?
I ran also into same issue as mentioned in the article related to tracking, one simple workaround to at least track page visits, I created a site that redirects people to the course page; the html page I created has my own google tracking tags in it's code; so this was a cheap yet better than nothing solution to use actual page visits (with your coupon or referral link) to help Google Ads self optimize if you put page load as a conversion goal value.
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