If you are not Geotargeting your website visitors based on you are really missing the boat. Not only could you be losing revenue but you are probably going against the TOS by showing these ads to people not in the USA.
YPN and other contextual advertisers stipulate you must have US visitors if you are showing there ads.
I just started doing geo targeting about 3 months ago and have seen a 25% increase in revenue for those slots.
I used to show people from the UK my USA CPA affiliates but now they see offers they can actually use and of course, I can get paid 😉
There are programs like phpAdsNew that will handle this for you.
[…] Shoemoney says he’s seen a 25% increase in revenue by geotargetting specific offers. Those are the kind of numbers that make me pay attention. I’m actually surprised that more programs don’t geotarget for you, like Adult Friend Finder does (which they’ve been incredibly successful with.) Rather than filter out unwanted impressions through geotargetting, Yahoo recently terminated a bunch of publishers for sending too much international traffic. […]
How to do a geo target on a website? Any script or something needed to do this?
Increasing Your Revenue Through Geo Targeted Ads…
Geo Targeting is determining where in the world a visitor is coming from via their IP address. For those who don’t know everyone connected to the internet has an IP address. It is sort of like a phone number or……
nice, i haven’t thought about this since i started internet marketing, hmm probably it’s around a good time for me…
That is nice idea. thanks we will work on it too.