SEM Tycoon

**JDDunn9** · 01-08-2007, 12:26 AM

I was wondering if foreign traffic has much value, and if so, to whom. Does Google adsense generally pay you squat for traffic from Malaysia? Do CPM companies give you less (or not accept) traffic from India? What is the best way to make money from foreign traffic?

If foreign traffic from certain countries isn't worth much, would it be better to give my foreign traffic banners from banner exchange sites instead? Try to trade my low quality traffic for higher quality.

**KC TAN** · 01-08-2007, 05:24 AM

I believe Adsense do pay (the same rate) for foreign traffic like from Malaysia. In terms of CPM, most companies are looking for traffic from US (usaually most be higher than a set %)..

**imported_Koz** · 01-08-2007, 05:38 AM

yeah, my sentiments are with KC TAN. Personaly, foreign traffic is mostly useless for me, because is mostly spam. But then again the sites I work on are localised. Maybe for international sites its a different story

**vynes18** · 01-08-2007, 08:21 AM

I also agree is same rate, google adsense already said that it will depend your ctr and cpm to calculate your income.

**Nick204k** · 01-08-2007, 10:28 AM

it's pointless for CPA, and tons of networks pay less on foreign traffic.

**Moelman** · 01-08-2007, 11:39 PM

I agree with everyone here. For adsense it's fine but other networks maybe not so much. So I wouldn't say it's worthless.

**beachbumis** · 01-08-2007, 11:52 PM

Foriegn traffic is cheap to get, but hard to convert.

There are very few international offers for CPA/CPL.

Michael

**kenpachi** · 01-09-2007, 04:03 AM

that why most of internet marketer search for international visitor, but google do pay visitor from country like malaysia or india.

**zadaw** · 01-10-2007, 10:26 AM

Adwords advertisers are allowed to choose which countries they will advertise to. Therefore, fewer advertisers are likely to advertise to countries outside the U.S. As a result, the remaining advertisers will probably pay less because there will not be as many competitors.

I am having a problem with one of my sites that offer a url redirection service. Its visitors suddenly shot up to over 15,000 a day, the vistors being mainly from Hong Kong and China. I have set up a pop-under but the CPM rate is only 0.3 compared to 1.7 from the U.S.

Derek

**xboxundone** · 01-10-2007, 11:18 AM

do adsesne as you can get .03 a click for crappy foriegn traffic. that is better than getting nothing.

**zadaw** · 01-10-2007, 11:49 AM

Unfortunately, I cannot do adsense. Some of these redirected urls are to sites with contents that are prohibited by adsense. I am waiting to see whether I can do better with clicksor.

**DLGx** · 01-13-2007, 03:23 AM

My oldest living website (will turn 10 years this year) has traffic from all over the world...15% from here, 10% from there, 25% from this, 5% from that. Site makes very little money these days but it has value for many other reasons.