Only 24% of my customers on my web sites come from America, my next most popular place is the Netherlands, The UK, and then the famous "unknown" for people who come through anonymous proxy systems. I have a hard time selling advertising on my web site, because only 1 in 4 is actually a qualified USA buyer. I have "run of network" advertising that pays about four cents a "click".
Even though sites can be wildly popular brining up statistics for USA addresses can be hard to accomplish. Companies have limited budgets, but can specify which countries they want their ads to show up in systems like Adwords, AdEngage and Adbrite. That at least helps target the advertising spend so that people get advertising that works for a particular geographic area.
It would be great if I could target advertising by country of origin, but right now the advertising folks I use do not target ads based on the customer's geographic origin. If I could show Indian ads for the 10% of people who come from India, that would be great. There might not be a pile of loot in it for me because of the standard of living differences between the USA and India, but it is a cool idea.
Maybe what we are seeing here is the next big thing that on line advertising needs to do, go global, and then show ads for customers based on their geographic region? There are probably already people testing this concept now, and I'll beta test this program if anyone wants me to.
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