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It's possible to show Adsense on pages visited by people outside the USA, but in this setup I'm afraid Google will record that all clicks are non-USA, and perhaps will begin to think the site is not important for US customers any longer.
Anyone having experience with this?
You could show Amazon ads to US only visitors if you want to. I don't know how much is going to work. Amazon ads in my case doesn't have a good conversion on my sites.
Only contextual ads are not allowed together according to Adsense TOS.
Didn't they drop that requirement quite a while ago?
But if that changed, I don't know. I will look into it.
Hi Explorador: It's not my intention to show any Amazon ads, I'd like to show Adsense ads to non-usa visitors.
I don't now how to do that :(
If you want to show something only to an specific audience (geographically) I know you could serve content via php or perl scripts to print or not to print the code depending on the geo location.
This would require using an IP database and using the script to decide. There are free databases and paid ones to set up this but to do this with Adsense I don't know how.
I read somewhere here that even htaccess could be used to redirect depending on the IP (to show this or that) but I remember was way complicated.
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If your pages are in PHP you could get the code into the pages to check and to print the adsense code depending on the IP after checking out on the database for its location. The same as if your pages are in asp, but if your pages are html... I don't know.
I do know how to technically serve geo-specific content to different audiences, and have indeed implemented this on some of my sites with Adsense and other content.
My concern is, what the potential impact is when showing Adsense only to Non-US visitors.
Why? When Adsense blocks are only present on pages visited by Non-US customers, Google will only see Non-USA people loading these adblocks and clicking through. Google uses several methods to measure website visits and popularity, and this is just one method.
I'm specifically looking for people having experience with this (and potential pitfalls for my USA rankings), and could tell a little about it.
Thanks.
I wouldn't worry as is not about diff content for the same pages on diff countries, is only about code for displaying ads.
There are ads managers that display X ad for the first visitor, Z ad for the second visit and even zero ad for the repeating visit. Also, some allow geo targeting showing diff ads for diff locations. This has been around with no problem (but no knowledge about using adsense this way).
I wouldn't worry, try asking Adsense or Adsense Advisor (send a pm via this forum)
