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Unwanted International Traffic

         

monkeyman41

7:29 pm on Mar 13, 2007 (gmt 0)

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I am started to get lots of International traffic in YSM - upwords of 25-30% for some Adgroups.

This is basically a lost cost for me so I want to put a disclaimer at the end of my ads - US Only.

What bothers me is that this will negatively affect my CTR. I wonder if any negatives with my perceived decrease in CTR will outweigh the higher CTR with International traffic (that I cannot really monetize).

Ideally I would like Yahoo to keep my ads from International surfers. My Campaign Settings are set to US Only but .....

Anyone have similar problems?

Cheers

poster_boy

8:42 pm on Mar 13, 2007 (gmt 0)

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My Campaign Settings are set to US Only but .....

Just to be sure I understand, you have the following continents blocked - Africa, Asia, South America, Australia, Europe - and, you're still seeing international traffic? If so, from which countries?

monkeyman41

3:25 pm on Mar 14, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Yes All of those Continents are blocked and I have deselected all of the Canadian provinces as well.

Germany, Denmark, UK and others.

I market something online and the particular network offer I am running redirects International traffic. Over the last few days I have noticed the number of International redirects have risen to about a quarter of all Offer Page Views with many being the countries above and others that cannot be identified (no offer).

I am going to contact my YSM rep but I was curious as to others' experiecnes.

Cheers

aeiouy

4:29 pm on Mar 14, 2007 (gmt 0)

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My understanding of their stance is if someone accesses a site that has ads on it, from outside the US they are not blocked.

IE if someone from Argentina goes to Yahoo.com or circumvents the regional redirects, they will still see your ads.