werty - 8:32 pm on May 19, 2009 (gmt 0)

If you scroll up, those are actual country data by IP... that is for one of the industries I am in. It is garbage.

Also for many of the referring "partner sites" that i have tried to block, I am not actually able to, due to the clicks coming from a second or third tier down.

1. yahoo > 2. first semi legit partner > 3. shady partner > 4. crappy crappy site.

The crappy site will encrypt the clicks and some how mask them... I do not think they are actually supposed to show up on that site. If we block the domain at 4. it does not show up, and if we block 3 it does not work, and we cannot figure out where 2 is to block it.

On some accounts they were able to block it for us, but we have not been able to get Yahoo! to do it for all accounts.

From my experience I am not too far out of line with the traffic I have been seeing. It seems like you are quite lucky in the niche/s you are in. In ours it is garbage, and quite hard to make profitable.

Regarding foreign traffic, I have those other countries disabled, but it does not matter.