AdSenseProfiteer - 6:58 pm on Apr 22, 2006 (gmt 0)

You know, what you say about "US traffic not being important" isn't very true.

First, we need to clear a few things up. In my experience (others can pile in on that one) - English language outpulls any other foreign language. Nobody yet proved otherwise or demonstrated that French pays better than English. So it's important that your site is in English and not in Albanian. However it seems that French and German sites do OK, I'm not bashing languages.

Now, having said that, let's look at the source of your traffic. Only 10% is US? Well, that's OK, if other visitors come from UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, Spain, France, Norway, Finland or other countries where people have money, have credit cards and do buy online.

However, if 90% of your traffic is India and China, not only you'll get hit by smartpricing, you might get kicked out from AdSense because those click may appear as fraudulent clicks.

Yahoo! still is very strict about non-US traffic because US traffic is the best in terms of monetisation. Western world traffic is good too.

I hope that people here won't play political correctness in admitting that all traffic is not created equal, simply because the world isn't equal. Some countries are poor, some are rich.

Take any magazine ads. Ads in The Wall Street Journal are more expensive, because people who read it have probably 10-20 times more money than an average American. Same with traffic