.co.uk sites

[Jon12345]

If I have a site with a .co.uk extension will the ads served be UK based?

Or does it depend on the where the server is located? Or what?

[Shak]

lol

Jon

me n u really need to have a talk 1 day.

ads will be served based on where the user accessing your site is based.

so if its a .co.uk site about shoes, a bloke in canada will get ads about canadian shoe shops as such

Shak

[Jon12345]

Yes, you have become my personal consultant in the forums! :D

[ncw164x]

I thougth that was the case until I was on holiday in Spain a few months ago and my adsense showed the same as I see in the UK, now maybe this is because there are no adverts for my type of site in spanish, but then if that was the case PSA's would be shown and not UK based ads.

[wonderboy]

Were you on your own laptop? Maybe it was the cache... If you were on el computer de la cafe then it seems strange.
W.

[ncw164x]

No it was the hotels own PC

[DamonHD]

Hi,

No, Google really does target by where the user is.

When I'm here at my office in Malta I get ads such as "Tal-genn Hotels" (tal-genn is Maltese for "cool" or rather "kewl", BTW) on the same pages where I see different ads while at home in the UK.

IMHO, the reason that you don't get a complete change of inventory depending on where you are is a mixture of many people blindly running global campaigns and good targetting to a page (what you are reading may often be more important than where you happen to be reading it from, though not always).

Rgds

Damon

[david_uk]

I have noticed on my UK based site that some UK advertisers clearly are advertising in other EU countries and some are not. Therefore, my guess is that ads should usually be locally targetted unless the advertisers want to appeal to an international audience.

[engine]

Just remember that there are other factors involved. If the advertiser chooses a global campaign, then you'll get ads from that global campaign.
AdSense only filters the ideal ads based upon the location it believes you are in.
It will also depend upon the sectors you're looking at.
eg. Hotel sites will most likely be local, whereas Travel sites may be global.