Adsense and geotargetting please explain?

[born2run]

Hi can anyone please confirm that users from different countries will be seeing different ads or same ads across different countries when using adsense?

The issue I have is that other sites with adsense and similar topic as mine are seeing localized ads while when I visit my own site I see ads that are related but they are more relevant to another country.

thanks, born2run

[born2run]

Besides geotargetting, does location of your webhost server matter as well?

[benevolent001]

ads are geotargetted as different advertisres want to show ads only to particular area visitors so you see different ads and others see different ads

[david_uk]

Depends on what the advertiser chooses. On my UK based website, if I use the Adsense preview tool to scroll through what is being targetted for where, it's clear that some advertisers choose to advertise globally, some over a fairly wide area (Western Europe EG) and some choose to advertise just locally.

[born2run]

Hi where isthe Adsense preview tool? thanks.

[david_uk]

log into your adsense account first, then go to
[google.com...]
halfway down the left of the page there is a link to it.