Adsense worldwide

Where are Adsense pages shown?

[Treeman]

When I registered for ADSENSE should I have selected anything to ensure that my websites are presented
worldwide? I have only been using this for two weeks but notice that most of the impressions and clickthrus seem to start when America comes on-line!
In the UK.... morning returns very few, afternoon returns very few..... evening and overnight seem to be the best times. Would welcome comments..... the situation is confusing!
Thanks

[pmkpmk]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

You can select on a per-campaign basis which geographic and which language distribution your ads should have. So you could select "Netherlands - Spanish", and then your ads will only shown to surfers who are in the Netherlands (geotargeting) and have their language settings set to Spanish or are using google.es for that matter.

Pretty good for minority targeting :-)

Oops... this applies to AdWords only, of course.

[Treeman]

Thanks PMKPMK!
It is the "Adsense" pages that I am concerned about.
I am just wondering whether I missed anything when I first subscribed. May have pressed the wrong button!
Treeman

[pmkpmk]

What language are your pages on? Of course there have to be advertisers for your language and the topic of your site, for ads to show up.

[Treeman]

The language is English; many visitors to my sites coming from Australia, NZ, China, Vietnam, and European countries, but then most of the Adsense clicks come after USA wakes up! Very strange!

[zCat]

Maybe the majority of advertisers whose ads match your site have specified active US-only geotargetting, or even if they haven't, their ads are only really relevant to North American surfers.

It's also possible the majority of your visitors will be from North America, as this is the largest English speaking Internet "zone".

[pmkpmk]

All AOL traffic worldwide is attributed to be of North American origin as well.

[rj87uk]

All AOL traffic worldwide is attributed to be of North American origin as well.

Could you explain that in a little bit more detail? It does sound interesting...

[pmkpmk]

Check out "geotargeting" on the web. Basically, any IP-address can be more or less assigned to a geographical position. Works well on most addresses except the AOL ones, which all point to the US.