How do I know what ads people see in other countries?

I am in the US

[serengeti]

I live in the US and all the adsense ads I see on my sites are US based (US-based products/doctors and so on).

I wonder if I make any money off of clicks from other countries? If so, can I find out what ads people see in say Australia, Germany, Japan etc.. since I know noone in those places.

Is it possible that they could also see the US ads or do US-based advertisers have an option of blocking their ads for non-US visitors if they wanted to?

[OptiRex]

Hoe do you do...:-)

Use the preview tool, I think it works properly again.

[google.com...]

[Hobbs]

lookup adsense preview tool

added: OptiRex you were faster and with a link too!

[edited by: Hobbs at 6:25 pm (utc) on May 30, 2006]

[Eazygoin]

Interesting question! I don't think you can, but if anyone knows a remedy, please do share :-)

I have a UK based website, for UK viewers, but I am in Spain much of the time. The homepage ads showing in Spain are 'holiday rentals' mainly, but when checking the AS tool, the ads showing in the Uk are more related to the subject of the site.

Hobbs could be right, by changing the location in the AS preview tool :-)

[swa66]

The adsense preview tools works pretty good, and is the best way to get to the URLs of the MFA sites (in order to add them to your block list).

Unfortunately it requires you to use MSIE (and since that doesn't exist or isn't supported (anymore) on anything not made by Microsoft ...

[serengeti]

Thanks!

I guess I have to install one more piece of Google software...they already know my checking account number, home address, cell phone number, what things I search for every day, where I work based on IP address, tax ID number...

But I will never get a gmail e-mail account. Don't want to give them that satisfaction:-)

[Hobbs]

you will, all in good time.

[Eazygoin]

There is a Firefox extension also for the preview tool, although I believe it is not endrsed by Google.

[rkhare]

i dont know that whether i do the right thing or not, but at times i use anonymous portal to check, but beware dont get too greedy and never click on ur ads using anonymous network of sites, you may get penalised by google for that