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I was wondering if I should/could sign up to the US version.
My hopes are high and I'm planning on this site to be global, not just UK based, so if I had UK adsense would it just show UK adverts that maybe most of my target audience won't be interested in?
Thanks
-Hazzy
It doesn't matter where you sign up. With AdSense there is no such thing as a local account. Your account will be global and targeted ads will be displayed around the world independent of your own location.
Thanks
When you sign up you put your country, so the question is, a publisher in the US is getting payed same like a publisher in India as an example?
You donīt have any choice really, you must declare where you live, you can say you live in Outer Mongolia but donīt be suprised when they refuse to deliver your check to Washington DC .
With AdSense there is no such thing as a local account.
But there is locality with AdWords.
I'm not sure how AdWords does their site geography, whether it's based on domain (.com, .us, .uk, etc) or IP or where the owner resides, but advertisers can pick which countries the ads are displayed for.
But there is locality with AdWords. (...) advertisers can pick which countries the ads are displayed for.
The ads are selected based on the country or region of the visitor, not the location website or country of the website owner. AdWords only tries to match the visitor with the ads. The website of the AdSense publisher is not more than a carrier of the ads.
Adword people pay the same to a click from USA like they pay to clicks from Iran lets say?
Adword people pay the same to a click from USA like they pay to clicks from Iran lets say?
The price payed by an AdWords advertiser for a click on an ad displayed on the website of an AdSense publisher is determined by three factors.
Many advertisers have split their campaign in regions. They use higher bid prices for regions where there is a high potential of converting visitors. This will influence the bid price mentioned in point 1.
Many advertisers also restrict their campaigns to specific regions. Therefore there can be 10 competing advertisers for a keyword in one country, but only 2 in another. This influences the amount of competition mentioned in point 2.
Maybe the region where a visitor lives influences the smart-pricing algorithm, but this is unknown. So maybe point 3 is also region dependent.
As you see there are many reasons why a click from country A might generate more money than a click on the same advertisment, but with the visitor originating from country B.
If Hazzy wants global traffic it is better to use a U.S Host rather than a UK host...It does make a difference.
Erm - why? My site is a .com site hosted here in the UK and my site traffic is mostly US. No problems whatsoever.
It is to do with the IP address of the server. Google use that on many occasions and depends or effects surfer location, and wether or not they have set up some filters to include or exclude sites from certain regions.
I find UK hosts anyway uncompetative either in price or features compared with U.S Hosts. I hope you dont have to buy xtra bandwidth!
As lammert said, AdSense uses geo-targeting to increase the relevancy of your ads to your users. For example, the ads your U.S. users see will be different than those your Australian users see.
If you would like to preview the ads that your global users see, you might be interested in downloading the AdSense preview tool.
For more information, you should see the following pages:
[google.com ]
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Good luck!
-ASA
