Google 3rd tier search partners foreign traffic

Seem to be receiving lots of foreign traffic

[ByronM]

Anyone else seeing this? I typically watch our live chat queue all day and keep an eye on the visitors/sessions active and a huge amount of traffic from Google's search partners (not content) are coming through from Brazil and south America even though i'm set to US only for all campaigns.

I'm hoping these fall off on the poor click report but this is the first day in a while i've just sat back to watch the traffic with my own eyes and its been pretty consistent.

[T_Media]

Things like this are not uncommon - the trouble is I.P targeting is not 100% accurate.

And it gets worse because it may not even be google getting it wrong, your tracking software could also be wrong.

[ByronM]

some of these customers are opening up "live support" request and asking if we ship to their country so i've been able to manually verify.

I'd say google's traffic is spot on if not perfect but 3rd tier search seems spotty at best. Guess its time to downsize them.

[outland88]

In my areas Google for the last two months is including a lot of new search partners who are pure crap. The sites are no more than MFA sites generating questionable clicks that don't convert. I’ve speculated many are just foreign spammers using US addresses for their .com’s. Google might of squeezed so many of its partners or they've become so leery of them that Google is now turning to this to keep sales up.