Monetizing Your Local Traffic
Posted on July 05, 2009 by Melvin
Just a quick post today, I need more rest. 
It’s so easy to monetize a local traffic from a website or blog if your country is in US or Canada. But if you’re like me who’s country resides on an unpopular Asian country, squeezing out something from your local traffic can be hard. If you’re trying to use Adsense and you have a ton of say, Asian traffic then I would say that is not a good idea. There are really few Adwords advertisers who target traffic outside US. why? Because the money is really inside the US (and countries close to it), sounds unfair? No.
Well the short answer is by selling your own product. The thing about local traffic is that they are usually more loyal than international traffic. It can be an info product, consultation or whatever, just make sure you are well-reputed in your country first before implementing it. Luckily for me, US is my largest referrer of traffic, followed by Australia, some Asian countries and then Philippines. At the start of this year, I really worked hard on getting more loyal followers that are Filipinos and so far I am seeing the benefits of it. Back on monetization, the second next option is direct ad sales, although it can be real hard since most local advertisers are also advertising international products targeted at bigger countries.
Any other ways you can suggest?
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The Bad Blogger
- 5th Jul, 09 11:07am
I’m living in Singapore but most of my traffic come from US, like almost 3 to 5 times it come from Asia. But I heard from my brother who was an master in IT said that, if we use the US hosting like hostgator, usually is not strange if the traffic comes from the US site, but if we use hosting in Asia, you will had difficulty in ranking with the big guns, he also said, the best shot get a US hosting company !
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elmot Reply:
July 6th, 2009 at 8:45 am
bad blogger hit it right on the target. blogging from a little country could give you lots of followers or friends, however, monetizing your blog from adsense and affiliates or selling stuffs on your blog could be quite challenging.
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Melvin Reply:
July 7th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
hmmm, that knda sounds new to me huh?, pretty interesting..
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Catering Sydney Reply:
July 10th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Right target on the point. I also think that your advise is best solution for that.
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Marcell
- 5th Jul, 09 01:07pm
Great post!
I would say try to target the places that you least expect to give your website traffic..Post in forums from all nations. Find the right place in you will hit the jackpot
@bad blogger I don’t think hosting has anything to do with it. It should not matter who you host with
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Marcell
- 5th Jul, 09 01:07pm
I would say try to target the places that you least expect to give your website traffic..Post in forums from all nations. Find the right place in you will hit the jackpot
@bad blogger I don’t think hosting has anything to do with it. It should not matter who you host with
note:please delete my comment above
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zalds
- 5th Jul, 09 02:07pm
Try Nuffnang.com.ph and BlogBank.com.ph … they both offer a per impression ads..
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Melvin Reply:
July 8th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
dude Nuffang demands me to put off other private ads, and make them the centerpiece. Of course I wouldn’t do that because private ad deals usually do me bigger cash.
Blogbank is new to me, so I would like to know more about that
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zalds Reply:
July 9th, 2009 at 7:42 am
I put nuffnang ads below the text comment box and its Ok with them.
You should try Blogbank (they pay quarterly though) Both is good for local monetization specially if you have tons of local impressons.
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bbrian017
- 5th Jul, 09 09:07pm
I have this issue with Blogengage! Many of my affiliate click don’t even count seeing I have a large diversification of cultures or countries if you will.
Monetizing that website has been really hard and still my profits are next to nothing.
CPC is our best bet! Google!
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Melvin Reply:
July 8th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
its your best Bet because you’re from US and most of your traffic comes there…
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Liane YoungBlogger
- 6th Jul, 09 06:07am
You have a strong point there. Btw, aww, dont say unpopular asian country. Im so proud to be a pinoy blogger even though its kinda unheard of (lets promote it dito sa pinas!).
Back to the topic, yep, selling is the number 1 way. Thats why Im making my blogging ebook right now! Stay tuned Melvin. Im gonna reach out to you soon. lol.
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Asswass
- 6th Jul, 09 03:07pm
Hi Melvin I have the same problem. I’m from Venezuela and there aren’t so many advertisers either so I have to live without them. I use Affiliate links and I try to scratch some money elsewhere. But what else can I do?
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Anish K.S
- 7th Jul, 09 08:07am
Thanks Melwin for this post
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Jake | Web Journey
- 7th Jul, 09 12:07pm
Great post. I think that every blogger should target traffic in a variety of ways.
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Catering Sydney
- 10th Jul, 09 10:07am
I had not mind it till now, I am going to check it for my blog. thanks for remind me about this.
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Ridiculous blogger
- 10th Jul, 09 07:07pm
This is the reason why I stop optimizing my sites for Asian countries. Is it not worth it.
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Sherry
- 28th Jul, 09 01:07am
now I am trying on the Adgitize.
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Chris Peterson
- 19th Aug, 09 11:08am
Awesome post & great suggestions
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Gry
- 19th Sep, 09 10:09am
I’m the owner of a local search start-up and the great idea is to use Twitter for traffic. Twitter could do well in local search. Although remember, if a local search has a large audience and have the capabilities already, they can make there own Twitter clone. It is not hard to clone Twitter. It is very easy to retain your audience and keep them happy. They can use the same Twitter capability on their own local search.
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