You Are Wasting You Adword Money
Now this is a tip if you are using any kind of PPC (Adwords, Overture) to promote any product offered via ClickBank or any affiliate program that uses PayPal for payment processing.
If you don’t know this already, ClickBank and Paypal does not accept payment from everybody.
They only accept payments from certain countries. And they can do that by identifying the IP address of the buyer.
For example, me, living in Malaysia, I cannot buy anything that is offered through ClickBank. – I hate it!
So the tip is this. Whenever you are promoting anything from ClickBank, use geographical targeting to reduce costs. Just select the countries that can buy the the product.
For example, if you are promoting the Super Affiliate Handbook (by Rosalind Gardner) with Adwords, don’t include Malaysia in the regional targeting.
If I happens to come by your ad on Google, and I think that it’s interesting, I click on it – that just costs you .20 (maybe). And when I get there, however interested I am with the product, I can’t buy it.
And maybe I could contact the merchant. And the merchant arranged an alternative payment via StormPay or MoneyBooker. But that will not be tracked with ClickBank … you just did favour for your merchant. Well … so generous of you.
.20 just went down the toilet. And 50% commission lost.
You can avoid that loss if you had not selected ‘All Countries’ in your geographical targeting.
So what I am suggesting is for you to only show your ad to these few countries using the geographical targeting. Of course selecting the countries will takes time. But you could save a lot this way.
To make it easier for you, I have a list of countries that ClickBank do accept payments from. And there’s another list for Paypal as well.
ClickBank
Andorra
Anguilla
Antigua & Barbuda
Aruba
Ascension Is
Australia
Austria
Bahamas
Barbados
Belgium
Belize
Bermuda
Bolivia
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Botswana
Bouvet Is
Brazil
Canada
Canada
Cayman Is
Chile
China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cyprus
Czech Rep
Denmark
Dominica
Dominican Rep
Ecuador
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Estonia
Falkland Is
Faroe Is
Fiji
Finland
France
Germany
Gibraltar
Great Britain
Great Britain
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guatemala
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Ireland
Isle Of Man
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Kenya
Kiribati
Korea (South)
Kuwait
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Maldives
Malta
Martinique
Mauritius
Mexico
Monaco
Montserrat
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
Netherlands Antilles
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niue Is
Norfolk Is
Northern Ireland
Norway
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Pitcairn Is
Poland
Portugal
Reunion Is
San Marino
Sao Tome & Principe
Seychelles
Singapore
Slovak Rep
Slovenia
Solomon Is
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
St Helena
St Kitts & Nevis
St Lucia
St Pierre & Miquelon
St Vincent & Grenadines
Svalbard & Jan Mayen Is
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Togo
Tokelau
Tonga
Trinidad & Tobago
Turks & Caicos Is
Tuvalu
United Kingdom (Gb)
United States
Uruguay
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Virgin Is (Gb)
Wallis & Futuna Is
PayPal
Anguilla
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China
Costa Rica
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Iceland
India
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Mexico
Monaco
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Portugal
Singapore
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Venezuela