On a total of 3815 raw 2917 Uniques that we paid for so far,
2348raw/1564Uniques were from countries we do not accept. And our list of "bad" countries is pretty limited. (i.e. we accept all of western europe, etc..)
For example, this is some of what we received:
India Overture (1) ALL 348 254
Thailand Overture (1) ALL 330 152
Egypt Overture (1) ALL 217 138
Pakistan Overture (1) ALL 149 84
Turkey Overture (1) ALL 133 94
Philippines Overture (1) ALL 123 90
Now, we asked them, what was up with this, and their lovely answer:
"Your account is a U.S. based account. Therefore, your Listings are only viewed in the U.S. and Canadian market places. For your account to be viewed in other market places world wide, additional accounts would need to be opened to support each market place."
Well gee, the US market place is 50% bastard traffic? What a tremendous deal...
p.s.: This doesnt mean the rest of the traffic is US/canada, it just means its from countries we accept.
oh, and to rub it in:
http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/19/technology....reut/index.htm