Posted on November 24, 2009 by admin

If you run a niche WordPress blog and do affiliate marketing you may notice in your Google Analytics stats that you are getting customers from several different countries. If you running an affiliate offer that is only available for one country you are leaving money on the table. Stop the madness, monetize that traffic and send it to a targeted offer! Chances are high that a similar offer exists that caters to other countries. Perhaps you can get the same offer for other countries at a lower payout. Or you could always display some Google ads or even eBay auctions. That way you will be able to monetize for ALL countries. You can show unique offers for any number of countries.

As an example, you can run a U.S. specific high paying offer to all U.S. residents, display an offer to the U.K. and Canada even if it pays a few bucks less, then show the rest some Google ads for some pay per click action. You essentially have to run some php code that looks at the visitors IP address to determine what country they belong to. Although more prone to errors, you can actually figure out a person’s city by looking at their IP address if you have the database to match it with. But really, in most cases, if not all, figuring out the country is sufficient. In fact, a php script can be 99% accurate in determining the country of your visitor.

Now once your script knows the country, you can then run some if then else test and display the appropriate HTML based on the visitors country. A nice feature is to display a country specific message and maybe even a little flag icon. You can drop in some text saying: “Product x is now offered to residents of the U.K. for a limited time!”. Then display your affiliate banner nearby and you’re in business.