Any way to filter out Geo specific traffic

[Toby]

Originally Posted by ecchi

I so wish I had your problems "I've so many hundred dollar bills in my wallet, I'm going to throw out all the one dollar bills" !!!

Change those one dollar bills to pennies and your statement may be closer to the truth.

Even if 100% of American Chinese (those whose native language is Chinese) use Chinese as their browser default language, given my current traffic numbers and conversion ratios we're talking about 2 or 3 sales per year that I might be missing.

Also, I'm not just blocking this Chinese traffic, I'm redirecting it and making an attempt to monetize it in other ways, which is currently generating the equivalent of 3 to 5 sales per month.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Toby

we're talking about 2 or 3 sales per year that I might be missing.

So, if you are using revshare and getting a decent retention that is about $200 a year. You are still doing better than me if you can consider $200 "pennies".

[Toby]

Originally Posted by ecchi

So, if you are using revshare and getting a decent retention that is about $200 a year. You are still doing better than me if you can consider $200 "pennies".

That's assuming I'm really missing out on those sales. I'm not convinced that I am. What I am convinced about is that I'm not sending a bunch of worthless traffic to my trade partners and I'm not burning bandwidth on Chinese surfers that couldn't join a site if they wanted to.

For me, the cost in terms of time and software to be able to more accurately filter that traffic outweighs the potential benefits of doing so. The circumstances for your business may be different.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Toby

is that I'm not sending a bunch of worthless traffic to my trade partners

Well that at least puts you a head and shoulders above most other WMs. I can usually tell if my trading partners use geo-filtering because they dump the shit on me!