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 t.come by your ad on Google, and I think that it's interesting, I click on it - that just costs you $0.20 (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.
$0.20 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
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