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. That should end now!
Odds are, you can find a similar offer to the one that you are promoting that can be offered to other countries. If not, there's always the option to show Google AdSense or eBay auctions using phpbay. 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. A lot of times you can determine the visitors city when looking at the IP address as well but truthfully, figuring out the country is prone to less errors, and is all that is probably needed when doing affiliate marketing. Country data is in fact attainable with 99% or more accuracy and existing data sets.
After determining the country you can then run some code to say... if the visitor is from x country, display this HTML. A nice touch would be to display a little flag icon and maybe a quick country specific message. Say something like "Now available in Canada for a short time!", and display a banner underneath or above with you affiliate ID attached to the link.
If your coding and/or technical skills are poor, try this, ready to go, easy to implement, Wordpress Geotargeting Script to simplify the entire process. Although the manual gives specific instruction to implement with Wordpress blogs, it may be used for other php based sites as well.
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