Clicked descriptive text links, Clicked descriptive banners, Search Engine, PPC, Relevant Hard Links, etc... originating from countries that you have the capability of actually billing, if the affiliate program or your program can't process the payment then all your doing is wasting bandwidth on users that can't buy. Mainly traffic where an actual click was made on a link or banner that describes exactly what they will find once they arrive instead of skimmed, blind, popunder etc... Can you make money off of blind, skimmed, popunder sure but it's a hell of a lot harder than actual clicked traffic unless the originating site is a dead on match and usually only good for boosting trades/alexa. How many webmasters just buy traffic don't analyze it and continue buying thinking it's great shit? Without analyzing what you are spending then money out the window. How many ask the affiliate program what countries can you not process as it makes no sense to send traffic if they block it or can't bill it? All it takes is a simple email to the program to see what traffic sources they can convert. Example: anyone promoting Streamate if you are sending traffic from...
DZ ALGERIA
AM ARMENIA
BH BAHRAIN
BB BARBADOS
BY BELARUS
BZ BELIZE
BA BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA
BF BURKINA FASO
KH CAMBODIA
CN CHINA
CO COLOMBIA
CD CONGO THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE
CK COOK ISLANDS
CR COSTA RICA
CU CUBA
CZ CZECH REPUBLIC
CI CÔTE D'IVOIRE (IVORY COAST)
EC ECUADOR
EG EGYPT
EE ESTONIA
GM GAMBIA
GE GEORGIA
GH GHANA
GW GUINEA-BISSAU
GY GUYANA
HT HAITI
ID INDONESIA
IR IRAN
IQ IRAQ
JM JAMAICA
JO JORDAN
KZ KAZAKHSTAN
KE KENYA
KG KYRGYZSTAN
LV LATVIA
LB LEBANON
LR LIBERIA
LY LIBYA
LT LITHUANIA
MK MACEDONIA THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF
MY MALAYSIA
MH MARSHALL ISLANDS
MD MOLDOVA
ME MONTENEGRO
MS MONTSERRAT
MA MOROCCO
MM MYANMAR
NP NEPAL
NI NICARAGUA
NG NIGERIA
KP NORTH KOREA
PK PAKISTAN
PS PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
PG PAPUA NEW GUINEA
PH PHILIPPINES
QA QATAR
RO ROMANIA
RU RUSSIAN FEDERATION
SA SAUDI ARABIA
SN SENEGAL
RS SERBIA
SL SIERRA LEONE
SK SLOVAKIA (SLOVAK REPUBLIC)
SO SOMALIA
SD SUDAN
SY SYRIA
TZ TANZANIA
TL TIMOR-LESTE
TG TOGO
TN TUNISIA
TR TURKEY
UA UKRAINE
UZ UZBEKISTAN
VU VANUATU
VN VIETNAM
YE YEMEN
ZW ZIMBABWE
you are wasting your money as blocked. Clicked traffic from quality countries or whatever the program has the capability of billing is where it's at. Targeted over untargeted for the win.
