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<b>How do the Geotargeting and Backup URLs work?</b><br />
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Many times an offer you want to promote only accepts traffic from certain countries – and any other traffic you send through your referral link is just wasted.<br />
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Or maybe you’ve just figured out that a particular offer converts best for users in certain countries and you’d rather send users in other countries to a different offer rather than just “wasting” that traffic.<br />
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Or perhaps you sell solo ads and your clients only want clicks from certain countries …<br />
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“Geotargeting” is the solution in all these scenarios.<br />
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Just open the link or rotator name you want to set up geotargeting for and click “Advanced Settings”:<br />
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Next, scroll down to the “Geotargeting” options:<br />
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Here you have two choices: You can specify only the countries you want clicks from, or only the countries that you <em>don’t</em> want clicks from (often called “geoblocking”). Any clicks that come in that don’t match your settings will automatically be re-routed to your “Backup URL.”<br />
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This will maximize the value of your traffic by sending each user to the offer most likely to result in a positive outcome—whether that’s an opt-in, a lead or a sale.<br />
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<div class="faq-note"><b>Note:</b> If a country you want to geotarget isn’t listed, let us know and we can add it in literally 5 seconds.<br />
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Only the most popular countries that users target are listed, because no one geotargets Botswana, and a list of 246 countries is just a pain to work with.</div>
<div class="faq-tip"><b>Tip:</b> If you’re interested in learning more about geoblocking, see our FAQ on the topic:<br />
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