Comments on: Are Non American Bloggers Inferior?

By: Jasa

Jasa — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:26:32 +0000

Hey, ah pek! Anyway, holla me up since we’re not that far away geographically.

I might have some proposition/projects you might be interested in

By: Costa

Costa — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:49:45 +0000

Micheal

But Micheal, Adsense is allowed worldwide. They only pay differently in different countries, so I don’t think is has anything to do with taxes.

I can understand the difference in payout, because lots of non American countries gives a bad ROI, but why the difference in referrals? I have more than 10 referrals for widgetbucks and most of them are from America.

Vic

Yea, it does seems that way doesn’t it?

By: Michael Clark

Michael Clark — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:51:51 +0000

I can see taxes playing into this. Google doesn’t want to have to learn (and manage the record keeping) about the tax laws in the ~200 countries of the world.

By: Danny Foo

Danny Foo — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:14:16 +0000

I was disappointed seeing how Google actually allowed it to happen. But I suppose they have their statistics to prove the effectiveness of the program in Asia.

Nonetheless, this opens up an opportunity for many other competitors.

By: helen

helen — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:22:28 +0000

Costa, I buy alot online and I know many US companies do not ship internationally. Really, even if they do, the shipping cost alone sometimes cost more than the product itself. Only big big established US companies with enough sales volume could ship internationally at a good competitive price. That is why, many Asians do not buy online. The culprit is those shipping charges.

I guess that is why the advertisers feel they’re not getting much sales from the SE region.