UK visitors help!!

Does anyone know any tips for getting more UK visitors to your site either from engines or other means?. Also will adding the words "UK" in your title or description/keywords tags help at all?

Regards!!!

Having a .co.uk extention and UK in the title will certainly help
Are you sure you don't want people from other countries - football betting has international appeal for example

That's just it, I am getting too many people from Singapore and the USA and not enough from the UK. I tend to use the £ sign on my site and that won't appeal much to contries who use the $ sign or any other. I am going to add "UK" in my titles and description for a while and see how it goes.

I think you're looking at it the wrong way. If you're getting lots of foreign visitors, don't try to put them off, but build pages specially for them. There are plenty of overseas bookmakers on CJ, you don't have to just concentrate on the UK.

I do see you're point but how can I interest Singapore people? Another thing I don't think I have to use other bookmakers because Bet365 allow you to sign up from just about anywhere. Another thing, do you think people from singapore come on my site looking to be on the Premiership or other stuff?

How do you know your site isn't interesting to people from Singapore?

They may be your most profitable visitors!

With some clever scripting you could insert a SID, EPI or NWK code into your links to tell you where your sales are coming from.

Good idea! How do I do that then?

Guess a real simple way would be just to set up a few links and say on your site...

click here if your from Bognor Regis

or click here if your from mars

Obvously the links just goto the same place but you set em up with different ids.

Just a thought ... its a bit lame though

You need to dynamically generate the link to the merchant, using a scripting language such as php.

For some of my pages I store the visitor's referrer info in a text file, along with a unique reference (the current time), and use this unique reference as the SID code. So when I get a sale I can see the time in the SID column in the transaction report, and look it up in my text file to find the referer info. I do this to judge the effectiveness of different PPC keywords.

But if you just want to find out where someone's from, you'll presumably use their IP address, which you could use as the SID code to avoid having to store anything in a separate file (can't do this with the referrer because it's too long to use as a SID).

So if it was a CJ link you'd make the link as normal, add the &SID= bit, then in PHP add the following code:

 
<?
echo $REMOTE_ADDR;
?>

Simple as that.

Then when you look at the sales in the transaction report the visitor's IP address should appear as the SID. You can then do a look up to find out where the visitor is from.

I'm sure with a bit of work it would be possible to write a script to find out what the country is, and use the country as the SID. But that would involve proper programming rather than the one line of code above.

Obviously this would ony work if you have access to php, and your web page has a php enabled extension.

Using an industrial strength logging tool your log files will reveal the visitor patterns of the visitors. it will show countries and with the right sort of filtering you can see whether the visitors from Singapore or elsewhere are doing what you want them to do on your site.

In terms of recommendations, we suggest NetTracker ( www.sane.com ) because it's easy to drill into the information.

Hope that helps.

Jim Banks
Web Diversity Limited
www.webdiversity.co.uk
Search engine optimisation and pay per click management

I don't think he's interested in what the foreign visitors do while he's on the site. It's what they do after they click on affiliate links that's important, and no amount of log analysis will tell you that!

I could provide your with UK&Irish traffic, however I would not like to have your US visitors on my website.

why is there not a traffic conversion provider? would be a cool idea.....to exchange 20 US visitors against 1 uk visitor or something

I am new this affiliate thing, but I have the same problem, leggat, my website, www.freebetshere.com/, has an audience of predominantly Singapore, and Hong Kong. I know what your saying - Uk betting for example, does not have much appeal to someone living in Singapore! The way I'm going about it is to try and get as many reciprocal links to the more European betting websites. I have a link to a Singapore site, Limso.net, which has alot of traffic (1m hits a month), but very few sales. Its just a case of targeting the correct audience. (It is obvious however, that people in Singapore love to gamble, and I will be trying to target this audience in the near future!)