Find a list of richest countries, remove the petrol monarchies and you'll have your top countries for CPC
Naturally those must be USA, UK, and western countries like Canada, France, Germany- where internet is highly spread, where people all along are on net for all their activities and purchasing there needs and so on.
I doubt that. If by richest you mean per capita, then you are saying Luxembourg and Norway have a higher CPC than US. If you mean by nominal GDP, you are saying China, India, Japan, Russia, etc. have one of the highest CPCs. CPC is more complex and has to do with internet penetration, ecommerce and a host of other different things.
It is natural that clicks originating from countries with high human development index will fetch more money. They include US, Europe etc... Traffic from developing countries generally pay poorly.
There must be also good CPC in Japan, especially since the language is so specific, it means the competition between webmasters is lower than in english, so it's easier to get good position on google search. But need to know the language a little even if you outsource the content writing
Well for me Japan is not to be put in the same bag as india and china, malaysia, etc. Perhaps I'm wrong on this..
But if there is a economy factor in providing higher CPC.. Then the recent earthquake came in japan would affect the it..
I agree. It is likely that Japan has a high CPC. However, big economies like China and India are still nowhere near countries like US/UK when it comes to CPC. I wonder which is worse though
India is NOT in race, I've changed my rules on content on my multi-user sites to specifically band users who post content (in english) related to India, Pakistan and China as this traffic converts VERY poorly into AdSense money, both in term of CPC and CTR.
I agree, CPC has almost nothing to do with the amount of money a country has. I am recieving my highest paying clicks from the US and Sweden. (about $3 per click). However I don't know much about the other countries.