If you are in the affiliate marketing industry, you are most likely familiar with the different types of TIERS of GEOs that are available. So, for those who don’t know the difference, I’ll explain briefly.

In the internet marketing industry, we use TIERS to differentiate countries. Commonly, we have 3 TIERS that countries fall on. Some may interpret at TIER as the wealth of a country… TIER 1 for developed countries, TIER 2 for developing countries, TIER 3 for underdeveloped countries, and others might have a different interpretation.

We may see that TIER1 as the highest to TIER3 as the lowest in these few categories.

• Country development
• Wealth of a country
• Competitiveness
• Payout offers
• Difficulty to run campaigns
• Quality of traffic
• Price of traffic

Here is the list of countries to give you an idea on which TIERS they belong too. Keep in mind that this list is not the ‘industry standard’ but it should be good enough for you to refer.

TIER 1 Country List (Arranged Alphabetically)

• Australia
• Austria
• Belgium
• Canada
• Colombia
• Croatia
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Finland
• France
• Georgia
• Germany
• Ireland
• Israel
• Italy
• Korea, south
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Macedonia
• Mauritius
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Nicaragua
• Norway
• Poland
• Slovak Republic
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Sweden
• Taiwan
• United Kingdom
• United States of America

TIER 2 Country List (Arranged Alphabetically)

• Albania
• Angola
• Antigua & Barbuda
• Argentina
• Armenia
• Aruba
• Azerbaijan
• Bahamas
• Bahrain
• Bangladesh
• Barbados
• Belarus
• Belize
• Benin
• Bolivia
• Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Botswana
• Brazil
• Brunei
• Bulgaria
• Burkina Faso
• Burma
• Burundi
• Cambodia
• Cameroon
• Cape Verde
• Chad
• Chile
• China (PRC)
• Comoros
• Congo (DRC)
• Congo, Republic
• Costa Rica
• Cote d’Ivoire
• Curacao
• Cyprus
• Djibouti
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• Egypt
• El Salvador
• Estonia
• Ethiopia
• Fiji
• Gabon
• The Gambia
• Ghana
• Greece
• Guatemala
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Guyana
• Haiti
• Honduras
• Hong Kong
• Hungary
• Iceland
• India
• Indonesia
• Iraq
• Jamaica
• Japan
• Jordan
• Kazakhstan
• Kenya
• Kiribati
• Kosovo
• Kyrgyz Republic
• Laos
• Latvia
• Lebanon
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Macau
• Malawi
• Malaysia
• Maldives
• Mali
• Malta
• Marshall Islands
• Mauritania
• Mexico
• Micronesia
• Moldova
• Mongolia
• Montenegro
• Morocco
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Nepal
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Oman
• Pakistan
• Palau
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Philippines
• Portugal
• Qatar
• Romania
• Russia
• Rwanda
• St. Lucia
• St. Vincent & The Gren
• Senegal
• Serbia
• Seychelles
• Sierra Leone
• Singapore
• Solomon Islands
• South Africa
• South Sudan
• Sri Lanka
• Suriname
• Swaziland
• Switzerland
• Tajikistan
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Timor-Leste
• Togo
• Tonga
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Tunisia
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• Uganda
• Ukraine
• United Arab Emirates
• Uruguay
• Uzbekistan
• Venezuela
• Vietnam
• Zambia

TIER 3 Country List (Arranged Alphabetically)

• Algeria
• Central African Rep
• Cuba
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritrea
• Iran
• Korea, North
• Kuwait
• Libya
• Madagascar
• Papua New Guinea
• Saudi Arabia
• Sudan
• Syria
• Yemen
• Zimbabwe
• Somalia