Using International Traffic

How to maximise the international traffic using cloaking

[irldonalb]

Hi,

I've a client that specialise in computer repair. They are bases in UK and the likelyhood of someone sending over a machine from the US is very slim.

So i would maximise the value of there US traffic through affilates and adsense.

Using mod_write or cloaking is it possible to display a different site for our US visitors. I don't want to have a gateway page asking people what country they're from. I want to work it out from their IP. (I know it won't be fool proof because of proxies but I'll catch 95% correctly)

Has anyone any ideas

[mykel79]

There is a free database of IP's and their corresponding countries called GeoIP. If you are running the Apache server and have admin access, you can install a module that will easily let you direct surfers to different versions of your site based on their IP. Do a search for "geoip apache module" on Google, without the quotes.

If you can't install the module, you can use the SQL database version of the GeoIP library and write a simple script (e.g. in PHP) which will look up the country of the visitor that is accessing your page.

[benevolent001]

i wanted to use this to show different pages to users from Us and Uk
i have looked at geo Ip module but will this require special access to apached httpd file
its too complicated to understand the instructions on the readme file

can u tell me how to work out
Regards

[irishaff]

Be careful with the GEO IP set up, you could accidently redirect the bots also.

David