How Many Webmasters do Geo-Redirects on their Sites?
 

We all know that every major sponsor is doing (should be) geo-ip redirects on countries that they can't process credit cards/checks for, but how many webmasters are doing it directly on their sites?

I recently setup my redirection server to intercept hits that sponsors can't process for and I'm sending them to alternate sponsors and its amazing how much was going to the trash or I was simply not getting credit on.

Seriously, take the few hours to invest into a geo-redirect system if you don't have one already!
WG

i will be doing that soon, thanks for the heads up charles

Its funny, I was forced to doing this because mainstream sponsors will blantantly redirect your non-USA hits without paying you so I had to set this up. I then setup the script to adult and it was a nice little boost to revenues.
WG

How do you do this? Is there a script I can buy?

http://www.freeones.com/languages.shtml

Geo is in place for most countries/languages and we are in the process of adding language/country specific sponsors.

Have all your webpages link to a redirection script instead of straight to the sponsor.
Then that script will check the IP address and you define a url for each country (or cluster of countries).

Done. I use Maxmind's database and wrote my own script in perl to do the legwork, its about 100 lines of code, not that much at all. I'm sure there's a few php versions floating around for free, but being the hardcore perl coder that I am, I wrote my own script.

WG

Do you use the maxmind.com data?

edit: you beat me to it

:winkwink::winkwink:

You can pickup an extra 10-20% of your totals if you shop your foreign traffic.

Mind sharing where you are bouncing the hits too? I need a good home for foreign traffic.

Europeans Billing Europe!
 

Great thread WiredGuy :thumbsup

...and if you're sending EU traffic make certain your sponsor can bill Europeans :winkwink:

+1

I know about global-access.com, but any others would be great to know about.

Do all your sites link to one domain that does the redirection, or do you use multiple domains? I'm using an Alias in Apache so all outgoing links are going through the domain that is being viewed, but not sure if it's better/worse to use a single domain.

All domains redirect to a subdirectory on that domain which then forwards to a single tracking server which does the redirects. This way each domain can operate independently or as part of the whole network.
WG

Good choice :thumbsup:thumbsup

Global Accés target paysite owners and affiliate systems, ie: if you have your own content and need foreign billing for it.
Free site owners can definately increase their revenues using www.pin2cash.com that got various sites optimized to convert foreign traffic using phone and sms billing options :2 cents:

Have your host install mod_geoip on your server and then put this as your .htaccess file.

http://www.maxmind.com/app/mod_geoip

:winkwink:

start doing it if u are not ..

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