Comments on: Using Geo-IP To Tailor Content Delivery

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:30:24 +0000

Dom,
You can use a proxy through IE/FF internet settings. Here is a page listing some public proxies around the world: http://www.publicproxyservers.com/page1.html

By: Linda Bustos

Linda Bustos — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:50:08 +0000

Hi Kingphp,

Does this page help? http://ca.php.net/geoip

By: kingphp

kingphp — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:52:22 +0000

if possible, please offer related php code.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:02:20 +0000

@ Dom,

technically you can’t spoof your IP address, because that’s how the server knows where to send the request. You might be able to find an internet proxy in the area in question, or if you have access to the source code, manually override your IP address to the various countries for testing.

By: Dom

Dom — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:33:25 +0000

Hi,

I use geo targeting on my web site http://www.comparance.com. How can I fake my IP (other country or city) so I can check on the ad campaigns to make sure they deliver properly?

Thanks

By: Linda Bustos

Linda Bustos — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:41:26 +0000

Awesome, thanks Josh, I’ll add it to the post as well.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:37:18 +0000

Just wanted to point out another provider, Quova, which is used by one of the sites in this post.

By: Linda Bustos

Linda Bustos — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:44:48 +0000

@ Peter – great point. It’s recommended that if one is going to offer a translated version of the website, that they work with people who can speak the native language of the country fluently to provide quality assurance. I would never trust translation software.

I recently heard someone translate “Take me out to the ball game” – which is a classic baseball song out here in North America – into German and back to English using software. This is how it came out:

Original: Take me out to the ball game, take me out to the crowd…

Translated: Execute me to the ball play, execute me to the masses!

@ Ron,

I will keep my eyes peeled for more geoIP examples and hopefully have enough to do a follow up post. One thing I noticed Best Buy does is take me to a home screen that has a Canadian flag and US flag with links to the Canadian English site, Canadian French, or US English or Spanish. I’m not sure if US visitors see that screen or just see US English/Spanish version?

By: Ron Patiro

Ron Patiro — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:35:14 +0000

Great post. IP targeting is very powerful beyond PPC.

Do you have more examples of sites that are using IP targeting? Good or bad.

Also the complaint from Peter is so painfully valid for many sites. They only make half an attempt to offer sites in another language and make it simply awful. Another point he brings up is about the option to not switch to a different location. A Canadian colleague told me of similar issues.

By: Peter Fankhaenel

Peter Fankhaenel — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:14:54 +0000

Thanks for the interesting post.
I personally like to be able to at least change the location, the server speculates where I am.
Recently I came across a few sites that employed automatic translation because they (rightly) thought I am in Germany. But the translation was absolutely incomprehensible to me and there was no way to tell the system, to just show the english original text.
I don’t like to be domineered over by someone else.