Comments on: Finding Your Visitors: The Geotargeting Manual for Dummies

By: Mickey Grenadine

Mickey Grenadine — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:47:35 +0000

The web browser submits information regarding the user’s language preferences to the server. There is no need to geolocate or other similar nonsense to figure out what language is preferred. An aspect of multilingual sites that this article doesn’t cover is figuring out how to keep content changes in sync.

By: Marcelo Origoni

Marcelo Origoni — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 17:25:13 +0000

The way I prefer to do the language thing, is looking into the headers, and change the language a cording.
This happens a lot to me, I live in Argentina (which speaks spanish) but most of the time i’m on the internet, I look for english content, further more, my windows language is english, and all the applications I install as well.
The geolocation is good, with some exceptions, google for instance, if I type .com, I want to go to the .com site, not the .com.ar. GC magazine, have something similar, and no intuitive way to go back.
I prefer the way yahoo or msn do it. if you type .com, they place a div on top saying like “You are at yahoo.com, for local content, go to yahoo.com.ar” that you can close, and it doesn’t bother you at all.

By: James

James — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:53:25 +0000

The MaxMind paid is a few hundred dollars I believe, and I think you have to pay for updates.

I used the free version and it worked really well for what I wanted. Later on I needed the ability to find the closest major city which Lambda GeoIP is good for. All in all, if you just need the general location of your user: use Google’s geo targeting or MaxMind’s database. If you need the accurate location then pay for the MaxMind paid version or use Lambda GeoIP.

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:59:46 +0000

Nice Post.

I find MaxMind’s Paid API based more accurate.
A good way to speed it up is to set a country cookie for few months after checking against database

By: Phillip Crum

Phillip Crum — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:25:20 +0000

Excellent post. That you supplied the “how” to go along-side the “what” is much appreciated. Wish more bloggers did that.

By: Tile Cleaning Kansas City

Tile Cleaning Kansas City — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:02:18 +0000

Great tip on not changing the language of your site when geotargeting. It seems like a mistake that a lot of websites make.

By: Melayu Boleh

Melayu Boleh — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:00:11 +0000

I think it’s definitely a good idea to personalize a page by determine where your audience is coming from.