Geo-Redirection Advice needed

[4u-domains]

Can anybody recommend a simple, effective and cheap way to redirect people based on their location (down to Country level)

The scenario is that I have an online store which can sell items to the US and Europe. The trouble is that, in order to service each area properly, I need to separate them out.

When somebody hits the website i wish to use some sort of redirection so that US visitors go to mydomain.com/us/etc and the EU customers go to mydomain.com/eu/etc

Whether this is achieved with a meta tag, java scripting or another method is fine with me.

Thanks in advance.

 

[labrocca]

mod_geoip will do it.

 

[Nodws]

geo redirection is evil, just place a splash screen and let visitors choose. like dulux.com, or place a dropdown menu on top of the header

I hate traveling to a foreign country and get geo-redirected to that native language and not finding the "view in english" link anywhere :<

 

[4u-domains]

geo redirection is evil, just place a splash screen and let visitors choose. like dulux.com, or place a dropdown menu on top of the header

I hate traveling to a foreign country and get geo-redirected to that native language and not finding the "view in english" link anywhere :<

I hear you... It is absolutely essential that visitores are still given a choice after the fact.. by means of a nice colorful flag top right of the screen.
However, it is even worse for a visitor to browse his way through some products and finally realise the site doesnt operate in his native country!

I will have a look at this mod-geoip thing, cheers.

 

[amoeba]

Let visitors choose from a simple screen the first time they hit your site. Then set a cookie and automatically send them to the correct section from then on.

If you want to be fancy, you can use the free hostip.info api to make a guess and let them confirm it.