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Is there a way to know if apache receives a request from a public IP not local to your country?
I'm looking for ways to know if an apache server receives a request , from another country (e.g germany) considering its a fair request (no spam , or proxies). I want it either to appear this as a ...
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Should I Choose Hosting Location From Traffic Source Location?
I am running my blog site on godaddy shared hosting, at US. But my site's top visitors percentage are as follows:
India - 25%
USA - 15%
UK - 4%
Now as major are from india, should I choose a ...
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Will changing server location affect SEO? [duplicate]
I have a .com website hosted in the US. Most of my traffic comes from there, but I found better prices and service in a webhost with a server in another country. Will it matter if I make the switch, ...
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Targeting Multiple Zones in the US best URL method required
This is kind of a newbie question, but my boss asked me and I wasn't sure exactly how to answer. Id like to get some opinions from others that have hit this issue before.
Scenario:
We are wanting to ...
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Download tracking by IP
Is it possible to track downloads from a website by IP address?
Ideally, I would like to see a log file with possibly time stamps, occurrences, and who (IP address, and/or country of origin).
If ...
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How can I route traffic between two hosting servers?
I have a web site. It is designed for two target groups of users: one from Eastern Europe, second - from USA. I also have two hosting accounts - one in USA and one in Europe.
I'd like to route the ...
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SoLoMo landingpage localized regionalized down to cities and SEO sitemap.xml
I'm working on an SoLoMo (social local mobile) web application. How would you realize the site and the landingpages that they are seo and crawler friendly? Any best-practises out there?
I know there ...
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Does google show location keywords to users who didn't explicitly search it if they're in that place?
For example, a page is SEO'd for "party decorations boston", and someone in boston searches for "party decorations", will the page be weighted in?
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Can we tell search engines (google, yahoo) that a particular website is geographical region specific?
I have a website which caters to a specific district. It is of no use if the visitor is from outside this district.
Question:
Can I tell/indicate to search engines (mainly google and Yahoo) that ...
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.co.uk targeted for google.co.uk .com targeted for google.com
We've had a website running on a .co.uk domain for some years, this domain is listed in the SERPS for our brand on both google.co.uk and google.com. We get little traffic from anywhere other than the ...
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SEO: Getting site to show in location-specific searches [closed]
I'm really new to this SEO world and I've been reading a lot to try and figure it out.
We have a site that allows users to browse/create events anywhere. And we fill it with content from the main ...
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Redirection based on user's location
I'm about to redirect my French users from mysite.com to mysite.fr. Is it possible using DNS CNAME records or should I write some GEOLocation codes to do that?
I will appreciate any other ideas.
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Is there a significant hit to a non .com TLDs exact match domain (EMD) names after Google's Panda update? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does server location or TLD affects SEO
In this article, there is a good overview of exact match domain names and how they affect SEO after Google's Panda update.
The ...
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How to index Facebook & Twitter company pages by location?
I own a regional business directory and want to collect and add URLs of company Facebook Pages and Twitter pages by location (City and/or Zip code). What would be the best method to accomplish this ...
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Changing displayed price based on visitor location?
I run an online web app which at the moment I charge for in GBP. I'm expanding to the US and Europe and am looking for the best way to change the displayed price based on where the visitor is ...
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Looking for free, specific Ip2Location Database
I am searching for a free db (like an updated XML or CSV file) that relates IP addresses to specific locations. I want more information than just the country.
I want some sort of region or city ...
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IP Locator not working with Cloudflare
I have set up an IP Locator service. Worked fine, until I started using Cloudflare:
Instead of showing the user's IP address, Cloudflare shows its server's IP! What can I do?
My Site: ...
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Do Google/Twitter etc actually use distributed servers to serve their resources?
I'm trying to optimize my website and running a few tests using webpagetest.org. I tried the test from Singapore and Hongkong.
I saw that while all facebook, quantcast, chitika scripts were loading ...
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Best ways to collect location-based user input
I'm working on a website where users will be able to register and provide information about their location. In order to prevent users from inputting incorrect data, we don't want users to provide ...
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GEO Tool - commercial use
what i want to do:
offer my clients the possibility to display their store as a small graphic (like google maps). just a small png with the location of the store.
only the specific client is able to ...
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What is the best practice with KML files when adding geositemap?
Im not sure how to deal with kml files. Now important particularly in reference to the Google Venice update. My site basically is a guide of many company listings (sort of Yellow Pages). I want each ...
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SEO Geolocation
Does anybody know whether the location of the datacenter affects the SEO value of a given website?
In other words a site which has 100% of visitors coming from USA has to be hosted in USA for better ...
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Geolocation Blocking and SEO
I'm in process to block a particular geolocation from accessing my site. But i am not sure if this is going to raise any flags on my website. Basically i'm getting lots of spam from particular state ...
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Where do you get data to populate a suggest-box with Country, State, City and Zip Information?
I'm trying to create some dialogs in my web-app that can auto-suggest possible Countries, States, Cities and Zips in a form.
I was planning on storing this information in a database, and making calls ...
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What's the best way to determine users' preferred language?
In determining which language to display content in by default, there are, as far as I know, three basic methods:
Examine the Accept headers sent by the browser.
Use IP geolocation to determine the ...
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How can I distribute traffic web requests geographically?
If I have two web frontends. one in Dallas, one in London. How can I best route traffic from the US to Dallas, and abroad to London?
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Page Spamming via locations
Hi guys I am new here so please be gentle :)
I have created a web page for a small mail order business.
The page asks the reader if they are in need of a supplier for products in their "area" and if ...
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Options for geotargeting content
My company is creating a web portal that is designed to put relevant local geographic data in front of our users. Aside from using IP addresses, which are increasingly becoming less reliable as a ...
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How to ban registrations from TOR exits?
I am getting far too many fake registrations through TOR exits. I would like to block these registrations like major sites do. What is the proper way to do that?
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Single IP multiple servers
I have seen that some IPs are tied to multiple servers (physical machines). Example: check the ping times of one of GoDaddy's nameservers:
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Redirect based on country
Let's say I have a site that has multiple versions for different countries, e.g.:
www.example.com/us
www.example.com/uk
www.example.com/ca
and I want to use IP geolocation to redirect users who go ...
