Anyone know how to create a geo targeted banner?

Discussion in 'Graphics & Multimedia' started by sfraise, Mar 4, 2009.

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    I can't seem to find any info anywhere on how to do it, but I want to create geo-targeted banners that would display a city determined by ip similar to the adult friend finder ads you see.

    Anyone have any idea how to do this or anywhere that explains how it's done?
     
    sfraise, Mar 4, 2009 IP
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    Kerosene Alpha & Omega™ Staff

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    I use maxmind.com GeoLite Country for geo targeting on a country level - it's not perfect, but it's free.
    http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecountry

    If you really want to target cities, they also have a free city database (see coverage here), and also a more accurate pay version.
    http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity

    I haven't used the city version, but the country version simply returns a two letter country code that you could use to populate an img file name (e.g banner-us.jpg).
     
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    Thanks, I'm aware of the maxmind databases, but what I really want to know is how to create geo targeted ads using the database. For example, on the front page of my site it would show a picture of a person and under the picture it would propogate a city and state based on the visitors ip.

    I've found a site called geoadult that allows you to build graphics that will use this technique but it cost's over $100.
     
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    OK I get it :)

    Couldn't you just use GD + PHP to write stuff on your base image?
     
    Kerosene, Mar 4, 2009 IP