Hi, Recently signed up with CJ and just wondering if there is a way for Geographically targetting ads. I have one website with a userbase spread across the US and Europe and would like to display different ads depending on location...
I would like to do this too, i thought about doing an ip lookup for each visitor but i hear it would put a strain on the web server. Late
I use mysimpleads from http://www.clippersoft.net/ Seems to work very well, and very easy to operate, add new ads etc It does do an IP lookup for each visitor though - unavoidable I think. Doesn't seem to have slowed things down particularly. There's also an open source system available free that a lot of people recommend but I haven't tried that one and can't remember what it's called - search on geotargetting here on DP and you'll find it.
I need a solution for this as well. Some CJ advertisers only cater to one region and so I need something that will help display uk ads for uk visitors, us ads for us visitors etc...
I can think of a few ways to do this but both i have looked at seem to have fallbacks: My first attempt used the php command gethostbyaddr to get the hostname from the visitors IP, i was then going to do a simple "if not UK then" but appraently this is a major overhead for servers, so i didnt implement it. My second attempt was using openads, this was way to complicated solution for something simple, and it seemed to up my page loading times. I'm now looking for another solution. Late