How to test geotargeting of ads?

Discussion in 'Programming' started by ad.hawk, Feb 23, 2009.

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    hello,

    I work for a website which uses yahoo to serve graphical ads. yahoo geotargets the users at state and city level (US). We are trying to test if the geotargeting in working as it is supposed to.
    1)Can you please suggest how this can be achieved?
    2) We tried the proxy approach, but we were not able to find proxies in different states. Please do let me know if there is any company which provides proxies in different US states for this purpose?

    Thanks in advance
    -Vic
     
    ad.hawk, Feb 23, 2009 IP
  2. w0tan

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    If you find a proxy you'd like to use to test your site with, go to this website and enter the hostname (e.g. proxyservice.com) and it will find the IP address that the DNS resolves to.

    Once you have that, you can use an IP location service such as this one to get the location of the IP address where the server is.
     
    w0tan, Feb 24, 2009 IP