Our company does not send products to countries outside of the U.S. or Canada. We would like to embed a redirect code for visitors that are from other countries and offer them an alternative and also make additional income on the side. For eg: We sell adult novelty games, wedding supplies and such. Since we don't send to the UK, we still get many UK visitors that eat up our bandwidth, spend about 10 minutes on our site only to learn later that we dont' send to the UK. Instead, we would like to send these visitors to an affiliate site that is similar to what we sell via a redirect. So.....if person=other than Canada or U.S. redirect them with affiliateID to www.affiliate program. I am sure this is possible as I have seen other sites do this but I am not sure how to make this happen.
That should be easy to do using an ip2country database. It may not be 100% accurate, but pretty close. Google ip2country and you will find free databases and sample code.
This is possible, but why limit your company to one or two countries when you can be making more money by allowing others to benefit? If you have a product that UK visitors want, sell it to them and make them pay the shipping costs?
We use PHP with a mod rewrite to html. We might ship to the UK in the future but with our shipping costs involved and the same businesses located in the UK, people wouldn't pay $50 to have something shipped overseas when they can get it shipped within their country for $10
Ok, I found out this is very possible and is widely used. Does anyone in here use "Redirects based on country"? Is there some free coding you can drop in that does it?