What's the best Geotargeting script?

I just recently started using YPN and I'm having a hard time deciding which Geotargeting script to use.

Is there any one script that really stands out and why?

 

Free Ad Script
http://www.phpadsnew.com

Free GeoTarget Database
http://www.maxmind.com

 

What is the difference beetween paid maxmind database and free maxmind database?

 

Sorry, internet lagged and it double posted.

 

a few percentage points of accuracy..

I also would suggest phpadsnew, it's a great script. As far as paying for a DB, don't waste your money. The free one works perfectly well if you can deal with 1 or 2% error.

 

I use this: this. I like it.

 

http://www.phpadsnew.com looks very good and it seems lots of people are using it.

I wondering, does anyone have any first hand experience with Mysimpleads. It looks good also but how do they compare?

 

The problem with the 1-2% accuracy with the MaxMind database is AOL users. All AOL users are routed through US proxies so your letting international AOL users in countries like France, UK, Germany, Brazil, and a few others see YPN ads.

On average its only 1-2% accuracy. But if your site has a generally large proportion of traffic from one of more of these countries you should go out fo your way and invest in the paid script.

Yahoo won't ban you for 1-2% international traffic, but if lets say half of your traffic is form Brazil, and half of them use AOL, then 25% of your traffic is going to be leaking Brazil traffic.

 

I created mySimpleAds for DP YPN users to allow for simple geotargetting - of course it does more beyond that . It is an alternative to phpadsnew for folks that are mostly interested in the geotargeting pieces and were having setup or performance issues with phpadsnew. Its simple to setup and its quick. If you have any questions, feel free to PM me.

-Matt

 

BUT.. if they are being routed through AOL proxies, that means that they are getting US ips.. so you should be safe right? Unless I misread this?

 

I think you are missing something. They are getting US IP's even though they are not US people. YPN definately has a better database then the one that maxmind offers for free so they know who is US and who is not. So if your showing 25% of all impressions to people in Brazil who use AOL, then Yahoo might ban you for excessive international traffic.

 

I have used mySimpleAds for about a month on a site with 1M+ daily pageviews and so far it has worked nicely.
The guy (Matt?) behind the software turned out to be really helpful and went out of his way to help me get it to work - not that it's particularly difficult to install (it's actually a breeze), but my mySQL was ancient which caused some headache.

 

has anybody geo targeted ads by what language the browser says (en-us/en-uk)?

 

Not sure if it helps but this geo-targeting script will show the targeted marketing messages right in images.

 

This might be what you are looking for, it displays affiliate ad code blocks based on visitors geo ip country location.

It handles the affiliate code from sites like Amazon, CJ .. in fact almost any affiliate code, affiliate image banner or text can be used with this geo targeting script

geolocationaffiliatemarketing.com

 

Your choices for GeoLocation data would be either to get a paid database similar to those offered by IP2Location.com or you can check out the free FraudLabs IP2Location web service.

http://www.fraudlabs.com/freelicense.aspx?PackageID=2e

 

The IP2Location and MaxMind are both good, but you get really spotty results with the free version and the paid versions are way too much. I wrote a geo targeting script where I combined and pruned all existing IP databases into one very precise database. Plus its super easy to use (only 1 line of code). I also added a feature where you can get the closest city of a certain population. The link is lambdageoip(.)com.

 

Hey, this thread came up #1 for 'geo-targeting script' on Google so I read through it. I basically was using a lander that read "Hi I'm Lacy from <your city>, <your state>". I wanted a script where I could display the nearest big city, so I stumbled to this thread and checked out MaxMind, hostip, ipinfodb, and Lambda GeoIP.

After a lot of trying to hack up a solution with MaxMind, I found this thread and Lambda GeoIP. It took me a few minutes to install but Evan helped me get my landing page setup exactly how I wanted. I'm glad I found it because otherwise I would've had to go to elance or something and hired someone to code one up for me.

Anyway I know this thread is old, I just wanted to say thank you to Evan for helping me out and his awesome script.

 

Kind of the same deal as Drew, but I found this thread via Google and I just want to say that Lambda GeoIP is great. The script itself is good, but I had trouble getting it installed on my server (I have some unusual settings) and Evan from Lambda GeoIP stayed with me until I got it up. Not only that, but he showed me exactly how to use the forwarding feature to do exactly what I wanted (redirect Chinese and African traffic to different offers).

Anyway, I just wanted to give Evan and Lambda GeoIP a shout out for being extremely patient with me and going above and beyond what was required.

-Jerry

 

i'd rather stay with free maxmind version than has to buy lambdageoip.
just the power of free script