Website Localisation

[joots]

Hi,

I don't know if any of you have tried to ever watch tv ep's on US website hostings or gone to the US amazon site. But they seem to know that you're not from the US. (now sometimes thats bad - like when u wanna watch latest ep of heroes) but it can also be good, i.e. content aimed at the righ locale. (i know its about IP jiggery pokery)

So does anyone have any ideas on using this for us smaller business ppl? i sell clothes, and wanna sell online, but i know that some of the goods would do a blinder in the states, but i know i need to present it in US friendly way, as opposed to the more classy euro/brit market.

So basically, if a user from New york visits my website hosting, they see one version, and if someone from dagenham checks it out they see another version... (apart from saying on homepage - view brit version, view US version)

Is there any clever way to do this? Or any ideas out there.

Cheers

:santasmiley:

[paul]

I think it is important to recognize the differences with the same English language for UK & US and optimize it for specific language, also try to index in local, smaller directories, classified sites and search engines for specific target market, provide multi-currency payment systems that would be convenient for US people. If you are doing adword go for geo-targeting.

[eUKhost.com]

We did similar thing for a website hosting which was designed before 3 years. I think we may have that script stored somewhere as it was a php script which use to compare visitors IP with a database of IP subnet allocations and it use to clearly specify which country you are based in.

Allow me some time to find out where it is stored.

[joots]

ok thanks. Its not a priority at the moment, so when ever u find it it be interesting to see how the script works.

cheers