Geo-filtering.. the basics
 

Just wanting to know what is involved to filter some traffic. I have a site that is in english only, but I have a sponsor with a japanese tour for a paysite. How can I send all traffic to the page and only .jp to the japanese tour?

Can you use htaccess?

It depends.

You can use a third party service to map a user's IP-address to a country, and even cities. MaxMind has great such service.

You could also use the browser's settings to detect what language the browser is using. This will be possible with .htaccess

Here's a page with the htaccess code you need to filter your traffic by browser language - http://www.webpimps.com/scripts/htaccess/

There's a bunch of other cool things there as well such as hotlink protecting your images, cookie password protection, and how to redirect traffic without cookies turned on.

:winkwink:

What japanese paysite are you using? If you don't mind telling.

thanks alot turboface... and others

In regards to the post asking which paysite. Its AVDeluxe
http://www.avdeluxe.com

good stuff :thumbsup