As you all know, many casinos programs do not accept players from certain geo locations.
That stinks as sometimes you have a page/situation that you cannot filter geo location is seeing/clicking that link, and often our precious traffic goes to garbage.
I use a program that offesr an option they called bounce back url. That means, if they do not accept the traffic, they will kindly redirect my visitor to an url of my choice. I just love this because no matter what is the geo mistake tht might happen, I’m covered.
Yes I know many use geo scripts to redirect people to the right place but… IP address change ownership and there are always new ones coming up. How do you know if what you classify as “good to go” traffic is classified the same by the casino? This might fail.
Do you think this is an important option?
I’m looking into geo-targetting banners, but this doesn’t help when the user clicks an in-content link.
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And a resounding yes, the programs that have this will receive better consideration from me.
Does the extra code make site speed any slower at all?
They only have to check it once, which is when the visitor click on the content link to visit the casino.
There will be a database table with currently about 110,000 records with all IP addresses. Each record have IP_FROM and IP_TO, and the country that the IP range belongs.
One search in the table to compare the visitor’s IP and the corresponding country in the table and you already know if it is a good customer or not.
If it is not a good visitor, one more search in the database to fetch a possible bouch back url of the affiliaie and redirect to it.
That is it.
I’m pretty sure many casinos already do the first part as it is… they only have to implement the second part.
Also, I believe that many times is not the casino will be implementing this but the affiliate program.
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