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   drwhom
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   Hi Joern, just a quickie. We're in the process of launching a US version of Staggered (www.iamstaggered.com) and the way we'd like to do it is to keep a single URL. What I'd like to happen is that when people visit http://www.iamstaggered.com it changes them to a different version of the site if their IP address is from the US.

   Any idea about how to achieve this? Also how can I effevtively make a different site for it to point to. Any tips? Have you done anything similar before?

   Hope all's well with you. Ta!

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Joern
   Moderator

   I did never think about this..
   The first thing coming to my mind is: what will the search engines see? How do you want to get different versions indexed?

   sure you could redirect the access for certain IPs, - I would not do, for sure not with a single URL pointing to different content.

   Maybe with a category 'us' to get links like ..mstaggered.com/us/etc

   no more ideas..

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   drwhom
   Member

   I think that once the plugin (GEOIP?) had re-directed users they would jump to a country-specific version of the site e.g.

   http://www.iamstaggered.com/us

   http://www.iamstaggered.com/uk

   etc.

   I'm pretty sure that using a sitemap you can split it up so that google knows it's essentially two sites and you can work SEO and spiders accordingly.

   It's more about having two versions of the site - or actually two separate sites accessed via the same URL. I guess.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Joern
   Moderator

   that's how I would do it, actually not the same URL because you get 'us' in it.
   The same is only the domain, there has to be a difference in the link behind the domain name.
   I would not try to create different content under the really same full URL, like
   ...mstaggered.com/best-man showing diffent stuff depending in where the visitor comes from.

   As long the sitemap reflects the changes it's good, one link with different content is not to see in a sitemap.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   drwhom
   Member

   Right, I think that's how I saw it. That staggered.com/us would have an entirely different site structure.

   I just need to work out how to do that re-direct now based on IP - I think stuff like this would do it, but I just need a head-scratching session about configuring - http://www.shupe.ca/index.php?pagename=articles/wordpress/plugins/geoip

   Thanks Joern.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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