Targeting Your Visitors Geographically

Few months ago when Widgetbucks decided to ban accounts with non-English blogs from their network, I decided to install a script to redirect my non Singapore and non Malaysian visitors on one of my blogs to my English only contents.

While doing it, I also noticed that I'm getting paid ads from Google Adsense instead of the default "Gulf Hurricane Relief" that most probably don't give you any earnings when someone click on it. Since then I managed to earn my first USD$100!

Here the code I found at drupal.org:


<-?-php //remove the two "-" to run the script // make a valid request to the hostip.info API if ($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARD_FOR']) { $ip = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARD_FOR']; } else { $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; } $url = "http://api.hostip.info/country.php?ip=".$ip; // fetch with curl $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $country = curl_exec($ch); curl_close ($ch); // display according geotarget if ($country == "US") { // show Yahoo! $block = module_invoke('block', 'block', 'view', 4); print $block['content']; } else { // show AdBrite $block = module_invoke('block', 'block', 'view', 1); print $block['content']; } ?>