Geotargeting Script Q

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Hey guys,

Been trying to setup some geotargeting on a new campaign using :

MaxMind - GeoIP Javascript Web Service

j.maxmind.com - javascript version rather than serverside

got everything installed but its working only periodically and can't seem to figure out why... anyone else experience problems with there javascript geotarget scripts?
 


yea checked it it - i need it primarily to display the users country,state/region,city

if anyone have some suggestions or knows of any other good free /paid geotarget web service scripts lets me know
 
Maybe you try phpAdsNew - Hostgator has it I'm not sure if this is also available in other hosting.
 
reysipat said:
Maybe you try phpAdsNew - Hostgator has it I'm not sure if this is also available in other hosting.
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PHPAdsNew is old and was replaced by OpenAds and then OpenX. Same thing, still open source, but different name.

OpenX has a hosted version which lets you serve up to 100 million imprssions a month for free. More than that and you have to pay for it. Or you can download it and install it on your own servers. I haven't tried to serve it myself for awhile, I use the hosted version that has geotargeting built in, but it was easy to get Maxmind installed into it before.

OpenX. Build your business here. | OpenX
 
Just one point about geoIP services/databases. I live in a rural area and 9/10 of the free plugs or databases put my actual location 40 miles away in another town. Maxmind is damn accurate however. If you're in a large city, you likely won't notice even if your script DOES get your location wrong, but lots of folks in smaller areas will. Once I switched an offer from the free shit to a paid service I noticed a measurable increase in CTR. Just my .02.
 
bb_wolfe said:
Just one point about geoIP services/databases. I live in a rural area and 9/10 of the free plugs or databases put my actual location 40 miles away in another town. Maxmind is damn accurate however. If you're in a large city, you likely won't notice even if your script DOES get your location wrong, but lots of folks in smaller areas will. Once I switched an offer from the free shit to a paid service I noticed a measurable increase in CTR. Just my .02.
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funny how i was just thinking about that - u using maxmind free hosted edition or did you pay for the premium edition?
 
I signed up for 50,00 queries from Maxmind's Geo City web service for $20. Haven't figured out how to use it with PHP yet...They show a demo script, but I wasn't able to get it working, due to my lack of PHP knowledge. If anyone here has it working, I would love to talk to you...
 
Note: the free Maxmind javascript seems to work well too. I live in NYC though so I have no idea if it is as good as the paid service:

<script src="http://j.maxmind.com/app/geoip.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
document.write(geoip_city());
// --></script>

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<script type="text/javascript"><!--
document.write(geoip_region());
// --></script>
 
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