Looking for good examples of website's geotargeting

[firstconversion]

I am looking for some examples of sites that handle their global presence well (geotargeting and languages), ideally from a single .com domain

thanks!

Stephen

[DeanAndrews]

Hi Stephen

I have coded an interesting site - uniband.com

The site uses a live IP API lookup to determine the users physical location, depending on this result we display the relevant text and images. You may well ask why?

The requirement was to have one .com website however the client had two sets of products (based on colour). One colour set was to be displayed to the US market the other the rest of the world.

The result is that on this page http://www.uniband.com/products you see either Yellow, Red, Green, Blue, Black OR Peach, Orange, Lime green, Sky blue, Plum colour sets. The US visitors will see a message 'Unfortunately our products are not currently available for US shipping.' (For Now)

This has been coded into a Worpress shortcode for ease of maintenance

I do not believe that has been done in this way before so you may find it an interesting solution.

I should also mention the WPML solution that we have just finished. Implemented here http://www.reddiplex.com for our German speakers.

[gfiorelli1]

To redirect user to their "language" version based on IP detection is strongly deprecated by Google... so I would not use it. More over, it may be a nightmare for all those ones who maybe really want to see the English version of a site, even if the are in Germany. Finally... it may cause Google just seeing one kind of content (in your case) as Googlebot comes from an American IP. Or, as in the case of components/plugins like Joomfish, you may have huge canonicalization problems as, usually, every language have always is home page as www.domain.com

[gfiorelli1]

Apple is doing a quite egregious use of international SEO, combining the use of subfolders and subdomains (these ones for its stores).

Amazon, then is doing a great job a localization level (Amazon use the ccTld option for International SEO)

[DeanAndrews]

Hi Gianluca

I think you have misunderstood my answer. I am not redirecting the user to their language.

I am referring to two sites the first Uniband. This displays the colours & SKU of the product on a single page, the colours change depending on IP lookup via Maxmind (Maxmind databases are among the most popular and accurate IP geolocation databases available), this site is not multilingual.

Second site, reddiplex is just an example of a multilingual site, the plugin displays the language based on browser preferences, however the user can choose whichever language they prefer by selecting a flag