I have noticed in many casino sites, the site visitors get diverted to country specific pages depending on their IP address.

I have two questions in this regard.

1. Is this kind of IP based redirection frowned upon by search engines?

2. Are there any good scripts to achieve this?

Thanks for your comments.

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1. I do not believe so as long as the content isn't wildly different. (i.e. redirect to porn site versus a children heath care site.)

2. Refer to this thread: http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackha...eted-urls.html

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I redirect all my porn traffic to a children's health care sites...it just converts!

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JD

sikandar,

what you actually want to do is kind of cloaking but you do not only distinguish human visitors and bots but to go a little more complicated. If the search engine is always shown the same content and only human visitors are redirected to different sites, there should be no problem until a human revision takes place.

You need 2 databases for that:
IP geolocation database
searchbot database (e.g. fantomaster.com or free available... but... more risk)

best thing in your case is that you write your own script, I don't think there is a script that deals with both things - geolocation and cloaking. Actually it is quite simple to archive that, check $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR] for the IP, decide if it is a bot or not, and redirect with php-redirect