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I am implementing GeoTargeting in my website to show different content based on whether traffic is from US or NON US.

I have every thing set up the way it should be. Now I want to test and see if its working for NON US traffic.

How can I do that. I would like to also test features of the website when I am testing for NON US traffic.

Answer 1

Two professional solutions:

1. Geosurf
2. GeoEdge

Both offer a toolbar as plugins for some browsers where you can "simulate" (aka proxy).

Answer 2

You need some sort of geolocation database to test against. Here's one: http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/geolite/

From there, it wouldn't be too hard to figure out where users are coming from... though it will never be 100% accurate.

There's also the HTML5 geolocation: http://html5demos.com/geo - but users have to explicitly allow location reporting... and it doesn't work all the time, either, even if they accept.