mandville wrote:
using a script from
http://geobytes.com/GeoDirection.htmThe code below redirects users from the countries within Europe to one page and visitors from the United States to another page. The rest of the world stays on the current page that this code is pasted onto.
Code:
<head>
<script language="Javascript" src="http://gd.geobytes.com/Gd?after=-1"></script>
<script language="javascript">
var sLocations="US,AL,AD,AT,BE,BG,HR,CZ,DK,EE,FO,FI,FR,DE,GI,GR,"+
"GG,VA,HU,IE,IT,JE,LV,LI,LT,LU,MK,MT,IM,MC,NL,NO,PL,PT,RO,SM,SK,SI,ES,SE,CH,UK,YU";
if(typeof(sGeobytesLocationCode)!="undefined")
{
var sCountryCode=sGeobytesLocationCode.substring(0,2);
if(sLocations.indexOf(sCountryCode)==0)
{
// Visitors from the US would go here
document.write("<META HTTP-EQUIV='Refresh' CONTENT='0; URL=enter url here'>");
}else if(sLocations.indexOf(sCountryCode)>0)
{
// Visitors from Europe would go here
document.write("<META HTTP-EQUIV='Refresh' CONTENT='0; URL=enter url here'>");
}
}
</script>
</head>
Unfortunately I don't think that this is a good solution - the main reason being that bots don't normally execute javascript.
You could have a script that redirects human visitors but not bots, who would be trapped on the front page, but then benign robots that you want crawling your site would also be trapped, for example Googlebot. Your site would drop out of Google altogether.
In fact it gets worse, because Google can certainly detect the presence of javascript redirects, and may get the impression that you are engaging in 'black-hat' SEO practices such as cloaking. Your site could end up being blacklisted by Google.
A better approach, if you want to block a particular country, is maybe a Joomla system plugin that sends a redirect header based on IP address. There is a free database of country IP addresses at
http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecountry.
I too have had problems with similar spammy registrations. I solved it first by using a capcha, but this is not ideal, because I don't think human users particularly like them. I am going to give project honeypot a try now.
Before I used the capcha I tried using the Joomla user email activation system - worryingly, I found that some of the spammy registrations seemed able to deal with this.
It is all so annoying, particularly because the spammy registrations are utterly pointless, it is pure nuisance.
