Wanted: Service non uk based help rqd to test country IP ban

fish · Sep 5, 2011

Thanks for responses, test over now!

atlas · Sep 5, 2011

Can't get on the site - I'm based in Canada.

fish · Sep 5, 2011

atlas said:
Can't get on the site - I'm based in Canada.

awesome (no offense

) did you get a 404?

Alien · Sep 5, 2011

Yes, UK here.

atlas · Sep 5, 2011

fish said:
awesome (no offense ) did you get a 404?

No, a 403.

fish · Sep 5, 2011

Alien said:
Yes, UK here.

appreciate the help but "non uk based help rqd to test country IP ban"

atlas said:
No, a 403.

403 oh well, harsh maybe but have had enough of scrapers, naydogooders etc.
Will see how goog reacts to this, should be interesting ......

JDubya · Sep 5, 2011

No - Argentina (403 error)

fish · Sep 5, 2011

JDubya said:
No - Argentina (403 error)

great stuff, thanks for your help.

Ashton · Sep 5, 2011

fish said:
appreciate the help but "non uk based help rqd to test country IP ban"

Aye but you might unintentionally ban some UK users - IP Address locating is not always very accurate.

A few weeks ago paypal decided I was in Norway and whenever I visited it was in Norwegian and redirected me.

Aegean · Sep 5, 2011

I can't access your site from here in Greece, just so you know. Forbidden.

retired_member33 · Sep 5, 2011

Its working for me here in the country that currently tops the Fifa rankings

Frog · Sep 9, 2011

Scotland is in the UK though

Can't access it here from Czech Rep. Out of interest, why are you banning countries like this? There is a handful of webmasters in this thread alone who can now never link to you...

fish · Sep 9, 2011

Frog said:
Scotland is in the UK though

Can't access it here from Czech Rep. Out of interest, why are you banning countries like this? There is a handful of webmasters in this thread alone who can now never link to you...

no one outside of the uk is going to buy a campervan being sold in the uk (or v v rarely). It's an epn site so clicks that originate from the site which don't result in a sale reduces my EPC. A bit of an experiment to test my theory.

Also unlikely re ppl wanting to link!

Systreg · Sep 9, 2011

Getting a 403 here in the Republic of Ireland.

Frog · Sep 9, 2011

fish said:
no one outside of the uk is going to buy a campervan being sold in the uk (or v v rarely). It's an epn site so clicks that originate from the site which don't result in a sale reduces my EPC. A bit of an experiment to test my theory.

Also unlikely re ppl wanting to link!

Why not serve them up a version of the site with ppc ads in place of the Ebay stuff?

If you're actively going to link build to a site then its absolutely vital that its accessible worldwide. If you're just going to build a site then not promote it at all, I guess it won't matter so much...