Comments on: Is It a Good Idea to Block Visitors by Country?

By: corporate training program

corporate training program — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:39:45 +0000

Except from the fact that it's a way of saving it generally depends on what visitors do you want to have. If you have friends in other countries and they travel a lot then there's no way to guess what countries should you block and what to leave.

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:14:01 +0000

To block or not to block is a matter of personal preference. But in a marketing point of view, any body is a potential client or customer, so for me, it's not a good idea. And besides, a lot of apps are lying around the Internet to allow users anonymous surfing.

By: Web Templates

Web Templates — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:05:59 +0000

If you evaluate click fraud you will find that it comes from very specific regions… for this reason it may make sense not to serve your ads to that demograhic.

By: MacGizmoGuy

MacGizmoGuy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:14:50 +0000

It’s bad enough the Big Three search engines don’t honor Geo-targeting meta-tags. They _ought_ to, implicitly. Every business has unique needs – and customers. Some want to be global, others need to address their demographic – and local geographic to succeed.

Websites NEED to be able define this in site headers – and the Engines need to respect this. But heck, they’re only _beginning_ to get a grip on the Canonical ‘www’ or not issue! Such a long way to go before true geo-targeting – or blocking – will be easy to declare.

By: Frank Schulte-Ladbeck

Frank Schulte-Ladbeck — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:57:09 +0000

My business is focused on one city, and I did consider blocking some countries for a few reasons. I am not so certain that someone will read my blog when they leave the country on a trip;however, my site has generated clients who were moving into my area from those countries. You never know. I actually ended up with a productive discussion with people in my field (real estate/construction) who are in India.

By: poorblogger

poorblogger — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:56:49 +0000

I don’t like the idea.. It is just not good to block by country..
They are just reader.. Maybe for marketing product much more suit

By: Raghavan

Raghavan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:06:47 +0000

Interesting topic and I keep insisting this to our clients not to block users visitors by country.

By: kiran voleti

kiran voleti — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:03:03 +0000

It is not a good idea to block a particular country visitors. Sometime we will loose some leads from that particular country.

By: Bart Gibby

Bart Gibby — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:25:23 +0000

Ann,

I actually recommended this to a client a few years ago. The captcha on their lead gen form wasn’t working against the hand submitted spam from India.

The client only dealt with people who had legal problems inside the United States. So it made perfect sense to me to block those IP addresses.