Ask HN: How do you forward traffic based on country of origin?

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16 years ago

We are a small, but successful e-commerce site and we have distributors now in 5 different regions. The regions are all country specific and it is very important for our relationships with our distributors that traffic in one country gets redirected to the right country website.

Basically, want we want is if a user is coming from Canada, they go to our .ca domain. If they are in the UK or Western Europe they go to a .co.uk domain, and all customers in Latin America go to .com.br domain. All other traffic needs to just go to the .com domain.

We are on a pretty locked down shopping cart system and we need to preserve our SEO standings for the .com domain.

What I'm looking for is perhaps a plugin or applet that when a user goes to the .com domain if they are in one of the other regions they are redirected or a pop appears that tells them which site to go to.

Anything boilerplate out there that will do this for us? Any other solutions? Also, if they search our brand name and are in Canada, will the .ca domain be automatically at the top? Or will the .com domain, which has tons of links and content on it, always supersede the weaker country specific domains?

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