Thanks Harvey, that's what we're currently doing, and looks like the safeest search engine route to take. I guess if our adwords and organic work are targetted correctly, users should end up at the right site anyway to minimise any internal tax issues.
Cheers, -Dan On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Harvey Kane <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are a few issues to consider, but I would definitely go down the > cookies / javascript road rather than using HTTP redirects. > > ie. > - PHP does geolocation lookup and saves country to a cookie > - Page loads, javascript reads the cookie and redirects if it needs to > > Try to make the .co.nz and com.au pages different, so that one of the > sites doesn't get deindexed for dupe content. > > Harvey. > > Dan Khan wrote: >> Yeh, that's what I'm currently doing, but my issue is trying to not >> allow visitors to buy through a non-local site due to the tax >> implications on the business. >> Until we've setup more localised distribution centres, that's why I'm >> thinking of auto-redirecting to the localised site, hence the original >> post. >> >> Cheers, >> -Dan >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Sid Bachtiar <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Why not just show links of all the localized URL? Just provide warning >>> if someone from Australia is visiting the NZ one. This is like what >>> Ebay does. >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Dan Khan <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> We've been working on some internationalised versions of our website, >>>> and implemented an IP lookup using GeoIP to suggest visitors use a >>>> more localised version of the site (e.g. goto www.1791diamonds.com.au >>>> whilst in NZ or vice versa at www.1791diamonds.co.nz). After doing >>>> some tax research, since our main despatch location is in NZ for the >>>> time being, looks like we might require more than just a suggested >>>> redirect, rather a forced redirect to ensure we invoice and charge the >>>> correct amount of GST and ship from the correct company. >>>> >>>> Apart from the obvious accuracy issue of the IP database that's doing >>>> the auto-bouncing; is there any recommended approach to avoid >>>> auto-redirecting web spiders as well as human visitors? >>>> I assume it's against the rules to code spider-detection code into >>>> your sites, but we certainly don't want our NZ or AU sites to be >>>> bounced back to the US site whenever google comes spidering...? >>>> >>>> Yeh we could always just code logic into each international site to >>>> invoice and apply correct GST based on customer's destination vs >>>> despatch destination, but just trying to avoid an extra month of >>>> coding/testing/release to some core code. >>>> >>>> Any advice appreciated. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> -Dan >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Blue Horn Ltd - System Development >>> http://bluehorn.co.nz >>> >>> >> >> > >> > > > -- > Harvey Kane > > Phone. +649 950 4133 > Mobile. +6421 811 951 > Email. [email protected] > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
