NI is very hard to target.

Is there a good reason you need to geotarget NI?

Yes I am from there.

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Yes I need NI Users to go to a different site than those from Wales, Scotland, England


You say it's very hard but have you had any success at it? Care to share?

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N.I. is quite difficult to target.

I know for a fact (as of a few months ago anyway) that anyone who uses AOL in N.I. will appear to Google as being from GB.

So if you are using geotargetting for N.I. your ads will not show at all to AOL users (and probably a lot of others as well for all I know).

Re the republican thing - Gavin, it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that most other people are like us (technically speaking). They are not! I think you'll find the majority of people don't even know how to change their default search engine never mind that there is a google.ie. Besides, if I live in the north it makes more sense to get results in my local currency etc....

You are right and as you said most people dont even know how to change their default search engine, in the case of NI its google.co.uk

Surely Google must redirect people to Google.ie from Google.co.uk?
When I type in Google.com it directs me to Google.co.uk so they must be checking the IP to do this. If they can do it to UK users, why not Irish?