Zinn® SEO how-to: Redirect visitors by their country (Pro)

Redirect visitors by their country (Pro)

Edition: Pro. This needs a Zinn® SEO Pro licence.

Send visitors from some countries to another page, for example German, Austrian and Swiss visitors to your German page. Search engines are never redirected by country, and these pages are never kept by page caches.

1. Open a redirect — Go to SEO, Redirects and 404 and add a redirect, or edit one: the address visitors ask for and the page to send them to.
2. Add a country condition — Under Only for some visitors (optional), press Add a condition and choose Country the visitor is in.
3. Type the countries — In Value, type the two-letter country codes, separated by commas, for example DE, AT, CH. Choose is to redirect visitors from those countries, or is not to redirect everyone else.
4. Read the notice, then save — Google advises against sending visitors to another page because of where they are: search engines crawl mostly from the United States and would not see your other countries' pages. So search engines, checked by their address, are never redirected by country, a visitor's own choice is kept (a link with ?zseo_country=de, or ?zseo_country=auto to forget it), and these pages are never kept by page caches. Your host must tell WordPress the visitor's country, for example with Cloudflare's IP geolocation; until it does, the condition is never met. Press Save.

With a screenshot of every step: https://zinnseo.com/kb/redirect-visitors-by-country