This guide details how to use the IP and Geographic Restrictions found under the Advanced tab in your Domain Configuration to refine who can see or trigger your notifications.
Understanding Advanced Restrictions in TraceNudges#
The Advanced tab provides powerful exclusion tools, allowing you to filter out specific traffic based on technical identifiers like IP addresses or broader physical locations. These settings are essential for maintaining clean data and ensuring your social proof is targeted to the right audience.Key Configuration Options#
1. IP Restrictions#
This feature allows you to block specific users or bots from interacting with your nudges based on their unique network address.Restricted IP Addresses: Manually enter the specific IP addresses you wish to block and press Enter after each one.
Why it matters: Use this to block internal office traffic so your own team doesn't trigger "Live Visitor" counts. It is also highly effective for stopping known spam bots from viewing or triggering notifications on your site.
2. Geographic Restrictions#
This setting allows you to restrict the display of notifications to visitors from specific parts of the world.Geographic Display Restrictions: Select specific countries from the dropdown menu to whitelist them.
How it works: Once a country is selected, TraceNudges will only show notifications to visitors whose IP address originates from those chosen locations.
Why it matters: If your business only ships to the United States and Canada, you can restrict your nudges to those countries. This ensures you aren't using your notification quota on international visitors who cannot purchase your products.
Why Use Advanced Restrictions?#
1. Data Accuracy#
By excluding internal IPs, you ensure your social proof—like "Recent Sales" or "Live Visitor" counts—reflects real customer activity rather than your own team's actions.2. Targeted Marketing#
Geographic restrictions ensure that your urgency and popularity messages reach the users most likely to convert, maximizing the impact of your social proof strategy.3. Resource Management#
Restricting where and to whom your nudges appear helps you stay within your plan's impression limits by focusing only on relevant, high-value traffic.
💡 Pro Tip#
Before setting geographic restrictions, check your Analytics tab or your main Google Analytics account to see where your highest-converting traffic originates. Use that data to whitelist only your top-performing regions for maximum ROI.
This concludes the detailed documentation for the Advanced configuration settings! If you have further questions about managing your domains, please contact our support team. Modified at 2026-02-17 17:44:20
