I have purchased numerous unique proxy templates recently and developed some with the help of some fantastic designers. I feel IP Disguise offers a sharp, open and clean template that is now free to use on your proxy sites. It comes integrated with PHProxy this time, although I hope in future themes to offer different script packages.
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Hello Again, unfortunately I havent had much time to post recently because Im working on other projects. This brings me to my latest release, I managed to get some quality domains and unique templates so I began building a new proxy site network. I hope this gives you a feel for the quality of websites I like to create. Each one has been developed individually, interlinked and the proxies will be advertised independently. I will give a brief breakdown of how I acquired and developed each one.
Zelune - http://www.zelune.info
This one is probably the flagship in this small network because of the new Zelune proxy script. I purchased the domain and template via the Digital Point Forums. I acquired the domain for a bargain price but it was definitely worth buying a unique template too. I see alot of potential and a long future for this web proxy.
Myspace PHProxy - http://www.myspacephproxy.com
I picked up this domain after spotting some search engine keywords in the referrals on another proxy, I checked them out at the Free Keyword Tracker and saw there was enough searches to make it worth my time. The final step was snapping up the domain for $6.99!
IP Disguise - http://www.ipdisguise.com
The story behind this is much the same as Myspace PHProxy but I also acquired another unique template, it should be noted I also registered the domain disguiseip.com which will shortly redirect to it. It can be useful to buy similiar domains or they could potentially beat you in the search engine rankings.
Internet Cloak - http://www.internetcloak.com
Internet Cloak has been online for about a month now, it was originally using the Myspace PHProxy template but I thought for such a quality domain it deserved its own unique design. I have also tied in one inbound link to the new network to start the flood.
Thats all for now guys, I hope some of you pull some information out of there, I certainly know theres a few powerful development strategies in there. I have to move them forward with the promotion stage now but I’ll try and keep you updated. I also plan to release several of the unique templates via the Proxy Builder Blog so check back soon!
I just picked up this interesting snippet of information on the Digitalpoint Forums and thought it was an interesting new route for Adsense, they have in inessence imposed this on a select few publishers. This could spell bad news for loads of publishers who are barely scraping by on CPC payouts, alternatively there is the opportunity to earn vastly greater sums from physical conversions. I personally have not received this invitation but I have no reason to doubt it.
Dear Publisher,
Your account has been selected to participate in a limited test of an exciting new targeting feature for AdSense. In the next few days we will enable cost-per-action (CPA) ads to compete in your AdSense for content ad units on a limited portion of your traffic, 5% or less of all ad impressions. These ads will look identical to your current AdSense ads, so there will be no visible changes to you or your users.
Your account has been selected because we believe that you’ll earn more by having these additional targeted, high-quality ads competing in your ad units .
Rather than generating earnings for a click or impression, you’ll be paid a larger amount for each conversion with these new ads. A user who clicks on your ad must complete an advertiser-specified action, such as a purchase or a lead, in order for you to be paid. Remember that these ads do compete with cost-per-click and cost-per-thousand impression ads, so a CPA ad will only win in an auction when we expect it to perform better than a CPC or CPM ad.
You won’t notice any change to the way that your earnings are reported. Revenue from CPA ads will appear just as any other contextually targeted ad revenue is reported.
If you have any questions about this test or would like to opt out of this experiment, please email us at [removed].
Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team
I find interlinking my web proxies to be one of the best promotion techniques around. After I have finished creating a new proxy site I usually follow the simple steps below to give it a jump-start in traffic. I have found some great benefits from building my proxy sites in this manner although you may find better methods by experimenting.
Get More Pagerank
Due to the nature of proxy sites it can be hard to get free links from places like web directories and few main stream sites will give you reciprocal links. If you provide high quality web proxies they should grow themselves and by interlinking different proxy websites you eventually get a nice web of pagerank to play with.
Build Extra Traffic
You should always be aiming to increase and retain traffic to your proxy websites. Traffic means money and you should want to get the most out of your visitors. You’ve got a certain amount of space to fill on your page, half of its probably bare so why not give your other web proxies some love and push those ugly topsite buttons down too!
Increase Web Exposure
Every proxy webmaster should be fighting to make the most of their visitors, if you are sending them to another of your web proxies you get another chance to make money. Proxy sites regularly get blocked and people in the same environment tend to share new sites. Your visitor might just decide to spread your new proxy URL around a college, school, university, etc.
Hope thats another useful article for you guys, I already have the domains to create two new proxy sites, just have to find the time!
I have put together these tips to aid proxy webmasters in making the most out of their proxy site.
Implement Hotlink Protection
Most web proxies are designed to let users surf anonymously, unfortunately they can also be abused without the proper protection in place. In my experience the worst offenders are foreign blogs, porn sites and forums. They use the direct image link through your proxy, although I’ve never understood the reasons myself. Head over to one of the coder marketplaces like eLance, Digitalpoint, Sitepoint or Scriptlance and you should be able to get hotlink protection pretty cheap. I have found the best method of blocking to be the .htaccess file.
Block Chinese traffic
I have always been an advocate in providing my proxy services for all, I was hesitant when my host recommended this software but after seeing the improvements it was the only way to go. Traffic from china is worthless to advertisers, puts a strain on my server and is usually abusive. When I implemented the Maxmind GeoIP software I saw a big drop in traffic but the increase in quality has improved my advert CPM. Eliminating chinese traffic might just sustain me through the summer months.
Add A robots.txt File
Most webmasters know that the robots.txt file is used to protect search engine spiders archiving and indexing certain web pages. When a spider finds a link to one of your proxied pages it may get caught in a loop and decide to index the whole web through your proxy. You may ultimately be penalized by the search engines if their spiders believe you are, say, displaying duplicate content. There are many guides in Google that can help you on this topic. Note: It may be more difficult for users of PHProxy to implement this because it is all processed from the index page.
Update Your Proxies
Many webmasters think proxy websites are “Fire and Forget” so to speak. Although proxy websites can be an easy source of passive income you should still maintain them regularly. I will often scour through my web proxies to add content, fix typos, cleanup HTML and remove dead topsite buttons. There are many benefits to this, the search engines see you are still maintaining your site, your visitors dont land on an ugly page and your sites will load faster.
Build Proxy Networks
The web is a big place, if you are serious about the web proxy business you should be aiming to capture as many users as possible. The more proxy sites you have, the more exposure you should get. I am not saying build quantity over quality but I personally build my proxies in groups of 2-3. I interlink them, add a couple links to my other proxies and also create inbound links from my more established proxies. This helps to generate a nice flow of traffic, builds awareness of my other proxies and hopefully visitors will use my other proxies if the original gets banned.
Sorry I havent posted in a while, I have been extremely busy with my fulltime job lately but I hope to follow a more rigorious maintainance schedule for all my sites.
