Proxy Builder Blog

I have been quite busy lately juggling my full time job and all my sites. Im glad to say traffic and revenue are creeping back up through september, a few server optimizations helped there. I’ve always kept the proxy builder blog as an extra, I hope my proxy articles help people over time but I cannot dedicate myself to writing regularly. I hope that people are learning and experimenting with my ideas, I love new competition! Enough rambling, back to business.

I have made some very interesting purchases lately and with the closure of the PHProxy project, my timing couldent of been better. I now own great keyword domains for all the best PHP based proxy scripts around. Zelune.info was my first one word proxy script domain, quite a fitting TLD I think.

The Glype proxy script is a quite a young contender but if updates & patches continue at this pace it will be great. You can now use our free glype web proxy at Glype.net. You can also download the very powerful PHP glype proxy script from our site, but you must keep a link back to the original glype website to use it.

I also snapped up Surrogafier.info, the name of a increasingly popular php proxy script. I definitely got a very fair price and grabbed a snazzy new proxy template for it too. I have used this script on a couple of my proxy websites and found it had quite good functionality. The site needs some work doing to it and I will offer a free source for the Surrogafier proxy script download.

I have been slacking off a bit on my websites lately. Its difficult to work 24/7 but I have many more proxy projects underway and I showcase them here when they are complete.

Over the last couple months I have been using Adversal popups on the browsing pages of some web proxies. Although I made a reasonable amount of money from them, I decided that the negatives outweighed the positives. So I proceeded to strip popups out of my web proxies for several reasons I will cover in this article.

Lets face it, no one likes popups. They have always been seen as intrusive, annoying, ugly and sometimes malicious. I have an inbuilt browser popup blocker with my Google toolbar but as I can tell from my Adversal stats - many do not. To be honest, I’ve never even seen a popup from Adversal so why should I put my loyal proxy users through it? I do use a fast, custom proxy script but any advantages of that can quickly be washed away by an uninvited flashing eyesore jumping around on the screen. If I was a regular proxy user I’d be searching for a new site pretty quick.

Besides your visitors you should also be looking to the search engines. Search engine bots and spiders are becoming more clever every day, if they browse to your page and find some easily categorized popup code you could see your search rankings slump or disappear altogether. You may even have your site categorized as “spyware” if you ran an ad infected with one of many exploits. Popups have had alot of bad press and even the newest web users will quickly turn off a site that runs them.

Although I have listed alot of negative points, I can only keep my web proxies popup free while other sources of monetization are available to me. I think my proxy sites have a better viral effect without pesky popups. I would rather someone pass my proxy website address on than make a few more cents off a visitor who will abandon my proxy forever.