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It’s easy when you become a proxy owner to ignore the powerful and effective scripts that can earn you money by themselves. Many of these proxy scripts will create you a stand-alone website that can spread targeted visitors to your network. Some of my highest earning websites are proxy lists and different proxy resources.

Proxy List Script

This script offers unparalleled features, functionality and flexibility. I believe the code will be well written due to the overall professional and high quality feeling you get from the homepage. It does come with a steep price tag but if you put a bit of effort into making your proxy list stand out, this can be recouped in months to come. I do believe the script is unencrypted which is excellent for people who want to modify bits.

Price Tag: $199

Automatic Proxy Submitter

This is a quirky little script that I purchased a couple weeks back, although the owner has struggled with a couple updates not working. It will basically give you some HTML links to add to your web proxy and then submit it to numerous proxy list websites.

I have to say it brings in a reasonable amount of traffic, it peaked on the first day with a few hundred uniques and has trailed off to provide about 50 visitors a day to each submitted proxy. The only problem with it is the mass of ugly proxy links you have to include. That said, it may be worth trimming it down to about 5 or 10 good ones.

Price Tag: $14.99

Proxy Promo

If you liked the idea of Proxy List Script but couldn’t afford the price tag, this may be for you. It has all the basic feature’s you’d want in a proxy listing script but doesnt excel in any of them. I have to say the demo looks quite blandand doesn’t do itself any favors. I also saw that it uses ionCube encoding which I try to avoid at all costs, it just adds too many restrictions on how you can expand your website. The price tag is ok, although there are three “add-ons” that you can purchase seperately. The link checker ($10.79), Yearly script updates ($14.99) and copyright removal ($5.59). I personally feel these should be included as standard, but they add a hefty $31.37 to the price tag.

Price Tag: $32.99 ($64.36 fully featured)

If done well, a proxy listing site can grow to get search engine rankings and earn money by itself. They can provide a source of free traffic to boost new proxy sites that you make. Websites like these also tend to rank well in the search engines if you include some unique and well researched content.

I was browsing on the Digital Point forums today and saw someone selling a proxy website. I always keep an eye on those threads because they sometimes give away new earning methods for proxy sites. Today I found a particularly good one that I’ve added to my advertiser collection.

Now if you haven’t yet got a mailing list set up then you are missing out on a powerful way to get free traffic. It can be hard waiting around to see the result’s but as your proxy site network grows it can be an invaluable tool when launching new sites. I set Proxy Emailer up about 6 months ago and it’s just reaching 1,000 subscribers!

Anyway, that’s enough rambling from me, you want to hear about the new money making method right? Proxy Announcer pay’s you each time someone subscribe’s to their mailing list. You receive $0.20 for each person that join’s and it can build up to quite a nice sum if you’ve got the traffic. They pay out via Paypal on the 15th of each month.

If you haven’t yet set up a mailing list you should definitely be taking advantage of this service. The great thing is it can compliment all your other advertising and it takes up a tiny amount of space. You can put it on your homepage and proxy browsing pages for maximum results. I have my own list which I actively promote but I’m putting Proxy Announcer into rotation with the other ads to top up my earnings.

 One of the most important thing’s in running a successful proxy website is having a fast, reliable and safe hosting service. There are a lot of web hosting companies these days and they are all fighting for your business. It’s worth doing your homework though because hosting is notorious for fly-by-night operations that will terminate your account and leave you with nothing.

You should take note that most mainstream hosting providers, like GoDaddy, will not allow any form of proxy on their service. These hosting services were primarily designed to support static content or very low intensity scripts. This is explicitly stated in the often over-looked terms of service agreement you agree to when you join. They quite rightly look after their wider client base and that means stopping the proxy scripts that can drain CPU resources from other sites.

Fortunately for us a few companies have taken on the challenge of providing hosting specifically made for proxy websites. Read on for an overview and please leave a comment if you have any personal recommendations.
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I have been in the proxy business for a long time now and to this day I still get asked how to go about setting up a successful proxy website. There are many steps involved in the process, most of which have become second-nature to me now so I’m going to break it down into a multiple article series. With my first post on the topic I will be discussing how to pick the domain name thats right for you.

I think there are two categories of domains that proxy websites can fall into, you can pick either a domain with proxy related words or.. not. It’s impossible to say which is better because, as with any website,  it will become what you make of it.

Proxy Keyword Domains

The bulk of my network is made up of this type of web proxy, purely because they are easy to remember and will receive free organic search engine traffic in time. I try to think of something catchy that will stick in users minds and may even become synonymous with a proxy website. Examples of this are vtunnel.com and hidemyass.com - they don’t contain the word proxy but are two of the most high traffic proxy sites around.

Alternatively I might see a phrase in a traffic analysis program like Google Analytics or Awstats that is bringing in some traffic to another of my web proxies. If you know that people are searching for a certain phrase then it’ll basically mean free traffic. Obscure phrases can bring in traffic and it’s usually a lot easier to reach #1 in the search engines. Even if its just a few searches a day it can draw in traffic and will  increase as your proxy site gets more popular.

An example of this was when I recently set up IP Cloaking - after a few days I saw I was getting traffic for the keywords “IP Cloaked”. I checked to see if it the domain was available and to my surprise it was. IPCloaked.info was registered and this may have been the source of the searches, but I managed to snag the dot com version which is always the most valuable in my eyes.

You must remember that people will type in a whole bunch of phrases in their search for a proxy website. There are many related words that will bring you targeted traffic like unblock, bypass and anonymous. It may even be a necessity for some people that the domain doesn’t contain “proxy” because that is almost guaranteed to be blocked by web filtering software. Be creative, why not make up a whole new word for it.

Domains without Keywords

I have recently started building proxy sites like this, mainly to make use of some of the domains I have that are currently unused. The main advantage for this type of web proxy is they should stay off the radar of web filtering companies a little bit longer than usual. It will also escape a casual glance from a network administrator that has to manually add banned sites to a block list.

As part of my trial with these arguably less detectable proxy sites I decided to avoid any banned words in the content to lengthen the time they would remain unblocked. I took it one step further with a couple and removed any text at all so the crawling bots from web censorship companies would have even less information to work with. The downside is how to drive traffic to the website, staying in the minds of visitors and getting them to come back to use it again. I’m still working on this so i’ll keep you updated!

June was a modest month for my proxy websites with profits slowly declining into the summer. I decided to give myself more motivation to drive my earnings up. From now on I’ll try and give a break down of each month’s proxy earnings on this blog.

I’m hearing lots of proxy webmasters are increasingly struggling with low profits. I’ve personally found with proxies its always been possible to achieve profit, you just have to get more creative and work harder for the payoff. I also found that its a great time to start proxy sites in summer so you’re all set to get traffic in the winter months.

I’m listing the ad companies below by the earnings I achieved in June, starting from highest to lowest.

Adsense - http://www.google.com/adsense

Earnings: $505.96

Freedom of Ads - http://www.freedomofads.com

Earnings: $110.11

Canep Media - http://www.canepmedia.com

Earnings: $87.94

Mediashakers - http://www.mediashakers.com

Earnings: $52.54

Hide My IP - http://www.hidemyip.com/

Earnings: $14.98

Adversal - http://www.adversal.com

Earnings: $4.14

Total Earnings: $775.67

Overall web proxies are still a great niche to be in, however it takes a lot of trial and error to create good revenue streams. I am still sitting on a vast array of untapped proxy resources and plan to develop them over the coming months. I am currently tweaking my server configurations to see if I cant squeeze more traffic out of them and results look promising so far.