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I have recently stumbled accross a powerful little traffic building strategy and thought I’d come share it with you guy’s. It has become a very helpful tool in my traffic building strategies and best of all it’s free!

I knew about Yahoo and Google Groups for a long time but never really understood how much they are used by members of the proxy-seeking community. They essentially provide a sturdy service from which to supply a proxy newsletter. It is obviously very useful to be able to get the freshest proxies to your inbox daily. We’re talking the one’s that might even slip under the radar of even the best filtering software.

So below I share with you a recently compiled list of some of the best fresh proxy mailing lists that I’ve found. You may need to create an account for each service but it is a very quick and relatively painless process. Included with some are brackets with the rough amount of members that had joined each at the time of compilation.

Google Proxy Groups

http://groups.google.com/group/persiskiknigi [7681]
http://groups.google.com/group/proxy-rank [2100]
http://groups.google.com/group/Proxy-Web [861]
http://groups.google.com/group/dailyfreshlist [119]
http://groups.google.com/group/free-web-proxy-gtnetwork [7077]
http://groups.google.com/group/proxy-emailer [76]
http://groups.google.com/group/TheProxyReport [195]
http://groups.google.com/group/anonymous-web-proxies-php [66]
http://groups.google.com/group/php-web-proxies [700]
http://groups.google.com/group/unblocktheblocked [136]
http://groups.google.com/group/dailyproxies [54]
http://groups.google.com/group/cybiao [51]
http://groups.google.com/group/top-proxy-sites [560]
http://groups.google.com/group/0day-web-proxy-lists [127]

Yahoo Proxy Groups

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/BLACK_PROXY [2192]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/free-proxy-server [743]
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/free_proxys_list [1889]
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/mygmproxy [687]
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/proxy-sharing
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/proxy_group
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/PROXY_LISTS
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/PROXY_PROXY
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dailyproxy
http://groups.google.com/group/proxy-rank
http://groups.google.com/group/Proxy-Web
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/proxies
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/proxy_fox
http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/My_Proxy_Base_Centre
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fresh-web-proxies
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adabestan-Kaveh-Ahangar
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ProxyMaster
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/proxynoob
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/onefake
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/proxiesandcensorship

After browsing through many of the webmaster forums I frequent, I have come to the conclusion that hosting is one of the biggest obstacles new-comers face when entering the market. I regularly see many people complaining that hosts shut them down, sometimes with little to no warning.

There are many web hosts who are simply used to hosting static content, which is easier to facilitate and less resource intensive on their servers. Since web hosting is such a lucrative business, it has become a very low-margin game for some operators. If you are draining the resources away from 1,000 other accounts on a dedicated server then it simply isnt fair on the other users.

Every legitimate hosting business usually has a sort of terms & conditions over its usage. If you’re like myself, it can be very easy to simply accept the terms & conditions without really understanding the limitations they impose. The real kicker will always be their included clause, “We reserve the right to close your account at any time.”, or variation thereof.

Increasly though there has been a much needed influx of dedicated web hosts. There are now several companies that are starting to fill the very turbulent and hard to manage proxy hosting business. I thought I would bring you the three, as I’ve seen, most respected proxy hosts around. I’m sure there are many more around and please leave your own recommendations for proxy hosters in the comments.

Cloak Host
WD Servers
Tech Entrance

These companies offer a very comprehensive list of proxy hosting plans and should be enable you to grow capacity as fast as possible.

I have just updated the Proxy Builder proxy topsite list, I have a wide variety of traffic building tools for my proxy websites but well maintained topsites can drive in traffic and build pagerank. Many proxy webmasters believe that topsites are only beneficial to their owners, unfortunately in any field there will be people who abuse your trust.

Topsites can be a traffic building powerful tool to webmasters but you have to be able to spot bad apples or you may even hurt the site you are promoting. I have compiled a list of points that may help you in spotting a poorly performing topsite.

• Pop-ups: This usually means the owner has devalued the site, they turn off visitors and can pop up “harmful” adverts.
• Lots of self promotion: Many outbound links to personal websites or sites on unrelated topics can devalue the link to your website.
• You should also watch out for turkish link spam. Many automatic verification topsites become overrun by these malicious spammers. It shows little concern by the owner.
• Poor quality layouts and default images. “Aarvark Topsites PHP” is popular topsite software run on many proxy listing sites on the web. If many of the topsite buttons on your proxy are almost identical you may may turn your layout into an unsightly mess.

These may be general knowledge but its good to set out the basics for even the newest proxy webmasters. I have checked all topsites included in our list and at the time of writing are all to my personal standards. I use many of these topsites on my own proxies and see the benefit on both sides.

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 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!