I have been in the proxy business for about 10 months now, so I thought I would give a little oversight of what I’ve seen and done in that time. I got very lucky from the start of my proxy business and managed to grab some premium domains before the proxy gold rush struck in. I think its been alot easier to pull in and keep traffic because I own some memorable domains. At times it can be hard work though, I hit a bit of a wall about two months ago where I was just about breaking even on Adsense after server fees and domain renewals.
With alot of effort I managed to turn that around by cutting my server fees and of course if your outgoings are less you basically left with more profit at the end of the day. I didnt actually realise how antiquanted and slow my old servers were so they have given my websites a new lease of life. Simply switching to more powerful servers has doubled my traffic within a week, I look forward to seeing the longterm effects. All my servers are now 4GB Intel Core 2 CPU 6600, a big step up from my underpowered and old P4 2800’s.
Now, the proxy industry in general began its boom between january and may. Many people thought it was a guaranteed quick buck and in many cases it was, but smart-pricing kicks in about a week after and with the low summer traffic thats coming proxy webmasters find it even harder to get visitors. Proxy.org also had some problems of its own, a bot master was attacking adsense on any proxy site listed and many people lost their Adsense accounts. Luckily for me I only took a “fine” of about $150, mainly because I pride myself on building individual and high quality websites. I also saw over 10,000 web proxies get wiped off the proxy.org listings in the last month or so.
Thats basically a roundup of recent proxy events in the last few months, summer traffic will be the main problem for any proxy owners who dont have a solid network going. Luckily for me, my traffic is going up right now!
Recent Comments