Web Proxy Blog

Today Im proud to introduce our first FREE Proxy Template here at WebProxyBlog!

(Click the image for a bigger version)

Features:

• Based on a very popular Open Source website design
• No PHProxy checkboxes are on the design
• Fully functional, just download, upload and its working
• Commented Adsense Placement Guide
• Meta tags Included

(Just Download the files and upload to your host root, and you have a fully functioning proxy)

Click Here to Download Free

Today Im proud to announce our FREE Proxy 2.0 ebook to help you ‘Build, Learn and Earn with Proxies.‘

So, what does this free Proxy ebook include?

• Proxy Domains ~ Which domains you can use to start a proxy and ideas and tips that you should know before you splash the cash on hundreds of those .info’s.
• Proxy Scripts ~ There’s two main Proxy Scripts out there for you to choose from and we look at the positives and negatives in them all!
• Proxy Hosting ~ Arguably the biggest outgoing in a proxy network and something that you must get right and have in place if you are going to be a successful proxy network owner
• Building Backlinks to your Proxy ~ People Search thousands of terms daily in order to get a proxy they can use, yours should be found as well and we look at how you can build backlinks to do just that
• On Page Proxy Optimisation ~ There’s not a great deal you can do to a one page proxy but there are some things so take a look.
• How to get Traffic to your proxy ~ A long list of tips and tricks in order to generate traffic to your proxy websites
• Proxy Monetisation ~ You’ve got the traffic, but where’s the money?
• Resources ~ A list of links to resources mentioned in this guide

Click Here to Download FREE

Due to the nature of the web and the legalities, I thought its in our best interest to take down our Google Proxy and our Yahoo Proxy due to possibly copyright and trademark infringements and they arent worth losing a Google Adsense account over. With that said we have given a facelift to our http Proxy and our Live Proxy so feel free to let us know what you think.

After having dealt with proxy changes, we feel that weve learned a bit about the design of proxies.

• Have a unique favicon, I had the idea of having the same favicon for all the sites and even this blog but if we want people to use and bookmark them all then the favicons should be unique.
• Put attention into your logo, thats what will help people remember the site and lets them know how much attention and care you have put into it so keep it fresh
• Get some icons from the icon library if you need some ideas

As the title seems to suggest, I think its better if we post our proxy revenues monthly instead of you guys guessing how much we are earning along with our monthly traffic stats for all sites to make the monthly look at things a little more interesting. Hopefully you guys prefer it that was and Im sure it will be a lot easier for us just posting income and traffic stats once per month instead of having too fill up a post just to mention that our best day so far is $2.50 (which is true).

I have started to remove all proxy topsites from the site to see how that affects traffic etc which will be interesting and have a few theories about making money with proxies that Im going to try out. Thanks for reading!

Please note that this isnt a ‘code friendly’ solution but who cares about code on a proxy?

This solution is very fast, and allows you to remove those checkboxes under the search bar, and its very simple, just find:

<?php

foreach ($GLOBALS['_flags'] as $flag_name => $flag_value)
{
if (!$GLOBALS['_frozen_flags'][$flag_name])
{
echo ‘<li class=”option”><label><input type=”checkbox” name=”‘ . $GLOBALS['_config']['flags_var_name'] . ‘[' . $flag_name . ']“‘ . ($flag_value ? ‘ checked=”checked”‘ : ”) . ‘ />’ . $GLOBALS['_labels'][$flag_name][1] . ‘</label></li>’ . “\n”;
}
}
?>

And edit it so it looks like the following: (Changes in bold)

<div=”style:none;”><?php

foreach ($GLOBALS['_flags'] as $flag_name => $flag_value)
{
if (!$GLOBALS['_frozen_flags'][$flag_name])
{
echo ‘<li class=”option”><label><input type=”checkbox” name=”‘ . $GLOBALS['_config']['flags_var_name'] . ‘[' . $flag_name . ']“‘ . ($flag_value ? ‘ checked=”checked”‘ : ”) . ‘ />’ . $GLOBALS['_labels'][$flag_name][1] . ‘</label></li>’ . “\n”;
}
}
?></div>

Hey, I did say it was simple

The facts:

This was money generated from only one of our four (currently) proxy sites

• This was generated with less than 10 clicks (cant say how many exactly)
• This was generated with less than 100 impressions (cant say how many exactly)

1 day = 1 dollar. Do you have a proxy?

What weve learnt already:

• Proxy users dont click on any old ads believe it or not
• Theres no reason to pay for topsites and in fact Im not sure if theres any reason to use them all together
• You can build proxy traffic just via posting on forums with your signature link
• You need to keep your proxy fast and popup free in order for people to keep using it
• Proxies get blocked so people create new ones all the time so dont think its too late to start in the industry

Well, we did say we would hold nothing back?

This is from our http Proxy empaya.com. Not bad for just setting it up really. 116 visits from proxy.org and visits from the likes of DigitalPoint.com and other forums.

Hopefully this will end the day with over a dollar on that site, I would love to say impressions but Im pretty sure its illegal in terms of Google Adsense’s TOS but the impressions were very slightly more than the cents in earnings. So for little traffic today thats big earnings. Its do-able.

What? I hear you say in a puzzled look, or Why? for some of you. But I really think you should 301 redirect the non-www (http://empaya.com) version of your proxy to the www version (http://www.empaya.com). If you plan on creating proxies just to sell then it may not be worth doing so, but if you are serious about proxies and owning them yourself and building up your network then you should consider tasks which revolve around Search Engine Optimisation and building traffic to your proxy websites via search engines. So then why would we want to redirect the non-www version of our site to the www version?

• Remove the issue of duplicate pages, as both pages will be exactly the same
• Spread the power of all that ‘link love’ to one place
• Pass PR better (Important if you plan to sell sites)

So, how do you do it?

Firstly you need to open up a text editor and add this:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Remember to change domain.com with your actual domain. Save the file as .htaccess (dont forget the .) and upload the file to your site root. Voila youve now redirected your non-www version of your site to the www version. If this isnt working for you just put up in the comments and well help resolve the issue.

Wow, for once the first blog post without a title such as Welcome to WebProxyBlog, but I find this title much more descriptive, over the course of this blog you can follow us either making money or losing money on proxy sites, we are going to hold nothing back (theres two of us by the way) as we build up our proxy network, lose money or make it, banned from adsense? hosting issues? Well have it all so you arent alone. We do the testing that you want to know the answers too and offer the advice on where our traffic comes from (exactly) and where our links come from. So why is this blog here? Well thats simple:

1. To link too all our proxies and spread link love and traffic
2. To optimise in order to not have to optimise each proxy, we are crazily trying to rank for Web Proxy
3. Help you guys with your sites and learn from you guys from your comments on what we are doing
4. Be 100% transparent about earnings, issues and technicalites that we might face or actually face

Theres so much to post already, but Im going to work on a new design, or at least something different to the default wordpress look, link to our sites and get posting on how we set them all up, why we chose what we chose etc and how we are building traffic. We hope that you will follow our journey and then decide whether making a proxy is good for you. There may be times we get lucky and you cant replicate what we have got, or there may be times that we fell in a pittfall that some of you with proxies already avoided which might slow us down, but its a learning curve for us aswell. Being in Internet Marketing 24/7 for the last 18 months I honestly believe we can build traffic and keep traffic whilst making money on a slim budget if any at all, we will link to what we use, how we use it etc. I run ViperChill and will soon be announcing this site over there and on various forums, until then we have our proxies to setup and a wordpress theme to implement ;).

Take care all