Web Proxy Blog

How to decide on Domain Names

By now you should know whether you want a tonne of .info’s, to use some domains you already have or created some brandable domains for proxies that people will remember, or just use a mix of everything. With that knowledge looking into which domains to buy will be different from the rest of the options.

Brandable

If you are looking for your proxies to be brandable and be remembered without them just having to be bookmarked then first of all you should be looking at .Com domains although it may ’seem’ like the good ones have ran out. That’s why I suggest you build your own brand with an ending of the domains that sound the same to build your network. For example all the main domains in our network end with ‘oxy’ so that they are brandable for our network and people can relate to them and remember them.

Bulk

You will realise there’s a time you’ve got a tonne of proxies and may wonder why you spent all the money on .coms which are 10x the price of .info’s if you shop on NameCheap (recommended). If you are looking to bulk up your network or start with a lot of proxies from the beginning then I recommend you buy .info’s as they are a heck of a lot cheaper and still do the job just the same. Don’t listen to those who say you can’t rank well in the SERPS (Search Engine Results Pages) with them.

It’s up to you!

At the end of the day it’s your network, it’s your proxies and it’s your money you are spending. Make your mind up about which direction you want to go and get ready to get setup!

The idea is simple, write a blog post about us or link to us from your proxy site with the anchor text ‘Web Proxy‘ and well post a link to you from this site in a blog post.

Benefits for you:

• A link thats going to have some PR on the next update
• Traffic to your website from our readers
• More backlinks helping with your SEO

An example of your link could be:

Web Proxy Blog helps you earn money with proxies.

Once you’ve done that, you can either comment on a blog post letting us know where it is (an extra link for you) or you can email: 1@webproxyblog.com

“What are you waiting for?”

Now then, there are many routes you can take when picking proxy domains believe it or not and we are going to look at them.

Route 1

Route 1 is an option few people tend to take; it’s basically getting quality domains that are brandable (.com’s) and working hard to market them and optimise them in order to get them well established and earning good money individually. An example of this is the Privax network which has proxies such as ‘BoratProxy’ and ‘HideMyAss’ which are very brandable and easy for people to remember. Note that .com’s are more expensive then some of the other extensions so keep your budget in mind

Route 2

Route2 is often taken by people who just have a bunch of random domains lying around and want to monetize them so decide to setup a proxy in their words too ‘make a few bucks’. This often includes domains like LLLL (letters) in extensions like .com and .net and these domains are often unpronounceable. People like this tend not too show much interest in their proxies and it certainly isn’t easy for people to remember the name without Bookmarking the site so bare that in mind if you are serious about your proxy venture.

Route 3

Route3 is either used by people who are very clever and know that mass in numbers works well with proxies and can drive big traffic or people who are cheap (or have a low budget) and are just testing the water. You guessed it, I’m talking about the .info extension. People register hundreds of these things, and if you can get them all setup and with a bit of traffic to each you should be able to easily cover the cost of the hosting that hosts them all!

Route 4

Route4 is the experimental route, get any type of domain, .com, .info, .net it doesn’t really matter, have some brandable and have some spammy looking domains. As long as they are making money who cares?

OK so some of these routes may look a little stereotypical but there are people who just concentrate on a certain route hence why there were mentioned here and hopefully it gives you a good idea of the options you have available to you. Of course it’s not just the proxy extension that you have to think about but the actual name itself which we look at briefly on the following page. By all means follow the route you feel will bring you the most money no matter whether people think it’s spammy or not, do proxy users care? Well that’s something you’ll find out with your own testing and tweaking to see what works best for you so that you can replicate it.

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.