Web Proxy Blog

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