Yep. Need more selective and subtle promotion. It isn't too difficult; I brought two online last week and they now see 500 uniques per day (without topsites or the 'established' promotion sites.)
Why? A .info is 0.99$? Takes a week or so to be black listed, or even longer! In that time you've make at least 1000% profit, which is enough to get another domain, and continue the loop.
Some people might prefer to work smarter rather than work harder. I don't have to waste my time keep registering 88c .info domains - I've never had a proxy banned, I see next to no 'low grade traffic' (China/Middle East etc.) and I have made well over 1000% on all of them. I am not saying topsites and other busy proxy lists will get you banned - however, I have noticed that people who talk about having their proxies banned usually have a few things in common: their sites are plastered with topsite buttons, and they appear on several mainstream proxy lists.
Banned as in banned by lots of things - websense etc. Mine got banned and they were on no topsites - aslong as their is just 1 link to your site, and their robot can figure out your site is a proxy, you will get a dose of the ban stick
It all depends on who and how 'they' are blacklisting. WebSense can block IP addresses or individual domains/virtual hosts. It is feasible that other network layer tools can be used to block based on a traffic signature. It's not that much of a big deal anyhow as there does not seem to be a centralised db in use. As our friend above mentioned, just go ahead and acquire a string of .info domains and have them ready to bring on line should you get blocked.
Yes... I've made a basic template which I will use across all the sites (it will be easy to add more) The one thing I just thought of now, is that the php includes are on one of the proxy sites - so if it gets banned, none of the includes will work (which are links and also google ads!) Damn I will have to edit them all and put the includes on a 'good' site
If you suspect your site found it's way in to the WebSense db as a result of their spider finding your site, then why not examine your httpd logs. I wonder whether their spiders operate from a fixed set of addresses that we can deny?
Maybe, I would assume so. I dunno how to look at my logs (using plesk). They could have find my site via a link on another site, or even Google