I recently added a Proxy List to a strong PR5 web site that I own. That page will (hopefully) soon rank for the term "proxy sites." The current trouble is that I am receiving very few proxy site submissions. My database is small. I set this up without thinking through the whole marketing aspect. (My usual M.O.!) How would you market a proxy list? How would you get in touch with the proxy owners and tell them about your new list?
maybe you could try a freebie listing on the freebie forums, can also try social bookmarking and myspace marketing.
That's an interesting idea. It might be a wee bit misleading, as all listings are free. Hmmm... I haven't had great luck with social bookmarking so far. But, mostly that is because all of my sites are really really boring. Perhaps this is a good candidate for another test. I keep trying to force myself to do MySpace. At my age, I feel like a pedophile every time I login there. Any other ideas? Anyone else?
I've been marketing www.freeprivatebrowsing.com which also is a proxy directory by purchasing directory submissions, social bookmarkings, and in the advertising and directory solicitations forums in DP. I think if you do that it'll help , also focus on some other forums which I haven't had time to do yet but when i get a chance to have it stumbled I go for it and it works great had 2 stumbles last night that brought in $1.57 today in adsense and a new proxy submission.
I have just attempted to add a site to see how it went. I filled out the form and entered the captcha, it was wrong and the whole (OK its not a lot!) of my details were lost and I was asked to start again! 2 suggestions: Is it possible that you could turn down the difficulty settings on your capcha? Can you make it so that if I enter the wrong capcha, all my details are not lost? In all honesty, I tried it twice and gave up. Maybe this is part of the problem - there again, it could just be me who is thick!!!
I know what you mean -- I hate captchas myself. I'm nearsighted, colorblind, and night-blind. I seldom get captchas on the first try. I've lowered the captcha string length to 2 characters and set the colors to black on white. Even you or I should be able to get that in just a couple of tries. I can't make the script not lose variables, because it's a commercial script I purchased for $199. But, I will send a note to the developers!
I must be doing something right, I see myself at #7 on several Google datacenters for the term "proxy sites."
promoting a proxy site is easy. Mass mail kids who have a firewall on their school Pcs. Trust me once i setup a proxy site and it was getting 500 unique / day from UK school pc lol.. kinda spread around the whole county until it was blocked by the county council lmfao.
Will, I have submited my proxy to your site and to your new one also. From tech-faq.com I have great feedback.
I finally reached #4 on Google for "proxy sites." Numbers 1, 2 and 3 are good strong competitors and I don't expect to beat them. I'm happy to be here. Now I need to promote my other sites, Proxy Bucket and My Link Train -- or I need to chase new keywords.