This why you don't run proxies on your $10 shared hosting. xD Look what it does to a VPS>> Oh btw 256mb ram option was bad idea.
Wow that's awesome Grats Also, when I am joining topsites and they require you to post their banner on your site, does that banner need to be on your mainpage or can it be on a separate page? Thanks
I believe it needs to be frontpage... And can't you limit the ammount of users connected to your website/vps/server ? Might solve crashing servers.
wtf, my earnings and traffic decreased I'm really investigating what I'm doing wrong but I can't find my wrong step.
killafawk. I think I've experienced what you have mentioned about almost immediately being smartpriced with newsletter traffic. What would you attribute your #1 traffic source to (that keeps your ROI so high?)? Topsites? MySpace? Appreciate your thoughts.
I sell my methods for 1,500$ and i show people what i do and how to get that kind of traffic So the advice i give you will be second hand to what i normally do, i haven't ran proxies from regular stuff in a long time. I get around 1,500-2,000 uniques a day with my method which brings in anywhere from 5-20$ a day per proxy. At the end of each week i sell each proxy off for 450$. Sooo you can see the potential in this. As far as traffic advice goes i can't really help you there because the methods i use are a secret but i will list as many things to help you as possible. 1. Top sites - generally I never used them because they never really were worth the time for me but if you get submitted on enough topsites you could see your traffic get an extra boost of around 200 uniques a day. Its not gonna break the piggy bank any time soon but its a good steady stream of income. 2. Word of mouth - If you got myspace tell your friends about your proxy and tell them to spread the word, you'd be amazed how fast and how much traffic you can get from word of mouth. 3. Search Engine Optimization - This is keyword ranking for top keywords for proxies such as "myspace proxy" or "unblock myspace" It can be hard and require some funds but this a great way to build up a long term proxy. You can spend anywhere from 20-100$ building back links for those keywords and generally if you rank good enough you can bring in 300$ a month from your proxy just in adsense alone so its worth it in the long run and is a good investment. If you are serious about SEO I would suggest doing it over 5-10 sites and next thing you know you got long term income pouring in and you don't have to touch it except pay your hosting fee. Or you could build them up to that point and sell them all off for a couple thousand dollars and then make the next step in the internet ladder and invest in a bigger longer lasting site. 4. Forum signatures - Put your proxy in your forum signature if you want. This can add another 200+ uniques a day to your proxy site if you post constantly on forums. Put it on each forum signature. 5. Linking to other proxies - Do as much back linking to other proxies as possible and message the other proxy owner that you linked to his website and you would be happy if he linked back. Even if the site doesn't get much traffic it can help you rank better plus if one of those proxy sites took off you can benefit from having your link on his site, proxy users are always looking for more proxies to use so get yours out there. 6. Proxy.org - If you have 20$ lying around go ahead and list your proxy on Proxy.org, You could receive up to 100 uniques a day from the listing and generally you get your investment back x2, I don't recommend anything higher than the 20$ listings, after that your ROI (return on investment) gets lower because the users who go there generally know what ads look like on proxy sites and normally are attuned to not clicking on them. 7. PPC Advertising - If you really have the funds and are willing to gamble you can pay for pay per click advertising through google or yahoo, Generally costs for advertising on keywords such as "myspace proxy" are low around 10 cents per click if you get a good quality score ranking from google (Just have strong h1 tags with your bidding keyword and have a nice space for text relating to your keyword and your quality score should be fine). 10 cents per click and in return most people who click on ads will most likely click on more ads and most of the time you can get 10-2$ per click so theres potential to gain here but i do not recommend this if you are new to PPC. 8. Putting ads on your proxified pages - This is a must, If you wanna earn extra income you should put ads on your proxified pages but i don't mean google adsense ads, that will get you banned. You need to put either something like these a. adversal - (www.adversal.com) which pays per 1000 impression i believe. Not a whole lot but when you realize that when they say impression that means everyone who uses your proxy and every page they go to is counted as an impression. b. Neverblue ads or Azoogle ads (www.neverblueads.com , www.azoogle.com), These networks allow you to put up banners on your proxy sites for offers such as ring tones or dating offers, I have a dating offer up on my proxified page and almost every day i get at least 1 conversion for 3.50$ Its a great way to add extra income to your proxies. c. Or put links to your other proxies on the proxified pages. If people can't get something to work with the current proxy they will click on one of the other proxies you have a link to on the top while surfing. This won't fix their problem but it will divert traffic to your other proxies instead of sending them elsewhere. (If you plan on doing this i recommend changing templates so they don't seem the same or cloned so the user is immediately turned away to find another proxy). Those are all the tips i can think of right now if i remember anymore ill post them here for you I hope this helps you guys good luck.
So i read this thread from beginning to end. it took me three days! But what have i learnt from this thread? Killafawk brings lots of good tips to the table. The above is just an example. Many more peole bring interesting tips to the table. I have learnt so much from this thread that i have crashed 2 hosting providers so far. ( The first put me onto a higher plan for nothing the second just booted my sites outta there.) Another thing i have lernt is. The cheapest hosting isnt always the best. Do your research, see who you can work with well and also check out the offers from different people. If your wondwering who i would recommend well thats simple. Of course we have thewird (sorry if i spelt wrong) and techentrance. Theres also Kaung and many others who offer good hosting. don't get suckered into the cheap hosts with a lifetime deal(isnt that always the case?) By reading this thread i learnt so much. i have earnings coming in everyday and google is no happily paying me every single month. This is also my first month with adbrite and oter advertisers so not so sure how i am doing compared with others (although i believe i have more to optimize in my adbrite settings and zones to maximize profits) I just wanted to say thanks to all who participated to this thread and i am always open to new ideas and suggestions for proxy owners in general to earn more for providing our service. So in case you missed it. THANKS! DK
proxy earnings are jumping back to 1$/day/proxy for me :> awesome and my 2 proxies are consuming like 5GB/day and I havent blocked asian/iran ip's either thanks for your great post killafawk, it's appreciated will try out to get accepted at azoogle but it will be difficult for me
thanks for the advices , i don't use any ads on proxified pages, i don't know what to choose .... for the best results and maybe pay me via paypal and available in Europe
You can use either AdBrite (the best option, but doesn't pay vie PayPal) or Pay-Ads if you really want PayPal payments. Another networks are supported too, but you must check their TOS before using.
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