I agree on the banner adverts as they do generate less click-throughs. I just took a look at mwolk.com and it's a bit messed up in my browser (perhaps it is being worked on) but at the moment I can barely see the links on the left hand side so might explain why they don't get many clicks. I ran a contest a couple of weeks ago and gave away some free listings on A-Z Proxies and the guy who won the featured link in the box displayed on the lower left of the site has recently sent me a PM to say he was getting some decent traffic. I asked him for some numbers but his hosting account is down because he ran out of bandwidth so can't say how much traffic, but I also get quite a few clicks on that Proxify link, many more than I do on the banners so I think the links do work well and maybe it is a design flaw in mwolk.com By the way the browser I used was IE7, it looks fine in FF. Alexa isn't that far behind anymore. When I first launched mine it got a lot of traffic from Iran and this was reflected correctly by Alexa. Now that my site is ranking in the top ten for keywords like 'working proxies' and 'web proxy list' it is picking up a lot more US based traffic and Alexa has followed the trend pretty accurately... they were only a week or so behind the data in my Google Analytics account.
meep99 why would you block Japan? Is that poor converting traffic? Would think it would be worth having.
Hey, what kind of ads do you get from Google on your proxy site? I write a paragraph about some random keyword, and get associated ads.
Depends on your content, keywords, site title and meta tags of course! BUT, if you don't have proxy content, proxy users won't be interested in that content. And you'll get a low CTR propably..
DNS is always a bottleneck when running a proxy site. Frequent timeouts mean you have shity dns resolvers.
Do anyone have proxy that don't limit the file size of download such as 1000MB ? I try quite some of the proxy posted here but all stop downloading when the file reach 30mb
30MB is the norm as it allows watching of Youtube videos without problems of it cutting off. But he likely-hood of such a web-based proxy that would allow you download such file sizes probably does not exist. Most operate under limited and often expensive server resources such as RAM ,CPU, and bandwidth. (More often then not, most are limited 500 GB/month or somewhere around that.) and pay overages of up to $1 per GB, so it would not be profitable to allow users to download excessively large files threw their proxy service.
>> Unblock-ism.uni.cc << 100 MB downloading @ excellent speeds! Thanks to premium uplink Good enough for rapidshare
just at the time i had a huge range of jp and cn traffic didnt do any research into it but my ctr was horrible so i just cut them out of the loop but again as i have said before i just hide adsense from these users, and show adbrite instead