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Another way of making money online is creating proxy sites. Within this moment, you’ll prolly asking yourself or opening another window and search your favorite search engine to check what are proxy sites or proxies.  In a gist, proxy sites are websites that offer an anonymous surfing to the web.  These are the portals wherein an individual can actually surf a website without knowing his IP or internet protocol address.  Also, It is used by persons which has restrictions in accessing sites within the institution’s premises.

Supply and Demand

This apply to any market there is.  This applies to proxy sites, wherein there is demand of proxies and supply which consist of targeted market (students and school workers).  There have been many articles and posts from forums that the demand for proxy sites are declining, I beg to disagree.  Yes, proxies can be blocked easily, but with proper promotion, you will have your ROI or return of investment in no time.

Show Me the Money

For newbies like us, these type of earnings, though not that HUGE, is a great opportunity for us to cover hosting, some ebooks and, other outsource work and other what have you’s.  It really depends on how you promote your site.  Since I am a slacker and loves to procastinate things, I usually get around three to six dollars a day for just one site.  Now, just imagine if you could have three to six sites running. Not bad for starters?

The Secret Formula

The secret, same goes with other money making method, is to START NOW! Stop reading articles (after reading this post) and try to start and make one of your own. Here is the break down wherein you can get the idea on how to have your own proxy sites.

• Domain Name

Try to register a domain name that is easy to remember and catchy, with no words such as proxies, proxy with the name.  filters tend to block names that include proxy or proxies in an instant.

• Get Proxy Hosting

Proxy hosting are different from web hosting.  Most of shared hosting services does not allow proxy sites for the reason that they eat up a lot of bandwidth.  It is like hogging all the spaces and that your neighbors are getting uncomfortable with it. I have seen a lot of offers and settled for one cheap proxy hosting company.  Strikedata is one reliable service, they reply as soon as possible when problems arise.  I remember submitting a ticket, within hours, it was resolved. A small-medium company with great service.

• Scripts

For ease of use, use glype php script.  These scripts are very easy to install and manage.  When I first tried the proxy business, I had a good ten minute struggle in putting up one site.  Fair enough for a noob like me.

• Themes

There are many proxy themes all over the net, try to search a theme that you can bombard (overstatement) with ads.  Also, consider a fast loading theme with not too much images and links (one link love is enough to the developer of the proxy theme).

• Apply Codes

We are almost done.  Create your ads and insert generated codes to your site.  The most widely used ad publisher is adsense.

• Promotion

But Ofcourse! Promotion is never ending unless your sites get blocked out by most of the schools and offices in town.

> Proxy Directories

Having your site listed to proxy directories is a good way of promoting your site.  If you are not going cheap, you could always sign up for a PREMIUM listing.  I tried this once.  I signed up one of my site for the cheapest package listing but still traffic stats went sky rocket for days.  I got my investment to the premium listing for just a day.

> Groups

Yahoogroups and Google groups are another method of promotion. try searching the yahoo/googlegroups with the keyword proxy, you will find a hug list of ‘em.

> Social Media

This is a great tool that is often taken for granted by proxy owners.  Using social media to boost up traffic would definetly mean money.  So, try to post your proxies to various social media sites such as friendster, bebo, myspace etc and watch your traffic increase. Traffic means money.

> SEO

This one, I haven’t tried yet.  One good keyword to optimize is proxy surf. Trying to optimize your site with a good set of keywords related to proxy or proxies such as myspace proxy would mean a higher rank in the search engine results page, which means, higher FREE organic traffic, which means a high tendency of possible clicks, which means… yep, you guessed that right, more MOOLAH!

So act now, if you have questions, ask away.  Just leave a comment below. I’d be happy to assist you earn your first few dollars through proxy sites.

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