Over the past few months, I’ve written 4 eBooks on proxies which have earned over $4000. I think that it would be nice to share some of these secrets with my new readers. I’m going to try and condense the basics of proxies down into this one post, so don’t mind me if I’m being a bit general on the subject.

Domains: Picking a quality proxy domain is very important. You can register a domain at Godaddy or NameCheap. I prefer NameCheap because they give you WHOISguard for free. Avoid proxy domains with the words myspace, facebook or proxy in it, the filters and firewalls will block these sites faster. Make sure your domain is a .com as you will retain more of the type-in traffic as opposed to a .info which will receive hardly any. Here is a list of names I use for my networks, fill in the _____ with a generic word and you’ve got your network domain names.

Unblock_______.com

Surf_______.com

Hidden______.com

Hide______.com

School______.com

Hosting: One thing many people fail to realize is that most hosts such such as Godaddy, Hostgator, etc do not allow proxies to be used on their servers. If they catch you, they will shut off your hosting. For quality proxy hosting, I recommend www.Hagiohost.com. They offer 3 different proxy packages. I recommend that you start off with their cheapest one and move up as your needs change.

Picking a Proxy Template:

Picking a proxy template is fairly easy. First I’m assuming you will be using the PHProxy script, which I believe is one of the best proxy scripts available. Check out www.freeproxytemplates.com or www.sourcustoms.com. Sour Customs has some very nice templates that will cost you $5, but free proxy templates has lower quality templates that are free. If you can afford the $5, I consider it to be a great investment in having a good proxy.

Advertisers: You will earn money from your proxies by placing advertisers ads on your proxy. The two advertisers I recommend are Google Adsense and AdBrite. You should place Google AdSense ads on your proxies homepage and the AdBrite ads on your proxified pages. Please note, you may not place AdSense ads on your proxified pages or it will get your AdSense account banned. There are other publishers you can use, but these are the main two which I have used and earned upwards of $400 a month with.

Setting up your Proxy: You should now have bought a domain and hosting, downloaded a proxy template, and signed up and have been accepted to the 2 recommended advertisers. You can now setup your proxy by doing the following.

1. Set your hosting nameservers (eg. ns1.hagiohost.com) provided by your host in your domain control panel.

2. Setup your proxy by configuring the config file of the template which you downloaded. You will need your AdSense PUB-ID from your AdSense account. Your PUB-ID shows in the top right of any page once you are logged into your AdSense account. You will also need your AdBrite code. For instructions on how to install AdBrite, check out this tutorial.

3. Once the DNS has propagated (this may take up to 24 hours), upload your proxy files to your FTP server.

Your proxy should now show up when you go to your proxies domain. The next step is advertising your proxy.

Promoting your Proxy: Promoting your proxy is the best part of working your proxy. This is the part when you are going to get your visitors who will use your proxy and hopefully click on your advertisers ads, earning you money. The best way to advertise your proxy is using Google and Yahoo groups.

Google / Yahoo Groups: Advertising via Google and yahoo groups is easy. You will need to post lists of your proxies in the following groups 2-3 times a day for at least a week, then once a day afterwards. Doing this will allow bloggers to find your proxies and post them in their own blogs. This is the best way to gain backlinks and traffic to your proxy. Here is the list of groups you should advertise on:

http://groups.google.com/group/proxy-rank
http://groups.google.com/group/free-proxy-list
http://groups.google.com/group/Proxy-Web
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/BLACK_PROXY/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/free-proxy-lists/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/free_proxys_list
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/proxy-sharing/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/PROXY_PROXY/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bypass_filter_by_proxy/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/free-proxy-lists/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/khorramdin/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/mygmproxy/

StumbleUpon: StumbleUpon is another decent way to get traffic sent to your proxy. I have a StumbleUpon bot which I will allow you access to, just subscribe to my RSS feed and I will email our the access url, username and password later tonight.

Other Advertising: There are other advertising methods which I will share with you in the future, remember to check back often for new advertising methods for your proxy.

I hope this information helps you start your own proxies. There is a lot of money to be made with them; I was earning approximately $400 a month earlier but my server went down and I never bothered to start them up again. I will certainly be doing that soon in an attempt to boost my earnings.

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I don’t fly commercially very often; usually only once or twice a year. Almost every time I fly a major airline, the last two times being US Airways, we have had major problems. Once our baggage was lost and we didn’t get it until a day later, the second time we were told our connection was being held for us, when it wasn’t, and we missed our connection and was delayed a lot. As you can see, these are times I would really like to call up customer service and file a complaint. I read an interesting blog post over at boingboing.net which talks about Air Canada’s new charge to get “On My Way” Service.

Air Canada said passengers who opt to pay an additional $25 one-way on short-haul flights and an extra $35 one-way on long-haul routes within North America will receive “speedy” access to “specially-trained” customer service agents who will help rebook flights on Air Canada or other airlines, as well as pay for hotel stays and meals, if necessary.

Air Canada said the program, which applies to any flight cancelled within 48 hours of the scheduled departure, goes beyond the industry practice of assisting customers affected by schedule changes deemed to be the airline’s fault, such as mechanical problems with aircraft, scheduling glitches or crew members failing to show up for flights.

But while Air Canada is touting the program as an industry-first, at least one observer said it was once common for big North American carriers to go out of their way to help inconvenienced or stranded customers – free.

Amazing eh! I would eventually like to be a pilot for a commercial airline someday, but I would defiantly try and avoid airlines like this who refuse to provide decent customer service.

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I write this post as a favor to a lot of you out there. I’ve read my fair share of eBooks when I first starting trying to make money online and the one thing I’ve learned is that eBooks are never worth it! DigitalPoint is becoming more croweded with eBook sales every day, I often take a look at the threads, but never buy them anymore. Here are some reasons you shouldn’t buy eBooks:

1. eBook Authors are Writing the eBooks to Make a Profit - If you had a method that was earning you a couple grand a month, would you write an eBook and sell your idea off to everyone on webmaster forums for $10 a copy, or would you work on your method, and hope to earn more money with your method. Thats right, I’m sure you would choose the latter. eBook authors are out there to make a profit, I guarantee you they are writing the eBook to earn themselves money, not “help share their methods with others” as they will claim to you. This is why people never earn the amount of money eBooks claim you will.

2. eBook Methods Become Saturated - I have seen a few good eBooks out there, one of which had to do with selling virtual items. The author suggested that you use adwords to advertise your virtual goods, and that since the keywords aren’t being used, you can get a CPC of $0.05. My friend tried this method out, once a few people (maybe 3-4) started trying this method out, their CPC had to be raised to upwards of $1 per click before they could restart their campaign. The same thing goes with 99% of methods out there. If an eBook tells you to do some trick to get affiliate leads, if you have 50 people trying the same trick, you will earn a lot less.

3. eBooks are Usually Time Consuming - In addition to the amount of time spent reading the eBook, people trying the methods in the eBook will usually spend a lot of time setting the method up. A proxy network which earns $1000+ a month will require a lot of work and advertising, certainly not 10 minutes a day. I read one eBook which claimed you could earn a lot of money very quickly, I got a review copy of the eBook and found out that you had to make your own videos to work the method.

On a final note, most eBooks which sell well are the ones that guarantee quick and easy income. While I think a quick buck is sometimes nice when you need money fast, I think everyone should start a few major projects in which they plan to keep working at for a long time. Remember, the more creative you can be, the more money you will earn. If you go and follow other peoples methods, I guarantee you won’t earn as much as you could if you thought of your own idea and stick to it until you succeed.

My advice to you is that if you get an idea and you believe in it, go with it, and work it until you succeed. I think a quote by Lord Chesterfield, a British Statesman would best suit the ending of this post.

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

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One of my good friends, Jason, aka The University Kid is hosting an amazing contest and I thought I might as well let all of you know about it as well. The contest ends tomorrow, so you better enter asap if you want to get in on these great prizes. Just take a look at this list!!!

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There are some very nice prizes, I would like to win either the $100 cash via paypal from TheProfitHustler.com or one of the free wordpress themes. I’m honestly not sure if I like the Milk-it theme i’m using or not. What do you think? The cash would obviously be my favorite prize, who does like cash! That would be 0.0002% of the way to being able to afford my new Mooney Airplane =D

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Welcome to MooneyQuest.com!!!

This is the first post in the Mooney Quest blog. I’m an 18 year old university student who loves aviation, and making money online. Over the past few weeks I’ve been trying to think up a good name for my blog, but nothing really struck me. The domain name for my name was taken, and I don’t like giving out too much personal information anyways. Eventually I combined two of my passions to form MooneyQuest. Once I thought of that, I was on my way.

There are two main goals for this blog. First I’d like to blog about my experiences in becoming an internet entrepreneur. There is much opportunity online to make a lot of money, and I’d like to take advantage of that. Secondly, I’d like to incorporate my off-line hobby into the blog. Ever since I was young (I still am….I think) I was interested in flying. Four years ago I completed my private pilots license ground school, and have flow approximately 13 hours since then. Lately I haven’t had the time to work away at my flight training, but I hope to start back at it in April and have my pilots license by September.

In case any of you don’t know what a Mooney is, its an airplane. My goal is to earn enough money both online and offline to be able to buy a new Mooney aircraft. Right now I have my eyes set on a Mooney Acclaim Type S. It is a 4-seater aircraft, can travel at 242ktas (278 mph) at 25,000ft. Its equipped with leather seats, a Garmin G1000 glass-panel cockpit, de-icing capabilities and much much more. All costing approximately $599,500 US. Of course, Mooney will keep bringing out new airplanes in the future so I will likely change my mind on which model multiple times before I can afford one. Here’s a picture of a Mooney aircraft.

Stay tuned to this blog. I will be posting updates at least once a day. If you would like, please subscribe to the RSS feed at the top right of this page.

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