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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