What ads can I use on my proxy website?
I’ve seen this question asked all over, how do I make money on my proxified pages? It’s often also asked can so-and-so company be used on my proxified pages? (Just to be clear when I say proxified I mean the page that someone is browsing TO through your proxy website.) Well I’m here to clear up some of the confusion and let you know what you can and can’t run and what seems to be making a decent amount of money.
Proxy Websites - HTTPD Configuration
If you have one popular proxy or a handful of proxy websites you may be wonering how to get the “extra power” out of your dedicated server. Well, the answer is pretty simple TWEAK your httpd.conf file. (Configure apache to work better with proxy websites).
How to start a proxy website
This is a very basic run down of what’s required to start a succesful proxy website.
- A dedicated server.
I suggest using a server that does not house any other websites because a proxy site (yes only one) can easily utilize all the system resources. When a proxy site goes slow the users will pause and then continue surfing where-as other sites the visitor normally exits. Overloading a proxy site server is still not a good idea but I’ve found the visitors are much more forgiving w/slow loading than of other site types. Server types… you can basically start out with anything like say a P4 with 2gb of RAM and 100mbit (more…)
Tracking proxy site visitors
If you haven’t heard of google analytics you need to crawl out from whatever rock you are under and signup!
Most Proxy top sites are a joke…
There are hundreds of proxy top sites out there and I’ve found the majority of them to be a JOKE.
If you are planning to launch any number of proxy websites I suggest you DO NOT spend time submitting them to top sites unless they provide a valuable link-back to your site. Most proxy sites have little to NO PR, provide a link condom and deliver little to no traffic. The few quality top sites provide a direct link to your site (in a listing format someplace on the site that is not counted as a vote), don’t have a million sites listed so that you’d never be on the front page, don’t have the first 5 listings as ads, and actualy have some PR to pass-down to you through a non-condomized link!