My proxy experiment
A few months ago i decided to buy a little proxy and see for myself what the fuss is all about. I simply could not be bothered starting from scratch so i purchased a proxy for $60 which already had some nice search engine traffic. Within the first week i realised that it is a waste of my server resources. So i simply made it unusable by removing the search form. To my surprise my CTR went through the roof. I was no longer using up my bandwidth yet this little proxy would make 5 times the money from Adsense. It earned me just under $600 within the last few months. Not bad eh?
From the users point of view… They search for the proxy on Google and when they find one they realise that it does not actually work. They still need to a proxy so they click on the Adsense ad because this is just what it is displaying.
Fair enough… this user will probably never come back but who cares? As long as i have a fresh stream of daily visitors from SE’s I’m happy running a static page that needs no work what so ever and does not use any of my resources.
February 10th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
nice articles nice blogs.
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:32 pm
So what about adsense? Is this likely to get you into trouble for not providing content? I mean technically I see the fact that a search bar is not content, I suppose if you put enough other text on the page it could work.
Did you have links to other sites on there, or just the ads? More thinking outloud, thanks for the great post!
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:56 am
There are tons of proxy sites out there and I never heard of anyone getting into trouble with Adsense. You will need to add some text to explain how the proxy works and what it is used for in order to generate some content for the page but apart from that even if Adsense staff does find out about your search box they will probably just let you know that your site is not functioning properly.
March 27th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Hi i am just trying this method on my many, many aged proxy sites. They are sucking me dry in server fees.
You have a fantastic site here, i think i have just read 10 or so pages. Keep it up!
March 27th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Thank you and good luck!
PS: 25 pages actually
thanks to Woopra analytics.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:45 am
I have read about proxy a lot..but never tried it..another thing which you can use is by using a yahoo invisible tracker or something…
From where did you get the proxy script?
Let is know more about it..this proxy website setup sounds ethical and good way to make money…
April 17th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
I think I was using phproxy which should be free.
April 21st, 2009 at 4:38 am
Nice article, gonna try it by myself. Thanx for sharing