Proxy site - good idea?

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Hi all,

Am a newbie at making money online and have not started any money making sites yet. Right now am trying to get some sites up and learn to create sites that brings in an income.

Some quick questions:

1. Would like to know if starting a proxy site (PHProxy) on a VPS and putting CPM ads from Adversal on it a good idea?

2. Is Adsense on the main page ok i.e. not against the TOS? I have just gotten my Adsense account and don't want to get it banned.

The reason for creating proxy is that, it seems like an easy(?) way to earn from CPM ads, due to the potential numbers of unique visitors that a proxy site gets. At least that's what I think, but like I said, am just a newbie, so what do I know?
 


1) I did this once. I had it a shared server for a while til they shut it down because it was sucking up too much resources. Then I transferred it over to a VPS for $45/mo. I netted about $100 the first month, by the 3rd month I was up to about $225. At that time I saw a massive surge in my Bandwidth usage, but a drop in my profits. Someone found a way through my hotlinking patch and I didn't wanna put the energy into fixing it. So I took the site down.
2) Yes, if you put adsense on the first page (non-proxified) it will be fine.

Adversal doesnt do CPM though, they do Pop-unders.
I had 1/2 my income coming from Adversal, 1/2 from adsense

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Hi pjleonhardt,

Thanks for the info!

I thought Adversal supplies CPM ads because it says "Up to $6 per unique CPM" on its main page. Only after your post did I notice to the right of their main page they wrote "Our technology will evade most pop-up blockers.."

Do you mind me asking if the proxy site has given you any click fraud problem? Or have you used any script e.g. Adlogger to minimise that?

By they way, what script did you use? I am planning to use PHProxy because I know some PHP, but have read that CGIProxy uses less bandwidth and the downside is that it's more CPU intensive.
 
i've been looking into this myself.

apparently adsense has banned a couple of proxy sites for supposed click fraud/invalid clicks - but the site owners are not doing this. you can read about it on proxy.org on the message board there....
 
I have a number of proxy sites. I tried to cheap out and run a few of the smallers ones on different shared hosting accounts - bad move. I had one incident of someone phishing through one of the sites but other than that that, bandwidth and hotlinking have been the only issues to deal with.

Adversal (check out the sig, hehe) and Adsense are a tried and tested combo. Go for it. Most guys are running phproxy because its much lighter but offering the user an option to switch to cgiproxy for sites that require a login is ideal.
 
Cool1g said:
apparently adsense has banned a couple of proxy sites for supposed click fraud/invalid clicks - but the site owners are not doing this.
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That's why am concerned about my choice of running a proxy with Adsense on. It might no be worth spending money to get a proxy running (on a VPS) and getting kick out of Adsense at the end.
 
guysmy,

How much bandwith do you use for your site(s) a month?

Do you make much after your expenses?

Are you using any script to prevent click fraud? I will start getting the site up and running and use Adlogger to help prevent that. Hope it goes well.
 
xno said:
guysmy,

How much bandwith do you use for your site(s) a month?

Do you make much after your expenses?

Are you using any script to prevent click fraud? I will start getting the site up and running and use Adlogger to help prevent that. Hope it goes well.
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Last month I used over 100 gigs in bandwidth on my VPS - proxy sites sucked most of that.

I don't see proxy sites as very good money makers but they are very low maintenance once you have them on the right host. Word of mouth spreads with very little promo.

Tracking ad clicks is on my to do list as well. I'm much more concerned about my black hat experiments than the proxy sites.
 
Proxy sites are tricky.

I have about 3 and one large one doing over 15gb a day.

You must REALLY configure/edit php proxy to work right... I also have some IP tricks ;)

I'm gonna try adversal out.
 
guysmy said:
Last month I used over 100 gigs in bandwidth on my VPS - proxy sites sucked most of that.

I don't see proxy sites as very good money makers but they are very low maintenance once you have them on the right host. Word of mouth spreads with very little promo.

Tracking ad clicks is on my to do list as well. I'm much more concerned about my black hat experiments than the proxy sites.
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Hi,


You signature reads:

Proxy owners! Beef up your earnings with Adversal popunders on "proxied" pages - immediate activation, $6 CPM

Could you tell me how to add popunders to the proxified page?

Thanks

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Back when I was on adsense, I was running a proxy bypass site. and It was the site that really made me money. I now believe it may be why I was banned too.
 
well first let me state that I had adsense for almost exactly 3 weeks then I got banned.

But I had made $60 off it before the banning.
 
I too would like advice on adding pop unders to the proxied browse pages.

-- Updated ...

Ignore this, I figured it out, thanks
 
i just did this project last week. there are major upsides and downsides.
the upside is its very easy traffic and little or no maintence. I was getting traffic within hours of buying the domain(didn't even put up the site yet). then it grows by a good 100 visitors/day every weekday. The other upside is tons of pageviews. Thursday I got 70k pageviews(friday was a little down for obvious reasons).

The major downsides is the server usage(mine really isn't taking up that much, its eating about 2% cpu usage and about 12% of the total processes). The other is the bandwidth. Mine is avging about 7mb/sec mon-fri 8am-6pm. If you don't have your own in house servers you are sure to draw the attention of your server provider.
 
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