Proxy site success stories

Hello,

After seeing all the interest in proxy sites, I decided to write a little ebook about starting a proxy. The book is basically done but one section is missing... the success stories! I want to feature a few short case studies of people who have had success with their proxy.

If you want in, send me a PM with a paragraph or two about your success. Include your name and/or URL. I'll feature the best couple stories in the book.

(The book will be provided free of charge once it's complete.)

Thanks

 

This will dishearten you:

Blue Hat Technique #14 - Other Spammers: The Ultimate Proxy
http://www.bluehatseo.com/blue-hat-technique-14-other-spammers-the-ultimate-proxy/

Here's the whole article:

So since my last lame post on What Are Proxy Servers? the inexperienced promoters are now hopefully caught up with the wonderful world of proxy servers and loving them right about now. So I think this would be a great time for me to fuck up that pretty little proxy planet you’re on and teach you how to exploit spammers using proxies to your own little spammy or even nonspammy purposes.

Cruel Intentions
The intent behind this post will be to teach you how to use massive amounts of trusting spammers to help do your own little spam. Every good spammer knows public proxies are real hit and miss. Some work many don’t. Yours will work, it’ll just accomplish your work not the spammers. I’m going to assume that you’ve already done your research and know about public proxies. I’m also going to assume that you are well aware of the many public proxy lists out there. Every good web spammer has a huge solid list of proxies, and we’re just going to fuck it up for the rest of them. Sound like fun? Good it will be.

First Things First
1. Create yourself a public proxy. There are tons of proxy software out there.
CC Proxy is a good Windows based one.
A few open source proxy server software
There are also TONS of good ones for linux. I recommend using linux if you are able to do so. Just feel free to do a bit of research on this step before you take the plunge.

2. Make the proxy server open. This means don’t make it anonymous. Anonymous proxy server means your IP shows up for every request. Make it so their ip directly makes the pull on every request. This is perfectly acceptable. Most spammers don’t bother filtering their lists for ones that claim to be anonymous yet aren’t. They just slam and clean the list from failures.

3. Block EVERYTHING with your proxy server. You can easily block sites and domains with your new kick ass proxy server. You may also set what default site they are redirected to everytime they make a request through your server and have it result in a successful pull. So just block everything and focus on the page all their requests will return with. I will call this page your “return blocked page” because many proxy servers have different terms for it. Wanna see an example? Try using proxy 205.221.223.1 on port 80. It’ll result in every site you go to returning with CAL Community School District website.

4. Build your return blocked page. This page will be your weapon. Whatever you would normally do through a proxy can be accomplished or even redirected through this page. Want to slam an advertisers form? Want to post to guestbooks or blogs? How about just slamming a referrer list or even having them post a fake post on your forum? Whatever and however you want! The world is yours. Their IP accomplishes the task. No worries about cpu usage or failed proxy connections. The spammers ip and scripts does all the work. Your server just sends the redirect. Since you will eventually have hundreds to thousands of spammer using your server the page pulls will seem natural and randomly timed. Aside from the absolute huge amounts of them of course.

If creativity isn’t your strong suite and you can’t think of a good way to utilize this step just settle with using it to raise your Alexa rank or even have it search for your terms in one IFrame with Yahoo or something then have it click on your link in another iframe. This should help Yahoo see your site as getting a higher CTR on your search terms. That got you grinning didn’t it? How about having it bookmark your site in social bookmark sites for quick indexing? *waves to SEOStomp*

5. Submit your awesome new “anonymous” public proxy server to some repositories. This will get it some normally unwanted attention and give it a little bit of time to spread around like cancer. Just remember to advertise it as a anonymous server. Most won’t ever double check that. Infact their scripts will report back a successful pull everytime on your server. It won’t be until they actually check the content that they will stand a chance of figuring removing your server from their list.
Here’s a few hundred to start out on.

There ya go. I could spend the next 100 pages giving you ideas on what to do with your now ultimate proxy server. By ultimate proxy server i didn’t mean your actual server i meant the chumps using your server and their virgin ip addresses. Just remember, no one EVER manually goes through their proxy lists and checks for these things. They may check the returned content to see if its what they expected to get, but if it doesn’t chances are they won’t sit there and manually pull it and find out what your doing. However if you are paranoid about them knowing about the technique your using then feel free to be a little sneaky about your redirect or frames.

If you are a complete white hat and just want to have a little fun. Feel free to boost your friends population on their forums and such by having every single spammer you catch inadvertantly signup Hell, I won’t condone it but it would be pretty funny to have them automatically email their ISP with the what they are trying to do. Remember email spammers use proxies to.

PS. I lied I didn’t sell out I’ll keep writing Blue Hat Techniques as long as people keep finding use for them.

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Interesting article but my book will be more for people looking to make money by displaying ads

Actually I just skimmed that article again and must say it's pretty good

 

Well I was successful until a couple days ago when my traffic mysteriously crashed. Not only mine, but my friend's too. Very odd.

But proxies are definitely an easy way to make money. I managed to get about $500 out of it in a month and a half of it being up, and would have been crusing if this didn't happen. No idea what's up.

 

That's crazy. Would traffic die out so fast if your proxy's domain got blocked by some places?

 

I like Proxy's like Hide My Ass that give users the chance to host there own proxy, I like to run my proxy off my home computer then at school play games

 

I didn't think so. This is my first proxy network, so I don't know. I've never heard of it. I mean, I'm still getting about $10-15 a day, but compared to $50...

I should have sold it last week like I told myself LOL.

There may be another explanation (australia just got on break?, Christmas, etc), but I'll have to watch and see what happens in the next couple weeks.

 

Proxy traffic is easily the most unpredictable of any niche I've ever been involved in. It can come and go.

 

Agreed - I was getting about 800 uniques a day within 3 days of a proxy being up. That lasted for several days and then it suddenly dipped to around 200 uniques a day which it has been doing for several weeks constantly now.

 

If you need a story PM me and I can write one up.

 

Domain will have been blocked, try to use domains without the term proxy in them, they seem to last longer.

It happened to one of my proxies went from 2000 uniques a day down to zero, built that backup now over a few new domains.

 

Anyone want to write a paragraph-long proxy horror story?

 

None of my 6 domains had the word in them.

I bought 5 new domains a few days ago, I'm going to set those up.

I'm also going to add an email submit form so you can be notified when I make a new proxy that isn't blocked. That way if this ever happens again, I can get right back into action again. Of course, the people blocking the sites could signup for the newsletter, but chances are they wouldn't bother.

 

Yep, I am a new proxy owner and figured It would probably be a good idea to take proxy out of your domain name.

 

Be careful, you should never quote an entire article, it could land you in the land of copyright infringement

Usually I use proxy's to check websites are online, I've found my ISP sometimes has trouble connecting.

 

Sorry to ask my own question, but I see TONS of posts about proxies...

My internet is all screwed up so I thought if I used a proxy it would work - which it does! I found a bunch of proxies here:
http://www.proxy4free.com/page1.html

But, all I need to do is enter the ip/port into my web browser. Who owns/what are most of these IPs? How on earth do they make ANY money?

 

Those are a different kind of proxies, and they don't make money. They have no web-based landing page with ads on them, therefore they can't.

Web based proxies are what everyone talks about on here. They can make money, and an example of one is www.alphaprox.com

 

I don't get it. How do you get a spammers script, which was probably doing something like bouncing to an SMTP server to send spam mail, how do you get that sctip to sign up repeatedly on a forum, especially with different and unique nicknames?

These tricks here...I just don't get them.

 

Eli at bluehatseo was talking about an actual http proxy, not a web-based php proxy.

I'm going to have to get in on this! What scripts do I use? Which ad programs allow would allow this? Is phpproxy the best? Anyone know any free php hosting companies?