Hehe.

Despite my exams coming up (pretty soon actually, I’ll need guest posters – will talk about this tomorrow or the day after), I’m still trying out various things with regards to online business.

In this case, I’m talking about proxies. Proxies are one of the BEST ways for Internet newbies to start online – you can get started for less than ten dollars and see a return on your investment within the day; promotion is 100% free if you know what you’re doing and at the moment, proxies are selling pretty shockingly well on Sitepoint (I’ve seen some go for the 10x a month’s revenue that “normal” websites sell at, which is just insane to be honest). Take advantage of a hot trend, and get into them if you can.

I took a little bit of this idea from Geoff over at Can’t Get Rich – he’s documented his attempt to create the worst network of websites on the Internet. The basic premise was having thousands of pages, and wanting each page to generate ten cents a day. However, this would be similar to your standard splog, and you have a decent chance of getting your Google Adsense account banned – not something you want.

What I will be looking at is taking the same principle, and using it on proxies. Getting a proxy to $0.1/day recurring (ie, set and forget) is pretty damned easy – not to be rude, but if you cannot do it you probably shouldn’t be in the whole online websites thing. You can read more about promotion and stuff in my slightly long guide here. As .INFOs only cost $1.19 at GoDaddy now (note, you have to buy five at a time) your proxy pays for its domain in less than a week, and everything after that is pure profit (less hosting costs).

Edit – Jay of Nu Pixel Studios has just informed me that he purchased a single .INFO for $1.19. So you don’t need to buy five

Not huge profit mind you, but the name of the game here is replicating in bulk; one thousand websites generating a dime a day gives you your $100/day. Of course, you’d have to spend a bomb on hosting but if you were making $100/day I don’t think you’d mind too much.

Seeing that I recently got my Adsense account back, I’ll be going with proxies, just testing them over the next few days to see how they go. I have a couple ideas that will make my proxy network slightly different to the thousands of others out there, and an unbelievable idea that I think will make me a truckload of cash (note, I have never seen it discussed anywhere before). However, the problem is that a credit card is needed, which I don’t have… I will look into it

I am currently looking for CPM based programs that accept proxies – in the past, all I used was Adsense and though that did somewhat well it seems like a waste not to monetize the proxified pages (as they tend to rack up a tonne of pageviews). I’ve applied to Canep Media – sadly, Adversal aren’t taking new applicants at the moment because I’ve heard that they’re decent. If you have a suggestion, feel free to let me know and I’ll gladly signup through your affiliate link

I’m not going to explain what proxies are and how they work, as you can read about them in my earlier post – anyways, that page is a PR2 and I believe I have dofollow enabled on TUK so spam it with your link leave a decent comment and you get a backlink with value to your blog. Can’t hurt.

The biggest problem I have at the moment is whether to start out brand new or go with what I have – at the moment, I have around 30 proxy domains on me, a lot of them aged with decent backlinks and also expiring within the next month. However, a few of them will probably be blocked, as they tend to be after a few weeks and as they’re expiring soon it may be worth it to just drop th

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