Is Squidoo Helping Proxy Owners?

Ever since I started as an affiliate marketer, I’ve learned to love Squidoo. But as I started in the proxy business, I wanted to find new creative ways of getting targeted traffic.

I created a Squidoo lens in the facebook-niche, with the lens name Unblock-Facebook. Then I titled it Unblock Facebook At School. (just to be clear, there was less competition for those keywords when I created the lens)

I honestly didn’t put that much work into the lens, but I did a few tricks that I knew Google love to make it rank higher. By including fresh, relevant content through RSS, Google will come visit you daily. Fresh content = higher ranking.

Just do a search for your lens-keyword in Google Blogsearch, and right-click the RSS button on the left. Copy the link and then use this as a source when you add RSS on your lens. That’s it.

As I said, I didn’t write that much content on the lens. But it does the trick, and it took be about 30-40 minutes to finish it.

Last week I got 118 visits to the lens. Here is a screenshot from the last 30 days:

Unblock Facebook At School traffic

As you can see, it’s not bad for a lens that has strong competition and has only been updated once. The lens is on the third page on Google for the keyword “Unblock Facebook At School”.

Do you use Squidoo lenses for promoting proxy websites? Let me know how it goes, drop me a comment below.

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Proxy Website Review: ProxyKey.com

Introducing ProxyKey.com, a premium proxy service operated by Michael Melen.

ProxyKey - Free Trial

The service costs $6.95 per month, however, they are currently offering a one-week free trial. Note that the free trial automatically rebills at their full rate after one week. When you signup, you get a few different proxy sites to choose from:

  • www.65v.info – running Glype
  • www.4b5.info – running CGIProxy, hosting account suspended
  • www.c3w.info – running Zelune , hosting account suspended

The ProxyKey website boasts a number of impressive claims:

  • Reliability – "We have never had a proxy down before. If we do, we have several backups on different servers so we always have one online."

    Never? No. Two of their three sites are offline at the time of this writing.

  • Multiple Location – "We have proxies from multiple domains, IPs, countries (USA and offshore), and different scripts available."

    One working proxy, one IP, one script, none offshore. ProxyKey advertises that 65v.info is located in Melbourne, Australia but in actuality it is located in the FDCservers.net datacenter in Woodstock, IL.

  • Super Fast Access – "We have a Dedicated 1 Megabyte per second (Mbps) line per user so you never have to worry about slow loading time."

    Absurd. A dedicated 1 megabit line per user is clearly not provided as the “line” is shared amongst all users of the service. Also, Mbps is the abbreviation for “megabit per second”, a very different measurement than megabytes and hardly “super fast”. Users are unlikely to "never have to worry about slow loading time”.

  • Unlimited File Download Size – "We do not have a limit on the size of the files you download so feel free to stream video or access large files."

    The proxy script used on ProxyKey’s only working proxy is Glype and it does not support any sort of streaming media. I visited YouTube via the proxy and confirmed that no videos would display.

  • Never Blocked – "One major problem with proxies is that they are often themselves blocked. We take preventative measures to make sure that we are never blocked."

    Never? With one proxy site working they had better hope so.

  • Compatibility – "Most proxies aren’t fully functional with Myspace, Youtube, and other websites. We make sure that we are fully compatible with all websites."

    No. I found that ProxyKey is not compatible with YouTube. No web-based proxy can or should claim to be “fully compatible with all websites” as it is impossible.

  • Restrictions – "Public proxies put on some annoying restrictions. We however don’t have any restrictions on file size limit, allow the FTP protocol, etc."

    No. Glype does not support the FTP protocol. Claims of “no restrictions” and having an “unlimited file size limit” do not stand up considering that ProxyKey has finite resources for its proxies.

ProxyKey fails to deliver on its promises and provides a user experience comparable with any free proxy but at a premium price. I recommend users purchase from established proxy services instead.

TPB Rating:
Design: 4
Content: 1
Speed: 4
Special Features: 1
Overall: 2 out of 10

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Proxy Website Review: ProxyRotator.com

“Want a fresh proxy? Just rotate!”

Proxy Rotator

Today I discovered a cool proxy website called ProxyRotator. Instead of using only one proxy, ProxyRotator lets you randomly rotate different proxy websites. No need to search top lists for new fresh proxies anymore, ProxyRotator does it for you.

Basically you just enter ProxyRotator.com and you are set to go. If you do not like the current proxy website, just click Rotate and ProxyRotator will find a new proxy for you.

The design is simple,smooth and in big letters (I love big letters).

The thing about ProxyRotator is that it’s a win – win for proxy users and proxy webmasters. It’s easy to submit new proxy websites, and there is no reciprocal link required. However, if you place a small banner before joining you will get 500 Credits.

The more credit your proxy has, the more views it will get. So by placing a small banner you are guaranteed 500 visits. You can also get extra credits by participating in the forum, and the owner of ProxyRotator revealed to me that in the future there may be a paid option.

The only downside to ProxyRotator as I experienced it was a few slow proxies, and some that didn’t work. But all in all I had a good experience using ProxyRotator, and for active proxy users I am sure that this is a great tool!

Because there are different proxy websites from time to time, content, speed and design can not be reviewed as usual. This review is based on the overall experience of ProxyRotator.

Proxy Review: 7

Click here to visit ProxyRotator.com


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