Some people asked if it is still worthwhile getting into the anonymous proxy websits business today? I say it depends on how much you can invest versus how high you wanted to take this proxy business to. When I say invest, I mean your time, skills, relationships and money. The more you have, the easier for you to start in the proxy business, or any other forms of money making ventures online. Even if you have nothing, no programming skills, no web design skills, no money to spare, no contacts etc, it is still easier to start making some money with working proxies compared to other stuff like affiliate marketing or niche blogging. The money for proxies come pretty fast, but is pretty limited to may be $5 for every 1000 real, unique visitors you can get to come to your bypass websense filter proxy. The golden earning period for internet proxy business is over. My mentor told me during 2005, you can easily get 1 to 2 million page views per month for every proxy you created. The pay per click for adsense and pay per view for other advertising companies were also much higher compared to what we have today for proxy websites. Anyway, there is no use mesmerizing about the past because we are neither aware nor equipped to take advantage of those opportunities anyway. If you start in the proxy business today, you will eventually learn a bit of wed design and coding, a bit of search engine optimization, a bit of internet promotion and marketing, a lot on online web monetization, a lot of contacts in the business if you bothered to participate in the community and other intangible benefits.
There is an untold big dream for internet proxy owners who are in for long term profits and running of proxy websites that serious provide a good service for web blocking visitors and websites that bypass school internet proxy. Unlike the opportunistic proxy creators that try to quickly create, promote and sell off web proxies, the long term public anonymous proxy owners wanted every visitor that has come to their proxies to have a pleasant anonymous web surfing experience and to come back again and again. This is the so-called dream of running proxies on auto-pilot forever with minimal involvement. Easy passive profits huh? Just remember to pay the hosting bills every month and bank in the cheques from google adsense every month in return. There is no need to add fresh content to the proxy website unlike those slaving bloggers that are thinking like mad for new topics to write about. Unfortunately, this plan is pretty flawed nowadays. Yes, you only need minimal content pages for web proxies. However, if you want to carry on serving the same visitors, you need to keep up with changes made on the sites frequently accessed by your visitors. That means no small amount of time must be spent on getting feedback from your anonymous web visitors as well as interacting with other web proxy owners in the community, looking for new patches for the proxy script in order to unblock websites with funky javascript interfaces or anti proxy measures. You cannot just let the proxy run by itself without continuing paid proxy promotions such as newsletter blast, banner ads, link exchanges and constantly tracking the returns on those expenditures. If you stop these promotions, other proxy owners will jump in and try to take your market share. Look at what happen with the market share of hotmail and yahoo mail when gmail is introduced with a bang. Proxy users seldom have any loyalty to the anonymous web proxies they are using for free these days. If you must ask, yes I do not believe in that auto-pilot proxy website dream at all.
