Promoting a Proxy

[startsphere]

Hello fellow NamePros users!

Today I have a question on how to better promote my Proxy website. The URL is www.proxoid.com in case anybody is wondering.

Can anyone here who has ever promoted a proxy (or knows how to) give me any tips on how to better increase both traffic and revenue. Something even more appreciated would be a sort of "step-by-step" guide, but general things to do are fine as well.

My goal is to reach $5/day by the end of July.

 

[DropLister]

proxy.org

 

[cwnt]

Submit it to as many of the large proxy topsites as you can, and place a link to it in your signature. All the traffic I recieve is from that, and I get just over a thousand visitors a month to my proxy site.

 

[startsphere]

I have done both proxy.org and my signature. in the past 9 days i only got 1100 uniques though

 

[antman]

Link swapping is also effective.

*I run a Proxy, PM me.

 

[yeppers]

Basic traffic steps:
1) Add to proxy.org
2) Submit BY HAND to all the proxy topsites, and any link directories.
3) Do some SEO work to your site, add a paragraph somewhere that contains a lot of proxy-like keywords, but make sure it makes sense
4) Add link to MSN search (search.msn.com)
5) Start up a proxy topsite, get people to add their sites to it, ensure your site stays at the top and you'll get some hits from there too
6) Link swap with only proxy related sites.
7) Wait around 3 months, and your traffic will be huge .
8) Ensure that your server is powerful enough to handle the proxys traffic, if its not, you WILL start to lose traffic.
9) Install my bandwidth saver, which prevents people from hotlinking, this serves no other purpose than taking up all your bandwidth: http://www.namepros.com/free-resources/182288-all-proxy-site-owners-look-here.html#post1171372
10) Get an original design, people DO care about the designs simplicity.

That's what I'd do . I own the domain proxywebsite.com which after around 1 month was getting ~ 50,000 uniques per month . Had to take it down though, couldnt handle it. Hope to kick it up again once I get a new server.

Hope it helps,
Rhett.

 

[cwnt]

I have done both proxy.org and my signature. in the past 9 days i only got 1100 uniques though

Only 1100 uniques? I would have thought that it was a good number for a new website.

 

[yeppers]

I have done both proxy.org and my signature. in the past 9 days i only got 1100 uniques though

Only 1100 uniques? I would have thought that it was a good number for a new website.

Yer that is pretty good actually , that's 3000 per month, that's good for a new site.

 

[Xombie]

Also find out what the majority of your proxy users are using the proxy for. [bad sentence < ]

If it is mainly your typical teen crowd trying to get around work or school filters, then promote through myspace and other teen trends.