UnblockYouTube.com - Work In Progress
Jan 2nd, 2008 by Shaun Carter
I’ve been working on setting up my new VPS, Virtual Private Server, so I can begin building a proxy network. I’ve owned the domain UnblockYouTube.com for a while now and had dabbled in proxies before, but now I plan to take on the project seriously and look to make a respectable monthly income from it.
But the income part of the equation is the tricky one. I’ve spent hours and hours researching how to properly monetize a proxy and have come up with some interesting findings. Most proxy publishers depend on Adsense all over the homepage of the proxy and that is all the monetization they do. Well I tend to interpret the Google TOS regarding pages having content as excluding a proxy homepage because of a lack of real content so I don’t plan on placing Adsense on any proxy of mine - for now. Instead, I plan to monetize the proxy pages which some publishers report make even more than their homepages. By utilizing a combination of AdBrite banners and Adversal or Canep pop-unders many proxies earn $10-20 per day. The bottom line is that I’m not going to jeopardize my Adsense account with proxies and will find a way to make money anyway.
The site itself is just a PHProxy template with a little modification to accommodate the additional advertising and is very easily duplicated. I will be playing with the script for a few days before beginning to promote the site, although the domain already gets a steady stream of type in and Google traffic because of the excellent SEO value of the domain name. Right now the biggest trouble spot is modding the PHP script to stream YouTube videos - which is kind of important for a proxy with “YouTube” in the domain!
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