My proxy experiment
A few months ago i decided to buy a little proxy and see for myself what the fuss is all about. I simply could not be bothered starting from scratch so i purchased this proxy for $60 which already had some nice search engine traffic. Within the first week i realised that it is a waste of my server resources. So i simply made it unusable by removing the search form. To my surprise my CTR went through the roof. I was no longer using up my bandwidth yet this little proxy would make 5 times the money from Adsense. It earned me just under $600 within the last few months. Not bad eh?
From the users point of view… They search for the proxy on Google and when they find one they realise that it does not actually work. They still need to a proxy so they click on the Adsense ad because this is just what it is displaying.
Fair enough… this user will probably never come back but who cares? As long as i have a fresh stream of daily visitors from SE’s I’m happy running a static page that needs no work what so ever and does not use any of my resources.
February 15th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Interesting way of making money from a single web page - you say you bought the domain that already had traffic, but where did the traffic come from?
I’m searching for a new way of generating additional income after MeWebHost.com kicked me off their servers for using too many resources without even giving me a back up - the site was worth $400 a month!
February 15th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Yes, the traffic was coming from search engines. Mainly Google. So as long as i retain this traffic i am making money.
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April 17th, 2008 at 11:28 am
hi i own a few proxy sites.. and your idea i think is great and will try it out and experiment on my sites that get visitors mainly from search engines =)