Been a While

Well its been a while since I have actually run a proxy network. Its not the money thats a problem - I have figured out how to easily and successfully manage a profitable proxy network. Its the effort thats involved.

Don't be fooled, running a proxy network takes time and quite a bit of work. I also found it was an uphill struggle to find a decent host and I was always fighting a bandwidth battle - the more traffic, the more money, but the more bandwidth you use.

This costs!!

I am very tempted to get back into running a small proxy network. Even if I just have one site - that is kept updated and maintained I will be happy.

Web Worker Resources

Heres a handy resource to bookmark, iDezy.com is a free blog that lists handy resources for web workers - ie designers, programmers, developers etc.

Each day they list 3 or more free resources including templates, tools, ebooks, software and more quality resources for webmasters.

Take a look.

New Proxy Sites

Here are some fast new proxy sites to help you get around the blocks that your school or workplace might use. These are free and will allow you to access sites like MySpace, Facebook etc.

SiteBlock
FreeBlock
FunUnlock
FunUnBlock
ProxyNetSite
UnblockFun
UnlockFun

So now if your school blocks one of these proxies you have a huge list of new ones to keep going back to. I will be adding more Proxy's to this big list soon.

Adsense is Looking Better

Well it looks as though Adsense may be back on track and fixed! Im still not 100% certain that everything is running how it should but I can now see the channels again and even see the earnings!

But, it turns out that I wasn't tracking Adsense correctly on one of the proxies (www.webstartspot.info) so I couldn't pull any stats off it.

I will have an update on earnings in a couple of days. Stay tuned for more!

Adsense Still Playing Up

The good news is im still making money through Adsense - the bad news is - I have no idea where!

My channels are now displaying but the page impressions are way off. At this stage I would have liked to tell you how much my 3 brand new proxy sites are making (or not making) but unfortunately I can't.

In completely unrelated news - I discovered how powerful a marketing tool facebook can be. It turns people actively follow you on Facebook and so when I change my relationship to not being sinlge, I got a flood of messages asking who it was. Realising this power, I decided to change my website that was listed on Facebook, and sure enough I got a ton of hits from FB. Nice!

Thats about all the writing I can manage for now as I think I might be having caffeine withdrawal symptoms - a coffee and a red bull should fix that.

I Lied

Last post I mentioned that I couldn't be bothered to research why Google Adsense wasn't showing channel data (channels let you precisely track which ads where are performing). Well I lied and pretty much did the research straight away. And it turns out it isn't just me! Check out this forum thread http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=527663

Although Adsense is still tracking earnings this could end up costing me a lot of money as I am auctioning a fairly big site and am unable to show current Adsense stats.

WTF Adsense?

Obviously I am relying on Google Adsense for monetizing the proxy network - but when Adsense doesn't display stats for your channels, you start getting worried.

Has Adsense changed its layout or is something not working. Im not in the mood to actually research this so Im just going to sit on it for a while