Hey all, I have an update regarding my proxy network. I have been promoting my whole network a lot lately, and one site is standing out the most. The best performing proxy in my network is TheBlueProxy. This proxy is getting an INSANE amount of traffic. It’s weird because I promoted every proxy exactly the same, and some are doing great, and some are doing pretty terrible. I think it has something to do with the domain, but I could be wrong. Anyways here is a screen shot of the traffic its got so far in decemeber.

It’s really amazing! It has gotten over 1.6 million pages! Its crazy.

I bought a couple new domains with a sale name.com recently had. I bought 2 that relate to proxies, so hopefully I’ll get those setup in the new year. With those 2 proxies I am going to go about promoting them differently. With those 2 im going to use a lot more social community sites, like facebook and myspace.

We’ll see how that goes.

I’ll get right to it. Month-to-date earnings: $8.29. That’s for December. I started the proxy network I think on the 8th of December. I don’t think that’s too bad, considering a lot of kids aren’t in school for a couple weeks in December, and the month isn’t even over.

But what I really wanted to write about was the fact that I sold one of my proxies!. I know its no bid deal but I thought, lets try this out. I bought it with the intention to sell it. I spotted it on the Digital Point forums and I knew it was a great deal, the guy didn’t know what he was doing.

How it went down
I bought the proxy for $10. It was getting about 200 UV a day, and not really making any money. It was also using the most ugliest theme I had ever seen. It also had porn ads all over it for some reason. So, I knew I had to setup a new theme on it, and get the traffic back up. Once the web site’s domain was in my possession, which was what I really paid for, I setup a nice fresh Glype theme on it. I have my own little unique description, meta description, and meta keywords I use, so I plugged those in and setup all the ads. I then had to go on to promoting it the secret way I do. Actually its no secret, I just submit it to a bunch of topsites and proxy lists. Surprisingly the guy who owned it before me never did this. I could tell because only about 10% of the sites I submitted to said “This proxy is already in our list”.

I started to get about 300-400 UV to the site. I also had to get rid of the site before it expired, which was in about 20 days or so. At this point the site was getting a lot of traffic, so I thought its time to sell this bad boy.

I listed it on DP with a starting bid of $1. I knew in a couple bids the site would be up to $10. It went from $1 to $10. I knew right when that happened, I would be making a profit on this flip. I had initially set a BIN (Buy It Now) to $80. I know this is ridiculous, but I set it really high so I can lower it every 12 hours or so to bump my thread.

Conclusion
Turns out I sold the proxy for $25. That’s a profit of 150%! I love it. I know its pocket change but hey, if I can do this 3-4 times a week – $15 x 4 is $60. I wouldn’t mind an extra $60 a week for little work!

Anyways I made this post to show that it is retarded how easy it is to buy, and flip a proxy, although I’m sure you can apply this to any website.

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K back in my highschool days I ran a couple proxies to bypass the filter thing they had in place so you couldnt go to myspace, facebook and all of those flash games websites. While I only really ran them for friends and myself, I did make some money off of them from putting some ads on them. After I gradutuated I pretty much forgot about them, the domains expired… and they were pretty much lost forever.

Recently I had an idea. Dude I made money off of those. So I found out, I had 2-3 domains that were sitting there doing nothing… pointing to nameservers that dont even exist on the interwebs. So I though, dude, im gonna sign up for some cheap-o vps, load up those domains, and fire up a small proxy network.

So it went pretty good. I started with promoting 2 domains I setup, and those are getting some steady traffic. Its so easy to promote proxies. People are literally begging for them. Check out Yahoo! Answers, there are a shitload of teenagers on there begging for proxies to unblock myspace and facebook.

Ive expanded from the inital 2 proxy sites to about 9 now. Some are just domains that need to be setup, but they will be wicked sweet proxies soon enough

Im monetizing them with Adbrite, and Widgetbucks so far. Ive actually sold a banner advertisement on one of them already $5 for 1 month. That paid for the domain 5 times over lol I love .info domains. $0.99 is amazing for a domain.

So far i’ve made $1.32 from Adbrite, and $0.19 from Widgetbucks Thats not too bad for 2 days of operation, and only from 2 proxies.

Alright, I didnt really start this blog to post about how I make money online or how rich I am. I originally started it to post stuff I think is cool, or post about random happenings.

K so this is how I made money online. I found some people who were making money “flipping websites”. Flipping websites? What the hell is that? It involves very little work, and can make you some serious cash.

I dont want to sound like some stupid salesman saying how it will make you millions. To date, ive sold 2 websites and ive made a little under $200. Not too bad considering I bought one website for $2. The other website cost me $27 to make. Im not going to let you know which websites they were, just for privacy of the buyers and confidentiality and all that good stuff.

How do you make money? Well you buy a domain, make a website, add content, sell it for profit. Ofcourse it’s way more involved than that, but you get the jist of it. Honestly if I can do it anyone can.

Now you’re probably asking how you can learn more? Well I would go to the google machine and do a quick search on “blog flipping” or try “website flipping”. Now the key is, dont pay for anything. There will probably be websites selling you ebooks and such, dont buy them. You can get any information you want on the internet for free. Check the Digital Point forums, there are tons of guides on there.

You do need to make an initial investment though, usually $20-40. This is to cover the costs in the beginning. Dont worry though, you can easily sell your blog for 2-3 times the initial cost. What costs money in the beginning? Well you need a domain, which is usually $9. Then you gotta get other people to write the content for you, and get someone else to design a logo for you. You can find people to do this for you on the Digital Point forums.

Well so far i’ve made and sold 2 websites for about $150 profit, but total was around $200.

It’s really easy. The hardest part is finding a niche to blog about, once you find one, the rest is easy if you can replicate success.

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Alright so this Audi commercial is pretty amazing. Ive always loved Audis. I cant get enough of the styling their cars have. Anyways check out this new commercial.

This fat guy is a complete idiot and tries to get a golf car unstuck but ends up failing terribly. so funny

Below is the code to remake the rm command. I remade it so I could send everything i delete to a trashbin. It sends it to your home/.Trashbin. If the directory isnt there, it makes it for you. After that it tests to see if there are any arguments after the command, and if there are 0 it sends back a message. If there are arguments it continues. If the second argument is the -r flag then it send everything after the flag to the trashbin, no matter what. If there isnt the -r present then it only sends files to the trashbin, and if it finds out you tried to delete a directory, it sends back an error. This was made in a bourne-again shell.

Thanks!

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