Using SEO, you could boost your sales. Using SEO to get traffic to your proxy is not a bad idea. If you make some keyword analysis on proxy-related words then you’ll find that the phrase “proxy” is searched for 20,400,000 each month. The words “free proxy” are searched for 1,500,000 times. The words “web proxy” and “proxies” are near the same.

Getting high in the Search Engines for competitive keywords for a proxy can make a bog standard proxy an excellent one. It can increase its value considerably and increase your profit by even more! There are many on page and off page things that you will need to do to get good Search Engine Ranking Positions (SERPs). These techniques can take a few months to be reflected in search engines so you have to decide whether your going to make a quick proxy or a long lasting one. If your going to make a quick turn around proxy it may not be worth doing some of these techniques, but if your making a long last one, this is defiantly worth a read.

  1. Firstly pick some good keywords. You want keywords that are highly searched. Use the google adwords tool for finding the best ones. Obviously don’t choose one which is millions/month like “proxy” as you will never get onto the front page for it. Pick something with around 10k to 70k/month searches.
  2. Choose a domain that includes keywords like the ones your going to optimise for. Preferably get a dot com (.com) domain as they rank best but others will rank well if you optimise well.
  3. Upload your script to your site and change the title and meta tags. Make your title the keywords you are optimizing for and separate them in order of importance separated by this “|” or another separating key.  Then do the same in the meta keywords but separate the phrases by a comma.  Finally make a good descriptive meta description including the keywords you want to optimise for. Also make sure all of your pages have different titles.
  4. Make a unique paragraph above your proxy URL box. Include your keywords but don’t make it obvious what they are. Don’t make it spammy, it has to make good sense and read well.
  5. Now it is time to build good links. You need as many incoming links as possible with your keyword. Your keyword should be the anchor text. Its best to have a few different keywords as if they are all the same, the links could be considered spam. It is also good practice to have the title of the link the keyword aswell.
  6. Build these links slowly over the weeks and months. Submit your proxy to a few directories and proxy lists daily, maximum of about 20 a day, consistently.  This should build your proxies inbound links nicely.  Your proxy will then get crawled more often and move up the SERPs consistently.
  7. Finally it is good to optimize for several keywords to get maximum traffic.

So to conclude you have to do a fair bit of work to get good results, but if you get on the front page of google for a good keyword, you will get serious traffic. The techniques above are very general. There are many smaller, and much more complicated things to do. If you see your proxy going up and down in the SERPs then this is probably because the Search Engine is having a reshuffle, called the “Google Dance” with google.  Finally search engines often change there algorithms, so keep up the SEOing to stay on the front pages.