Monetizing proxies WITHOUT Google Adsense for Content
Over the past year that I have been involved with making money with proxies the question of Google Adsense has often come up. Many times I have seen people, including myself, feeling at the mercy of Google Adsense. I have personally stopped using Google Adsense on most of my proxies. How has that worked out for me? Read on.
Let me be clear. This article is specifically about how to monetize without using Google Adsense for CONTENT. Google still has many great referral products that fall under the “adsense” brand. They do not, however, work off of CPC. More importantly your adsense for content will not get smart priced due to your referral links on your proxies. (at least to my knowledge at this time)
When I first started making money with proxies I used Adsense. It worked well for the first 6 months or so. Then I got smart priced, and my profit went from over $600 one month to around $150 the next. Ouch. Over the next 4 months I worked on alternatives. After much trial, work and reading I have come to realize something. While Google is a large player, they don’t control the market. The market is free and you can make money without ever using Google at all. So here is what I have learned:
- The Majority 50%+ of my income comes from popunders on my proxified pages
- 90% of my income, on the whole, comes from the proxified pages
- CPM is best to use on proxified pages
- CPM is ok to use on the home page, but CPC and CPA also work well
- Getting Smart priced for your proxies can hurt your non proxy sites too
Popunders
With that in mind its easy to see that Popunders should be a big focus. If you can get into Adversal then go for it. If not then go for Global Interactive for popunders. Set you popunders to pop 1 to 2 times per MINUTE. Yes 1 to 2 times per MINUTE. If you go with 1 time per hour or something way to high like that, then that you are just giving away your profit. Users know there will be popunders. If you feel that 1 to 2 times per minute is too much, then back off a little, but not more then 1 time every 4 minutes.
Proxified Page Banner Ads
I would reccomend to use the 468X60 banner ads and place 2 -4 of them at the top of your proxified pages. I would use the following companies for banner ads:
- Canep
- Global Interactive
- Media Shakers
- Adbrite
Home Page
Since we focused on making 90% of our money on the proxified pages the home page should not take much work. I would place 1-3 CPM banners on the home page. Also if you would like to use some sort of CPC company besides Google go for it. CPA such as Comission Junction or Azoogle have offers that are zip code submit and email submit. These work reasonably well for some extra income. Also some surveys work well, just think what a teen or college student might like. I simply place a text link above the address bar. Additionally Google has many great referral products that you can promote.
Proof
So if you still don’t think it will work? Well have a look at this post of mine. Out of $1500 dollars I made with my proxies in Jan 2008, only $206 was from Google. That was when I still used Google on all of my proxy sites. So Google provided 13% of my income. That could be replaced easy enough with some CPM and CPA ads. Plus once Google was off I advertised at places I would not before. Places like proxy.org (because of the previous click bomb attacks). With the extra traffic I got it brought in even more revenue. Thus you can monetize without Google adsense for Content.
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