Are you here for web templates?

• Author: admin
• Filed under: Articles
• Date: Sep 19,2008

A little while ago, I found a very good analytic program which is in par with Google’s Analytic if not better. It is called Woopra. I installed it onto this site and surprised that I can see all the stats, keyword that my visitor used to come here and a lot more.

Then it came to my attention that some of the keyword was related to website templates. Some of them even searches for web template and ended up here. So, I figure why not posting something to help them?.

And off me go to find a good site to recommend and found one which has tons of templates for downloads and at the time of me searching, they got this superb promotion offer. As you might now, some other websites that offer template downloads charges a lot of fees before you can download template from them. This one site that I found however, offer you unlimited downloads of their amazing designs with no product fees all year long with just $59.95.

You might say “why do I have to pay to download their template while there is so many free one out there?”. The answer is you only need to pay once and your subscribtion valid for one whole year plus you can download other products as well such as vectors (if you are into designing or customizing your own template), flash templates and even a word document template to be used for your work.

They also have an affiliate program which you can earn 30% of every sale but I’m not going to write much about it as some of my visitors are only interested to get a template. But still, it is an oppoturnity for people to make some extra cash.

Oh, just noticed something interesting, if you signed up with them, you will also be granted access to 5 other sites. You can see it on their site; look on top left sidebar.

Here is one template that I think is very well made.

**Sorry guys, can’t help it. Loved to see that beautiful model.

Well, that’s it. If you are here looking for a web template, just head to their site and get one for yourself at a very affordable price. And don’t worry, I won’t ask you to click on any affiliate link, I’m doing this to help my visitors, so here is the link to their site: Dream Template

Proxy business and Proxy promotion in its common ways

• Author: admin
• Filed under: Articles
• Date: Aug 20,2008

People are really interesting creatures, they always want something they can’t have and that goes the same for real world just as for life on the web. May I say thank God for that because would it be exciting at all if we wouldn’t try to reach something that’s not allowed? What’s life without adrenaline anyway?

Now, on solid ground we all desire one thing - our neighbor’s wife or their hot daughter but on the internet we all share one commmon experience, we have been banned from this cool website and we want the access back. But can we get it back? Of course we can and that’s what today’s business is all about - proxies.

Proxies or filters bypasser will always be searched for as there will always be people who get banned from websites so why not try to make a buck out of it? Many school block popular social networking website such as MySpace and Facebook and other popular destinations for kids and many companies and goverment institutes block certain websites so their employees can’t scrimshank at work and some people just want to keep their browsing habits anonymous.

Now installing a proxy is not that big deal, unless you are using CGI proxy which is such a pain to make it work (at least for me!), but getting traffic to it can be a pain in the neck, especially today when a visitor has tens of thousands proxy websites to choose from. What make you believe he is going to surf on your proxy?

most common method of promoting a proxy is getting it listed on big directories such as Proxy.org. They do ask for a reciprocal link which most of us are not fans of but it’s worth in this case because the they are the biggest proxy directory around the net so you can get sizeable amount of traffic from them. But, don’t just ignore the smaller directories such as ProxyWhereabotus.com because they’re also a good source of traffic.

Exchanging links can be a great way to attract visitors but don’t do it with someone running a proxy like yourself because they’re direct competition so it would make no sense in exchanging links with another proxy website. Instead, try to make a deal with Arcade website owners (click here) since those are usually the type of websites that gets blocked. However, by advertising your proxy on a website like that means direct exposure and can get you banned as well so you’ll have to decide whether it is worth the hassle or not.

Also, don’t forget to post in forums because forums can be your second biggest traffic income if you do it right. Bulletin boards with off topic (MySpace, Orkut, Facebook) or video game genres (Filefront, Talk-Gaming) are most likely to attract a lot of visitors due to the variety of targeted audience (teenagers) but since nowadays it doesn’t matter where you come from, it would be good for your business if you could post on webmaster related forums (DigitalPoint, Sitepoint, Webmaster-Talk) especially those who are focusing to proxy owners. (WebProxyTalk)

MySpace and Facebook and Orkut. Of course, why you didn’t of that? It’ so obvious it’s likely to get forgotten but it is also crucial step in proxy website promotion. What’s a better way to promote a proxy than to promote it on a website getting blocked most of the time? You can buy MySpace and Facebook accounts with thousands of friends for $10 or $20 but you can always build your society yourself if you like to get things done from scratch. Posting occasional bulletins and commenting your friend’s profile can make wonders, remember not to spam.

Last but not least, paid advertising. This can be harder for proxy owners with no steady income so you’re more than welcomed not to pay a dime on advertising but if you’re thinking about getting serious with your proxy, PPC programs are money well spent. If you’re new to Adwords, Adbrite, BidVertiser and other Pay Per Click program, do it on a small scale first and if it works, expand your arbitrage. You could also try advertising on Facebook and other social networking site since some of them offers paid advertising as well.

Whatever you might do, remember you’re here to offer free proxy services to people and the same way you got on the market you can be removed from it so watch out so you don’t fall off the cliff because proxy business easy as it seems, requires constant effort to make it successful and sometimes can be dangerous. Work hard, be patient and results will be overwhelming.

Avoid your ads from being ripped!

• Author: admin
• Filed under: Articles
• Date: Apr 7,2008

Heya! I’ve been hearing a lot about the ability to rewrite ads on other websites (not our own) by using proxy. This kinda makes me worried. Why? because, if someone use a proxy and surf my site, all ads on my site will be replaced by the proxy owner ads and thus give me no revenue at all.

So, I went on surfing browsing around using big established proxies which is not mine and surf my own sites. Surprised! all the ads on my site got replaced by the proxy’s ads! Seeing this makes me worried and I went to look for a solution.

Thankfully, a member from webproxytalk.com known as Dollar, gave me a set of IPs to be insert in htaccess file. Those IPs was a Data Centre IPs taken from proxy.org. By using them in your htaccess, almost all datacenter will be blocked from surfing your site. The great thing is, it block others server from accessing your site but didn’t block you from accessing them.

Below are the codes to be insert in your htaccess file.

IndexIgnore *
ServerSignature Off
<Limit GET HEAD POST>
order allow,deny
#Datacenter CIDR IP to block browser based proxies
deny from 66.6.96.0/19
deny from 62.112.128.0/19
deny from 72.51.32.0/20
deny from 74.200.192.0/18
deny from 74.200.218.36
deny from 74.86.240.106
deny from 74.86.0.0/16
deny from 67.15.77.224
deny from 66.98.131.103
deny from 67.159.0.0/18
deny from 72.167.0.0/16
deny from 66.96.192.0/18
deny from 67.159.0.0/18
deny from 66.90.64.0/18
deny from 72.232.0.0/16
deny from 208.100.0.0/18
deny from 208.131.128.0/19
deny from 66.98.128.0/17
deny from 64.85.128.0/19
deny from 64.85.160.0/20
deny from 38.0.0.0/8
deny from 198.77.14.0/23
deny from 207.10.224.0/20
deny from 83.170.64.0/18
deny from 208.53.128.0/18
deny from 12.158.188.0/22
deny from 64.131.83.136/29
deny from 208.75.248.0/21
deny from 75.126.0.0/16
deny from 72.232.0.0/16
deny from 77.240.0.0/20
deny from 91.84.0.0/15
deny from 85.234.128.0/19
deny from 193.37.152.0/24
deny from 66.232.96.0/19
deny from 62.193.224.0/20
deny from 62.193.236.0/24
deny from 62.193.192.0/18
deny from 78.40.224.0/21
deny from 64.22.64.0/18
deny from 72.232.210.0/24
deny from 72.36.128.0/17
deny from 10.0.0.0/8
deny from 10.237.44.144
deny from 64.191.0.0/17
deny from 64.72.112.0/20
deny from 209.85.0.0/17
deny from 69.57.160.0/19

allow from all
</LIMIT>

So, after placing this code into your htaccess file, you don’t have to worry about people ripping your ads and replacing with their own.

xytheMe now have a new face!

• Author: admin
• Filed under: Articles
• Date: Apr 2,2008

Well well well..I think its time for me to make a little revamp on my site face. Some people ask me why the heck did I choose chocolate as my theme since it doesn’t impressed them and looks..err..ugly?

Thankfully to them, I’ve been thinking whether or not to change the site layout and then I found this cool template by Acosmin. Coincidently, Wordpress also released their latest version which is 2.5 (which I have been waiting for so long). Without any hesitation, I went to upgrade the site and voila! the site you see now is powered by Wordpress 2.5. Neat huh!

So, I thank you all for visiting my site and hope that my work here will contribute to your riches. In a couple of days, I will be publishing some new templates and this time I will publish the templates in 2 versions, PHProxy & Glype.

Stay tuned.

xytheMe presents Free Web Directory

• Author: admin
• Filed under: Articles
• Date: Mar 31,2008

Just wanted all to know that a free web directory has been added to xytheMe as part of my contribution to public. You can find the link on top menu or can directly click on THIS link.

The directory was built on indexscript which is quite nice and what’s most important it is a free script. So, I invite you all to submit your site to the directory as many as you want as long as your site comply with the submission guidelines.

All submission are free and does not require reciprocal link to me (although I’d be appreciate if you want to link to the site). If you have problem or question regarding the directory, please contact me using the contact form.