I compiled a list of proxy topsites today.  I came up with over 150 proxy topsites, and ranked them all by PR, so I can submit to the best first.  If you would like a copy of this list, leave me a comment here.  I was happily surprised there were about 10 PR5 topsites in the list along with about 20 PR4 sites.  If I am able to get on the first page of a few of those high ranking sites, it will help a lot.

Now for paying for my phone.  This will be fun as usual. I will be making my money online.

This week I will be submiting to top proxy lites like proxies.vc to gain backlings to my proxy.

1. Narrow down sites with best PR.
2. Submit to sites.
3. put backlink code on my proxy.
4. Look for a proxy group to submit to.

After submitting to top sites, i will try out a few different proxy groups to submit to.  School will be back in session in a few weeks, and I want to be postured to get my site out there to any potential users.

Your iPhone 3G order has been shipped and is on its way to the AT&T store in which you placed the order, please see address below. Your credit card has been charged. Order Number: xxxx Shipping Zip Code: xxxx Shipping Address: xxxxx You will be notified via email when it arrives. You will then have seven (7) days to pick up your order or it will be canceled. Check the status of your order at any time at our website by clicking here or by calling our automated system at 877-782-8870. Please see order details above. Thank you again for choosing AT&T. Sincerely, AT&T

With the imminent release of wordpress for the iPhone, I plan to be blogging from my iPhone very soon.

If you sign up for a publisher account, matched.com will pay you $10 for signing up. Thats the start. Then you sign up to have a banner ad put on your site. You can choose 5 pages on one site to put ads on. Each page you put an ad on matched.co.uk pays you 3£ per page you put a banner ad on.

3£ = ~$5, so you add 5 sites total, with 5 pages per site, and now your making 75£ or $150 per month.

Its sites like these that make making money online fun. And if you want to make more, sign up for an affiliate link to receive an extra $10 for everyone you get to sign up.

Have fun making money!!

Now for getting traffic to the proxy. My first initiative will be to buy a spot on this Free Proxy List. I will buy a premium listing here for $10. I will also go about putting my proxy on “top proxy” sites like proxies.vc. ProxyInter.net will bring immediate traffic to my proxy, while proxies.vc will help out my google PR. Both aspects are important.

Before submitting to proxies.vc we need to do some SEO work. Choosing keywords for my website is a very important step. After doing some research, I am choosing “Fast Myspace Proxy” as the title for my site. For this study, I will not do extensive SEO work to start with. I will rather wait until the proxy has some traffic, and backlinks, then analyze my traffic to see what is coming from google, and probably tweak my SEO work toward that.

So this far I have spent the following to get my proxy site up and running.

Domain Name with 1and1 - $6.99
Webhosting - $2.99
Premium listing on proxyinter.net - $10

So I have invested $20 so far into my new proxy. I should start seeing traffic immediatly coming from proxyinter.net. I will start tracking the earnings from my new “Fast Myspace Proxy” and report back soon.

I will also be submitting the site to at least a few “proxy topsites” like proxies.vc.

Below is a portion of the email sent to me form att.

Thank you for your recent order, we value and appreciate your business. Please be advised that one or more items in your order are currently out of stock and on backorder. We are working hard to fulfill your order as quickly as possible. The estimated shipping timeframe for each item is listed below. We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause you and we appreciate your patience.

Order Number:

Check the status of your order at any time via our website by clicking here or by calling our automated phone system at 877-782-8870.

Item Name	Item Number	Quantity Ordered	Quantity Shipped	Quantity Back Ordered	Usually Ships In
Apple Iphone 16 Gb 3g Blk Phone	69114	1	0	1	5 to 7 days
Freight	88878	1	0	1	Special Order

I will be eagerly awaiting the next email from att, or in this case the email actually came from iCare@cingular.com. I guess cingular still lurks behind the scenes.

The parking lot was pretty full, and i arrived at the same time about five other cars arrived.  I was probably the 65th-or 70th in line.  Shortly after being in line, a friend number 43 in line told me the att store had 40 in stock.  A while later this was confirmed by one of the store employees peddling iPhone accessories.  At that time they told us the whoever didn’t get an iPhone could order one, and they would be called when the phone arrived at the store.  We were also told if we didnt pre-order an iPhone today, we would just be on a first come first serve basis.  I decided to finish out the wait, and order my iPhone.

Ok, its has been ordered, and I have even received an email confirming my order!  Now for the wait.  How long will it be until my new iPhone will arrive, or even be shipped.  Sure hope it wont be long.  I heard some of the store employees mention within 5 days, but who knows.

Let me know if got yours today or are waiting like me.

I have purchased my domain name. I registered fbuster.com at 1and1 as the domain name for my proxy, . This name met the criteria for choosing a proxy domain name. It doesn’t contain the word proxy, easy to remember, and spell. These are important to remember when choosing your proxy. The target audience for your proxy will most likely be coming from a public computer, and will probably have to type this address in manually. Therefore being easy to spell, remember, and a dot com make it easy for users to type this address in manually when trying to access your site.

I have researched the different proxy scripts availabe and supported and chose to go with Glype. This script is very easy to set up, has many skins available, and also has many modifications available. These features will make it easy for me to make a great functional proxy for my users. The better my proxy works, the more people will come back and use the proxy again. This means more money for me. I like making money online!

In my next part I will have the proxy up and running, and talk about getting traffic to my proxy.

I started out today with picking out a domain name for my new proxy.  Picking out a domain name for a proxy can be very simple, but you should really put some though into it.  Depending on your final goal of the proxy site, there are a couple things to keep in mind.

I decided I would try to get the proxy up and going, do a little SEO for on it, and experiment with a couple different ways of monetizing the proxy.

1. Using a domain name containing “proxy” can get your site blocked easily.
2. Keep the name short and easy to memorize.  If the name is easy to memorize, its likely they will use it again.
3. Also keep the domain name easy to spell.
4. Use a dot com top level domain. Easies to remember, and search engines like dot com the best.

Keeping these in mind, I chose fbuster.com, short for firewall buster. I think this name will be easy to remember and spell, and not get blocked very quick, as it doesn’t contain the name proxy within it.

I used 1and1 to register my domain. I still believe they are about the cheapest out there, and have not had problems with their service.

I will be using Techentrance to host the proxy on. Tech entrance runs many proxies, and has optimized their servers to run proxies very well.

Thats all for today. Check back tomorrow for the next step, setting up the proxy.  Come back soon to learn more about making money online.