Anonymous Proxies Online

The social networking websites on the internet have literally changed some of the ways that some people go about their ventures to make money online. If you haven’t thought about making money with social network websites, such as Facebook or even Myspace, perhaps it’s time that you invest some of your time figuring out how you might be able to boost sales, get more customers, and jumpstart your affiliate marketing adventures as well.

Many internet marketers are already earning more than enough money through exploiting social networking websites’ systems in order to get their hands on more dough. Here are some interesting ways that you, too, can earn money with social networking websites that shouldn’t and won’t take you very much time at all.

The first step in social network internet marketing involves actually setting up your account. If you don’t already have an account with Myspace, Facebook, Xanga, or any of the other well-known websites out there, it’s time you did. When registering, one can either use their real name or a “pen name” of sorts. In fact, many internet marketers actually use a pen name in order to disguise who they really are as well as creating a social networking profile to go along with their name.

What and How to Sell: The number of things and products that anyone can sell on Facebook or Myspace is ultimately limitless. Whether you want to post your affiliate link to a weight-loss product or promote your own website that you want members and traffic to, anything is generally accepted in these communities.

When it comes to the actual selling process, though, there are several ways it can be done. First, social networking sites usually allow members to post “bulletins” or notes that all the rest of their “friends” that are members of the site are able to see.

These bulletins are where the real money comes in, because practically anything can be included in them. For example, as in the weight-loss product above, you could do a product review of the weight loss product and post it in a bulletin along with your affiliate link in order for your “friends” to buy. In doing so, your friends will give you commission sales on the products they buy.

Another way that an individual can use social networking websites to make money is through their profile. Whether you’d like to promote your product or someone else’s as an affiliate marketer, this can be done right on your profile by posting affiliate links, product reviews, information pieces, and anything else that will attract and link bait a potential sale. Even videos that are essentially product reviews and an attempt to try to sell your own product or your affiliate product can be posted on your social networking member profile.

As you can see, the sales and amount of money that can come from using and exploiting social networking websites can really compound. Essentially, the more friends that a person has in their community profile means that the more chances they have and the more members they have available to them in order to market and try to sell products or information. All in all, using Facebook, Myspace, Xanga, or even another smaller social networking community website can definitely pay off large rewards in the long run!



By: Daniel Millions

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Many work places and schools are cracking down on the web sites and online services. Blocking access to social sites has been a common tactic. The most common websites that are blocked in schools include MySpace, Bebo and Facebook.

There are however always legitimate reasons to bypass the internet filters and visit the blocked websites. The following methods will help you access blocked websites in school, college or your company.

Trick A: Using a web proxy to bypass restrictions. Proxies that focus on website browsing are called web proxies. A web proxy works by acting as a “middle man”: it downloads the requested pages to its proxy server and in turn you download the page, all images and other such objects from the proxy server to your browser, thus bypassing any filters and annoying firewalls.

Assban.com ( http://www.assban.com ) is a popular web proxy. You can search on Google for “myspace proxy” and find a great deal of other web proxies as well.

But chances are that your school administration has already blocked access to most web proxies as well. In that case, you have one more options:

Trick B: You can download Ultrasurf (http://www.ultrareach.com/company/download.htm ) and save it to a USB stick. UltraSurf is a green software, which means no installation process is needed nor system setting is required to change when using the software. UltraSurf implements almost all browser functions based on HTTP and user needs, such as browsing websites, login and posting on web forums, using Web mail, uploading and downloading data files, real time audio, video and other multimedia programs, etc.

The more people are aware of these tricks, the more likely your network administrators will catch on and find ways to shut them down. So be sure not to let others know how to do these tricks. Accessing unauthorized web sites using the above tricks may be considered a violation of school or work policies and might put you in trouble. Use them at your own risk.



By: John Lee

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Ever wanted to explode onto the music scene with the best song you ever wrote? Well if you use MySpace your chances have just increased.

Ultimately this article is for aspiring musicians and talented artists that have artist profiles on this popular website and want that little extra help in leveling out the battle field and make it possible to compete with the big names in today’s music industry.

Have you ever heard of increasing MySpace mp3 song plays? Well, it is the new craze that is rapidly spreading across the internet. The deal is this, they increase your plays, profile views or even your video plays and intern your MySpace chart ranking increases along with your fan count and daily friend requests.

Now I am not a marketing guru but I would think that receiving many plays every day and many profile views every day that would lead to more CD sales and increased exposure to A&R’s?

Increasing mp3 plays, profile views and video plays has been recognized by many as the only real way to contend with the big names in the music business. These days if you are not popular on the music charts the question remains to be who are you. The main trick with MySpace is you can give your fans something from your page and they can actually be there and contact you, leave a comment and simply be on a level with you.

Being the powerhouse on the internet with millions and millions of users each and every day, advertising and pushing your music to your fans on MySpace is the cheapest and most simplest option for any artist out there today.

Obviously if you used such services your music better be up to scratch or you would be wasting your marketing $$ exposing bad music, which is not really what you want, so you must make sure your music is of HQ (high quality) and that you can be contacted or all your work and effort will be a waste.

On one hand I would think that the likeliness of succeeding in such a manner would fail due to MySpace’s strict policies, but on the other hand I think many do fool the giant in making them look so real that they are very hard to detect, and maybe even if the increase system is smart enough, undetectable.

Though the 1 area for this system I see may fail, is if the play delivery system stopped for a while and then kicked back in with massive numbers, surely they would detect something there. But really I think all the visits are done so stealthy by using proxies and different referrers that MySpace can not really do anything, as far as they could know you are just simply marketing you or your bands page, or you could of just done a concert etc.

So if you are considering using this kind of service to increase your mp3 music plays I would be very careful and sure to start off small and slowly increase over a time frame that looks

fairly realistic!



By: Daniel Millions

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le sentence, the title “How to Use Proxies to Unblock Member Profiles” may seem confusing to many, as it contains a couple of what most people would classify as technical jargon. But really, once you understand how stuff works on the Internet, it’s not that hard to disperse the mist. First, let’s expand on our title a little bit and talk about what member profiles are all about.

When the Internet first started, it consists mostly of static web pages, where people can upload and share information as texts. As technology advances, and hardware and software become more advanced, the Internet began to evolve into one of the most amazing and effective communication in the entire world. Compared to the television, the Internet has seen growth that’s three times as fast as the television networks. But that’s hardly surprising, considering the possibilities of what can be done on the Internet.

Before long, most people figured out that the Internet is an ideal place for communications. It is, in fact, conducive to share information in any format on the Internet, such as video files, text files, and audio files. So people started to use the Internet to connect with everyone else, even if the person on the other end of the line is halfway across the globe. On the Internet, that is not a problem at all. And soon, the need to connect and communicate grew so strong that innovative web developers started to launch social websites like Friendster, MySpace, and now the immensely popular Facebook.

These social networks, also commonly known as social communities or Web 2.0 websites, allow web visitors to register at the site and instantly network with other members of the site. But then, there are privacy concerns. What if a member doesn’t wish to be contacted by strangers? What if a member simply doesn’t want to be interrupted with a flood of online messages? For sure, if nothing is done about privacy issues, the website will lose its portion of its audience. Web visitors like their privacy to be respected. So social networking sites recognize this need, and has come up with special features so that members can block other members from contacting or messaging them.

But being at the technological fore-front does attract attention from all types of different people. And some of these people are just as technically inclined as the developers of the website. They invented a way to get around the blocking system, and they call this solution web proxies. Using web proxies, they are able to “cheat” the system into believing that they are really a different person. Hence, the website is unable to recognize them and therefore, cannot block them. By using web proxies, members can now surf social networking sites while remaining anonymous. That means it’s going to be difficult to trace their footprints. What is essentially happening is that the user is accessing a website through a third party server, and the website recognizes the server as a user. In a way, it’s something like “hiding” behind a server while accessing the sites.

If you are interested in pursuing more knowledge on this subject, feel free to check out some of the web proxies available out there.

By: Gen Wright

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I’m not going to be very popular after publishing this article, but this is really a big problem and one that needs to be addressed very quickly before it grows into another digital snowball like spam and malware. IT departments spend a lot of time and money on network security. Restrictions are put into place, not only to protect corporate data, but also for the safety of everyone working on the corporate network.

However, network restrictions are not only for the corporate world, these restrictions are also present at schools and even in our homes. But what is the use of protecting your data and privacy if you constantly have to deal with cyber rats eating their way through your defences from the inside?

A proxy is often blocked as soon as the network administrator becomes aware of the fact that it is used to gain unauthorised access to websites and other networks. That’s the reason why people are constantly in search of brand new proxies and what scares me the most, is the rate at which these new proxies become available, it is so bad you can even regard it as another form of spam.

The sad reality however, is that the people who use these proxies, either do not know a thing about PC security, or they don’t give a damn about it. Browsing restricted sites via an illegal proxy exposes your computer to malware and hackers, putting the whole network at risk. Confidential and sensitive corporate information can easily be leaked and the privacy of every employee using the corporate network could be compromised due to the selfish acts of employees who can’t walk between the lines.

So you are not only putting your colleagues in a tight spot, your compromising your own security as well. The most popular reason for a proxy is to gain access to social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Orkut or Twitter. Social networking sites are time and money wasters in terms of productivity, bandwidth and company resources. Instead of doing their jobs, people waste hours and hours of productivity during the day, by hanging out on social community sites.

To add insult to injury, they don’t use their own bandwidth to chill on these sites, they use company bandwidth, company computers and company printers to do what they should be doing after work. Kids browse these social communities instead of attending to their schoolwork, wasting their parents’s money, or the money of the taxpayer if the government funds the school. Speaking of the government, what about government workers?

Instead of delivering the services we pay for, they browse MySpace, Facebook, Orkut or Twitter with our tax money. (Some governments do not even have any network security to speak of, so they can access any site without the use of a proxy).

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against the use of social networking sites, but there is a time and place for everything and social networking sites do not have a place at the office or at school (unless you are the PR manager of the company maintaining the company profile on MySpace).

Before everyone starts to call me a party pooper, accusing me of taking the fun out of the office, think about this: If everyone spent more time on their job and less time on social networking sites during working hours, we will get a lot more work done and will therefore have plenty of time to hang out with friends and family on our favourite social networking sites.

Don’t be mad at your boss for limiting your Internet access, the fact that you are using a proxy to bypass Internet filters and other limitations imposed by your employer, already tells me that you can’t use the Internet responsibly. If you really need to use these sites, visit them after work or after school and if you don’t have a computer at home, use a friend’s computer or visit an Internet cafe.

It has to be mentioned though, that 3rd party proxies are not only used to access social networking sites, but they are also popular for **** surfing and the downloading of pirated software, music and movies.

These sites are far worse than social networking sites, because they do not only waste valuable man-hours, they are often loaded with nasty malware, a direct threat to the safety of everyone working on the network.

The bottom line is, companies invest a lot in computer security, computer labs at schools do their best to keep their networks safe and clean and parents invest in parental control software to keep their young ones from accessing harmful content on the Web. Still you get people who want to break down all these barriers, ignoring the damage they cause and the risks they create during this process. Bypassing the parental control software on the family computer can easily lead to a prohibited site where a sneaky rootkit finds its way into your system.

It may log a credit card number here and a password there and before your folks know what’s going on, they could be staring bankruptcy in the face. The same can happen at work or at school, your infected PC can cause a lot of problems for other people using the same network.

Do you want something like this on your conscience? Proxies may have their uses, but they should not be used to cross digital borders illegally. If you are not allowed to visit a specific site at work or at school, then there’s most likely a pretty good reason why you shouldn’t visit it. If you choose to visit prohibited sites without proper authorisation, you risk losing your job, getting suspended or even harsher network restrictions may be implemented.

I hope you find this information useful.



By: Wayne Cutforth

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From the privacy of your own home, you can surf to any website on the Internet without worrying about being blocked. However, this is usually not the case when you’re surfing from work or school. Despite all the positive things you can do on the web, businesses who provide their employees unfettered access to the Internet may also be opening themselves up to lowered productivity when the employees use their access to surf porn, play games or do their shopping while they are supposed to be working. Likewise, there are few, if any, schools without Internet access. However, schools certainly can’t run the risk of allowing their younger students to access **** or other illegal or inappropriate materials, of which there is an abundance online. Bandwidth is also a consideration. The American military in Iraq recently started blocking Internet access to certain high bandwidth websites, like Youtube and Myspace, due to bandwidth consumption concerns. Internet video, streaming audio and online games generally consume the largest amount of bandwidth. Blocking these sites surely must have dropped the military’s bandwidth consumption a great deal.

The problem with blocking websites from your employees or students is that many times a student or employee will have a legitimate reason to use a blocked website. Take Myspace or Facebook users, for instance. They may need to respond to an important message about a meeting or respond to other legitimate and important correspondence.

This legitimate problem has one easy solution, and that is, the proxy site.

What is a proxy?

It is simply a website which allows a user to type in the URL of the site they want to go to, then you hit enter and it will fetch the webpage from it’s cache or fetch the latest version of the page for your viewing. Surfing to sites in this manner, by “proxy”, means that the owner of the site cannot tell that you have visited the site, your IP address is hidden and won’t be recorded and that only the address of the proxy is recorded by the site. Surfing by proxy is useful in order to surf to sites that are blocked by your Internet service provider, company or school, because while you may be visiting a site that is blocked, your Internet service provider, company or school will only be able to tell that you visited a proxy site, not the site that you visited WITH the proxy.

Why use a proxy?

- Proxy surfing is more private than regular surfing, your private information is hidden

- Proxy surfing allows you to access sites that are blocked by your company or school

- Proxy surfing can be faster than surfing on a normal Internet connection, because you can set options to not download website objects like images, scripts, forms and cookies, all of which take additional time to download.

Where to find proxy sites?

There are many proxy directories, which maintain a list of the latest proxy sites available as well as established proxies. You can also search proxy topsites, which maintain a list of proxy sites by popularity. In addition, you can simply search for proxy sites on any search engine.



By: Charles Quinn

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As an Internet user you face many dangers online ranging from cyber criminals trying to steal your identity to marketing companies and ISPs tracking and logging your IP address. As a lot of web surfers know, one of the best ways for protecting personal information and maintaining Internet privacy is to use a proxy server. While many useful proxy servers can be found on the Internet simply by searching "proxy" on Google, the age old question that many Internet users have difficulty answering is: What is better to use, anonymous surfing software or free web-based anonymous proxies?

A software-based proxy will run with your current browser and allow you to surf freely without having to go back to a homepage to enter a new URL every time you want to visit a different website. This type of proxy does require the user to download and install the program, but after installation it should only require 1-click to run the program and surf anonymously. A good software proxy will cost you a few dollars a month, which is a downside compared to the free web proxies. There is usually a fee associated because you are getting what you pay for. Software proxies, much like their web-based counterparts, offer anonymous surfing, but also encrypt the data being transmitted. This means that in addition to your IP address being masked, your data and the transmission between networks is also secure, unlike a web proxy. Another positive aspect of software proxies is that your origin is also hidden. A website will see your origin as the last website you visited before coming to them, which can tell them a lot about you if they are tracking your surfing habits. Software proxies also allow you to surf through various domains so that if an IT department does try to spy on you they will only see the fake web URL that the proxy gives them. The proxy will show them you are surfing on officetrainingtips.com, while you are really checking your personal e-mail.

Web-based proxy servers are quite easy to use and require nothing on your part besides an active Internet connection and a web browser. These web anonymizers require you only to enter the URL of the site you wish to visit and give it a click. Your IP address is hidden and replaced with the IP address of the site’s server. This is a great example of proxy avoidance and will get you onto a blocked website, but only offers minimal, if any, data protection and encryption services. The main purpose of the web-based anonymous proxy is to get on websites such as MySpace, Facebook, or any other site that that would normally be blocked by a school or company’s IT Department. Another downside is that this type of proxy is unable gain access to sites that use Secure Socket Layer or Secure Shell encryption, such as banking sites.

Ultimately, both methods of protecting your IP address and maintaining Internet privacy have their pros and cons. At the end of the day if you only need a quick fix to get onto a blocked website that requires no personal information, such as account numbers or passwords, then a web proxy will work for you. Using a software proxy whenever you surf, even if only for a few minutes, would be highly recommended. It is still easy to use and offers much more protection and freedom to surf without the worry of just how protected you are. Since both will hide your IP address it is more important to focus on the advanced protection a software-based proxy can offer you. This factor alone makes software-based proxies, such as Private Proxy, your best bet.



By: Tino Bruno

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There are millions of students worldwide that feel hindered by measures taken by their schools to filter the content available to them on school-based internet. They have taken it upon themselves to find ways to preserve anonymity by bypassing the firewalls implemented by the schools. In this way, they are able to hide their school’s IP address from the desired website. This allows the student to quickly gain access to websites like MySpace, personal email accounts, gaming sites, and yes, pornography.The method most commonly employed by such students involves the use of proxy servers. These are small servers that allow clients to make indirect network connections to various network services. The proxy computer hides the location of the student’s computer thus allowing an informational bridge between the student and the desired website. This capacitates the students with the ability to view banned content from their school’s network.There are several websites that provide proxy services. They are useful for many other applications besides allowing students to access non-academic material. For example, network operators may employ a proxy server to intercept harmful viruses or other questionable content from remote websites. When a proxy server is utilized, it does not reveal the IP address, browser type, operating type or cookies to the requested site. It allows the viewing of pages by sending the request from an alternate location.For student’s using proxy servers to bypass their school’s firewalls, the specific type of proxy server necessary is called a circumventor. A circumventor takes a website that has been blocked by a firewall and redirects it through an unblocked website. In a never-ending circle, the student’s demand for creative freedom creates a supply of fresh circumventors as quickly as filters detect them. The issue that students need to be aware of is that it is possible for a proxy site to be run by corrupt individuals. These people may use the information that they become privy to for malicious purposes such as identity theft. Even though information is hidden by the proxy server from the requested site, it is visible to the administrator of the proxy site itself.



By: Scott Smithson

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If some websites get blocked in your company or school, how to access those websites at work or school? Today more and more employers and schools are becoming aware of the amount of time their employees or students are spending using the Internet for personal reasons. The network administrator uses a firewall or proxy server to restrict access to websites or other Internet protocols. Since all your Internet communication passes through your network’s firewall, it’s not strange that some websites (like myspace or game sites) get censored in your company or school.

There are three easy ways to get around the Internet filter:

1. The easiest way is to use a web based proxy. A web-based proxy is powered by server-side software such as PHProxy, CGIProxy, Poxy or custom proxy scripts. A web based proxy has a web interface very similar to the google search box. Just enter the website address you want to visit in that box and click “submit” button, everything is done! You can find hundreds working web-based proxies at http://www.aplusproxy.com/webproxy.php.

2. Set a proxy in your Internet browser to browse blocked websites. This is not as simple as the first method, but it can be even more effective.

Pre-Step 1.) Go to the public proxy list at http://www.aplusproxy.com/proxylist/index.php.

Pre-Step 2.) Copy a few proxy addresses (Example - IP:Port) to the notepad. Some proxies may be dead so you need more than one proxy for test.

Then, if you’re using Internet Explorer:

Step 1.) Open your Internet Explorer.

Step 2.) On the Tools menu in Internet Explorer, click Internet Options, click the Connections tab, and then click LAN Settings.

Step 3.) Under Proxy server, click to select the Use a proxy server for your LAN check box.

Step 4.) In the Address box, type the IP address of the proxy server.

Step 5.) In the Port box, type the port number of that proxy (such as 80 or 8080).

Step 6.) You can click to select the Bypass proxy server for local addresses check box (optional)

Step 7.) Click OK to close the dialog boxes.

Step 8.) Your IE should now be configured to browse the net through a proxy server.

Detailed setting For Firefox browser users is available at http://www.aplusproxy.com/faq/index.php.

3. Download free proxy software. Some proxy software (like Freenet, JAP, and Tor) can automatic search the proxies from the Internet and configure the browser setting for you. For more info, please go to http://www.aplusproxy.com/torpark.php.



By: John Lee

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If you were ever wondering how people accessed myspace and other social networking websites at school and work when all you received was the schools error page then they were probably using a proxy site.

Proxy sites help to bypass filters created by network administrators at your school or work place, these are in place to stop students or employees from accessing websites which are not supposed to be accessed mainly due to the irrelevancy that they have with your job or education.

There are different types of proxy servers which can be created some which use the server its self to put a server request through without contacting the specified server.

Other proxy sites use the World Wide Web this being the most common type of proxy site the “web proxy” these are used as a web cache providing access to blacklisted websites.

Proxy sites also help to allow banned IP addresses that may have been blacklisted from certain websites filtered access back in to that website.

You can create your own proxy site very easily with basic knowledge of HTML and CSS as well as a slight knowledge of PHP. If you’re unsure how to create a proxy site you can learn by reading my own free proxy eBook which you can download here free proxy eBook. Proxy sites offer you access to every website that may of before been blocked, your able to surf and chat also giving you the choice to surf youtube and watching videos. Proxy sites are often slower than entering the website from the normal route due to the bypassing they have to do however they are generally fast enough.



By: willyboy

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