If you do a lot of posting to Web 2.0 sites, especially with automated software, you probably need proxies. And, Proxy Goblin is one of the newest and best tools that helps you find proxies.

Proxies are servers with specific IP addresses that sit between you and other sites you interact with. These other sites send information to the proxy server and do not know about your IP address. The proxy server acts as a go-between in your communications with the outside world.

Proxy Goblin an Essential Internet Marketing Tool

Proxy Goblin is software I use to locate these essential proxies. There are a number of reasons why proxy servers are valuable. They can, for example, cache or hold frequently requested data, thus reducing the traffic to and from other servers and improves overall response time. Proxy servers can also filter the content accessible by other web users.

One more popular use of proxies you can take advantage of is to give yourself a level of anonymity.

Advertising from some large advertising agencies is present on many websites. As you browse the web, viewing these websites, the advertising agency can track your IP address and get an idea of the kinds of sites you visit. With that information, the advertiser can guess what kinds of products and services interest you. As you visit other sites, the advertiser can then choose to display ads you might be interested in. This helps make sales and increases their value to vendors.

Internet marketers also use proxies to help hide their activities.

When you use automated software to create accounts at Web 2.0 sites, it is often good not to leave a “footprint” like a common IP address. Using different proxies every time you sign up for an account with a site can help keep your accounts from being deleted.

And, for most interest marketers, hiding one’s IP address is the primary use of proxies.

Proxy Use for Internet Marketing

Getting your site to the top of the search engines is one important activity of Internet marketing. Some have said that this effort involves “on page” optimization (accounting for around 10% of the results) and “off page” optimization (accounting for about 90% of the results).

Off page optimization primary involves getting other sites to link to your site. And, the sites we, as Internet marketers, have some level of control over are article directories, social bookmarking sites, forum accounts and posts, and other Web 2.0 properties.

Since a Internet marketer may have several sites about different topics, multiple accounts at each web property, proxies are very useful. For example, here is the Proxy screen for the SEO Link Robot application:

SEO Link Robot With Proxies From Proxy Goblin

There are several ways to locate good proxies.

First, you can use a proxy service like Anonymizer Universal. This service provide an IP address that all clients use as their proxy for a day. The next day the proxy changes. This proxy IP is used for all browsing and applications that connect to the web. It is a good service and I have used it in the past. The charge for this currently is around $150 a year.

Second, you can purchase proxies by subscription. A number of proxy subscription services provide new proxies every day, every week, or every month. You can “rent” shared proxies or use private or exclusive proxies (at a higher price). ProxiesForRent.com, ByProxies.org, and ProxyBonanza.org are just a few such providers of proxies.

Third, you can find proxies yourself. There is a free proxy scraper like Charon that you run on your PC. Though Charon works, it no longer seems to be supported by anyone. Other paid proxy software can find and test proxies. I, personally use Proxy Goblin.

In this image, Proxy Goblin has found and tested nearly 200 Elite proxies while working in the background while I was doing other tasks. These proxies were automatically saved by Proxy Goblin to a file on my PC. When I was ready to run Link Robot I simply copied the Proxy Goblin proxies into SEO Link Robot for the next run.

I can say that the proxies Proxy Goblin finds are quality proxies and work well with SEO Link Robot and other applications I use. Rather than pay a monthly or annual fee, Proxy Goblin is a one-time fee with lifetime updates. This not only provides working proxies but saves a lot of money at the same time.

I can recommend Proxy Goblin as an essential Internet marketing tool.