The internet is notorious for tracking users, from behaviour to the finer details of who we are. Sometimes, we just don’t want to disclose our identity and protect our privacy. While Buy proxy servers are no secret to most of the technically inclined, there are still many users who lack the knowledge to access them.
2. The internet is notorious for tracking users, from
behaviour to the finer details of who we are.
Sometimes, we just don’t want to disclose our
identity and protect our privacy. While Buy proxy
servers are no secret to most of the technically
inclined, there are still many users who lack the
knowledge to access them.
3. In one sentence, what exactly is a
proxy server?
A Proxy Server is an intermediate computer
server, that sits between a computer
accessing the internet (the client), and the
destination website the client is trying to surf.
4. What are proxy servers mainly used
for in the SEO industry?
SEO’s use Proxy Servers to hide or change
their true IP address. There are several
reasons you might want to do this:
5. If you access competitor websites a lot for
research, their webservers log your IP address
and may be able to trace your activities back to
you. By routing your requests via a Proxy Server,
your true identity is hidden
6. If your agency manages lots of Social Media
accounts on behalf of clients, eg Facebook and
Twitter, your agency will be making lots of
requests for many different accounts but all from
the same IP address. Facebook and Twitter may
accidentally detect this legitimate activity as if you
are spamming, and so block you. Routing each of
your clients’ Social Media activity via a different
Paid Proxy Server makes it look like normal
activity with each account’s activity coming from a
different IP address.
7. SEO agencies tend to send lots of queries to
Google, Bing and other Search Engines. If you’re
all on the same office network, all that activity
from the same IP address, especially if you use
keyword ranking software, looks like a potential
Denial of Service attack to the Search Engines.
They might then block your IP address,
preventing you from further searching. Sending
your queries via different elite Proxy Servers
mitigates that, and can thus also be used to
speed up your keyword ranking reports.
8. To surf as if you are in another country. Many websites,
especially Search Engines, serve up different content
depending on your country. They determine it by detecting
your IP address and looking it up in a commercial Geo-IP
database (Google being Google of course are believed to use
their own proprietary algorithms for working it out). For
example, if your SEO Agency was based in the UK but you
had a client in the USA, the results you get from Google.com
are going to be different than your client’s results. This is
because Google is very helpfully trying to “personalise” the
results. Several SEO packages like Advanced Web Ranking,
WebCEO and Rank Tracker can mimic this by tweaking the
parameters it sends to Google to “trick” it into thinking you’re
in another location.
9. I’ve seen SEO’s report different levels of success
with this technique, with AWR getting the best
results in my experience. But as Google
particularly seeks to “personalise” more and more,
they are suspected to increasingly be taking your
IP address into account when they personalise
the SERPs. And this technique doesn’t work with
all search engines or software. Therefore we see
a lot of SEO Agencies who have clients overseas
use rent Proxy Servers based in their clients’
countries, to ensure they get the same
personalised results as their clients.
