Most of the commerical internet content filters will try to send a bot to scan a new or unknown website it has encountered for the first time. If there are any words like “proxy”, “anonymous” etc on the domain name, such as www.proxy.com it is likely to be blocked right away and categorized instantly as proxy avoidance. If the filter bot is unsure which category your website falls into, it may temporary allow students to continue having access to it while adding your school proxy websites to a queue for a more involved scan check. For example, they may start examining the contents on the various pages under your website, check the IP or nameservers, check incoming and outgoing backlinks etc. The content filter companies such as websense knows and have a comprehensive database on possible content, IP, hosting companies and millions of proxy websites, topsites, link exchanges etc in their records.

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If you are the owner of a proxy website and do not use or heard about the robots.txt, you may get problems coming your way from other angry webmasters claiming that you have taken their web content without explicit permission. If you do not understand the above, then learn about this term “proxy hijacking” now. When your loyal proxy visitor uses your free proxy website to retrieve webpages from other sites on the web anonymously, those webpage content are instantly being rewritten by the web proxy script and appear to be hosted as your proxy website’s contents. What was painstakingly created on other internet websites now becomes your hijacked content after some proxy visitors anonymously surf those third party websites. If you happen to have those search engine bots from Google,Yahoo and MSN etc crawling through your proxy server contents at that moment, they may index those proxy hijacked content and associate those content to your anonymous proxy instead. When the real owners and authors of those content do a copyscape search on search engines and find their contents being listed on your anonymous web proxy and not rightfully on their own websites, they get angry and find your proxy ip and send emails to your proxy hosting provider and to the search engines to report your content stealing acts. Your anonymous web proxy may be removed from the important search engine results and that means a great loss of proxy earnings and traffic for you. Some inexperienced hosting companies may also suspend your hosting accounts. This is also a reason to go with specialized proxy hosting providers that are used to handling such copyright complaints and know the actual reason behind the content abuses as a by effects of the scripts used for surfing anonymously. If you are using Adsense for monetizing your web proxy, note that they have an explicit policy on not allowing you to put advertisements on content that does not belong exclusively to you. Some bitter, anti proxy content owners may even try and get your Adsense accounts banned by reporting that you are a spammer and are using duplicated content.

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