You bought yourself some private proxies to use them in your project. More often than not, private proxies are bought for marketing tasks such as SEO backlink building and social media automation and management of several accounts. Unfortunately, if you know what you bought your private proxies doesn’t mean you know how to use them. And very often, new users of proxies for marketing will make mistakes along the way. But, you can avoid some mistakes if you're simply are aware of them and take the necessary steps to avoid or mitigate them. Thus, below you will find seven of the most common mistakes in using private proxies.
Mistake 1: Buy cheap private proxies
One of the most common mistakes users of private proxies do is to hunt the cheapest private proxies. Unfortunately, this is a mistake that can cost you a lot of money and time lost.
You should never buy proxies based solely on their price. Because sometimes the cheapest proxies are the worst proxies you can buy. The proxy server is crowded and slow because the provider sells it as a shared proxy to several users. And each additional user of a particular proxy gets a bandwidth and speed cut from the other users. Therefore, avoid buying the cheapest proxies.
Mistake 2: Messy browser cooky management
This mistake can cost your proxies connectivity and can also impact your marketing performance. Moreover, this mistake is usually done by those who use private proxies manually with a browser.
We recommend that you develop a set of rules for each time you use your private proxies. Abide by it and anytime you use proxies, clean the browser’s cache, history and clean the cookies. And you will be able to use your proxies for a long period of time.
Mistake 3: Abusing your private proxy power
Another issue that is encountered by some proxy users is abusing the power private proxies offers them. This means that they will usually start connecting the proxies in the wrong way.
For example, social media proxy users will start from connecting one account per proxy to several accounts. And with each individual account connected, they abuse their proxies' power and increase the risk of getting the private proxy’s IP blocked. Which leads us to the next mistake you must definitely avoid.
Mistake 4: Using private proxies after they are blocked
This is an issue that most users do. Once a proxy is blocked on an online platform, they continue using it as if nothing happened. Unfortunately, this is not the correct behavior you must do when using private proxies.
Once you suspect or notice that a private proxy has been blocked, you must stop using it. Luckily, IPLease offers the possibility to refresh your proxy’s IP anytime you find fit. And when your proxies are blocked, you can simply ask for a proxy IP refresh and new IPs will be issued for your private proxies.
Mistake 5: Buying the wrong private proxies
One of the greatest mistakes, together with buying cheap private proxies is to buy the wrong proxies. For example, if you want to use your proxies on social media, instead of buying Instagram proxies, you buy SEO proxies because they might be cheaper.
But, by buying SEO proxies, you do not have the certainty that these proxies will allow you to connect to Instagram. And even if they connect you to Instagram, you do not have the certainty that the accounts will not be blocked due to the proxy’s history.
Mistake 6: Using the same LP for all social media accounts
This is more of a marketing mistake but has an impact on your private proxy performance. This mistake is done by marketing beginners that do not understand how social media marketing works and will use the same landing page and send traffic from all their accounts.
This mistake can lead to all your accounts blocked and proxies flagged because it simply draws a connection between your accounts.
We recommend you use several landing pages together with several domains on which to host them.
Mistake 7: Not using your proxies after purchase
This is a simple business mistake that can cost you money and marketing performance. This mistake is done by those users that buy proxies and do not use them right away. In this way, they end up paying for parked proxies.
We recommend you buy your proxies right before using them after your strategy has been developed already. In this way, you can start offsetting the costs of your proxies.
Thursday, November 2, 2017
