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When would I start to need a proxy?

  • Lynne Level 1
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    When would I start to need a proxy?

    Can anyone please explain to me exactly what a proxy is used for and at what stage of online marketing I would need one?

    I understand that it is about masking your identity and that if you are doing a huge amount of online marketing and SEO work then you might need that but when exactly is the point where you would need one?

    Then what is the difference between a VPN and a proxy?

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    Cristian

    Cristian

    I use Tunnel Bear when I need a proxy. I highly recommend it, Lynne! Depending on what you need to do and how much traffic you will need you might need the paid version, but if you just need it for logging in a few places and creating a few account, the free traffic you receive from them each month should be enough. I'm using it for a few years now and its perfect, especially when it comes to testing stuff and I need an IP from a very specific country.
    7 years ago

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    Lynne

    Lynne

    Oh nice, thanks so much Cristian!

    Um can you tell me is it easy to use? I like simple an easy things!
    7 years ago

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    Everett

    Everett

    This would depend on what you do on the internet. I have always saw those that use proxies as a criminal of sorts because a lot of criminal activities happen whilst on a proxy server. For instance, if you own a website and you block someone's IP Address, that same person can still access the website from a proxy server, making your block obsolete. So it gets kind of annoying when you have a pesky website visitor spamming your site on proxies. There is a way to block proxies but sometimes you just can't. I would personally use a proxy to block them, so i can get the IP address of said proxy.. lol
    7 years ago

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    Lynne

    Lynne

    Everett that's exactly how I was thinking. Proxies are for naughty people, the ones on the dark side.... the black hatters LOL.

    Ok I know it is not that bad, but I just couldn't get my head around why some people are telling me I need a proxy when all I do is blog. Yes I want to use Scrapebox to find some nice places to build links, but I want to build them manually, I only want Scrapebox to do the finding part.
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