SEO Autopilot Proxies

SEO Autopilot proxies are added via the interface. There are several different types of proxies that can be added to SEO Autopilot.

Scraped Proxies / Public Proxies

Scraped proxies are gathered by tools either from lists available on the internet or port scanning. These proxies tend to be scraped by many SEO professionals and are likely in use on many hundreds of machines at the same time. They are generally unreliable, burn out quickly or do not work at all. The success rate with scraped proxies is very low. Typically, under 10 for any activity involving account creation, captcha solving or content uploading.

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We strongly recommend that you do not use scraped proxies with SEO autopilot

Shared Proxies

Online services offer shared proxies. These are generated servers owned by the service providers themselves and they typically only allow a certain number of users to use them. A shared proxy might typically be sold to 5 or 10 users.

The speed is also normally much faster than scraped proxies as the servers are open specifically to provide data throughput for you at the consent of the IP owner. As opposed to scraped proxies where you are sneaking data through the back-door.

In my experience some of these providers are excellent and give a good service capable of supporting acceptance rates well over 50 per cent and sometimes approaching 80 per cent. They might cost 1 dollar per month per proxy typically. But better services might charge a little more.

Shared proxies can be used to obtain satisfactory results with SEO Autopilot

Private Proxies

Private proxies, as the name suggests are privately rented by you from a service provider. You are the sole user of these proxies for the duration of the contract (normally renewed monthly)

The service provider owns the servers where these proxies reside and the data pipelines along which they communicate. As neither the data pipeline nor the proxies themselves are shared the user can expect the best speeds and the best success rate.

There is no chance that another user is getting your proxies banned. They are your proxies and only you are using them.

These IP’s typically cost a few dollars each. Started at perhaps $3 and moving all the way up to $10 or more.

Proxy Settings in SEO Autopilot

The main settings for proxies in SEO autopilot are regarding the timings and threads.

Running many simultaneous threads with too few proxies might lead to the sites you are looking to create accounts or post content to becoming wary of too many requests in a short space of time from the same IP address and ban (usually temporarily) the proxy.

Also bear in mind that proxies are used when making calls to captcha solving services. The one in particular that can cause issues is ReCaptcha.

ReCaptcha is Google’s own spam prevention system and each call for a new captcha image, and each solve attempt is monitored by Google who collect a lot of data. The user name, password and of course the IP address the attempt is being made by.

While it is possible to set SEO Autopilot proxies to make multiple attempts to solve each captcha, remember that every time you do so the IP address is being revealed to Google, along with the account name you are attempting to create and the password you are using.

For the safest use of SEO Autopilot proxies, I tend to run 1 thread per every 2 proxies in my list and have the settings somewhat similar to the image above.

SEO Autopilot Proxies Security

Private or shared proxies are kept secure in two main ways. They are either IP locked or password protected. SEO Autopilot allows the use of both types.

IP Locked Proxies

With IP locked proxies only a set number of registered IP’s are allowed to host the software running the proxies. There is usually a way in the providers dashboard of adding your current IP to the list of approved addresses that the data calls will be recognised from.

If your own internet connection has a roaming or renew at connection IP (many have this) you may need to revisit the providers site quite often to update the allowed list.

Password Protected Proxies

The other format is user name / password protected proxies. These allow, as the description suggests, the IPs to be protected by user names or passwords and SEO Autopilot allows you to enter these in any order (user name password or password user name) depending on how the service provider has set them up.

In both cases once you have entered your proxies and their passwords if required, you can check that they work by pressing the “Test Proxies” button at the bottom right of the settings screen (Settings > Proxies >Test Proxies).