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Did you know that over 40% of all search requests on Google are local? At the same time, local businesses are not in a hurry to put their online credentials in order to be on the first page of search results or get into Google's ‘Snack Pack’ (special Google search area that features three businesses with ratings below a flagged local area map). The statistics show that over half of local retailers haven’t even claimed their presence on Google My Business.

All popular search engines like Google or Bing have one thing in common: they want to provide search results to humans not robots. And, whenever you want to engage in scraping the search engine results with a proxy, you will have a certain risk of getting banned or facing Captcha. 

Imagine you are one day before the finale of your favorite show on Hulu and you get an assignment to go across the border on a business trip but cannot wait to enjoy the episode you were so longing to watch. Oops, unlucky for you, the service is not available outside the US and your weekend can be completely ruined. Fortunately there are a few ways to solve this problem for you involving digital aides like anonymous proxies Hulu supports and VPNs with US-based servers. 

ScrapeBox is a must-have tool for all those involved in SEO related activities. It claims to be the “Swiss Army Knife of SEO experts” and deservingly so.

It is really surprising how many people or even customers of proxy providers don’t even have a clue that they use proxy servers in everyday life while working remotely from their homes, hotels, and remote offices when they access their corporate networks. The whole idea that a computer is assigned an IP (Internet Protocol) number whenever it goes online is mind-boggling for most PC users. But this very phenomenon creates some critical vulnerabilities related to security risks and data privacy.

This Proxifier setup guide will teach you how to use our proxies for Diablo 2 and similar online games. We at PrivateProxy understand how painful it can be to use free, glitchy proxies for these purposes.

In this guide to SOCKS5 proxy we will cover the details of functionality and features of SOCKS5 Proxy Server. We will answer the question “what are SOCKS5 proxies?” and describe the most common use cases of this particular type of proxy protocol, underlining its benefits over using VPNs and other types of proxies.