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Reasons to add a contact form!

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If you imagine the following scenario you would immediately understand why you need to add a contact form to your proxy website.

Scenario:

You are generating $100 per day through CPM advertisements from your proxified pages. You are absolutely satisfied that your sites might be running perfectly fine but maybe traffic from some ISP can’t advance to their requested proxified website. Now you are losing returning visitors and money.

Maybe there’s one of your loyal visitor who wants to report the error which you are entirely unaware of but he does not know how to contact you.

Now here comes a necessity of adding contact form. You MUST have easy to use contact form through which your site visitors can report you the site errors provide feedback for the site or request additional features.

You don’t need to know the submitter / reporter name or email address so make them optional fields. Add an easy to use drop down field with common options, for example: Report site issues, Send feedback and Request additional site features.

Add an easy to use spam prevention field which asks simple random questions like “What does 2+2 equals to?”

What about the threats?

Proxy business is a risky business. ISPs don’t like services/people who bypass their filters. Sometimes you might get threats via your contact form from ISPs to shut down your website as it’s violating their terms of service or they might ask you to ban their IP range (loss of visitors and money).

Obviously, you can’t hide your identity because the domain is registered with your legal details. They can easily search your contact details by your domain whois.

We won’t go into detail on how to prevent these types of situations but we will give you a hint, Use Disclaimers.

Until next time, live safely!

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 at 5:00 am and is filed under Articles, Proxy maintainance, Scripts. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Reasons to add a contact form!”

  1. Use whoisgurd for the ISP problem. Im not a legal expert but I know that its not against any laws to not ban the ip range.

  2. True, however, whoisguard doesn’t really helps your site. If the ISP is eager to contact the owner of the site, they will ask the registrar to send them the contact details.

    I’ll cover in detail in my next article about how a proxy site owner would get into legal problems, how to overcome those legal problems and how to prevent those legal problems.

    Thanks for commeting!

  3. […] you had read my previous post where I had explained why there should be a contact form on a proxy […]

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