Must-Read for Market Newcomers: Dedicated Static or Rotating Proxy?

For people going overseas, agents have become an indispensable and important tool. However, different types of agents have different characteristics and adapted business scenarios. When should static agents be used, and in what scenarios should dynamic agents be used? For novices going overseas, it is necessary to understand these points!

Ⅰ. What are static proxy and dynamic proxy

1. Static Proxy

Also called a fixed proxy, as the name suggests, the IP address remains unchanged within a specific period of time, which can provide users with a fixed, stable IP address, as well as additional security and anonymity, and maintain a stable network identity.

2. Dynamic Proxy

Also called a rotating proxy, the IP address will be rotated periodically under certain time or conditions, and is generally dynamically allocated by the ISP (Internet Service Provider).

Ⅱ. Static proxy applicable business scenarios

1. Social Media

Basically all social media platforms have IP blacklists that record IPs that have violated regulations and IPs that are suspected to be risky. If a user's IP is associated with or overlaps with the blacklist, the user's account will be easily affected, and at best be restricted or even banned.

Static proxies allow social media account operators to continuously monitor and manage accounts with the same fixed IP, improving authenticity, security, and anonymity. This greatly reduces the risk of account anomalies caused by IP issues, and is also conducive to multi-account management and account maintenance, improving the weight and stability of social media accounts.

2. Website Management

Using a fixed IP when operating a website allows website administrators to operate with a stable network identity, reducing the risks caused by IP changes.

3. Advertising

Using static IP is conducive to targeting target markets in different countries and regions for more accurate advertising, pushing marketing content accurately to local users, and improving the effectiveness and efficiency of advertising.

4. Cross-border e-commerce

Some cross-border e-commerce platforms do not allow the same user to open multiple stores. Using a static proxy can provide a stable and fixed IP for each store, reducing the risk of store association and ban. If there are sites and stores in different countries and regions, you can also locate the target market in a long-term and stable manner, which is more conducive to localized and differentiated operations.

Ⅲ. Dynamic proxy applicable business scenarios

1. Data Collection

If you use the same IP address throughout the data collection process, it is easy to be restricted due to frequent network requests from the same source, which is very detrimental to the efficiency of the collection work. However, using a dynamic proxy can continuously rotate IP addresses, and access and collect data with the help of multiple IP addresses, which can effectively solve this problem.

2. SEO

SEO is a long-term job, one aspect of which is the need to constantly track and record website rankings, which also means that a large number of frequent web page requests are required. These actions will be captured by search engines. If the same IP is still performing a large number of operations, it will easily be judged as suspicious behavior and lead to restrictions, or personalized search results, which will have a negative impact on the accuracy of SEO results. Using dynamic proxies can effectively improve the objectivity of SEO results and improve SEO work efficiency.

3. Market research

Whether it is a corporate user collecting market data or a personal user comparing price information, using the same IP all the time may result in inaccurate results. Using a dynamic proxy to rotate the IP each time can help obtain accurate information in different regions or under different circumstances, reducing misleading information.

4. Ad verification

To ensure the effectiveness of advertising, collect real advertising data, and avoid advertising fraud, using dynamic proxy to rotate IP can effectively simulate different ordinary users, prevent being marked by the website, and can also assist in verifying the effectiveness of advertising from the perspective of users in the same or different regions. For example, using IPFoxy dynamic proxy, you can easily set the rotation cycle, generate different IPs in batches, and conduct advertising inspections as different users.

Ⅳ. Final Thoughts

Choosing the right agent in different cross-border business scenarios can effectively improve business efficiency and reduce network risks.