Guides, Tutorials & Insights
Learn about residential proxies, web scraping, data collection strategies, and industry best practices from the Shifter team.
How to Set Up a Proxy in Google Chrome (3 Ways)
Set up a proxy in Google Chrome three ways: a browser extension, your system proxy settings, or a command-line flag. Plus how to test it and fix errors.
Matt Brown · October 20, 2026 Proxy Services Explained: Types, Benefits and Business Use Cases
Learn what proxy services are, how businesses use them, the main proxy types, and how to choose a proxy service provider and start small.
James Meadow · October 20, 2026 How to Use a SERP API: Google SERP API Integration and API Key Setup Guide
Set up a Google SERP API step by step: get and store an API key, make your first search, localise results, handle errors and track rankings with tested Python.
Matt Brown · October 18, 2026 Affiliate Compliance Monitoring: Catching Brand Bidding & Rogue Ads
How affiliate compliance monitoring works: the violations that cost merchants most, why brand bidding hides from your own checks, and how to collect evidence by market, device and time of day.
Priya Nair · October 18, 2026 SEO Cloaking: What It Is & How to Detect It from Multiple Locations
What SEO cloaking is, what Google does and does not count as cloaking, and how to detect it on your own site or a competitor's by comparing responses across user agents, referrers and locations.
Daniel Okafor · October 18, 2026 Winning the Amazon Buy Box: Using Competitor Price Data
How the Amazon Buy Box (the Featured Offer) is decided, which competitor data actually helps you win it, and how to collect that data by marketplace and delivery location.
Priya Nair · October 17, 2026 What Is OSINT? Sources, Techniques & Legal Boundaries
OSINT is intelligence built from publicly available information. What counts as a source, the core techniques, how the work is organised, and where the legal and ethical lines are.
Sofia Marin · October 17, 2026 A Proxy Is Not an Anonymity Tool: What We Cannot Promise You
A proxy changes the IP address a website sees. It does not make you anonymous. What a proxy hides, what it does not, and what a provider can still see.
Sofia Marin · October 17, 2026