Guides, Tutorials & Insights
Learn about residential proxies, web scraping, data collection strategies, and industry best practices from the Shifter team.
How to Run Continuous External Attack Surface Monitoring
Your corporate IP is allowlisted, so you see a friendlier internet than an attacker does. How to run external attack surface monitoring continuously.
Chris Collins · September 9, 2026 MAP Enforcement at Scale: Detecting Price Violations Automatically
Minimum advertised price is about advertising, not selling. What MAP is, how automated detection works, and why most alerts are false positives.
Matt Brown · September 9, 2026 From Requests to Capacity: How to Forecast Residential Proxy Bandwidth Without Guesswork
Forecast residential proxy bandwidth using measured transfer size, retries, locations, devices and growth scenarios. Includes formulas and worked examples.
Chris Collins · September 9, 2026 How to Build Talent-Mapping and Org-Chart Data from Public Sources
A public-source org chart is a model with confidence levels, not a leaked document. Which sources carry real structural signal and where the line sits.
Matt Brown · September 7, 2026 How to Track Brand Mentions Across Social, Forums & Review Sites
Mention tracking is a coverage problem before it is a sentiment problem. How to build query sets, dedupe syndication and see mentions outside your own region.
Matt Brown · September 6, 2026 Scraping Intent Signals to Power Sales Intelligence
Buyer intent data is mostly public if you know which signals to read. What the useful ones are, how fast they decay, and how to collect them at scale.
James Meadow · September 6, 2026 How ISP Proxies Improve Search Engine Data Collection Accuracy
Accuracy in search data is mostly about holding the vantage point still. Where static ISP IPs help, where they hurt, and how to split a collection layer.
Matt Brown · September 4, 2026 Residential Proxies for Job-Board Data and Labour-Market Intelligence
Labour-market data is a time series, and coverage gaps look exactly like trends. How to run a stable job-board panel with residential proxies and verify it.
Matt Brown · September 4, 2026 Why AI Agents Need Real-Time SERP APIs to Access Search Data
A model's knowledge has an edge. An agent that cannot see past it will answer confidently anyway, which is the failure mode search access is meant to prevent.
Matt Brown · September 3, 2026