WideCircles Blog

Hello,

We are proud to say that we have revamped the old guerilla group target build system and launched a new one, which is currently running live. The old system was slow when it recieved a large number of ad tasks it needed to prepare. The new system is now building ad tasks much faster and in parallel fashion. We can now prepare large number of ad tasks in very short amount of time, so you should be seeing big increase in speed when dealing with this task group.

Please note that we have also added a new task status called “Pending - Building Targets”. This task status is set right after the “Created - Pending Analysis” task status. It means that website targets are currently being prepared for the task. You can always watch the progress of this step by logging into your account and navigating to your campaign. The number of targets is available under “Suggested” column. You can then click this link to get more details on which website targets have been assigned to this task.

Happy New Year from the WideCircles Team.

We have just added a new feature to the advertiser portal accessible from the main home page called “Create Bulk Campaigns And Tasks ( CSV File Required )”. This feature allows you upload a CSV file which can be saved from popular software such as Microsoft Excel and which contains bulk campaign and task data. You are allowed to add 250 individual tasks or rows per each CSV file. This can greatly speed up your campaign / task creation time. You could also automate the process if you are a developer. The CSV file specification is explained in detail on the upload page and allows you to control every aspect of the task, such as linking strategy, page rank threshold, auto confirmation, keywords, posting limit and so on.

Please note that at this time we only are supporting two main groups with this facility ( guerilla and direct marketing types ). All the subgroups underneath them such as ( forum, blog, comment, guestbook, classified, press release, social bookmarking and so on ) are supported as well.

For any questions or help, please contact us directly. Our support team is available 24 hours, 7 days a week.

Hi,

We have added another internal option called “Auto Confirm Targets” to the advertiser portal, under the “Delivery And Website Targeting Options” section when creating new ad tasks of any group or type.

Please note that this option is not enabled by default and essentially allows you to skip the manual confirmation process when creating new tasks. When this option is enabled, the newly created task will go immidately into our approval and live publishing queue as soon as the website targets get acquired, so there is no need to wait for website targets to show up and then approve each task manually, unless you need to review your website targets first. This option has been implemented for all task groups ( Guerilla, Direct, Trusted And Other ) and individual task types.

Thank you.

Hi,

Today we have reached an important milestone. WideCircles v2.0 has been released to everyone. The new version of the system adds many new marketing groups / channels. It also features per group pricing method, variable driven settle in times and allows you to buy marketing credits directly with credit card on our merchant gateway without using paypal.

Publishers and operators have also recieved enhanced portals that allow them to manage trusted forums, task type subscriptions, payments and more.

However, more importantly, this version introduces extensible architecture which will allow us to add many more task types and groups with time to come. If you are unsure about something, please contact us and our fanatical support team will try to answer your questions in a quick manner.

Thank you.

Hello everyone,

We have been delayed with our rollout of the v2.0 system as it turned out to be far more time consuming in implementation then we originally envisioned ( after going through several revisions ). However we have finished our implementation and are now in the final testing stages and preparation to transition to the new platform in the upcoming week. Very soon you may recieve a notice that system will be down for 24 hour period during the upgrade phase. We will correctly carry over all the credits and payments from the old system as well as the account data.

Also you may notice less posting tasks as we are transitioning towards the upgrade. Do not be alarmed by this, we will be back in full capacity after the upgrade. If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact us. Finally there has been a story going that we had authorized agents in other countries representing us. This is not the case, we have up to this date not authorized anyone to act on our behalf. You should be very careful when talking with these kinds of people as we are not to be held liable in any way.

Thank you.

Dear WideCircles Advertiser,

We have introduced a few small changes in the website target build system. Moderated
websites will now be excluded automatically, before they are given to publishers. Also we
are checking the target URL provided in your ad task against previous active postings. If
previous active posting is found, then it is excluded automatically as well, meaning a
linking power will be distributed more evenly and there should be less problems with similiar
posting abuse. Our publishers have additionally been given more effective tools to help them
with proper link strategy.

This will be our last update to the codebase of the v1.0 system and we will go into code
freeze early next week in preparation for the rollout of the WideCircles v2.0 system at the
end of August 2008. This version will feature many new ad task groups and types ( including highly trusted
forum member posting, social bookmarking, etc. ). You will also be able to recieve unique content
( 100% human written ) as per your specification and do captcha image analysis via our web api backend.

We hope that WideCircles will become a unique solution that will answer the needs of many people in
the industry today. We have built this version in combination to feedback we recieved from you
and our own ideas. The next release of the system will represent a major shift in a way internet
advertising, seo, link building, content writing and other complex processing is done and we
are proud to be behind this technology.

*** IMPORTANT ***

If you are using “Link Spy” or “Link Replicator” feature, please make sure you input full URL’s
instead of keywords, otherwise you will get 0 results. For example “http://site-to-copy-links-from.com”.
For any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact us at any time.

We have been experimenting with immidate search engine pinging as a method of auto post discovery and results are excellent to say the least. You can now set this option from the Advanced SEO panel when creating ad task in your campaign. It will help you with having more links discovered and thus enhancing the power of your link building campaign. We have found that on the average about 5%-25% of the links are not discovered, thus forcing this option results in more indexed pages and links helping with overall result.

Next we also added small summary statistics for the dofollow/nofollow counters on the campaign report page so you can see exactly where you stand. More exciting features coming next week including support for social bookmarking, so stay tuned.

WideCircles development team has added support for PR ( PageRank ) pre-analysis/filtering and post dofollow/nofollow summary and per post statistics. This means you can now fine tune PR settings when creating ad task, so only websites which match the given threshold will be included. It takes slightly longer to generate given set of resulting targets, once the ad task is created since we have to analyze each one of them in real time through our propriatery network.

Second improvement concerns of nofollow/dofollow statistics. You can now see the summary of how many active dofollow/nofollow postings you have ( breakdown per ad task ) and also you can get detailed overview under view sites interface, which will show each target and whether it is dofollow or nofollow signature.