WideCircles Blog

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the WideCircles Team. We are pleased to announce our next release which has been in development and limited public testing for over a year is finally underway to be released to general public in early of 2011. Our new release will feature a most comprehensive set of advertising options. Stay tuned and enjoy your holidays!

Thank you from the WideCircles Team.

Dear WideCircles Advertiser,

We have currently completed a series of hardware and software upgrades
that will help us with new launch of our service known as “WideCircles Reloaded”.

The new improvements include faster processing speeds, smarter target website
identification algorithms and more. These improvements have been applied to
our existing version of the system and also the new version that has
been in testing pipe for almost a year.

Lastly, since our system is generating large amount of potential website
posting targets, we have applied something known as URL vacuum. This allows
us to provide you with better performance and reduce amount of redundant data.

Starting today, in ad tasks that have been processed fully alredy or are being processed,
you will only see url targets that your ad text / link have been posted on by our
publishers. Websites that publisher has processed but never posted anything on ( or touched )
will be automatically discarded or vacuumed so you will not see those anymore. Therefore
you may see lower amount of websites in your report as it does not include the redundant
data ( websites that publisher never posted on ) anymore.

This feature will provide you with the same view as before, but won’t include the non-needed
data in the report. Please note that you will still see all the websites being
prepared for each newly created ad task or the existing one that is in the queue.

For any further questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact us.

Thank you.

We have launched beta version of our new WideCircles Reloaded platform. Currently it is in limited testing and trial phase. We have selected 100 accounts and 500 publishers that we are testing it with. Once we exit our test and trial period, the new version will become available to everyone.

If you would like to participate in the testing of our new platform we invite you to submit your request through our existing contact form. Please mention “WideCircles Reloaded” testing in the body of your message. Please note that at this time we cannot guarantee that you will be invited for testing. Advertisers, Publishers and Operators are all invited to participate in our testing phase.

First of all season greetings to everyone out there. Due to the total revamp of our existing system, our new version has been postponed for January/February 2010 release date. “WideCircles Reloaded” is the name of our new version that’s due to be released next year.

“WideCircles Reloaded” will feature many more intelligent marketing groups, new payment model and many other components that will make your social, viral, link building and other types of campaigns much more easier and better then ever before. We have incorporated many new features that we received from having a constant feedback with our customers.

In the other important news, we have released a new forum called “DeepVerse.net”. This is the highly speciliazed forum that is a marketplace for Website Traffic, Content And Link Building. It has been organized like no other forum before so that searching for things that you need is fast and easy. For example you can easily find someone who is offering Banner Space or Paid Blog Posts on Health related niche with PR5 site. No other forums out there come even close to what DeepVerse is trying to achieve. Our excellent team of 5 inhouse moderators is monitoring the forum 24/7 to ensure high quality.

DeepVerse.net will evolve together with the new “WideCircles Reloaded” and special tools will become available to the members of the forum. If you have services / products you wish to buy, sell or trade in this market, please visit the http://www.DeepVerse.net marketplace and sign up today. The forum is constantly growing and has opened just a few days ago.

Happy Holidays from WideCircles.com Team!

Hello,

Advertisers now have ability to turn on or off their task and campaign status change email notifications, that are automatically generated. They can do this from their main account menu by navigating to Account->Notifications. If you are running a larger campaign, it may be advisable to have these turned off, so you do not recieve constant emails from our system whenever a task or campaign status change occurs.

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.