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.

New guerilla marketing keyword limit is 2000 target websites per keyword. This gives you significantly more websites ( up to 10,000 ) per single ad task if you use all 5 possible keywords to generate targets in guerilla marketing group as an advertiser. Please note that generation time has increased slightly due to this.

Again for any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact us.

Hi,

We have recieved complaints from several operator accounts, that there is a person who is pretending to be official representative from our company and has created a fake authorization letter to show or enable this process. This person is engaged in illegal selling of the operator and publisher accounts to the widecircles community. Again all operator/publisher accounts are 100% free and should never be purchased from any third party, but only created on our website again free of charge. We do not have any official representatives anywhere, other then internal staff in two offices we run.

If you have problem with this, please let us know and we can assist you further. Do not under any circumstances purchase accounts from anyone in any country posing as our representative or you will risk getting banned from our system as well as face legal consequences. You must create a free account on our website. If you are operator you can create free publisher accounts but only for your own company/business and not for re-sale. Please understand that no one has any re-sale rights.

Thank you.

Hi,

We are now running automated publisher and operator subscriptions for fulfillment task types. This means for all new accounts ( unless you have subscribed manually ), whether you are enrolled by your operator or directly via the registration form you will be subscribed automatically to all task types within 10 minutes. You can check status of your subscriptions and opt out of anything you do not like by selecting “Manage Subscriptions”. For any questions do not hesitate to contact us directly.

Thank you.

Hi,

We have resolved a small issue pertaining to advertiser direct credit card payments and IE/Opera browser issues. You should be able to purchase credits without paypal now directly with our merchant gateway using either VISA or MasterCard. Please let us know if you encounter any problems. We are here to help!

Thanks.

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.

New ad task type called “Link Spy” was added to help advertisers spy on their competition and beat them at their own game. Yes that’s right, you can now enter up to 5 URL’s or domains into the “Keywords or URL’s” box when creating ad task. The system will then analyze the URL’s entered and generate up to 500 unique target sites for each entry.

These 500 target sites are sites that link to the URL’s entered. The publishers then recieve these and can post on them. With this task type you can easily place your links on same sites where your competition did. Then you would supplement these with your own fresh ones to effectively beat them. Please note that publisher cannot always post on site where your competition has a link, due to access or certain rules for example.

We have also extended the PR Threshold option menu, you can now choose either:

* Do Not Generate Page Rank ( This option is default and allows website target list to be built much faster, because no PR calculation is involved, usually within 1-2 minutes )

* Generate Page Ranks But Do Not Filter ( This option allows you to still generate Page Ranks for every single website in the list but do not perform any filtering. You can then filter the websites yourself manually at later time by examining their generated Page Ranks for example. )

Lastly you can choose PR threshold ( from 0 to 10 ) to control auto filtering i.e. to select only the sites which meet the specified threshold.

In the Keyword or URL’s box you can now specify keywords or URL’s by using either newline or comma format. For example you can separate your entries using newlines like this:

mykeyword1

mykeyword2

mykeyword3

or you can use commas, like this:

mykeyword1,mykeyword2,mykeyword3

Also please remember that you should only use URL’s for “Link Spy” task, so for example if you wanted to spy on domain “cars.com” you would enter the following into the keywords or URL’s box:

cars.com

or you would enter:

http://cars.com

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.

Nofollow is often ignored and one assumes it does not leak any link juice. However based on case studies conducted recently by WideCircles, this assumption is very wrong. There is also an independant article from Michelle MacPhearson on this issue as well found by clicking here.

Our internal findings ( when analyzing or sampling our client campaigns ) confirm that lot of juice is actually leaked ( even from the big G ). A sample test consisting of 25 comment postings all targeting nofollow pages with PR between 2 and 5 yields rank boost of almost 35-40% in google/yahoo and 65-70% on msn utilizing low to mid competitive keywords where page being ranked starts outside of first 100 search results and then is brought into this 100 result set, sometimes at very high rank. Contrary to popular belief lot of nice and organic seo can be purely done utilizing nofollows only.