News Room

Payout Method Updates
Published: Jan. 20, 2012

It has been a long day here at tagvillage corporate headquarters today. Unfortunately we have been experiencing some technical and regulatory issues regarding payouts to our members. There are a few bits of 'bad news' and one piece of 'good news' that we feel we need to share with you.

AlertPay Issues

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Making History
Published: Jan. 10, 2012

The concept of keyword trading is not exactly new. For over 5 years, various businesses have explored the idea to allow their members to buy and sell words and phrases with the ultimate goal of sharing advertising revenue. Many of our long-term members have experienced the exciting launches of various keyword trading sites that were unable to deliver upon this goal for one reason or another. Until now, there has not been a keyword trading website that has delivered legitimate, credible advertising commissions to the owners of keywords, from legitimate, credible advertisers. In the next few days, this will change ...

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Calling all Taggers
Published: Jan. 6, 2012

As the New Year gets off to a fabulous start it is important to remember the importance of why we are Taggers, we are here not only to provide for our family but for the communities that we live in the the world around us. As CEO of Help Is Here Inc and the Director of Banded Yoke I am asking for all of us to make a small monthly donation of $2-$5 dollars, why so small, because we are a TEAM of more than SIXTEEN THOUSAND! if you think about it that is so very powerful and really ...

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Final Tag Guru Contest Results
Published: Jan. 5, 2012

The official contest results are in! Your personal winnings are listed above and on the left hand column of every page. We will display the balance of your prize until it is paid in full. The first payment will be paid on February 20th, 2012.

THE OFFICIAL 2012 TAG GURU IS:
Nikolaus Kirchler (dinoo)
Guru Prize: 143,297.79 Credits

THE OFFICIAL 2012 CHOSEN ONES ARE:
1. Nikolaus Kirchler (dinoo)
Apprentice Stars: 1 | Journeyman Stars: 4 | Master Stars: 226
Prize: 143,297.79 Credits

2. Elizabeth Laguardia (slider)
Apprentice Stars: 1 | Journeyman Stars: 1 | Master Stars: 107
Prize: 30,916 ...

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How Guru Contest Winners Will Be Announced
Published: Dec. 28, 2011

We have received several emails and other inquiries regarding the process for announcing the Tag Guru Contest winners. So, we thought it would be best to clarify the way it will happen:

1. On January 1st, 2012 at 0:00:00 server time, the contest will end. No further Guru Points or Guru Stars will be awarded.
2. From January 1st to January 5th we will calculate the results and run several processes to disqualify any accounts we determine committed fraud or otherwise cheated.
3. We will announce the 5 Chosen Ones on January 6th.
4. We will display your ...

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tagvillage Attracts Large Advertising Network
Published: Dec. 9, 2011

UPDATE: we are happy to announce that tagvillage has signed a deal with a major advertising network this week. When our Tagvertising distribution system launches, it will include ad content from one of the largest online ad networks. Advertisements from over 60,000 advertisers will be fed to us directly by this network. This means publishers will have access to the highest quality advertising content to monetize their sites. It also means tens of thousands of advertisers will immediately be targeting the Tags our members own from the very beginning of our Tagvertising Distribution System launch! As we are able ...

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Tagvertising, Contest, and Development Updates
Published: Dec. 5, 2011

It never seems to fail. At least a few times each week I receive a message asking why we have not released a search engine or social network yet. I understand these questions in light of the fact that for many people the "proof in the pudding" for our concept will be a working social network and/or search engine. Once in a while, I receive a message asking why we haven't released a social network that competes with Facebook or a search engine that competes with Google yet. These questions puzzle me because they show that tagvillage has ...

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Tagvertising Commissions Moving Forward
Published: Nov. 21, 2011

We know this is the news our members have been waiting for! The Tagvertising Development Team met with our CEO again last week. We have not raised nearly enough extra funds for the Tagvertising Commissions platform through donations. However, we presented him with the emails and conversations from our members detailing how important this platform is to our membership. Upon reviewing all of this information, he let us in on a little secret. tagvillage has a major financial announcement coming out soon, and we will be moving along at a much more rapid pace than we ever thought possible before ...

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All Eyes on Tagvertising Commissions
Published: Nov. 16, 2011

We have been talking a lot around the corporate offices the past several weeks about focus. Sometimes we get so many different projects working that we can't focus. So, we decided today to pick one item and pour all our energy into it until it is completed. The item we chose is Tagvertising Commissions.

For ten months now, members of tagvillage have by trading Tags like crazy. There are some very valuable Tags out there. And some of you own Tags we feel may earn quite a bit of Tagvertising Commission. Many of you have built inventories with impressive ...

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A Strong Gut Feeling
Published: Oct. 29, 2011

Over the past several weeks I have been wrestling with a gut feeling that made me feel sick and uneasy, but I could not identify what was causing it. My gut kept telling me there was something wrong, something that would have a profoundly negative effect on the future of tagvillage. Our business has been growing consistently like a weed for almost a year. Then, suddenly out of the blue, it seemed like someone threw on the brakes. Numbers don’t lie. And the data from our site was telling me tagvillage was not performing as it should. The data ...

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