A new agreement signed in December between two leading companies in the online dating industry has created one of the largest dating databases in the world.

Comprising over twenty one million members, the new database is larger than the entire population of Australia and has been created between Relationship Exchange and World Dating Partners.

Under the terms of the agreement, Relationship Exchange, owned by Think Partnership, will move all its partner websites onto World Dating Partners’ technology platform. It will also merge its database of over fourteen million members into World Dating Partners. The joint database will now top twenty one million members and will be available in eleven countries.

World Dating Partners has made a multi-million dollar investment in its IT over several years, which now comprises over thirty servers running Oracle RAC software, an enterprise-class IT system more commonly found in major corporations.

Freed from the constraints of managing its ‘back-office’, Relationship Exchange now plans to accelerate its growth and, according to its President, Brady Whittingham, expects to grow exponentially in the next few years.

He said, “We’ll focus our attention on helping our affiliates grow their businesses, safe in the knowledge that we’ve, together with World Dating Partners, created one of the largest dating databases of its kind in the world, containing the world’s most sophisticated compatibility matching system.”

Robert Fathers said, “This agreement signals our intent to continue expanding our business. We believe we’re firmly established as the number one dating service provider but intend to continue to broaden and deepen our service portfolio. We will be making a number of announcements in the next twelve months that will bear this out.”

With so many exciting new developments, we couldn’t wait any longer to tell you what we’ve been busy working on over the holiday season and the start of 2008…

Happy New Year!

First and foremost, before we launch into all of our news, we want to take this opportunity to wish you an (albeit belated) happy, healthy and prosperous 2008. Based on all of the fantastic new features, portals and enhancements that we plan to launch over the next few weeks and months, we can already see 2008 developing into one of the best years ever for our partners…

Massive News!

We are very excited to announce that Relationship Exchange, one of the largest and most successful dating networks in the USA, are re-launching on our platform. This increases our database of members to over 21 million registered profiles – which is larger than the entire population of Australia, making it one of the largest databases of its kind in the world! This is, of course, fantastic news for you in promoting your sites, particularly for the US market, and fantastic news for your members.

In a recent interview, our President and Founder, Robert Fathers, said “By pooling our databases we can now offer all our members an unparalleled choice of potential ’soul-mates’, as well as a broader range of services. This agreement signals our intent to continue expanding our business. We believe we’re firmly established as the world’s No.1 dating service provider, but will continue to broaden and deepen our service portfolio, and will be making a number of announcements in the next twelve months that will bear this out.”

Watch this space!

Fantastic New Marketing Tool:

Send Targeted Promotional Emails and Newsletters Direct to Your Website Members!

Our developers have done a fantastic job in creating this new, easy to use marketing tool, which will enable you to send promotional emails, newsletters, communications and announcements direct to the members of your website(s). The tool will be available through your admin area within the next couple of weeks, so please get ready to take full advantage of it! Via an advanced filtering system, you’ll be able to target specific demographic groups for even more effective marketing, sorting people for example by age, location, gender, sexual orientation, etc. As always, feel free to contact us if you need help, advice or suggestions in utilizing it for optimum results.

Gold Sponsors of iDate 2008

Based on our high profile within the online dating world, we’re proud to announce that we are the Gold Sponsor of iDate 2008, taking place in Miami from 31^st January to 1^st February. The event is the largest gathering of executives and representatives from the Internet Dating and Social Networking business: if you plan to be there, don’t forget to pay us a visit at our stand…we’ll be delighted to see you!

TFM&A 2008

In addition to iDate, we’re also exhibiting at “Technology for Marketing and Advertising” in London next month. If you’d like to join us, we’ll be at Earls Court on 12^th and 13^th February.

Your Testimonials!

As we mentioned in our last newsletter, we’re currently looking for your testimonials to publish on our new corporate website. Many thanks to those of you who have already responded. Rest assured, we’re already working on getting them posted onto our site, however if you haven’t had chance yet to submit yours, it’s not too late! Those we pick will include your name and a link to your sites giving you more free exposure… Email lisa@datech.ltd.uk with your testimonial, which should include things like why you joined us, your experience of working with us, and why we are so marvellous!

That’s all from us for now. We’ll be in touch again next month with more exciting news and announcements….

With best wishes,

The World Dating Partners Team

Australian Traffic Bonus

From now until the end of the year we’ll pay you BIG cash for Australian Traffic

We’ll pay you a massive 70% commission on all payments for Australian traffic that you generate. What’s more, this will be for the entire life of the member, and we’ll be continuing this offer right through until the end of 2007.

Free Site Membership

We’ve also introduced a great new incentive for newcomers to World Dating Partners. We’ll give you a Free 6 Month Gold Membership on the site you are promoting as soon as you’ve generated just 20+ paying members.

FREE Credit

We’ve had little response on the free £50 credit from Yahoo – are you mad!? This is £50 of FREE traffic!

Don’t waste any more time: contact thomas@datech.ltd.uk for more details on setting up a Yahoo account and receiving your free credit to start driving traffic immediately*

*only applies to UK traffic

New WDP Site

We’ve created a new look, even more informative corporate website – please take a look and let us know what you think. The site includes more detailed information as to how you can make the most of our world-class system. Visit www.worlddatingpartners.com

We Need Your Testimonials!
We’re currently looking for your testimonials to publish on our new corporate site (see above). Just simple statements about how you love us so - around 150 words. Those we pick will include your name and a link to your sites giving you more free exposure… plus, if you’re brave, we could even include a mug shot! Email lisa@datech.ltd.uk with your testimonial, we hope to use as many as we can. They should include things like why you joined us, your experience of working with us, and why we are so marvellous!

Make Money Promoting World Dating Partners

Earn an extra 10% in revenue from sales made by partners that you recruit. This includes partners that join us via any WDP links on your own sites. You can substantially increase recruitment, and thus your income, by creating a WDP affiliate campaign - This easy tutorial in our partner forum will tell you how.

Plus we’ve just made it even easier for you to promote WDP and recruit new partners – anyone you sign up will receive a 10% lifetime bonus on all payments made by members who join their sites in the first 30 days of the partners’ registration.

Copy and paste this code to use banners on your sites (you will need to replace “refid=PRTNR-XXXX” to your own code)

<a href=”http://www.worlddatingpartners.com/?refId=PRTNR-XXXX” mce_href=”http://www.worlddatingpartners.com/?refId=PRTNR-XXXX” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://www.worlddatingpartners.com/images/external/200×100/200×100.gif” mce_src=”http://www.worlddatingpartners.com/images/external/200×100/200×100.gif”></a>

Exciting times ahead to keep us all occupied during the coming months. You may have noticed some changes creeping in to your admin area

Post Moderation

You are now able to make any on the fly changes, no more waiting for moderation on HTML or content changes. We still keep a history of changes so it is possible to roll back, and the security is as safe as it was previously as all changes are still checked after they appear on your site.

HTML Template Editor

Greater flexibility from pre-designed templates. Don’t be restricted by the templates we have created. Log in, rip them apart and create your own HTML front page design or just tweak them a little to your requirements.

Gay Portal

We are very proud to announce that we have the launched the world’s first dedicated white label gay dating portal.
Following huge demand we followed the advice from our partners and customers to create a new portal exclusively for gay, lesbian and bi members. This gives us a unique White Label solution for the gay community without being tied to mainstream dating portal, where the user experience and expectations are very different.

Your lists of sites could have multiplied. This is because any gay members in existing sites have been moved into new gay and lesbian versions of the site they were in before. Contact lisa@datech.ltd.uk to find out how to move these members into a dedicated site under a new domain or sub-domain.

FREE Yahoo Credit

Want a free £50 advertising credit to spend on Yahoo PPC? Contact thomas@datech.ltd.uk to get more details on setting up a Yahoo account and receiving your free credit to start driving traffic immediately*

Make Money Promoting World Dating Partners

Earn an extra 10% from sales made by partners you recruit. They can already join from any WDP links on your own sites. You can also promote by creating a WDP affiliate campaign - learn how here. We’ve just made it easier to recruit and any one you sign up will receive a 10% lifetime bonus on all payments made by members who join in the first 30 days of the partners registration.

Copy and paste this code to use banners on your sites (you will need to replace “refid=PRTNR-XXXX” to your own code)

<a href=”http://www.worlddatingpartners.com/?refId=PRTNR-XXXX” mce_href=”http://www.worlddatingpartners.com/?refId=PRTNR-XXXX”> <img src=”http://www.worlddatingpartners.com/images/external/468×60/wdp_standard2.gif” mce_src=”http://www.worlddatingpartners.com/images/external/468×60/wdp_standard2.gif”/> </a>

Welcome to another World Dating Partners newsletter! It’s a little hard to believe our offices in the UK should be warming under British the summer sun, but we won’t let the weather dampen our spirits!

World Dating Partners will make the sun shine!

Have your sales peaked or dropped? Not making as much as you think you could? Speak to us!
Call Tim on +44 (0)20 8133 1537 to get some help. He can help you make sure you are promoting your sites effectively, targeting the right traffic for your site and have you making money in no time.
Make an appointment: email tim@datech.ltd.uk and have us call you when it suits you best.

Competition Winner!

Congratulations to Chris Dale, who won the most UK members competition. Your bonus is on its way. Lots more bonuses, competitions and prizes to be won and announced in the near future.

Changes are coming….

There are many exciting things planned for the second half of the year - starting with the new commission structure. We want to reward you even more for sending us traffic, the more you send the more we pay. The new tiers are set out below. This will allow you invest more in marketing, and see an increase in sales and profit across existing traffic.

Initial and Recurring Payment %’s:

Adult Portal
No new members but some traffic - 50 % initial + 25% recurring
0-25 New Members - 60% initial + 30% recurring
25-50 New Members - 65% initial + 30% recurring
50-100 New Members - 70% initial + 30% recurring
100-200 New Members - 70% initial + 35% recurring
200-500 New Members - 70% initial + 40% recurring
500+ New Members - 75% initial + 45% recurring

Dating Portal
No new members but some traffic - 50 % initial + 25% recurring
0-25 New Members - 60% initial + 30% recurring
25-50 New Members - 65% initial + 30% recurring
50-100 New Members - 70% initial + 30% recurring
100-200 New Members - 70% initial + 35% recurring
200-500 New Members - 70% initial + 40% recurring
500+ New Members - 75% initial + 45% recurring

Indian Portal
No new members but some traffic - 50 % initial + 25% recurring
0-25 New Members - 60% initial + 30% recurring
25-50 New Members - 65% initial + 30% recurring
50-100 New Members - 70% initial + 30% recurring
100-200 New Members - 70% initial + 35% recurring
200-500 New Members - 70% initial + 40% recurring
500+ New Members - 75% initial + 45% recurring

What do you think of this? Add your comments to the forum:
http://forum.world-dating-partners.com/index.php?showtopic=2522

Get the basics right for huge traffic.

Before you can start thinking about getting lots of traffic to your site, you need to make sure you have the basics taken care of.
Step one of this is editing your meta-tags. These are the title, description and keywords to your site which will help make it unique, and which should be targeted at the audience you are trying to reach.

This has been added to the site set up wizard to help you do this on new sites, but you should also make sure you have unique information in any of your existing sites.

In admin from left hand grey menu follow: My Sites -> manage -> Meta-Tag Editor -> Page to edit

What should I put in my meta-tags? This can sometimes end up being a complicated so to begin with – KEEP IT SIMPLE! Think about WHO your site is targeted at, what makes your site UNIQUE.
Keywords are typically the words and phrases people would search on to find your site/page. Titles and Descriptions should tell visitors what your site and specifically this page is about (if possible using some of your keywords).

Note about Domain Settings

Over the last couple of months we’ve had to update our procedures for putting sites live. For most partners we process payments under our merchant account, in order to process payments the domain ownership should be set to our company name and address

Datech Limited
Company number: 4305177
Address 1: Cossington Grange
Address 2: Middle Road
Town / City: Cossington
Country / State: Somerset
Post / Zip code: TA7 8LH
Country: United Kingdom

Partners continue to have full control of domain from the administration panel on registrar’s site. You can change these details at any time if the domain is not used for a World Dating Partners site.

We cannot put any sites live until this has been updated. When registering new domains for sites you create you can enter these details in the registration process. You should make sure all your existing sites show the correct owner details. If you need assistance email partners@world-dating-partners.com.

Feedback - As always we are interested in anything you have to say. We really appreciate the efforts each and every one of you goes to promoting your sites. If you can think of any improvements regarding our sites, program and service please email us at partners@world-dating-partners.com. We welcome all feedback, good and bad.

Best Wishes – The World Dating Partners Team

Welcome to the April newsletter

The spring is here - lambs bleating in the fields, bunnies bouncing and tulips sprouting up all over the place. If this in itself wasn’t enough to keep you happy, we have plenty of new announcements which should!

Prizes to top Affiliates

Every month we are going to be giving bonuses to our top affiliates.

For the month of April the partner who brings in the most UK members will get a 10% bonus on new sales. We will announce winner next month once we have verified all new members. Get promoting today because based on previous months its going to be a close run thing.

Video Chat

Video and audio chat will be going live in the next few days. Promote this to your members, its a feature very few sites have, only gold members can use it so will be a great way of getting more subscribers. Cam to cam anyone!?

Better registration pages are also being created, to further optimise sign ups across the whole system.

We have also made some changes to the XML sitemap generation. These have been restructured in a more optimised manner to help with Search Egines.

Top Tip from CEO

Here’s a great tip for singing up sub partners, and getting links posted on other sites - straight from Robert Fathers our CEO.
http://forum.worlddatingpartners.com/index.php?showtopic=1663

Feedback

There are many more changes coming over the next few months. All aimed at making the program better for you our partners. We really appreciate the efforts each and everyone of you go to promoting your sites. If you can think of any improvements regarding our sites, program and service please email us at partners@worlddatingpartners.com. We welcome all feedback, good and bad.

This concludes this months newsletter, don’t forget the competition - most UK members gets a big bonus!

It’s been a successful start to the new year, with great new updates being added to our system as we speak and other major updates nearing the completion. We have started to use our forum again and have made it a more useful place for both advanced and newer partners to get their hands on the latest updates related to World Dating Partners and our industry.

If you feel that your partner account isn’t doing as well as it should do, log on to our forum (address below) and speak to other partners, see where you are going wrong, see how you can improve your site(s).

On our forum you can find out how our top partners are making thousands of pounds a week, some even a day and learn the best way to market your sites. You can even find out how to get your site(s) ready for the search engines, how to change “Meta-Tags”, and add banner codes into your links page. To get maximum exposure from the web, we recommend a variety of directories, banner exchange programs, search engines and other forms of advertising that will boost your revenue such as Google Adwords.

Why visit our forums?
• You can keep up to date with the latest marketing methods
• Keep in touch with other successful partners
• Learn how to do this and how to do that
• It’s full of friendly people from all around the world

We’ve just released our new brochure, which you will find interesting so feel free to download your copy by visiting http://www.datech.ltd.uk/Brochure.pdf

If you are in the “Advanced Partners” zone and don’t need any support - why not login to the forum, with your WDP ID & Password and give our newer partners encouragement! Point them in the right direction as to where they are going wrong!

Don’t be scared to make a few comments about the system and how we can improve - we welcome all your opinions as this makes the whole network better.

Hope you have a successful and prosperous new year with WDP!

Board Address: http://forum.worlddatingpartners.com

Season Greetings from World Dating Partners.

We would like to announce the launch of yet another new portal - Indian dating shaadimatchmaker.com

You will be able to create sites based around this portal logic and with separate data base, which is culturally sensitive and will make an ideal Niche for many countries, with potential to cross sell with your other sites

We also introduced new currencies. By doing this we can also pay you in multi currency so that you do not lose on currency conversion rates

Australian Dollar, New Zealand dollar and Swiss frank have now been added which makes a great opportunity for promoting sites in these countries which is an area that is non-competitive, Niches again are an excellent way to go.

At the moment World-Dating-Partners operates with 5 currencies GBP, USD, EURO, NZD (New Zealand Dollars), AUD (Australian Dollars), CHF (Swiss Francs) Members always prefer to pay in their own currency that produces a higher conversion rate.

We have also upgraded within the search area for members to find videos as well as voice messages. Members are becoming more and more confident in uploading these on Dating and Adult Dating systems there are now thousands of home videos for them to see. Its an add-on that we created to help conversions with a link on your front pages to a video sample page, a great temptation for members, which all goes towards a better conversion.

Out team is working hard to finish Banner program. Watch out for this as its a kill-all program with lots of nuts and bolts, this will be finished at the beginning of January.

The Gay Portal is going live around the beginning of January as well, lookout for this one, a great market and yet another site to cross sell to add to your arsenal.

Probably one of the most interesting projects we are now working on is our Free Dating Site Portals. Working in a similar way to “Plenty of fish” so you can earn your money from both AdSense, and other forms of advertising. We’ll have an update on this early in 2007.

Just to let you know as well - text messaging is being integrated at the moment - this will be in the very early part of next year, unlike other dating sites, we intend to share this bounty with our partners as well to increase your overall revenue.

For the time being anyway those of you a very happy New Year and wish that you will prosper even more in 2007

Welcome to our new weekly News and Updates Newsletter, to keep you informed on important information and news as a World Dating Partners Affiliate.
Don’t miss out on an easy way to increase your revenue by 30%

Did you know that 40 % of the members join both adult and dating sites and pay for two sites simultaneously? Do not miss out on this opportunity and create either a dating site or an adult dating site now.
You can do this either one or all three ways:

1. Simple just add a Pop-under to your front page which has a link to you other site. (Will be available in two weeks time)
2. Add a text or a banner to your my crowd page (To do this just contact us with you text) and we’ll ad it for you. (Will be available in two weeks time)
3. Add a banner to the bottom of your front page which you can add yourself in your management centre.
Affiliate administration changes:

Sales reports are available now in three different currencies to help make you independent from conversion rates. Add your multi-currency accounts information and get paid the most convenient way.
New Languages

Now you can create a new German site and promote this in Germany or you can add German as a new language to you existing sites.

German is available for you to add now.
Launch of the new Windows Chat programs - Chatterbox and Playmates

After a year of development, members will now have the opportunity of downloading our new programs that sit in the task bar, like MSN and work independently from the site.

Later we will be adding partner id’s to these so that you can independently promote this as part of your arsenal of products to sell.
Lastly - A great idea for us ALL - Please join in with our marketing plan

We currently have a marketing document of various successful marketing techniques that partners have used in the past and we want all of you to have a copy. So instead of posting this on the site, we ask for you to send an email to dave@singles.ltd.uk to qualify receiving this document you must add in your email one of your Best techniques for marketing, with some ideas and tips.

The idea behind is when we have all the information from partners, we will then add a page for all partners to view a super-list of marketing ideas that we can all benefit from.
Kind Regards
World-Dating-Partners support team

Our System and services expand virtually every week now with new applications and development, our end game is to give you as much as we can to help you optimise your conversion rates by giving you the tools and new technology to help you do this.

More recently we have added Google XML SiteMaps which I hope you will make the most of, by submitting these to Google’s new submission service, it will really help you with a Google submission, Google takes notice of you by using these — you can read and start submitting them here http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/about.html — while your there try adding a siteMap to your site, this really looks good from Google’s standpoint

Also our web directory of dating sites is ranked in the top 15 worldwide and will help you achieve more traffic at singles-index.com please register if you can and add a link, you are assured of some good visitors from here. It’s free as well, as partners you don’t have to reciprocate a link, but would be appreciated if you can.

Did you know that more and more partners are making profits through Google AdWords? We currently have some partners spending as much as 1.5 million USD a year. There is good reason for this as you can clearly calculate profits. You don’t have to spend much initially to do this. Our system is ideal for this, by creating a niche market either by interest or geographical location you will have to pay less for advertising, because the competition isn’t so fierce and the conversion rates are extremely high for targeted and specialized web sites. Why not create many niche sites and see how successful this can be.

You can find out more and try Here https://adwords.google.com/select

By the way do you realize that your marketing is not restricted to the Internet?

Some of our biggest partners are Radio stations, charities, TV, or any other company that may have a database. For this we are also setting up a portal system for people who want to approach larger companies and act as representatives of WDP without having to have a dating site. If you have an interest in this, please write back and we can discuss and help you with some great business ideas.

IS THERE ANYONE WHO HAS A BACKGROUND WITHIN THE RADIO INDUSTRY IN THE UK — IF SO WE WOULD LIKE TO HERE FROM YOU, WE NEED YOUR HELP?

Our Adult Contact system, like www.adultcrowd.com Web sites have been a great success, with high customer retention as well as a great conversion rates should be a great target for you to promote. You can do this by simply creating a new Adult Web site for yourself, for those of you with experience in the adult market - this system is surprisingly uncompetitive. Give it a go.

In the news more recently World Dating Partners were the sponsors of iDate2006.com The International Dating Conference. It was a tremendous success for us, We are following this up as exhibitors at the largest Adult show in August at Internext http://www.internext-expo.com in Miami. Pop over and see us. If you are going, contact us before hand so we can make arrangements to meet you personally and buy you a beer.

BY THE WAY — Have you seen our Great Video, a great overview of what we do, we have this available on CD if you wish a copy, or Download from WDP site its 45Mb but well worth it http://www.worlddatingpartners.com/download/presentation.zip

While you are there the comparison chart for other affiliate programs is available, take a look to see what’s on offer, make your own judgments on the best programs. http://www.worlddatingpartners.com/download/comparison_chart-LA.pdf

Our final tip for now is do you use Google blogs? It’s a great way to advertise your site and an even better way to attract traffic. Good advice on this is to do this every 3-4 weeks, don’t flood the system with too many, make good presentations that work well otherwise people don’t take so much notice, write one once in a while and regularly and you’ll win the day.

On our current list of priorities for development are:
1/ Making your administration easier to use with more accurate data
2/ Sending automated statistic, demographic and financial reports directly to your email
3/ Partner debit cards - to make your payments easier
4/ Completion of our Graphic, flash system for IP Geo-Targeted Banners

For now I wish you all the best of luck in your promotion, please remember we are always around for advice and help, if you have any questions.

Best wishes

Robert Fathers, CEO
Singles Limited (World Dating Partners)
I am always available personally to any of our partners who want to chat
Tel: +44 (0)1278 722718
Robert@singles.ltd.uk