We are pleased to announce that we have signed a partnership deal with 5min.com, later this month, visitors will be able to watch their vidoes running across nearly 1,300,000 pages on our network.

5min.com attracts a large audience of millions of monthly visitors, distribution and monetization of these videos is the Company’s primary focus. 5min offers a one-stop solution for online video: providing a rich, segmented offering of tens of thousands of videos; empowering websites to integrate videos throughout their sites with just hours of work; and creating incremental revenue, traffic and engagement

We feel that adding 5min’s content to our article pages will provide even more useful information to assist our visitors.

Watch out videos will be along very soon!

We have been finding it really hard to keep up with all the great articles that our authors send through each day.  But the good news is that our team has expanded with the recruitment of Suzanne, which takes us up to 4 full time editors.

With her help we have cleared the backlog of submissions and emails that was starting to mount up, and the good news is that we are completely up to date as of 25th September.

Thanks for bearing with us.

Our new look Article Alley is almost complete - we have now re-designed our blog and wiki area - its 95% complete just a few more tweaks here and there and we are done.

The new design has been well received and we are getting favourable comments from our regulars. We are glad you like it!

We are pleased to announce that vs3.0 of Article Alley is now live, there have been a few minor issuing in the upgrade but everything appears to be settling down well.

The exciting thing about this new platform is that we will be able to go live with many new features in the coming months.

A couple of new pages are already live.

How to write for article alley explains step by step how to open an account and publishing an article.

Frequently Asked questions - as you might expect answers some of the common FAQ’s we get.

As new features are live I will blog about them here.

Found a great new site that I have not seen before - Article Alley is listed on Topsy

Topsy is a new kind of search engine, with a new way of looking at the Internet. Topsy doesn’t think the Internet is a collection of documents. Or even a web of documents. Topsy sees the Internet as a stream of conversations. Topsy treats people differently from the webpages they create and the things they say. And Topsy sees that people in every community are connected in a web of relationships, where each person influences other people to read, talk and think about things.

Article Alley now has a page on Wikipedia one the internet’s top sites.  It appears to be pretty accurate but the information is more than several months out of date - we have already passed the 1,000,000 article submission mark.

The page can be found here - Article Alley on Wikipedia

Users have been asking why our home page appears to be behind the rest of the site, its due to the surge in submissions we have seen over the last month, as of yesterday we doubled the rotation speed in an attempt to bring it back up to date.

Our development team is working on a flexible rotation system that will vary the rotation speed each day based on approved submissions from the previous day - for now please bear with us, we are up to date its just the home page is lagging.

We have started a general tightening up on our editorial guidelines, these will shortly be updated on our site, from now on, there will be a three link limit within articles and we are going to be much more strict on the quality of articles getting through our editorial review, so better grammar, longer articles, more interesting stuff will get through.

Its in response to Google’s more recent moves to improve the quality of search results, we feel the same way and our also cleaning up our database and removing poor quality content, and low page view articles.

Its a long term plan, but will improve the results for our good author and loyal visitors.

Came across a new site today, which has a great report about Article Alley, check out Article Alley on Markosweb basically this site is a webstat aggregator that combines traffic and link data.

What caught my eye is their valuation which shows Article Alley is worth more than $4m - nice touch, it certainly got my attention!

Alexa the popular search engine and stats sites, has some good graphs.  The following shows the reach or the relative number of visitor for every sample of search enquiries.  What is clear from the graph is that our

traffic levels are on a pretty much steady upwards trend.  This is really great news all around as it means more exposure for Article Alley and more traffic and visitors for our authors work and their websites.