We are pleased to launch our latest service, a squidoo and hubpage writing service. Both these sites are peforming really well in the search engines at the moment and we think that this service will be really popular.

Squidoo has become a very popular content network site; its strong web presence makes this a great way to promote your website. You can use Squidoo pages as a way of promoting your website regardless of what your site is based around. So what makes a Squidoo lens such a great online marketing opportunity? Anything that helps get your website more traffic and gets more people interested in your business is a great marketing opportunity and a Squidoo lens does exactly this.

You can use a Squidoo lens to add RSS feeds, images and links associated with your website you can also place descriptive and promotional text on it. You can place as much or as little information as desired and best of all you aren’t merely limited to the one lens; you can create several, all of which can promote the same website.

Hubpages is another popular social network site. It gives you the opportunity to get your website more hits and to bring you potential customers and clients. This is because even if people can’t find your website within a search engine search they may come across your hubpage, which will contain links back to your website, thus bringing you more traffic. So what can you do with a hubpage?

On a hubpage you can include aspects such as links, images, text and RSS feeds as well as videos, all of which can be used as means of promoting your website and again, like with Squidoo lens you are able to produce a number of hubpages and the more you have the better chance you have of driving more traffic to your website.

Like the sound of this?  Our service can be found here

Alexa the popular search engine and stats site continues to like Article Alley!  Our rankings are now the best ever, we are amongst the top 5,547 sites in the World.  Thats some going.

A big thanks as always to our loyal base of authors and regular users.  We continue to progress this year, and in a couple of months our new site will be going live.  This will have lots of great features which should greatly boost our progress and traffic further.

What I like about Alexa is that you can track your performace relative to your competitors.  Its not perfect by any means but it does give you an idea of how you are doing relative to other similar websites.

Article Alley has long been the top UK article website, but now we are in the top few places in both the USA and worldwide.  Our aim is to get back to the top three position and increase our traffic accordingly.

Keep visiting our blog for all the latest news and articles from Article Alley!

urlfan as the name suggests analyses urls - it shows the popularity of a blog out of all the blogs it tracks, at the moment some 3,783,554.  Article Alley is currently the 2,672 nd most popular.

As the graph indicates, we are getting more mentions this year than at any time since our launch in 2004.  Article Alley is getting more popular in the blogosphere.  Rising mentions means more traffic and more exposure for our authors work.

If you have a blog, then mention us, and link to your articles on Article Alley, its a great way of helping us, which also helps you at the same time.  What we like about urlfan is that you can drill into the results and read the blog posts that it monitors. 

Its a great tool and whilst not covering the entire blogosphere does have a representative sample. Its statistically significant if I remember my school statistics!  There are so many great tools around on the internet its now easier than ever to track you own performance and keep an eye on your competitors.

Article Alley can be found on urlfan here

Our Google ad planner is now up to date, its a great place tom check the approx amount of page views and traffic that a website gets.  our new website will allow a lot more advertising opportunities.

Ad Planner Description

ArticleAlley is a leading article directory that allows authors to publish articles for free. Webmasters can use content on their own website or blog. Covers a wide range of subjects allowing for highly targeted advertising.

Our Article Alley Google Ad Planner

Found another cool Twitter application - tweetmeme! I am a bit doubtful of that domain name, it looks as it tweetme wasn’t free so that had to go for meme.  Anyways our listing can be found here

Tweetmeme is a service which aggregates all the popular links on twitter to determine which links are popular. Tweetmeme is able to categorize these links into categories and subcategories, making it easy to filter out the noise to find what your interested in.

Found another cool Twitter application - Tweetstats produces really nice looking graphs from your twitter information see article alley on Tweetstats here

What is also cool about this site is that it has a trends section showing which twitter tools are the most popular.

Article Alley is showing as the top site on Google.com for the phrase “Submit Articles” we have made great progress with our rankings over recent months and much more progress is hoped for over the rest of the year.

This is great news for our authors and users alike. Google shows paid for results at the top and right hand side of every page, then natural listing underneath - as you can see from this screen shot our site appears first above. So currently Google finds us to be the most relevant page for this phrase.

Keep those articles coming!

Compete results for May 2009 are out and we are showing our continued progress.

Compete.com is a good tool that measures traffic using a variety of information sources including data purchased from ISPs.

It has a number of limitations, but it is good for making a comparision between websites to see their relative levels of traffic.

I check monthly to see our progress.

The compete website says “Compete is a new breed of web analytics company. We have a diverse sample of 2,000,000+ U.S. Internet users that have given us permission to analyze the web pages they visit and ask them questions via surveys.

We’re betting that the insights we create from consumers’ online behavior - whether they’re watching, searching, shopping or socializing - is valuable for companies who are looking to radically improve their marketing.

We think that web analytics means analyzing what consumers do across the entire web, not just what they do within a particular site, and that marketers can use this rich information across the entire company, not just for online media planning or site design decisions”

 We have been tweating away over the last few months and our twitter count is now on its way up.  We now have 573 followers.

If any of our authors follow us, we almost always follow back, so sign up and get onto twitter.  Twitter is growing at a fantastic rate and its tie up with Google is only going to increase its value as a traffic source.

Looking at Twittercounter this ranks us as within the top 50,001 twitter users.

Came across a new web aggregator today diigo - its a neat format with the usual alexa and other information our listing is here

Diigo provides a browser add-on that can really improve your research productivity. As you read on the web, instead of just bookmarking, you can highlight portions of web pages that are of particular interest to you. You can also attach sticky notes to specific parts of web pages.