Videos are now in place for more than 150,000 articles, whilst this feature is proving to be very popular and successful already, we are however having issues with the relationship between articles and videos and in particular their relevance.

For example an article about Hilton hotels was showing a video about Paris Hilton the actress, and another about spilling the beans on emarketing success, and you might have guessed already, a video on the preparation and cooking of beans, which happened to spill out of the pan.

We are working hard to find ways to better cross reference these two databases, meanwhile if there are any funnies please give us the benefit of the doubt!

This will probably only be fixed once more video networks are integrated in, allowing our system to cherry pick the most strongly related video rather than the default selection supplied.

Our improved bookmarking feature addthis is proving a big success, thousands of pages have been highlighted in this way.

Bookmarking your articles is a good way to get more traffic for your articles, the search engines such as google love them and reward you with more traffic and better rankings. We use www.folkd.com a lot in house, which is not a feature currently available via addthis.com.

Here are a very small selection of the articles bookmarked today:-

Google’s Approach to Employee Selection

Why Everyone Should Recycle

How to install MS Office 2003

Bookmarking is a great and growing feature, its a shame that more authors are not recognising its potential to benefit their work, the following table gives you an idea of the popularity of this feature:

Strangely Europe is much slower to take up and use this feature, about 15% of our traffic comes from the EU but a lot less than that use bookmarks to promote their articles.

Article Alley is now featured on the popular blog directory site blogged

Blogged.com is about discovering what the best bloggers are blogging about right now, and about finding the blogs that will interest you the most. Blogged is updated throughout the day to bring you the latest and most interesting posts from our index of more than one million blogs.

Blogged.com is a place for both readers and bloggers.

Found another instant page creation type site, Article Alley now appears on Haikona these sorts of sites really seem popular at the moment, their value from an SEO point of view remains to be seen, but certainly from the site owners perspective its a great way to build a site fast.

Alexa the popular traffic analysis / search engine shows the clear progress we have been making recently, today Article Alley is within the top 6,500 sites (the top 6,491 to be precise) and the trend has a stready upward direction.

Alexa has a number of issues with it due to it measuring traffic from toolbar users, but it does closely match our own internal stats.

As always the more traffic we get, the more visitors get to view and visit our authors sites, making articlealley more valueable than ever as a promotional article directory site.

Yesterday was one of our busiest days for traffic in more than 18 months, we received just over 127,000 unique visitors, which is very good for a Friday. The last time traffic was at this level the fall of 2007.

Its taken until now to recover the lost ground but it goes to show that our new features and the hard work of our authors is really paying off.

Thanks to all.

Authors have just received our latest newsletter, highlighting the benefits of our Professional Article Writing Service.

Article Alley is pleased to offer our Bespoke Article Writing Service!

If you are in need of well written, good quality articles in order to promote your website or business then Article Alley has the answer. Our team of experienced editors and copywriters know exactly what is required in order to successfully promote your business around the Internet.

Since the introduction of our article writing service a good few months ago we have been inundated with orders from people wanting articles about anything and everything from diet and exercise through to people wanting articles relating to real estate investing trends online! The point is our experienced copywriters can turn their hand to any subject with ease. They can write in any style be it funny, factual, serious or witty. Basically whatever you need your article written about you will get exactly what you want with the help of the Article Alley team.

100% original content, articles between 500 and 800 words and written with SEO in mind as well as a choice of British or American English are just a few examples of what the article writing service here at Article Alley can provide you with. Some of our customers have been that impressed with their initial order that they are constantly coming back for more; so now as well as welcoming new customers we also have our regulars!

All of our orders are completed to deadlines and once your order has been placed you will receive an email from one of the Article Alley team which will confirm your order and inform you of when you will receive your order. We feel it is important to effectively communicate with our customers so you are kept informed all the way through the writing process. This also gives you a chance to inform us of any particular information that you want the article to include.

Good quality unique content should be an essential part of your Internet promotion strategy as a well written article will bring direct traffic to your site. With the article writing service here at Article Alley you are provided with exactly this and to help you even more we have a number of article packages for you to choose from, which are as follows:

1 Article 2 - 5 Articles 6 - 10 Articles 11 + Articles
$35 per article $40 per article $30 per article $25 per article

So just how does this service work? Well quite simply actually! You place your order with Article Alley and await your confirmation email. Our copywriters will then begin work on your article(s), providing you with 500 to 800 words on your specific topic. This article and the copyright of the article are then yours to use at your disposal; for example you may want to post the article on Article Alley and other article directory sites.

So what are you waiting for? To get high quality, informative and SEO/keyword targeted articles get in touch with Article Alley today and start your order right now!

Regards,

Article Alley

Article Alley is a worldwide site that attracts authors and visitors from all around the globe, the above graph comes from our addthis bookmarking tool - it shows popularity of bookmarking by using a graded colour code. The hotter or more red the greater the activity - what it shows is that the whole world is using Article Alley but its more popular in English speaking countries - makes sense as 99% of our content is currently in English.

Been looking at Twitterstats its a great little tool that allows you to display your number of twitter followers in a little box on your site.

Article Alley has a page on Twitterstats its a good site and our coder will add this to Article Alley’s blog in the next week or so.

See also Twittercounter Article Alley Summary

Interestingly they currently charge $499 a week to become a featured user and plan to increase that as we get more traffic and users. Twittercounter currently tracks 1.5 million usernames and generate 20.000+ pageviews a day. The featured user is displayed on all pages at TwitterCounter

Compete the popular website traffic analysis site just updated with Feb stats. ArticleAlley is looking good the progress made in January has been built on and Feb is good.

Compete draws data from many sources and whilst not reflective of actual traffic levels does reflect the change in traffic well.