We have now reached the millionth article submission to our network.  Its some achievement and a great thanks to all our loyal authors and the dedication of our editorial team.

Its taken us 4 years of work, but we are there.

Just realised that my twitter account has been compromised - seems like the last 30 posts have been inserted as advertising has flooded in - it could be that one of the third party applications I use is the source, just to be sure I have changed the password and deleted the trash.

It would happen just when I was busy on some other projects and not watching my twitter account, anyways at least its sorted now.

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!

We are trying an experiment for a couple of weeks, we have extended the amount of description at the beginning of each topic section, for example automotive articles now has a block of new text at the top.

For a while I have been thinking that our topic pages lack much static content, they are full of useful articles, but these change every 24 hours, so hence the experiment, if our rankings for phrases such as submit automotive artcles, or find free auto articles etc, then it will have been a success.

We may retain this in our new design due to be live shortly, or discard, will keep you all posted.

Our legal video section is proving as popular as our legal article one. I spent a good few hours watching legal videos today - the quality is really high, which is great news for our visitors.

Here are a few I liked:-

You Deserve a tax holiday You deserve a TAX HOLIDAY and an end to assessment of federal income taxes. The immediate effect of this Tax Holiday will be to leave more money in your pocket. You’ll take more money home with every paycheck.

Who screens the screeners Its a good question.

Texas Workers Compensation Lawyers Texas Worker’s Compensation entitles you to workers comp medical and income benefits if you have been injured on your job.

Lemon Law All about the law surrounding lemons, not the fruit variety!

An Introduction to the Patent System This one is really interesting showing jurors about patent law.

Its surprising just how many law firms are using youtube to promote their firms, but with sites like Article Alley using more and more of this type of content you can see why.

Yesterday saw article 950,000 go live on Article Alley, we don’t list all the articles that get submitted, and currently only about 55% get approved. But nevertheless thats a lot of articles and a lot of work by our authors.

We expect that the 1,000,000th Article will be live this month.  We are still thinking of something special to mark that event.  More about that soon.

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