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.

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!

Well our site is back working - but for some reason certain features keep failing - our tech team is working on a resolution asap - but meanwhile please bear with us - normal service will be resumed as soon as possible!

Happy New year to all our users and authors. We are really looking forward to 2009 as we have so many new and exciting features going live - also a new design for our site is under development.
One thing that is planned for the new year is an expansion of our free Article Distribution service, as many authors already know articles submitted to Article Alley spread rapidly around the internet.

We are planning to expand this by adding free submission to selected email and ezine distribution lists, we do this inhouse on a small scale already but are planning to crank it out fully during the first quarter, so all new submissions will get automatically distributed once approved.