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New feature coming soon
Published on 2011-08-31 07:33:52
We will shortly be adding the ability for existing authors to comment on articles. Each comment will contain a backlink to your profile page so its a great way of getting more exposure to your profile. We are testing at the moment and it should be rolled out in the coming months. > read more
Important news
Published on 2011-08-31 05:43:38
From 1st September 2011: Article Alley now requires new members to Article Alley to give original permanent exlusive rights to new articles in order for them to be published on ArticleAlley.com . Articles from members registered after September 1st, 2011 which are not original and exclusive to ArticleAlley will either be rejected or reposted on [...] > read more
Premium Authors
Published on 2011-07-27 07:12:35
We will shortly launch an exciting new feature. Article Alley Premium authors. The benefits will be considerable:- Faster approval time A maximum of two do-follow links Ability to add images initially from either Flickr or wikimedia Ability to add videos from youtube A revenue share will also be available in the near future. To qualify [...] > read more
Article Alley just got faster
Published on 2011-06-03 05:45:02
Our new version is going live today, it increases the average response time from 12 seconds down to 5 seconds, this is due to our improved caching technology and a reduction in the number of ads. The ads have always caused us speed issues, but no l > read more
Published on 2011-05-20 04:26:14
We will shortly be adding extra fields to authors pages to allow users to add their facebook, twitter and now Linkedin. If you enter a valid linkedin account then a linkedin icon will show on each of your article pages. > read more
New caching technology
Published on 2011-05-18 09:56:14
For a long time we have had issues with the caching technology on Article Alley, regular users will be used to seeing that their articles are live but can’t find them on their author pages. This was because to keep server loads down and web s > read more
Spell checking coming soon
Published on 2011-05-18 06:02:34
Within the next few weeks we will be introducing a spell checker, that will reject common spelling errors, please ensure that you spell check your articles before submission. Once we have it running we will run it against the whole database. Our ne > read more
noindex on authors pages with less than 3 articles
Published on 2011-05-06 04:18:16
To keep pages as useful as possible we are now no-indexing authors pages until they get 3 or more articles live. A new caching system will automatically change this real time, but for now authors will have to wait for our bi-monthly cache refresh. > read more
Broken links
Published on 2011-05-06 04:14:26
From today we will automatically reject articles if the links are malformed, it looks like a number of authors are using scripts to submit articles (which is fine of course) but in doing so are not checking that their links are broken. http:// wit > read more
Blocking spammers
Published on 2011-04-15 09:08:15
From today we are blocking free email addresses such as hotmail.com as these are being abused by spammers. Existing accounts will be unaffected. > read more
Stop the spin
Published on 2011-03-17 08:17:24
Following on from the recent change in Google’s algorithm we will shortly be implementing a new filtering system designed to stop article spinning. This will apply to all new articles and at the same time it will be used to redirect existing > read more
Search Engine Algorithm Changes
Published on 2011-03-08 04:00:04
Google made a significant change to their algorithm on Thursday 24th February. This was intended to target sites with thin content, but at the same time impacted quality sites such as Article Alley. Whilst we understand that Google intended to hi > read more
News and current affairs
Published on 2010-11-03 04:47:11
We are very pleased to announce the launch of a news section on Article Alley, we now employ a team of our own inhouse journalists, who will be writing news articles on topical events from around the World. It does give us the opportunity of returnin > read more
Report this feature
Published on 2010-11-03 04:42:17
We have been seeing a steady rise in complaints about inappropriate content, so as part of a tougher policy we have introduced a report this feature. Basically if a user comes across any article that they find inappropriate this little button, takes > read more
Six years old
Published on 2010-08-24 03:52:43
Yesterday was our birthday – Article Alley has been live and running since August 2004 – the team had a cake to celebrate! A big thanks to all our loyal authors and visitors who have kept us going for all this time. > read more
Kosmix partnership
Published on 2010-07-16 04:13:46
We have just started a new partnership with Kosmix, this partner has a unique approach to web searches, Kosmix lets users look in specific topic areas. For any search term, Kosmix organizes results by interrelationship. Every article page now has a > read more
Facebook fan page
Published on 2010-06-18 06:14:42
We now have our own Facebook fan page and this has been integrated into every article page – its a trial at this stage but we see facebook as a major source of new members and traffic. Article Alley Fan Page Some more great new features will be > read more
Add this useful info
Published on 2010-06-04 10:00:39
Addthis is a great feature on Article Alley allowing pages to be shared easily with the leading social bookmarking services. I found this page today its a top service summary Its really interesting to see the progress that each service is making, and > read more
Performance better now
Published on 2010-06-04 09:53:55
Users are reporting that our new servers are running much better now and as a result the whole network is noticeably faster. That’s helpful particularly as search engines such as google are now user website speed as part of their alog! > read more
New servers now live
Published on 2010-05-31 02:46:36
Our two webservers were replaced on Friday with better specification and faster ones – the performance change is already noticeable, but the cache has been rebuilt so its going to be a few days before things are running at peak performance. Use > read more
April Alexa
Published on 2010-04-30 09:30:32
Its nice to see a return to steady growth with our Alexa rankings, we are now close to being within the top 2,000 sites in the World! A big thanks as always to our Alley Cats who have been loyally following us, some literally for years! > read more
Addthis popular
Published on 2010-03-12 10:46:52
Our addthis.com feature continues to be very popular, interestingly when we dig into the stats the print feature is the most popular. Followed by email then facebook and twitter. All the major players then feature such as delico.us digg and stumble > read more