http://blog.articlecrux.com The development blog of Article Crux, the Net's source of free articles and web content Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:02:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello guys, it's been half a year since our last blog post, so we'd like to take this opportunity to greet everyone happy holidays! On our side, the article directory is going very strong -- we have breached the 200K Alexa traffic rank (Article Crux is now at ~171,000), and our ... http://blog.articlecrux.com/2007/12/28/article-crux-greets-you-happy-holidays/ In our last post, we mentioned our wish for our free article directory to breach the 500,000 Alexa traffic rank mark. Well, just half a month since that entry, Article Crux's Alexa traffic rank has jumped by 300K and is now hovering around 400,000! To all our readers and loyal authors, ... http://blog.articlecrux.com/2007/05/01/article-crux-climbs-alexa-rankings/ We're proud to announce that our free article directory has just surpassed 1000 article authors. These expert writers have published more than 7,100 high-quality articles, with thousands more in the review queue. Also, Article Crux's Alexa traffic rank jumped from obscurity to around 700,000 in less than three months. We're hoping ... http://blog.articlecrux.com/2007/04/15/article-crux-milestones/ Millions of people are addicted to the Internet, and you can count us owners of Article Crux among them. Learn how to combat this modern day addiction by reading today's great article. Instant messaging, text messaging, email, blogs, vlogs, and podcasts. With technology moving faster than a T1 connection, every day ... http://blog.articlecrux.com/2007/03/29/internet-addiction-learn-how-to-connect-without-wireless-connections/ We like today's article not so much because it's packed with info, but because it's written in a narrative style that's interesting and entertaining. Here's an excellent business promotion article for all businessmen and marketers out there. How the woman with a restaurant promotion strategy came to work in the flagging ... http://blog.articlecrux.com/2007/03/27/restaurant-promotion-story/ Tax time is just around the corner, are you ready for it? We know you'll be needing all the tax help you can get, and that's why we picked this article about costly tax return preparation errors. April is a dreaded month for many people, all because it's tax month. Many ... http://blog.articlecrux.com/2007/03/24/costly-tax-preparation-mistakes/ To all our loyal expert article authors and readers, it's our pleasure to announce that we've reached 6,000 free articles in less than two months' time! Six thousand articles might not sound too many, considering there are many article sites our there that reach 20 to 30K in just a few ... http://blog.articlecrux.com/2007/03/23/free-article-directory-reaches-a-milestone/ Glenn Heitkoetter's article on domain names is an imperative read for any webmaster and internet marketer, and that includes us here in Article Crux. And that's why we liked this article so much. There are some basic measures I did not know about until recently and had to make some changes. ... http://blog.articlecrux.com/2007/03/21/warning-your-website-domain-can-be-taken/ To all our loyal authors, if you've submitted an article and you've still not seen it published after a day or two, please bear with us. We've received thousands of articles over the first few weeks of our free article directory, and while we've been religiously approving hundreds of free ... http://blog.articlecrux.com/2007/03/01/articles-backlog/ Good news for webmasters and ezine publishers looking for free content. We've just approved more than a hundred new articles in the past hour or so in our free article directory! And the fun doesn't stop there. There are thousands (yes, we're not kidding) of articles waiting to be approved, ... http://blog.articlecrux.com/2007/02/13/free-articles-count-rises/