Yesterday was a pretty fantastic day in the short history of Infobarrel.com as we wound up hitting numerous records and landmarks.

Infobarrel continues to grow at a very high pace, which is extremely exciting.  Yesterday we broke into the 27K Alexa mark.  That means that Infobarrel.com is now roughly the 27,000th biggest web site on the entire Internet.

On top of that we hit a new record for daily article approvals.  Yesterday we finally broke the 100 articles in one day mark.  We wound up hitting 103 articles beating our previous record of 95 (earlier in the week) by 8 articles. If we were to maintain the 103 articles a day mark, in one year from now, we’d have a total of roughly 40,000 articles across the site which would equate to roughly 12.5 entire printed encyclopedias!

Finally, our member and writer count is growing faster than I could have ever imagined.  July 27th 2009 also landed us our 2400th member!

I will try to share more fun facts with you guys in the near future as we are all building this giant together.

Thanks again to everybody who is helping build Infobarrel into a mammoth mass collaboration project.

Hey everybody,

As some of you have probably already heard, eBay changed their terms of service to state that eBay affiliate ads could no longer be placed on sites that are not owned by the publisher.  Thus sites like InfoBarrel cannot run eBay affiliate ads on articles any more.  All eBay ads have been removed from the site.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Hey everybody,

Yesterday marked a pretty big land mark for Infobarrel.com!

After slowly climbing the Alexa rankings, we’ve finally cracked the 30,000 global Alexa traffic rankings!  Our sights are now set on 20K!

We rank pretty high in some other Countries too!

Here are our rankings across some of the larger countries:

Canada:  3,814

United States: 10,674

Australia : 12,160

Keep up the great work everybody!

Hey everybody,

As you may have noticed they site has been growing tremendously lately and we have been getting more and more fantastic articles being submitted.  Unfortunately we have also been getting a lot more short, uninformative submissions that really provide nothing for the user.  Because of this we are raising the minimum words required for an article to get published from 150 words to 250 words.  This will not affect any articles already on the site and will only be loosely applied to new video articles.

Keep up the great work everyone!

Congratulations AidenOfTheTower!

You won InfoBarrel’s “Bring in the Summer Contest” with a whopping 134 points!

We will be getting in touch with you in the next day or so to arrange delivery of your $50 Amazon.com gift card!

Overall we had 11 members hit at least the 16 point mark, meaning 11 of you will be seeing an increase in your Adsense impressions for the month of July.

Congratulations to all the winners!

For the results of the contest, checkout the Contest results page here