There have been some big changes that have happened to articleranks over the past year. One of them has been the way we now publish articles and the changes that were needed to be made to evolve with search spiders intelligence. As you are already aware, each membership level has higher priority distributions - Free gives you the benefits when promoting a small sites, your starter increases publishes a little more with pro being full scale. Saying that, we have changed the publishing a little to now be random/intelligent publishing, so unlike other article publishing sites, we don't keep publishing your articles on the same site each and every time you submit it to that category - Instead each article will go to a random selection of sites in that category but not ALL of the sites - This is done to give much better link diversity and to look much more natural. In theory you may get 20-100 publishes per article - But then imagine writing 20 articles per month with each one getting published on different sites Yes it would be MUCH easier to publish each article all in one go on all sites and get 500+ published numbers (like we used to do) - But then if you are publishing 20-30 articles per month and promoting the same site does it really look natural to have the same site linking to you again and again and again all in a small timeframe of a month. (On top of that it gives webmasters that are receiving content diversity) We have implemented an algorithmic way of publishing simply because the industry needs it - Noone else does it! There are tons of our competitors who just publish your article to all the sites in their database in one swoop - Well what benefit is there with that when you are getting the same link from the same site time after time. So just to clarify we now have MANY more sites in our system then ever before - But we have changed the way things work since last year. Now members that regularly post unique and well written content will have their articles promoted on more sites. Just think of it this way, is it not better to write 20 quality highly spun articles that will end up on 500+ sites rather then writing 1 spun article which will go to 500+ sites (Not only will this leave a HUGE footprint to Google - But those 20 spun articles will stand the test of time much more then 1 spun article that has been mass published would)