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.... read more »

This is a tip for everyone submitting an article to the system. To get the most out of distribution you should spin your article at least 100%.

There are two benefits that you can gain from this, the first is that your article will be unique on each and every site it is distributed too. The second is that you will get a lot more distributions, most of the sites plugged into the ArticleRanks system do not want to receive duplicate content therefore they set the articles to be accepted at the maximum limit of 90%. So by spinning an article 100%+ you are much more likely to get a good distribution and published rate.... read more »