I’m working on several projects right now. Of course, all of them are dependent on getting traffic.

I’ve always heard that EzineArticles.com is one of the best ways to get some traffic and some quality back links. If you’re not familiar, here’s the gist of article marketing:

You write an article about a subject in your niche. The article should not promote you, your product, or your website even a little. At the end of the article, there is a resource box. In this box, you can say what you want and promote what you want. It’s a great place for a link to your site with your anchor text.

EzineArticles.com is considered to be one of the best article directories. The articles are actually approved by a real human beings, their pages often rank for niche keywords, and their links have tons of authority.

The problem? They take forever to approve your article. I’m talking 7-10 days.

A couple weeks ago, I submitted my first article. I waited. And waited. Seven days after I submitted that first article, I got an email saying there were a couple problems. This sucked! I waited a whole week for this?

Then I saw an interesting link. A “Premium Membership”. It’s a bit pricey, $97 for one month. It goes down to about $50/month if you pay for a whole year. I just wanted to test it out, so I signed up for a month.

I submitted another article. This time with my premium membership. I submitted it at about 8:30 PM EST. By 11:30 AM the next day it was APPROVED! Woo hoo!

Today, I submitted three articles for a different niche I’m working on. All three have already been accepted. The last one was accepted in 30 minutes.

They way Ezine Articles works is after 15 article submissions, they upgrade your account and with it, the time they take to approve your articles. And I’m talking about free stuff, not the premium membership.

So, presumably you could sign up for the Premium Membership for as long as it takes you to get up to 15 articles, and thus have your articles accepted quickly without the Premium Membership–which you could then cancel.

I’ll be testing this out and keeping you posted on this blog. In the meantime, I can’t say enough good things about the Premium Membership at EzineArticles.com.

One you login, just go to “Account Manager” at the top of your screen and choose the Premium Membership tab.

If you have any cool Article Marketing tricks or tactics, please comment below.