This is an update to my previous post:
“Will I Get Approved by EzineArticles?“.

Finally, my first article, that I wrote myself from scratch and submitted to EzineArticles on August 16, was approved and went live today. It feels good after a recent stroke of bad luck, and the message is loud enough: never give up. It was important for me to find out whether my English skills could get me there, and now my next goal is the Platinum status.

You can read it here. It’s not great, and after reading about EzineArticles high standards I was a bit surprised to see it went through. I will, however, not complain!

If I can do it with my rather limited skills then everyone can, including you. EzineArticles is still easily one of the best article directories for driving traffic to your links and by continuing to write and submit decent articles, you are building a nice flow of free traffic with it.

Update on article outsourcing:
The team that I am currently using have delivered three initial articles so far, one of which contained a rather unpleasant number of duplicates, and I let them know about this, but the rest are above what I would expect at such affordable rate, and 100% Copyscape proof. If this continues, I will have a good reason for recommending them.