Offhand, I can think of GoArticles. It approves fast. As for EzineArticles, once you have gotten your Platinum status, it takes about 24 to 48 hours only. You can consider American Chronicles as well. They review and approve your articles quite quickly. As for other article directories, most take ages to approve your articles. Do not even bother submitting to them if you are not using an automated submission software as the traffic from there come in small trickles only.
All article directories are not the same. This is a lesson I've learned the hard way. Ezinearticles and Go Articles are about the best. I've heard Search Wrap is pretty good too. The smaller directories are really not worth it. The traffic from them is just too small. Of course, they could be good for links...maybe.
You can try these sites... http://www.articleblast.com http://www.pubarticles.com http://www.goarticles.com http://www.articlesbase.com http://www.articlecity.com http://pressbox.co.uk http://www.articlesnare.com
yes, definite ezinearticles.com is best approval sites. Which give massive traffic as well as may through you can target your main keywords on articles. if your article is unique then it approved fast otherwise it rejected.
Never go for instant approval article sites. Good sites always keeps your article under review. Always write quality contents and upload to top quality article sites.
Well, I have submitted an article on this site but it has been a month now and still I didn't receive any email regarding if my article has been approved or not.
http://www.sooperarticles.com/ http://www.articleblast.com http://www.goarticles.com http://www.articlesbase.com http://www.articlecity.com http://www.articlesnare.com http://articlepool.com http://upublish.info http://a1articles.com http://articleseen.com
There are a lot of article submission sites, but using most of them is a waste of time. Before placing your article there make sure that the links from them are not "nofollow". As for me, I now use ezine, already mentioned, articleclick, information-online and articleslash. Also some Press-Release submission sites do accept articles as well, and many of these sites are free.
Submitting in article directories that are not cached in Google is simply a waste of time and energy doing submissions in such directories. article city is not now caching in Google..!!