Yes you are rite ... these websites take long time to approve articles..... ezinearticles.com is very fast and very effective .
can somebody tell me! does any of the sites mentioned in this thread pay for submission of articles... does ezinearticles.com pay for submission!
Then why would anyone submit articles on free article sites... the writer can always start his blog and do SEO himself!
Bcos he gets Tons of Free backlinks automatically once he submits to articles sites. Here's one - Wise Articles
It's a trade-off ... you give them a free article and they give you traffic / inbound links. I would suggest you do some research on the power of inbound links
Newslookup.com, also now has the ability to submit articles in the Contributed News sections. If you add your website in your profile your site is listed as the source. There is also a summary of the latest contributed articles on the home page that lists the title, source and brief excerpt.
http://www.featured-articles.com Articles will be approve within 12 hours, but normally it will be approve within 1 hour
if u r ready to pay, try using submityourarticle.com . These guys will submit your article to around 150+ article directories and it includes the popular ones like ezinearticles, goarticles, etc.