Unique Article Wizard - Less Effective Than It Used To Be?

I first contacted them when I first noticed the issue (about 2 months ago) and they said their system was undergoing some changes. Fair enough, but two months later the same problems exist.

I contacted them again a few days ago and their support simply said that I must be using the wrong keywords or categories. I know that can't be the case as I've been doing this (article marketing) for a long time and I know how to correctly select keywords and categories.

Thanks for your input. Good to hear that it's not widespread then.

I always submit good quality articles but maybe I'm submitting too many (100 a month) and have had my account 'blacklisted' or something.

I've said to them that I'm happy to set-up a second or third account if that's the problem. Maybe I'll just go ahead and do that anyway.

Me too. This is definitely the way forward I think. It's a pain (and not cheap) to set-up, but once it is then it makes distributing articles really easy and the benefits are definitely worthwhile.

Official update from UAW...

"We've recently upgraded our article submission system to better target your articles to the right sites so as to increase your actual publication rates. This means that we are not submitting to sites that probably won't take your articles anyway. That improves relationships with the destination sites which, ultimately, will mean more of them will stay in our network. However, it does mean that it might appear that you are getting less submissions than previously.

We've also taken the opportunity to audit the site list and have removed a number of spam blogs and inactive sites that were receiving articles via email. Again, this will reflect in an apparent decrease in submission numbers.

On occasion, if you have a very tightly niched article, it may not actually get a submission for the day, depending on if the sites that accept in that category have already reached their submission limit for the day.

If you think your article has stopped too soon, please simply click on the "Send Again" link, you may want to check your keywords and possibly re-order and/or add a couple of new keywords, and then submit the article again. Please let us know which articles you have resubmitted and we can push them through the approval process.

Overall the system upgrades should give more deliveries than you have been getting, but at a slightly slower, but more natural pace and should have a much higher quality.

What this means is that even though the submission numbers may be lower than in the past, they are more targeted and will get published more. And as we know, it is the published articles, not the submitted articles, that will get us those valuable backlinks.

We are also working on some great new features that will get you even more results, but we want to make sure we have everything built in that you require."

...that's what they're now showing above the distribution lists that they provide.

Sounds good, in theory, but it basically just equates to lower distribution numbers. The sites being used are the same as always but the distribution numbers are less.

Regardless of the niche, you're probably now looking at an average of 150-200 distributions per article. Only about 25-50% of those are actually traceable, real sites though.