I'm now at 45 articles and made $101.10 so far, I was getting a lot of them refused at first, so with the refused ones I made squidoo lenses with. I have writers working for me. I pay .50 per article for them to write.
Now since I passed that 40 article mark they are starting to pass more and more articles of mine on the same subjects they refused earlier, so I am hoping the article count goes up and the squidoo lenses go down.
On another note:
I tried to put articles on the google knowls and they got taken out as spam (28 articles) that was tuff to take??? So I just stick to placing the unused articles on hubpages and squidoo lenses.
Right now I have writers writing me 90 articles in the next week so let's hope a good percentage of them get into AC, and all those knowls that got banned I will be putting them up as squidoo lenses. I wish they would have banned the knowls earlier so I didn't have to go through all this hassle. I think making 28 extra lenses will take me some time to complete.
Thought I would share my experiences with you all

Keep going and soon you will be doing pretty good.