Branlan17

So here's my dilemma: I've been submitting 3-5 articles in my niche every day to EZA but the problem is some days they get published at times that are super busy, and my articles are gone before they can get my site even a handful of visitors. On the other hand, if they're published at less-busy times, just 3 articles can get me 200ish viewers from EZA which will usually result in at least a sale or two.

EZA premium is 97 a month unless you start going for package deals; but this would allow me to post say, in the evening, when people are home from work and EZAs staff isn't approving any more "normal" articles anymore. What do you guys think?

Alexa Smith

I've never really looked at it too seriously for myself, because I don't care what times/days my own articles are published, but this is undoubtedly a very good point that John makes: in all the discussions about the service, you almost never seem to see posts from people saying they tried it and then decided against it. And that may be rather telling.

Branlan17

Well let me ask this then, provided my titles are engaging and my resource boxes fall in the 30-40% range, is 3-5 articles a day a large enough number to make this worth it?

Branlan17

Oh and if you have this service; what have you found to be the best time to release articles?

kvnkane

i wouldnt bother, ezine are the worst directory when it comes to guidelines. they reject so many articles when other articles on thier site have so many spelling mistakes and wrong information in them.

ezine as a whole is a valuable directory and can drive targeted visitors but they are so frustrating. dont give them money they earn enough money from your advertisements that appear on your adds.

back to the question i wouldnt buy it if you only write 3-5 articles a day, there is no need just get platinum status and your articles are reviewed quickly anyway.

ahefner33

Best thing about it imo is the scheduling. You can load all your articles at once and have them distributed as you want.

My personal experience though has been that your articles will be more scrutinized because you are getting reviewed by their top editors. I admit I'm not the best writer in the world but from my actual experience, articles and topics I was writing on my regular account were accepted far more than the articles on the premium.

John Pawlett

I have had the opposite experience, I find that having a premium account means all articles go through.

The biggest advantage I have found is that once you have submitted your article and set a time for it to be released you can then use that article on your blog/site/other directories without EZA calling it duplicated content as its been reviewed by their automated software.

You don't need to do 3-5 every day! just 15 every two month's to dominate the most read and published sections.

The time spent doing your keyword research and backlinking to each article is far more valuable than knocking out hundreds of articles.

John

Alexa Smith

I see that that's a good thing, of course, but I don't see how it's an "advantage" of having a premium account. I don't have a premium account and neither does any of my clients (as far as I know), but I put all my articles on my own site before submitting them to EZA and advise all my clients to do the same thing, and there's never been a "duplicated content" problem at all, to my knowledge anyway.

EZA has never had any problem re-publishing articles that are already published on their submitters' own sites under the same name.

Marhelper

If it is really important as far as timing is concerned then I would recommend it. Actually, there is a real upside to controlling the timing of the release of your articles.

John Pawlett

Alexa

The reason I see it as an 'advantage' is that I like to blast them all out to the other directories straight away, some like Buzzle (thinks that right, the wine is kicking in) also only like original content so if I pace it correct all of them are getting original content before they find out their not!

John

Alexa Smith

Thanks, John. Yes, I take the point about Buzzle: this is the only directory I know of that won't re-publish an article that I've already published on my own site (and I admit I don't use them for that reason).

John Pawlett

You should, in testing they are really starting to rank well in Google. If you do EZA and Buzzle virtually at the same time (as in fill in both forms in different browsers) then submit you can usually get away with it.

John

Alexa Smith

My problem with Buzzle isn't that they won't take an article I have at EZA - this doesn't matter to me in the slightest - it's the fact that they won't take an article that's already on my own site. I'm certainly not giving Buzzle an article before I've published it myself and had it indexed on my own site. Once you start doing that kind of thing, you'll find article directories outranking you for your own keywords, and it'll be your own fault, too!

Branlan17

I think judging by this discussion it's at least worth a try. I'm in a niche where tons of articles are submitted each day so it might help me get a lot more views if I can have them release in the evening or w.e

EverNoticeThat

Im hearing that the best time to release articles is:

• in the morning when people get to work
• at lunch
• in the evening when they get home from work

your mmv.

EverNoticeThat

seems like drip-feeding them once per hour (if you're on the east coast) would cover all four time zones at 9 am -5pm. 9-12, 12-3, 5-9pm

Global365

Hey Brandon,

There are a couple guys doing timed submissions on EZA and the start their submissions at 6am-8-10-12 ad say that readership drops dramatically after noon....if you have hi CPC adsense sites or hi rev affiliate products and can afford it I would give it a shot....

Barry

Adam Scott

Seriously Alexa, whenever you come out with your own WSO, please count me as first in line to purchase. You're extremely knowledgeable!