Global Citizen

Disclaimer: This is purely based on my 1.5yrs of personal experience. Discretion is strongly advised.

Effectiveness of FTS
-Helps to gain higher rankings faster than other platforms like UAW, AMA and MAS.

Downside of FTS
-Rankings will go down as fast as how it went up, if not faster.
-Not able to maintain rankings
-For very high competition keywords, FTS is not able to bring it up to the top spot even with long term article submission.
-Links created are weak however favourable to lower competition
-It has become time consuming to submit articles in FTS as high chance all your efforts will be wasted due to the high declines. Is FTS worth it? You decide.

The Solution
-Keep submitting articles on a daily basis
-Spread out to different platforms i.e. serpassist, etc.

FTS in the Long Run
-As more and more systems are being produced and invented, FTS will lose out unless they innovate and add more value to users.
-Constant innovation is lacking in FTS. Thus it will make FTS irrelevant in the next 3-5 years like those other article submission platforms.

How about their support?
-Support response and assistance is terrific.
-However this does not imply that they will make things any better or easier for you.
-Recently or rather a few months back, they have stricken the process of article submission, making it difficult for users to get their articles published.

Who FTS do not like?
-Users who submits many articles in a day.
-It seems FTS is not in favour of people submitting a lot of articles a day.
My guess: It cost them more to hire article moderators to screen those articles.
-However, discrimination is practised.
-If you are a new user, they will be very lenient towards your submission. After you have paid and used their system regularly, they will find every bit of your mistakes in article submission. From backlinks, to article content, to blog selection, to grammatical errors. Even ezine articles will approve your articles fast and swift when you are a paid member.
-You will realize that most of your articles will be rejected, more often than not.
Business conspiracy? You find out.
-Do not be surprised if all your articles are being declined. This is normal however not justified.

Do FTS Value You?
-Yes, it does. Only until you have purchased the membership. (Good Luck)

Alternatives?
SerpAssist may be slightly better.
Lookout for new emerging platforms. Many will be nonsensical and crap.
That few ones are really the great ones.

Yes or No?
-Since FTS gives results, this is a yes.
-However, bear in mind the trouble that FTS will give you.

Preciseim

I couldn't agree more...Lately FTS have become ridiculous about declining articles for the most trivial reasons...I think more and more people have suffered this.

Shaunman

The thing about FTS is that it is free, and you get what you pay for .

I don't see them losing out to other software, just because they build trust with their free membership. Nobody else so far does that. They really are excellent marketers as far as I can tell.

I wonder about that. It seems like blasting your article out to 100s of semi-established sites should be more effective then submiting it to 30-50 PR0 blogs that where build on turkey sites for the FTS.

CianMcCarthy

Thanks for this...I was always wondering how good FTS really was

Paul Schlegel

Actually here's what the OP actually said:

"-If you are a new user, they will be very lenient towards your submission. After you have paid and used their system regularly, they will find every bit of your mistakes in article submission. From backlinks, to article content, to blog selection, to grammatical errors. Even ezine articles will approve your articles fast and swift when you are a paid member.
-You will realize that most of your articles will be rejected, more often than not.
Business conspiracy? You find out.
-Do not be surprised if all your articles are being declined. This is normal however not justified."

pavionjsl

Tough business model. If we, the customer are more successful they would be too.