To be or not to be?? Ezine Premium $99? Worth it?

[timbuck2]

hey guys. need some advice!!

Ive written 20-30 articles in the last few weeks, i submitted 10 to ezine, 4 are in quality control after a week of waiting
and 5 are still pending initial review and one became live.

I'm super impatient and am writing articles everyday eagerly wanting them to be submitted and reviewed

Im not sure if i can hold out a few weeks to get them all live.

Does anyone suggest me paying $99 for premium?

Once i become a premium member for a month, and i no longer pay for the service after the month do i still become a platinum member?


Any advice much appreciated

thanks

ant

[Kevin Williams]

In the same situation, same questions. Let's hear some good answers

[davidomni]

"Once i become a premium member for a month, and i no longer pay for the service after the month do i still become a platinum member?"

Well I would guess not. Just like any other service. Take your electricity or gas bill as an example.

I would just go about finding and submitting to other article directories with a high PR.

Hope this helps.

Cheers.

[Ron.]

You only become a platinum if your initial 10 are approved without any issues. You cannot buy platinum status.

To answer your question, yes you still remain a platinum member if you do not have the premium membership. Assuming all of your first 10 or second 25 are approved without flaws.

Platinum has nothing to do with premium.


Just submit all the articles at once. Load'em up.

What I did was loaded 25 articles at once and than sent a email to the editor in a FRIENDLY tone with something like

"I hope all of my artilces have met eza standards. I am looking forward to earning platinum status and contributing the the eza community".

This did 2 things:

1. I got ALL 25 approved at once

2. The email is used to put you on the radar. Brings attention to your account.


Ron

Originally Posted by timbuck2

hey guys. need some advice!!

Ive written 20-30 articles in the last few weeks, i submitted 10 to ezine, 4 are in quality control after a week of waiting
and 5 are still pending initial review and one became live.

I'm super impatient and am writing articles everyday eagerly wanting them to be submitted and reviewed

Im not sure if i can hold out a few weeks to get them all live.

Does anyone suggest me paying $99 for premium?

Once i become a premium member for a month, and i no longer pay for the service after the month do i still become a platinum member?


Any advice much appreciated

thanks

ant

[timbuck2]

so once you stop paying for premium you go back to basic???

Originally Posted by davidomni

"Once i become a premium member for a month, and i no longer pay for the service after the month do i still become a platinum member?"

Well I would guess not. Just like any other service. Take your electricity or gas bill as an example.

I would just go about finding and submitting to other article directories with a high PR.

Hope this helps.

Cheers.

[timbuck2]

ron, what i meant was. if i jump to premium, and after the month passes, will i stay at platinum

PS i cant actually submit or load up any more articles as it limited me to 10,

[joanpeterson]

Not necessarily. If you were platinum, you would remain platinum. Premium is just a service that allows you to get your articles approved quicker.

This is what ezinearticles states, "Being a Premium member will not impact or help your account level upgrades (Basic, Basic Plus or Platinum). The Platinum unlimited article submission level is earned with a history of trust over time and can never be bought."

[JenniferHardings]

If you are going to be putting out many articles (preferably more than 20-30... because you want to make back the money you spend on the upgrade), then this is perfect for you. They approve your articles very fast, and in fact so fast, that you will be flabbergasted that you didn't find out about it sooner.

[Ron.]

Not true at all.


Platinum status is earned from submitting quality articles.

Even with a premium account, if you have not submitted you initial 10 and they've been approved without flaws, you'll still remain basic or basic plus.

Originally Posted by davidomni

"Once i become a premium member for a month, and i no longer pay for the service after the month do i still become a platinum member?"

Well I would guess not. Just like any other service. Take your electricity or gas bill as an example.

I would just go about finding and submitting to other article directories with a high PR.

Hope this helps.

Cheers.

[thmgoodw]

One additional headache with this is for those of us with different accounts for different niches. I'm not sure if I want to pay for 5 premium memberships

Originally Posted by JenniferHardings

If you are going to be putting out many articles (preferably more than 20-30... because you want to make back the money you spend on the upgrade), then this is perfect for you. They approve your articles very fast, and in fact so fast, that you will be flabbergasted that you didn't find out about it sooner.

You can also schedule, which will put you ABOVE and ahead of your competition.

[Ron.]

I know what you're saying.

Yes, if you are awarded platinum status, you'd stay platinum status. Paid membership or not.

Platinum status and premium membership have nothing to do with each other.

Originally Posted by timbuck2

ron, what i meant was. if i jump to premium, and after the month passes, will i stay at platinum

PS i cant actually submit or load up any more articles as it limited me to 10,

[Ron.]

NO!.

Once awarded Platinum. You stay platinum. You cannot buy platinum status.

Originally Posted by timbuck2

so once you stop paying for premium you go back to basic???

[JenniferHardings]

Originally Posted by thmgoodw

One additional headache with this is for those of us with different accounts for different niches. I'm not sure if I want to pay for 5 premium memberships

You DO NOT have to- you can create NEW author names/pen names, all under the same account- and each account will all have separate statistics, so that way everything isn't just all mixed up. There are plenty of people on EZA with more than one author name, doing this, and they all cover different niches.

You are able to create different author names, under the SAME account, even if HAVE NOT paid.

What one may consider doing, is teaming up with someone who has already PAID For their status, and setting up an author's account under them. There are people on elance who do this, as far as I am aware- and there may be people on here who offer this service as well.

That way it wont cost you 99$, and at the same time, you can get ahead of the game and do so much that you wouldn't normally be able to do.

[thmgoodw]

I guess I need to talk to the SENuke folk's about adding this functionality

Originally Posted by JenniferHardings

You DO NOT have to- you can create NEW author names/pen names, all under the same account- and each account will all have separate statistics, so that way everything isn't just all mixed up.

There are plenty of people on EZA with more than one author name, doing this, and they all cover different niches.

What one may consider doing, is teaming up with someone who has already PAID For their status, and setting up an author's account under them. There are people on elance who do this, as far as I am aware- and there may be people on here who offer this service as well.

That way it wont cost you 99$, and at the same time, you can get ahead of the game and do so much that you wouldn't normally be able to do.

[JenniferHardings]

Well you can do a JV to get that kind of service, and it's what I would suggest then, if you don't have many articles, but still want to be on top of your game. Some people charge a small fee to do that- but even still, its better than forking out 99-500$ on EZA, for just a few articles.

[ryanman]

Originally Posted by JenniferHardings

You DO NOT have to- you can create NEW author names/pen names, all under the same account- and each account will all have separate statistics, so that way everything isn't just all mixed up. There are plenty of people on EZA with more than one author name, doing this, and they all cover different niches.

You are able to create different author names, under the SAME account, even if HAVE NOT paid.

What one may consider doing, is teaming up with someone who has already PAID For their status, and setting up an author's account under them. There are people on elance who do this, as far as I am aware- and there may be people on here who offer this service as well.

That way it wont cost you 99$, and at the same time, you can get ahead of the game and do so much that you wouldn't normally be able to do.

This is a sure fire way to get flagged by ezinearticles. They take into account your author box domain names...And when you are under someone else's account. They eventually come to find out and ban that person and you as well.

And if an account has too many pen names it automaticaly raises red flags in their system.

[davidomni]

Originally Posted by Ron.

You only become a platinum if your initial 10 are approved without any issues. You cannot buy platinum status.

To answer your question, yes you still remain a platinum member if you do not have the premium membership. Assuming all of your first 10 or second 25 are approved without flaws.

Platinum has nothing to do with premium.


Just submit all the articles at once. Load'em up.

What I did was loaded 25 articles at once and than sent a email to the editor in a FRIENDLY tone with something like

"I hope all of my artilces have met eza standards. I am looking forward to earning platinum status and contributing the the eza community".

This did 2 things:

1. I got ALL 25 approved at once

2. The email is used to put you on the radar. Brings attention to your account.


Ron

Thats got to be some of the best advice ever for getting your articles approved!

Awesome!

[JenniferHardings]

Originally Posted by ryanman

This is a sure fire way to get flagged by ezinearticles. They take into account your author box domain names...And when you are under someone else's account. They eventually come to find out and ban that person and you as well.

And if an account has too many pen names it automaticaly raises red flags in their system.

Taken into account, but what was meant by a JV wasn't that everyone just ran out there and formed 100 author names under one account. But rather, if they know someone who has the status, that they may join together.

There are plenty of people on EZA with different kinds of websites all together, for different things- all under the same account. But true, a person might not want to risk being flagged.

[ryanman]

Originally Posted by JenniferHardings

Taken into account, but what was meant by a JV wasn't that everyone just ran out there and formed 100 author names under one account. But rather, if they know someone who has the status, that they may join together.

There are plenty of people on EZA with different kinds of websites all together, for different things- all under the same account. But true, a person might not want to risk being flagged.

What's the guarantee that your articles would stay? Because your partner would have to maintain that account for years...Why do you even want to depend on someone else for that?

Why not get a 3 month membership instead worth $60 a month and save yourself 30 bucks per month and take full control?

[JenniferHardings]

Originally Posted by ryanman

What's the guarantee that your articles would stay? Because your partner would have to maintain that account for years...Why do you even want to depend on someone else for that?

Why not get a 3 month membership instead worth $60 a month and save yourself 30 bucks per month and take full control?

OK, how about topple ALL of this, because there is another directory out now, which claims to give better results with the search engines, than ezine articles does.

Just go there instead- heck screw the 60$, and they welcome ALL your articles from EZA as well, onto their own interface... without all of the hassles that EZA may present.