EZA So Frustrating. So i Purchased Their Premium Service

If you know how to really make the most of article marketing you can't go wrong with Ezines premium membership. It's like $100, but it most definitely is worth not having to wait a week to get your article accepted. Again you really need to know your article marketing techniques well, or you'll end up being really mad that you wasted that $100.

I tried the premium service but decided it wasn't for me, I don't submit many articles, cause article marketing isn't my main traffic source.

Typically I post only a couple of articles everyday. If you do a high volume though, i'm sure the service will pay for it many times over.

Thanks vince. May i ask how many articles you would submit a month? And how many it would take for it to be worth it to you?

Plus i just realised it looks like i am doing market research for ezinearticles. Which is not the case LOL.

I think the paid subscription well worth it if you serious article marketer! However, I can use Squidoo and Tumbler for hosting my articles, I am moving away from EZA just because there are better options!

Having said that, if you are EZA marketer, you should also make use the powerful inner linking, using some tricks to push your article high!

Let us know with an update how well it works out for you.
brent

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the premium service.

My Articles are sometimes approved in minutes which is what I need

The extra traffic and sales as a result makes this a no brainer for me

John

I'm not currently a premium member there but I am considering it.

However I'm not far off being an expert author and I hear your articles get processed much fast then.

Premium service definitly sounds great though as I agree it is a bit of a pain waiting around for the results, especially if you're in the testing phase of article marketing.

I've had to wait about 2 weeks for my articles to get approved (10 working days). Perhaps how fast your articles get approved depends on the niche you're in as well.

I was the same way...it's taking forever to get an article approved these days without the paid service. Since being a paid member, my articles take a few hours (sometimes minutes) to get approved. If you're serious about article marketing and you can justify the $97 a month, it's worth it. Plus, as soon as I signed up for paid service and became platinum, they started sending me all kinds of small gifts (pens, pads, coffee, coffee mugs, etc).

How much faster could it be?

Mine are going up in just over 24 hours!
Not sure what would motivate me to pay them more with that quick turn around. Sure sometimes it's almost 48 but never more than that...

I have several articles sitting for more than a week now, highly frustrating. I am thinking about the premium membership too, but $100 is $100.

Seb

I must say i have only had the premium service for a little while. And the results have been pretty good. Articles accepted well with in 24 hours. And i found when i was just a normal platinum author, if i submitted an article with an error the rest of my articles i submitted got rejected as like a punishment. But not with the premium service. I guess so far i am happy. And i think it's money well spent if i am happy.

I've never really bothered because I've always got enough articles in queue that I don't really notice how long it takes to get approved.

I've gone the other way - am considering leaving them (well, giving up on them)

I submitted an article on the 16th and it still hasn't been reviewed. I now have/had 26 articles submitted, and having to wait 11+ days for some is terrible, IMO. None have been accepted yet, not even the one submitted on the 16th.

And the worst thing came today - they sent me an e-mail saying that I copied one of my articles from another website, and suspended my account.

The annoying thing is, though, that the website I "copied" one of the articles from was my own website, and I de-activated that one many weeks ago (as in, removed all its files and changes its nameservers to a parking page) since it was going nowhere hence I thought I'd just use its articles for article marketing.

eZineArticles must have been so lazy that they didn't even bother to check the website (and instead just relied on the scan - which must have old data - saying another website has the same content as the article I submitted). The website is now just a parking page - has been for many weeks - and even a quick WHOIS scan would have shown that I owned the domain/website (since they accussed me of stealing the article off someone else, which obviously wasn't the case)

Bah, annoying stuff. I have been waiting for 12+ days for some of the articles to be approved, and then today I come up for review to get to platinum and instead of promoting me, or instead of approving any of the 26 articles I have submitted, they instead suspend my entire account because they are so lazy that they didn't even check that the website in question - which I owned - had been de-activated many weeks ago (and so has no duplicate content issues)

I know that big companies/websites have poor customer service overall, but this sort of treatment has really annoyed me.

I was also considering premium membership if I got into IM big-time, but after this treatment I'm not sure whether I even want to have anything to do with them anymore? Since, y'know, 12+ day waiting times then being called a thief/plagarist is pretty awful in my books.

Interesting business model they seem to have - frustrate people in order to get people to subscribe their premium service! Yet it seems to work!

IMO article marketing is a stage that everybody goes though before they realize that generating backlinks from a broad variety of sites is (in the majority of cases) more profitable that article marketing. I guess if you are in that stage there is probably nothing that I can do to persuade you that it's really not worth the money. You need to find that out for yourself. However, believe me, there are much easier ways to make money which don't involve spending $100 a month on poor quality traffic.

Cheers,

Andy

I haven't upgraded, but I just got so sick of Ezine articles, that I stopped using them. I don't rely on articles for much traffic, these days, but I got so sick of waiting for my articles to get approved. Then they would decline some of them for the stupidest reasons.

I guess my take on this is that if you are writing a small enough number of articles to be concerned about the approval time, then how could it be worth $1200 a year to have them approved more quickly?

Just start writing and submitting, and in two weeks time you'll have articles approved every day.

Ezine seems to prefer longer articles, the only problem is that short articles have much better CTR!

I don't subscribe to their premium services, just think it's not necessary. It's simply because my articles will normally get approved within 48 hours, sometimes faster. So, what I did is just draft all articles inside ezinearticles account and submit any number of articles I want everyday.

Funny, they reviewed 5 of my articles within 1 day of submission recently and I don't have a premium account. After that, I submitted 5 more and it's been a week and I haven't heard anything. Seems to be no rhyme or reason with ezinearticles.

I just wanted to say 'thank you' to everyone posting their response, here. I'm about to begin my own EZA marketing. You've jointly hit on and answered nearly every question I've had about this. Tremendous resource this forum is!!!!

Hi all,

First Post and a great forum BTW

I can't afford to pay for the premuim service yet but am considering it when I can. I like the idea of being able too schedule the release of your articles on the site. However I have read on another forum that these articles DO NOT appear on the most recently published list. That poster thinks that because the articles have been approved maybe 2 - 3 days before they seem to slip through the recently published listing. This kind of defeats the object for me. Can anyone shed any light on this before I waste $97 finding out.

Thanks

I am a premium member but I am considering leaving it because of a simple reason: If you really submit a lot of articles every day, then after a while every day you'll get that much of articles approved, regardless of if they take 3 hours or 2 weeks for approval. If your stream is continuous, then the only thing you gain from a premium membership is the initial time for approval, for only one time. After that you'll get a continuous stream of approved articles.

Plus, if you're Platinum it takes 1 day, or a maximum of 2 days for your articles to be approved. I really don't see anything in premium EZA that makes it worth $100 per month - now that I am Platinum I won't renew my premium account.

There was a time when I did not think it was worth it but there are many advantages to the service. Hint: The timing method.

Sounds awesome LegitBlogger

It just concerns me a bit that they treat the basic/basic plus members comparatively badly.

They're now approved 13 of my articles (after around two weeks), but I still have 23 pending, and I still have one article pending from the 16th of August. Who knows why about that last one (probably fell through the cracks; I'll wait a bit longer but delete and resubmit if needed). I've e-mailed but they're just saying "We're busier than usual" etc (whilst approving ones I've submitted later on in the month, confusingly enough)

All but a couple of my articles get accepted first time with no problems at all. So it's not a problem with quality etc, they are just insanely slow for basic (plus) members.

*Shrugs*

I do agree though that their premium service sounds good. I'd buy it if I submitted enough articles per day. But it's just a little disappointing that I'd be buying it since their 'free' service is not good enough.

With premium membership you get to know the top 30 keywords vs 5 keywords that your visitor typed in to find your article when you're a premium member. I haven't upgraded yet, but surely with this type of intel you're in a far better position to blow the competition out of the park.

Articles based on keywords also fair quite well in SEO when they're first published. From my research if you can get your articles published on a wed/thur/fri they get a lot of weekend traffic which in turn bumps up the most viewed article count. By scheduling your articles to be published on these days gives you an overall competitive advantage over a basic plus member who doesn't get an allocation slot.

Great topic, here. I just had an article approved after exactly 10 working days, I believe.
On the 9th day I sent them an email basically letting them know how I felt about their
particular approach to marketing. I really doubt very much they gave 2 craps about my
feelings. But I sent it anyway.

I was a bit shocked to read that premium member articles can be approved in minutes.

But hey, I try to be a realist about things. It's their business, and they can do what
they want. If people keep paying their extortionesque fees, then that means it's
what the market will bear. So that means the fees will stick.

That being said, I personally think it's bad business to alienate a large segment of
their market for profit's sake. Not to mention the most prime real estate on our article
pages, above the fold, is completely populated with adsense. On the right, as well.

So clearly ezinearticles is demonstrating a high degree of arrogance with their
apparent attitude toward those who make their income possible.

A 'good' business relationship should be a positive symbiosis. Yes, yes... I realize
and understand we benefit from them, but it just seems they're leverage a bit
too much from the frustration, convenience, and possibly anger ( for some) angle.

(/rant)

This thread is a good one. Knowing Chris, he will surely read
it and - who knows - maybe do something like increasing the
number of editors, or something.
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I'm of the view that running an online business is like running an offline one. If they're getting thousands of articles a day, they have two people to review each article submitted (not two people in total), not to mention the re-submitted ones. They have to allocate and prioritise which articles get reviewed first and then submitted.

If they levelled the playing field they'd need to employ more staff. No doubt a clever accountant has devised a way of improving bottom line whilst employing the same level of staff. If you were running a successful business you'd do exactly the same.

I can't see things changing any time soon unless a major competitior steals market share. Until then, we'll have to play by EZA rules and get on with it. Similar point of view to Google. There's no point getting angry over sudden changes. Better to learn and adapt faster than your competition.

I would say to only use the service if you are a SERIOUS article marketer. Months ago I tried an approach of doing so many articles a day but it would take forever to get them approved. The timing feature they have is also powerful trust me when I say this. You can kick some serious butt if you know what you are doing. If you are making any serious money using EZA as a part of your main business module then the fee is no problem. I believe this is who it was designed for. But of course there are other ways I have seen that are cheaper then this, depending on how much money you are making you will set aside money to utilize the ones that increase your botton line.