Is it worth getting a paid membership to ezinearticles?

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Does anyone have an opinion or experience on if there are any advantages to getting a paid membership. I am sure it is worth it but what are the advantages from anyones experiences. Thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author Zeus66
    Not worth it for most markters, in my view. If you're in the habit of regularly submitting articles, then all the paid membership does is speed up your approval. It won't get your article approved that wouldn't otherwise, but it does speed up the process. You go to the front of the line. I would say do it if the cost in no way represents a hardship and comes out of disposable income. Why not, right? But if you plan to submit regularly anyway, then once you get the first ones approved, the regular submissions will fall in line anyway. You'll have new articles going live day after day if you write and submit day after day - either way.

    John
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  • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
    For what little they offer I agree with John not worth it in my view... Just think how much more marketing you could get out of $97 a month ...

    James
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  • Profile picture of the author Derek Allen
    It pays off if you use it. What I mean by that is this, if you submit maybe 3-4 articles a week you might just want to stick to the unpaid version. But if you submit 2-3 articles a day in a time sensitive niche then you could find tremendous value in it. I myself just stick to the unpaid version but have been thinking of dishing out the $$$ to upgrade because I have pumping out some serious articles.
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    • Profile picture of the author skibbz
      Interesting,I never knew they had paid subscription on ezine articles. do alot of people pay?
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  • Profile picture of the author acrasial
    The downside to the paid membership, is that it DOES NOT guarantee your articles will be approved. Especially if you are in a very heavily populated niche. But, some may say that's a plus.


    The paid membership ALSO does not guarantee unlimited submissions. For all they care, they could keep you down to 10 or 25 submissions forever, if they feel like it.


    They only take credit card, and no longer allow paypal, because they really like the option of locking you in and re-billing you. Refunds do not exist in their vocabulary, and neither do canceled subscription plans.


    BUT, once you take out a chunk of your money to pay them to sit around and reject your articles, you will find that the rejection process is QUICK, although NOT painless. You will also find that they review your articles so quickly, that you will wonder if they really did read them at all?


    And when they have PMS days, they will find small reasons to reject certain articles, just for fun, because after all, you paid for them to have fun!


    But all jokes aside, they clearly lay out the pro's on their website, and the cons are also clearly laid out above (and in other posts on this forum).


    At the end of the day, it is ONLY a good investment, if you are going to make that money back from using EZA as a directory for your articles. If that money cannot be made back, then it is NOT a good investment right now, because they will want to re-bill you again, so then you are forking out 100$+ again, which wouldn't be in your best interest if you are not gaining anything from the use of EZA in the first place.


    AND===> as others have mentioned, if you are not a bulk article marketer, it's probably not in your best interest to fork out a chunk of cash for a few articles, just because you are impatient.
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    • Profile picture of the author skibbz
      Originally Posted by acrasial View Post



      And when they have PMS days, they will find small reasons to reject certain articles, just for fun, because after all, you paid for them to have fun!
      LOL@ PMS days ..so you mean after spending your hard earned cash they can reject your article even though you already paid?
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      • Profile picture of the author acrasial
        Originally Posted by skibbz View Post

        LOL@ PMS days ..so you mean after spending your hard earned cash they can reject your article even though you already paid?

        Well if you have been in the main forum for the past few days (or even longer), you may have recently viewed a few threads/posts speaking of just that: articles not being approved, they are given no reason why, and the Editors take forever to respond and even give a reason.

        I would call that a PMS day, if *you* (*meaning whoever the editor was*) are going to reject something, and can't even at least give a reason or some information, and leave people distressed, angry, upset and ticked off while you take your sweet time to respond?


        Of course some of the people who are getting their articles rejected may not be paid members either, but so far, they have been.
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  • Profile picture of the author Branlan17
    I have a paid membership right now and have not yet decided if I'm going to pay for another month or not. While the approval times are nice, the true gem of this service is the timed release. Being able to submit at less jammed up times in a competitive niche has been getting my articles A LOT more views.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
    Another older thread (well at least it is not a year old) ... I still say it is not worth it. I could do a great deal more with $97 a month and turn it into several hundred or several thousands each month.

    All EZA offers is faster approval so they say ....

    James
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    • Profile picture of the author acrasial
      Originally Posted by TheRichJerksNet View Post

      Another older thread (well at least it is not a year old) ...
      James

      LOL, wow, I got conned. Didn't even notice that myself. How dare you make me look like a fool!

      (Only I am allowed to do that!) :p
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    • Profile picture of the author skibbz
      Originally Posted by TheRichJerksNet View Post

      ... I still say it is not worth it. I could do a great deal more with $97 a month and turn it into several hundred or several thousands each month.

      All EZA offers is faster approval so they say ....

      James
      Ok I see that the general consensus is that its not worth it .. what offers or goodies do you think they should have offered to make spending $97 more worthwhile?
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      • Profile picture of the author acrasial
        Originally Posted by skibbz View Post

        Ok I see that the general consensus is that its not worth it .. what offers or goodies do you think they should have offered to make spending $97 more worthwhile?

        Well their offer seems fine, as long as your articles are getting approved. Lance Winslow submits thousands of articles all the time, but he doesn't promote anything.


        Maybe he has a membership and sees that as worthwhile, since he writes all the time, and then he can choose where they go. Since that is his hobby, to write on political subjects and whatnot, maybe to him it's good.


        But if you are an article marketer, and you want to submit many articles and optimize on the traffic, that alone may be an incentive, as long as money is not an issue.


        However the EZA membership, to me, is not cheap. It's quite a hefty one at that. Which means one should seriously consider all options when it comes to their membership, and more so, one should consider whether or not EZA will also allow them to EARN BACK that money too.


        Not everyone who submits to EZA as a paid member or a standard member reaps in the same benefits. Maybe it's because some do not back link, or some are not as effective at marketing, but if EZA cannot even give you back what you are putting in, it would be very wasteful to continuously put money into them, in that sense.


        There are quite a few paid members on this forum, from what I have seen recently, and they all enjoy the fact that they can choose when their articles come out. That is important to be able to choose, to some people, because if your articles go out too soon, they could be buried by your competition just 3 hours from the time they were approved.


        That may put your entire article writing efforts to waste, when no one will even view or see your articles. That is the SOLE reason why anyone would want to purchase this membership, because that is LITERALLY all that it has to offer, aside from fast review times.



        Also keep in mind the fact that although they say your articles will be approved faster, many times I have seen their editors fall behind in their work, and then you can see your articles sitting there for 2 days or more.


        And if that is during a long weekend or a weekend in general, you can see your articles sitting there collecting dust for a week then. Which pretty much defeats the purpose of the membership, don't you think?


        At the end of the day, the editors are human, which means they are not perfect, so do you want to pay the editors to approve your articles quickly, so long as they choose too, and so long as they are up to date with their work?

        So here is the REAL HARD HITTING QUESTION:


        Do YOU want to PAY for your articles to be scheduled and approved the same day?


        Answer that question, and you will know if you really want this membership or not.
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      • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
        Originally Posted by skibbz View Post

        Ok I see that the general consensus is that its not worth it .. what offers or goodies do you think they should have offered to make spending $97 more worthwhile?
        There is nothing they could do to get me to pay $97 month ... Many other sites out there that can outrank EZA and are 100% ad free and do not cost anywhere near what EZA charges..

        I find the site useless, but that is just me ...

        James
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  • Profile picture of the author Bammrie
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    • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
      Originally Posted by Bammrie View Post

      Havn't had good experiences with membershps..
      So you purchased EZA Membership ?? By your post I think not but I could be wrong...

      James
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    • Profile picture of the author acrasial
      Originally Posted by Bammrie View Post

      Havn't had good experiences with membershps..

      "Wel wen it coms 2 artikul direktoreez 1 may thingk" that spelling is considered, and that may just be the reason why your experience was not an overly friendly friendly one.

      But I could be wrong, however I strongly suspect that may have had something to do with it.
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  • Profile picture of the author JGLinked
    Too expensive and so many other directories are gaining in PR
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    • Profile picture of the author acrasial
      Originally Posted by JGLinked View Post

      Too expensive and so many other directories are gaining in PR

      Yup ArticlesBase for one. But now EZA is trying REALLY HARD to gain back their #1 status, not with customers, but with GOOGLE. Drama rama.
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  • Profile picture of the author Deepak Media
    I would say that people who offer services of article writing + submission to ezine themselves may find it useful. For us, its not worth it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tyson Faulkner
    If all the premium membership does is faster approval, I know why I skipped over it. When I was actively submitting niche articles, I got to the point where they were getting approved in just a couple hours, sometimes 1. I could time them pretty well because they were so consistent.

    No guarantees of course though.
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    • Profile picture of the author skibbz
      I have a quick question, would you pay for banner advertisement on EZA for a month? would that be a better option to advertise your site instead of paying for membership?
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      • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
        Originally Posted by skibbz View Post

        I have a quick question, would you pay for banner advertisement on EZA for a month? would that be a better option to advertise your site instead of paying for membership?
        Nope .. I would not waste my money ...

        James
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  • Profile picture of the author acrasial
    Originally Posted by skibbz View Post

    I have a quick question, would you pay for banner advertisement on EZA for a month? would that be a better option to advertise your site instead of paying for membership?

    They don't even have that option. They do not allow people to promote their own products on their adsense, and do not allow anyone to pick them in that manner.


    It's automatically generated in that sense. But you are talking about banner advertisements, maybe they do allow people to promote on their website now in that sense. If so, I would suggest you pick a niche that gets tons of traffic, otherwise if it costs a lot to promote on there, you may end up losing a lot of money.





    Wow, just got an idea from that! LOL!
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    • Profile picture of the author skibbz
      Originally Posted by acrasial View Post

      Wow, just got an idea from that! LOL!
      do share please
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      • Profile picture of the author acrasial
        Originally Posted by skibbz View Post

        do share please
        LOL, check the main forum, I posted something there, and thanks for the idea!
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  • Profile picture of the author skibbz
    If i were running EZA I would develop niche targeted ads so you can get your ads displayed only in the categories you desire.They get tonnes of traffic hence it would provide much more exposure than article text link headings. Banners are larger and more visible
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    • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
      Originally Posted by skibbz View Post

      If i were running EZA I would develop niche targeted ads so you can get your ads displayed only in the categories you desire.They get tonnes of traffic hence it would provide much more exposure than article text link headings. Banners are larger and more visible
      I think the adsense farm has enough ads on it .... 100% ad free is way better....

      James
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  • Profile picture of the author alag18
    my point of view free membership is worth and enough,paid membership is not necessary.
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  • Profile picture of the author skibbz
    Originally Posted by NY1 View Post


    Of course, those that own article directories themselves will bash EZA as an adsense farm, but every article directory uses ads.

    The few that I have come across that do not use ads, no one has ever heard of. If you are niche marketing to people that are not internet marketers, which one are they going to trust more?

    EZA, which they have heard of or some other article directory that they never heard of?
    give me the adsense farm anyday cause i know they can deliver the goods
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    • Profile picture of the author acrasial
      Originally Posted by skibbz View Post

      give me the adsense farm anyday cause i know they can deliver the goods

      Their response that you replied to sounded more like a personal blow to someone, rather than a response regarding the use of EZA, but I could be wrong.


      But adsense farm sure does sound like a great description here for EZA...there are literally ads floating all around the articles reminds me of shark infested waters.
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