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Anyone pay for EzineArticles Premium Membership?

by CliveG
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Anyone pay for EzineArticles Premium Membership? Is it worthwhile?
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  • Profile picture of the author impact-productions
    I can't see a reason to pay for it in my business. The main advantages are the faster review times and the timed release. But, both of these are predictable figures, and so if you can just submit the articles at reasonable times (taking into account the waiting period), you can get them released at roughly the right times. I'd imagine you'd need to be writing more than 200 articles a month before it was worthwhile.

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    • Profile picture of the author Steve Holmes
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      As long as I write 3 articles a day (for example), they'll be publishing 90 of my articles per month, which is fine by me. Once you've built up a steady and consistent output, the backlog's no longer relevant (to me).
      I guess if you write that much, then publishing time catches up with itself and becomes irrelevant anyways
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  • Profile picture of the author advfin1
    I don't see the value in it either. I agree with others that you would have to be doing some high volume to make that worthwhile. I think the important thing is to change up your resource box a lot
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    • Profile picture of the author SledgeHammer
      No point in paying...when you are getting things for free !
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  • Profile picture of the author createyouwealth
    Its really no point in paying for the membership. Unless you are that much of a writer I wouldn't bother. All the best.
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    • Profile picture of the author marlonpowell
      I never thought of paying for Ezine too - I usually search the platform for reference articles in my niche - any special advantage for paid membership!
      Please share if any, I have little idea
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  • Profile picture of the author LondonPaladin
    There are a lot of great advantages. The best one is controlling when your articles are published. You can track peak times in your niche and have your article release at the key moment.
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    • Profile picture of the author CliveG
      Originally Posted by LondonPaladin View Post

      There are a lot of great advantages. The best one is controlling when your articles are published. You can track peak times in your niche and have your article release at the key moment.
      But does this really make enough of a difference to making paying for the Premium membership worthwhile?

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      • Profile picture of the author hjaynes
        I don't pay for it either, but I'd pay just to not have to see the Adsense ads too.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Worner
    It would be worth it if they removed all the Adsense ads.

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  • Profile picture of the author ivanadee
    I never pay the premium membership...
    I am patient enough for their review ^_^
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  • Profile picture of the author firefly-apps
    The only real advantage I can see is the ability to schedule articles. Unless this is really important to you, I wouldn't bother paying.

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  • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
    I can see how some would benefit but it is not for me ... no need.
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    • Profile picture of the author affilcrazy
      I did...but have since cancelled it!

      I had been promoting a Clickbank product that has an extremely high gravity and lots and lots of competition. My article marketing campaign was mainly focused on directly linking to the vendors sales page (via a re-directed domain).

      Due to the competition, I often found that my articles would only stay in "recently published" section for 30-40 minutes at most, and unfortunately some of the keywords I had targeted would be extremely hard to rank for. Previously however, I had noticed that the majority of my sales of this product were coming from Australia. So I actually tested the premium membership and had all my articles published during the early hours of the morning (GMT) and specifically focused on potentially catching my Australian readers.

      Was it successful? hmm...hard to say. Some days 3-5 articles would produce 10-12 sales of a $30+ commission product and at other times I would go weeks without any sales, while producing in excess of 10,000+ hops! It merely proved to me that article marketing has evolved and, although occasionally direct linking to a product may work, a little more hard work is required nowadays.

      The only real benefit that I have seen from Premium membership is the ability to time the actual release of your article. Yes, I have had articles published within 10 minutes of submitting them however this makes very little difference unless you are specifically targeting a red hot trend! My focus is now more geared towards ranking my articles and building a list and, therefore, it no longer bothers me what time of the day my articles are published!

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      • Profile picture of the author CliveG
        Originally Posted by affilcrazy View Post

        I did...but have since cancelled it!

        I had been promoting a Clickbank product that has an extremely high gravity and lots and lots of competition. My article marketing campaign was mainly focused on directly linking to the vendors sales page (via a re-directed domain).

        Due to the competition, I often found that my articles would only stay in "recently published" section for 30-40 minutes at most, and unfortunately some of the keywords I had targeted would be extremely hard to rank for. Previously however, I had noticed that the majority of my sales of this product were coming from Australia. So I actually tested the premium membership and had all my articles published during the early hours of the morning (GMT) and specifically focused on potentially catching my Australian readers.

        Was it successful? hmm...hard to say. Some days 3-5 articles would produce 10-12 sales of a $30+ commission product and at other times I would go weeks without any sales, while producing in excess of 10,000+ hops! It merely proved to me that article marketing has evolved and, although occasionally direct linking to a product may work, a little more hard work is required nowadays.

        The only real benefit that I have seen from Premium membership is the ability to time the actual release of your article. Yes, I have had articles published within 10 minutes of submitting them however this makes very little difference unless you are specifically targeting a red hot trend! My focus is now more geared towards ranking my articles and building a list and, therefore, it no longer bothers me what time of the day my articles are published!

        Cheers
        Partha
        Hi Partha,

        Thank you very much for that. It's pretty much what I was interested to know.

        Regards, Clive
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        • Profile picture of the author S.Nieves
          Whhhhaaa! This whole time I thought free members were limited to 10 free articles. I got an email asking me to pay for subscription after my 10th article.... I better get posting !!:confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Worner
    @affilcrazy

    It is very hard to convert cold leads when you direct link, especially to Clickbank sales pages(not to mention their faulty tracking) which is why you should be directing your readers to a squeeze page to capture their emails so you can cultivate a relationship with them, that way, when you do send them to the sales page, you will get better conversions, plus, you can market to them again and again thereafter. Which I think you realize, meaning this post by me is completely pointless.

    Never mind...
    Chris
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    • Profile picture of the author affilcrazy
      LOL!! No Worries!

      Chris, whether I realise it or not, reinforcing these great ideas is always a good thing!

      To be honest, this was the only product I have ever direct-linked to and initially it actually proved to be extremely successful. Then droves of additional affiliates began doing the same thing month in, month out!

      I can pretty much go to any article at EZA that targets the same niche, and I will guarantee that over 99% of them direct link to this exact same vendor sales page. A Clue - All men want this and I'm sure not many women would complain if their man could achieve this!

      Cheers
      Partha

      Originally Posted by skyfox7 View Post

      @affilcrazy

      It is very hard to convert cold leads when you direct link, especially to Clickbank sales pages(not to mention their faulty tracking) which is why you should be directing your readers to a squeeze page to capture their emails so you can cultivate a relationship with them, that way, when you do send them to the sales page, you will get better conversions, plus, you can market to them again and again thereafter. Which I think you realize, meaning this post by me is completely pointless.

      Never mind...
      Chris
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  • Profile picture of the author E-supreme
    I think its worthwhile, if your writing a large amount of articles daily.

    If your not writing on a large scale, you can hire writers who have a premium membership and get articles written for you that you can schedule.
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