I recently bought a lifetime membership to the new service EZArticle Link (EZAL for short). I wasn’t interested in this service initially, because it carried a monthly fee, but when I discovered they also had a “pay-once-and-you’re-in-forever” option, I couldn’t resist, and what’s more, I’m already starting to see results!

If you’d like to read all about it, you can click HERE, and get the full scoop. I was attempting to find a way to let you guys piggyback on my account, but their terms of service clearly forbid it. Nonetheless, the service is so compelling now that I fully understand it all, that I would be doing us both a disservice by not making the recommendation.

As someone who has completely immersed himself in the service, let me fill you in on the full scoop:

On the surface of it, EZAL (My shorthand for EZ Article Links) appears to be a lot like the other article syndication networks (AMA, UAW, etc), but it’s got some important differences that really make it worthwhile, even causing me to reverse my longstanding position against services that carry a monthly fee, if you can believe that (at the moment, it’s relatively inexpensive per month, so if you can’t afford the $599 lifetime price tag, your next best bet is to lock yourself in at these relatively low rates–when I signed up, the monthly was still at $24.99).

The way it works in a nutshell is, you can “register” one or more of your sites with the service. You have to register the site (and it has to be approved by the Admins, so here we have a quality control element in place) before you can post articles to that site. Registration says it takes 3-5 days, but my sites (I started with 8 of them) all got registered within 24 hours. The next wave (once I saw how well it worked) of 10 more, all got registered within that same time frame, so they’re pretty fast.

Once your site is registered, you can begin submitting articles. All articles must be spun (no exceptions), and they have some fairly tight requirements for spinning. I HATE spinning, so for me, it’s worth it to buy “spin credits” – they will spin your articles for you for $3, which, if you ask me, is a steal.

Once you’ve spun your article yourself, or gotten them to do it, and it comes back, you can submit it, and again, the Admins are the quality control gateway. I’ve not yet had one of my articles rejected, but I know it’s possible, having talked to some folks who’ve had rejections.

The whole thing operates on a system of “reputation.” Every time you submit an article that passes muster, you gain one (1) reputation. Each time you post an article that doesn’t pass, you lose two (2) reputation. If you’re a gold member, you get up to 300 links for one article (and they are forgiving on the length too, unlike FTS, your articles for this service can be as short as 250 words, or as long as 600, so I’ve most definitely found my replacement for FTS!). Also, if you are a gold member, you get +100 “bonus” back links for each article you submit. Those add up quickly, and you can use them for ANY site (even sites that aren’t “registered” with them…even sites you don’t own!), so if you’re following the Crossroads Methodology, and as part of your contract you’ve agreed to build links direct to their company site, this essentially does it for you for free, while you’re marketing your own sites…you can’t get any better than that…charging someone for something you’re getting free…that’s like the perfect setup!

IMO, any one of these features…access to the low-cost spinning, the article submission itself, or the free “bonus links” that you can apply to any site…any of those things on their own would be worth the relatively modest monthly fee they’re charging, but taken together…my God…the synergy is incredible! Do you realize how fast you can grow your business with this?

Let me walk you through it: Let’s say you’re following the Crossroads Methodology, and you’ve got your first client. He’s paying you $100/month maintenance to maintain good rankings for his site, and he paid enough up front to allow you to outsource a sufficient number of articles to get page one rankings, so you’re literally in maintenance mode here…maybe throw one article per keyword every 3-4 months at it, and you’re golden, so you use that $100 per month to outsource 15 articles and buy 15 spin credits ($90 total). You have those articles written on topics related not to the client’s site, but to your own stuff, and you build back links like crazy to your own sites, boosting their rankings in the SERPS, and thus, boosting their profitability.

When you get your bonus links (1500 of them), you set 500-600 aside to throw at your client’s site, and spend the rest on FURTHER building your own sites–and here’s a tip, if you’re using Paul’s Rank Checking Plugin, you can throw some of these bonus links (in lots of 50-100) at some of the new KW’s his plugin turns up for you!).

Of course, you don’t have to be using Crossroads to make this pay…you can simply opt to reinvest some portion of your monthly profits back into this system. Reinvest, rankings improve across the board thanks to a combination of article and bonus links, profits increase. Rinse and repeat. The system is flat out amazing! And what makes it even better is the dead link checking they do. You don’t have to do anything…it all happens automatically, and in the background. When they find a dead link, they simply send your article out again, and you get a replacement…how cool is that?

Folks…it’s the best article marketing tool I’ve ever seen. Now, don’t get me wrong, I still use MAS, ArtBot, and Ash…they’re good tools too, but I consider them to be backup tools to EZAL. EZAL does the heavy lifting, and if EZAL can’t get me to page one on its own, then the combination of MAS/ArtBot/ASH will get me across the finish line, and if THAT doesn’t do it, then I’ve got a tertiary layer in place (do-follow blog submissions, and a handful of high PR sites I submit to by hand). It’s just a fool-proof system.

So do yourself a favor and check out EZ Article Links.

-Chris
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