How many (Quality) Articles Can You Do?

Yea Im sure it will take a serious time commitment, but you seem motivated to do it... so Im sure you will be able to

The key is just to stay motivated and stay committed to keep the articles of only high quality even when you feel like stopping to do other more enjoyable things

That's a pretty good and realistic target, you'll surely accomplish it with no hassles at all. Just remain focused and motivated!

Of course, it would be helpful if you do it continuously.

All of them.

I've never tried for speed before. To me, quality is too important to try to cram like that. Authors of books sometimes sign contracts for x amount in xx amount of time, and you can tell when reading the books if they were contract work - and that's experienced authors.

If you don't have an absolute need to write that fast, use more time in research and take your time on the copy.

2,500 words a day is a good, achievable goal for writing quality content.

You didn't say how long the articles are going to be (e.g. 400 words, 500 words, 1000 words?), how well you know the topic(s), and most importantly, what you consider "quality". Every time the topic of "quality content" is discussed on this forum, it's abundantly clear that one person's idea of "quality" is another person's idea of garbage...

5 articles for 500 words can be done but I have to admit, it would still rely on how well you know the topic/ subject. It will affect quality.

But truth of the matter is, quality really depends on how you work on producing quality work for a short time. You can if you will.

Depends a lot on the article topic and how much knowledge you have in that niche.

I can write an article on golf, football ( soccer ) and many travel destinations pretty quick as I know these subjects and have a passion for them.

Other subjects will require research time and will probably at least double the amount of time I need to complete a quality article.

Focus on content that you know very well, so that you will spend less time researching and more time writing 5 articles is very doable.

P.S Oops, just realized Kevin said the same thing. Sorry!

Hi Tim,

Good luck!

It can't be done by me - this much I can tell you with certainty.

One article per day is all I can manage. Very occasionally, in the past, I've managed two, but I don't intend to try that again. I could manage two per day if I didn't have an affiliate marketing business to run as well (but of course that's what I need the articles for!).

However, that one article per day (actually I write 24/25 per month, so it isn't quite one per day) fills all my content needs for eight entirely separate, unrelated niches in which I'm a marketer. Three articles per month per niche is plenty for me.

Article marketing isn't about how many articles you have: it's about who reads them.

What matters is how widely you can get your articles published in front of the already targeted traffic you want to attract to your site. Producing that result is the time-consuming part of an article marketer's business. Having five times as many articles wouldn't actually help me at all, I must say.

If I'm really familiar with the topic I can write three good ones. My all time record is six. These are 700+ words. If I have to do research I'm lucky to get one decent one. I prefer writing articles in the 1000 to 1400-word range though.

My best day writing fiction was 7500+ words.

My articles are generally between 800-1200 words and I can
write maximum 2 per day if I'm writing for a client but only
one if I'm writing for myself.

I think that my articles are generally too "concentrated"
so that it's hard for me to write many articles on the
same topic. I give it strong with no fluff so it's easy
for me to exhaust a topic early.

-Ray Edwards

From a sales stance: What is the purpose of so much content in so small a time frame? Are you wanting to be an author or a salesperson?

You can be both but the usual hybrid form of this type of marketer is so transparent nothing ever comes of it.

I had a warrior pm me a couple of weeks ago and basically ask why their original content site was not making them any money. I figured the articles were what the average new marketer would consider quality but upon landing on their site, I was pleasantly surprised with the actual quality of writing as well as format and flow.

This warrior was a writer. The problem; they were not a marketer.

Their means of monetization was adsense only. When writing for adsense quality writing can be a downfall. People can actually read when they get to the site. The best adsense sites are those that the writing actually makes people click a link just to get away from it.

By writing for people this writer was also attracting some very low pay out advertising.

Away from the adsense table, article writers need to understand a few important things also. They need to remember their main end purpose. For me that end purpose is to make an eventual sale.

It is hard to make a sale if you give away the farm in the original article.

Most of my two stage opt in squeezes will give away the farm and offer a couple of cows for the email address. This can be done for the fact I have been in this long enough to know the potential farmer will also need some chickens and maybe a goat or two down the road.

The average affiliate marketer does not have this leisure. Their content must focus on warming. Convincing the reader you understand their pain and pointing them to the aspirin ... just be sure you article isn't morphine.

Writing 25 quality articles a week may be possible with your skill set. It is not possible with mine. At least it doesn't fit into what I consider article marketing to be. I would rather spend all day, or two days if needed, writing an article that accomplishes my main objective. I would rather write one article that produces 25 sales as opposed to 25 articles that produces none.

The next question I have is .. if you are writing 5 articles a day where will you find the time to market those articles? Sure the search engines may eventually pick these articles up and Google may send you traffic if the qualifications of said articles are in line with this week's algorithm. That is not marketing your article it is banking on hope .. as in I sure hope Google doesn't change their mind any time soon.

The marketing starts with the article its self but writing the article is not marketing.

I can promise you ... you can not properly market 5 articles a day and, while I have been at it a while, I can not market 5 articles a week properly. Many see article writing as a traffic source and it can well be just that. The problem is .. if you only use your articles to drive traffic and not produce the other desired results .. when you going to find the time to make any money?

I just want to thank everyone for being so receptive and providing excellent inputs none of this is set in stone or anything I generally just love to write and had a challenging idea and wanted to get that some feedback on the idea first
You guys rock!

as of today, I am averaging 1 500-word article per hour... sometimes it can only take me 30 mins, but there are also time that i consume an hour and a half.... it actually depends on my mood and topic..

It depends on what I'm writing about. Sometimes it requires documentation...
Otherwise, the length of the article is also a factor...
And whether "doing the article" only refers to writing it or also to posting it. Because with a CMS it's easier, but I tend to write my own code and takes a lot longer.

So in my case this varies a lot.
Sometimes a rather complex article can take up to a week: stats, facts, description, perhaps some good images (all have to be well-thought-out and sometimes I have to search for stock imagery).

lost of valuable info in this thread.

You are better off to have 1 decent high QUALITY article over 20 crappy spun, jibberish.

Plus if you market that 1 high quality article it could go viral, and bring you massive traffic fast.