Article Marketing Challenge- Jump On Board Newbies

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I know many of you question whether or not Article Marketing Works, and if it does just how effective is it.

Article Marketing when done correctly is one of the most effective ways to do Affiliate Marketing. It is also a very easy way to drive laser targeted traffic to your website, blog or special offer.

So here is the challenge:

1. Choose A Niche: Health, Make Money, Entertainment Etc.

2. Write over 700 Articles in the next 7 days (no ghost writing).

3. Create a blog or website about the product or the niche your
promoting.

4. Publish your Articles to at least 3 article directories: Ezinearticles.com,
Goarticles.com and Ideamarketers.com

5. Post your progress as you go along. My aim here is to help you stay
focused and to also help you realize that Article Marketing does work.

6. The Reward You Finally Make Money Online.

You will be surprised at the success you will attain by sticking with this challenge.

I know this seems like a lot but it really isn't. If you think about it, how many hours do you spend surfing the internet for the magic formula that will become your automatic cash pulling machine? I bet if you should really keep track of the amount of time you waste searching for a quick answer, you'd realize that you could have spent that time writing some articles.

So here is how you'll break down writing your articles.

Firstly choose a broad keyword and then select keyword phrases that is relevant to your niche. Your Articles do not need to be long, it however needs to be attention grabbing and informative. Remember people on the internet search for specific information give them what they are looking for.

your articles can be about 500 words in lenght. You should be able to get your point across to your readers in 500 words. In my experince no one likes to read a 1000's page article. Remeber your article is not to sell to your readers but to provide quality information, which will lead them to seek more information from you as the idea is to have your visitors trust you as an expert in your chosen niche.

Writing 100 articles per day seems very difficult. however lets break it down into small increments.

Use your first 30 minutes finding keywords, and information about your niche. Now you will not be copying anyones writing as this is wrong and should not be done. However, what you will be using this information for is to gather knowledge about your niche.

Once you have read up about your niche you will write an article for each of your keywords from the top of your head. However, you will be writing with a purpose and that is to provide your readers with informative information. It is important that you have a structure to your writing. That means, an introduction, a body and a conclusion.

Be specific, concise yet infomative. After which call your readers to take action in a catchy way. This is very important as this is the action that will lead visitors to your website or blog. which will be promoting your affiliate product.


To your Success,
Dr. Pro

Helping others to success online.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    2. Write over 700 Articles in the next 7 days (no ghost writing).
    That is ridiculous.

    If a newbie could write 4 good articles an hour (doubtful) it would take 25 hours a day to do the writing.

    If that makes sense to you, you are the only one.

    Post your progress as you go along.
    Not advisable as this type of "keep us updated" thread is often deleted here.

    Sorry - but a "Method" which advises tasks that are beyond the abilities of most humans makes no sense and earns frustration rather than money.

    And if you are going to tell me that you write 100 good articles a day, I'll call B.S. on that in a heartbeat.

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    • Profile picture of the author steve39
      Yep, not humanly possible. Just to submit those articles (let alone write) would take over 3 hours at 2 minutes each. And that is provided they are all "publish ready."
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      • Profile picture of the author JNFerree
        Originally Posted by steve39 View Post

        Yep, not humanly possible. Just to submit those articles (let alone write) would take over 3 hours at 2 minutes each. And that is provided they are all "publish ready."
        Yep, sounds kinda nuts to me too!

        Even if you could boot up Dragon, insert the text into an article spinning engine and produce 50x versions of the same basic article and submit to the Top 10 article directories, you'd still have to wait for the slow pokes at ezine to publish your content.

        I'm still waiting (5 days now) for the molasses in January guys at ezine to get off their butts and move my 3x articles beyond the initial review stage.

        To combat ezine slowness, I've opted to use the AVR SaaS tool which Google likes a lot more than ezine anyway.

        Besides, in <48 hours, Google put my "what if your articles could talk" AVR (video article) on page one and I didn't have to wait for the slow @$$ ezine diva's.


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    • Profile picture of the author Liam Hamer
      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

      Not advisable as this type of "keep us updated" thread is often deleted here.
      Out of curiosity - why is this? :confused: There was one such thread a few days ago, where the OP asked us to state our goals and what tasks we were going to complete each day. I spent 10 mins typing a post and when I clicked 'submit reply' I got 'no valid link specified' I'm not saying these deletions are right or wrong, I'm just wondering why

      It's funny, but a couple of days ago I was thinking kind of along the lines of this thread. I was questioning just how hard it's possible to push ourselves to get the results we crave. I was thinking of doing a one off 50 articles a day challenge, just to see if I could do it Compared to the OP here, that was a pretty lazy plan though :p

      acrasial - I think you have a fantastic attitude. I like that the word 'can't' doesn't seem to be in your vocabulary, and that's something we should all strive for

      I actually am embarking(I had decided this before I seen this thread) on a little article challenge of my own tomorrow. I put together a new site today on a variety of different subjects under one main niche, and I'm going to write and submit 10 articles to drive traffic to it and really test the site and the products/offers on there. My personal best before now is 9 in a day. Maybe one day I will push myself to try 100 in a day, but I'd have to lock myself away from my wife and son to do it. I'd be interested to see if I actually could do it, and at what cost to the quality of the articles and my own mentality. This thread was some great food for thought, despite(understandably so) most disagreeing with the content in the OP
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      • Profile picture of the author Liam Hamer
        Originally Posted by Crubalo View Post

        I actually am embarking(I had decided this before I seen this thread) on a little article challenge of my own tomorrow. I put together a new site today on a variety of different subjects under one main niche, and I'm going to write and submit 10 articles to drive traffic to it and really test the site and the products/offers on there. My personal best before now is 9 in a day.
        OK so I just finished my little challenge and I managed to write and submit my 10 articles in around 2 hours and 40 mins There was a couple of 400 word ones, and 8 250-300 ones. I think they were of pretty good quality, and I think I could have done at least 5 more without sacrificing too much in the way of quality. I still don't think there's any way I could do 100, but I'm glad I've found out 10 is definitely not my limit, and I'll be going for a new personal best of 15 next time
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Williams
    700 articles in 7 days? Haha, you're funny. If I wrote 700 articles I would make them into a ton of PLR packs and sell in WSO for 10s of thousands of dollars...
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    • Profile picture of the author M Thompson
      Lol you are having a laugh aren't you...

      I tell you what you write the 700 and I'll do 5 day and I'll probably earn more and be in a fit state to spend my money..

      Any newbies reading this you do not have to write 100 articles a day.. start off at 4 or 5 and you'll soon see the benefit

      Just make sure you titles, body and resource box are top notch
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      • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
        Out of interest, how many articles have YOU written and submitted in 7 days? To expect a newbie to write that many articles is plain ridiculous (I consider myself an experienced article marketer and I couldn't write that many). Most newbies would be hard pressed to write 5 GOOD articles in a day.
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  • Profile picture of the author pheonix44
    700 articles in 7 days would have me going crazy. The most I have ever wrote in a day is 39. Even then it was not something I would recommend if you're new. I would say 3-5 a day for a month is a better challenge. Focus on actually monitoring which articles are getting a response and then leverage that success.
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    LMAO - I was hoping it was a typo until I got to the part where he confirned it.

    Dude, I am a long-time article directory editor and I can't even REVIEW 100 articles in a single day...not without losing my mind.

    Where and why did you come up with this nonsense?

    Better to follow Phoenix's advice above.

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  • Profile picture of the author Troy_Phillips
    l100 articles a day .... bull sh!t

    I have been known to spend two hours researching keywords ... another two hours investigating the competition for the kw and then only writing one article .

    Do your 30 minutes of kw research and throw together 100 articles. If the keyword is dominated by blogs or static sites , One of those articles might hit google 1 for a little while but the sites that have the authority will be back on top in less than a day .

    Now I know my approach seems time consuming but I just finished a kw search that had over 400 a day projected .

    The competition was a mix of EZA, e-how, and a static site with no back links .

    I wrote one article ... put it on my site on a sub page titled for the kw .... bookmarked and pinged my site page .... submitted to EZA ( not published yet ) re-purposed my article into other formats and submitted the new material to some high pr sites .

    Wrote another 300 word article ...submitted it to EZA, and 12 more directories, linked them all to my keyword rich site page .

    I went to number 6 on google 1 in less than 30 minutes from the original article submission ( at this point just bookmarked and pinged ) . With the other articles linking back to my site ...I am now number one on google for the kw with a static site . All this has been done with less than 5 hours work and I have made 7 sales and built a list of 123 people in a brand new niche already .

    Of course I will continue to get more links to the site .

    Moral of story . Finding the right kw phrase and understanding your competition will pay you more in the end than writing 700 articles that are thrown against the wall in hopes of one sticking .
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    • Profile picture of the author ladyjane
      50 articles in a day is my record, and believe me, it took ALL DAY. I was in front of the computer for 12 hours at least, and probably more. I felt horrible and sick when I was done. I wouldn't recommend it. Nowadays, the most I'll try to go for in a day is 20, and that's pushing it. 5 or 10 is much more reasonable, and gives you time to do other things without exhausting your mind and body.

      And I only did the 50 articles in one day because I was writing for a client and had been on vacation, and the day I got home was the deadline, so I HAD to scramble to get those 50 articles done on time!
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  • Profile picture of the author TelegramSam
    I think he meant 700 words in 7 days.

    I'm going to give it a go!
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    • Profile picture of the author Kevin Williams
      Originally Posted by TelegramSam View Post

      I think he meant 700 words in 7 days.

      I'm going to give it a go!
      No, he actually meant 700 articles.
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      • Profile picture of the author Dr. Pro
        I see I have everyones attention here. What I'm trying to stress here is that staying focused is important. hunting for a "secret" is a hopeless venture.
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        • Profile picture of the author Perry Bee
          Originally Posted by Dr. Pro View Post

          I see I have everyones attention here. What I'm trying to stress here is that staying focused is important. hunting for a "secret" is a hopeless venture.
          Dr Pro,

          I understand that searching for the "secret" is a hopeless venture but your
          alternative of writing 700 hundred articles in a week is also hopeless.

          My question is have you done this? Have you written 700 articles in 7 days?
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      • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
        2. Write over 700 Articles in the next 7 days (no ghost writing).
        Not only are you writing a hundred articles a day, but you have to submit them to the 3 article directories on top of it.

        ROFLMBO

        Ok, I am trying to think, even if I tried this with my macspeech dictate could I even talk this fast? Because I know I have no chance of typing this fast.

        The only one who could possibly do that who I'm aware of is Bev Clement.

        And what would be the outsourcing costs on this? 500 word decent articles are not cheap. I'm thinking a rock bottom price for someone with excellent command of the language would run around 4 bucks an article.

        $400 a day I could outsource this for? Hmm. I think I'll pass on this "challenge."
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      • Profile picture of the author TelegramSam
        Originally Posted by TelegramSam View Post

        I think he meant 700 words in 7 days.

        I'm going to give it a go!


        Originally Posted by spire8989 View Post

        No, he actually meant 700 articles.

        I was joking dude!

        English sarcasm
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    • Profile picture of the author actionplanbiz
      Originally Posted by TelegramSam View Post

      I think he meant 700 words in 7 days.

      I'm going to give it a go!

      i think he Meant 700 articles in 7 days using no hands
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  • Profile picture of the author adamv
    It would take me more than 7 days to find 700 good keywords to write for. Then I would probably take 2 or 3 months to write them all without outsourcing.
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    • Profile picture of the author la dominatrix
      Originally Posted by adamv View Post

      It would take me more than 7 days to find 700 good keywords to write for. Then I would probably take 2 or 3 months to write them all without outsourcing.
      The difference here is the fact that those keywords will make you more money. However there is the obverse side of the coin and that is if you publish an article in an ezine directory every fifteen minutes then you would dominate your niche. That is twenty four hours a day and four articles an hour which is a hundred a day. Whilst I have done that I have outsourced it there is no way I can type can type that fast.

      Newbies should set themselves realistic targets or outsource and five articles a day is sufficient for a start. There is a place for both quality and quantitiy when submitting articles.
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  • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
    700 articles * 500 words = 350,000 words a day.

    There are 1,440 minutes in a day.

    350,000 / 1,440 = 243.05 words a minute.

    The fastest typist on record is Barbara Blackburn of Oregon, whose top recorded speed is 212 words a minute. Her sustained output is 150 words a minute.

    Long story short: your challenge is simply not possible for any known human being on this planet.
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    • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
      Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

      700 articles * 500 words = 350,000 words a day.

      There are 1,440 minutes in a day.

      350,000 / 1,440 = 243.05 words a minute.

      The fastest typist on record is Barbara Blackburn of Oregon, whose top recorded speed is 212 words a minute. Her sustained output is 150 words a minute.

      Long story short: your challenge is simply not possible for any known human being on this planet.
      Great point!

      But if you could do it with 3 links per article, and use a mass submitter service that submits to, say 500 directories, then in a week you'd have over one million backlinks to your site. Now let's just say that you get a measly 1 sale of $17 for each backlink.

      In just 7 short days, you too could rake in over $20 million dollars - and within one year you would be the world's next billionaire.

      Sounds like an awesome WSO.

      Anyone want to buy? Just $17. I take Paypal.

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    • Profile picture of the author Asher
      Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

      700 articles * 500 words = 350,000 words a day.

      There are 1,440 minutes in a day.

      350,000 / 1,440 = 243.05 words a minute.

      The fastest typist on record is Barbara Blackburn of Oregon, whose top recorded speed is 212 words a minute. Her sustained output is 150 words a minute.

      Long story short: your challenge is simply not possible for any known human being on this planet.
      I was just about to state the exact same thing.

      700 articles in 7 days with 500 words each
      is like writing a book/report everyday.

      Much like a ghostwriting JOB.

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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Hersh
    You killed me with this one lol...

    If you want to help people, give them a good advice dude...

    At least you wanted to do something good

    Cheers,

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    If you can change it to 70 articles in 7 days than it will be more relevant for newbies.
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  • Profile picture of the author Scott Ames
    Don't forget to back these up once you've written them. Can you imagine losing them all?
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  • Profile picture of the author shermancox
    Your idea about going forward and putting out as many articles as possible and just let it rip is a good one. The problem is that folks, especially newbies, are looking for particulars. They want to know how many directories to submit to, they want to know whether to use directories only or other places. They want to know other particulars. And they want to know how many articles they should write.

    To tell people to do that which is impossible is to encourage people to either become frustrated or ignore your advice. Or both...

    to average 100 a day is just not feasible...
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  • Profile picture of the author acrasial
    I disagree, 100 articles a day is fully possible for anyone who wants to commit. It would take me about 14 hours per day, keeping in mind everything in this challenge... to complete this challenge, and while it would be working "over time", the point of the challenge was to do something most people cannot.

    I have done the above before, and I am a human. It sure is possible....Write an article every 5 minutes, that's 12 every hour. Multiply that by just 8 hours, and that becomes 96 articles (almost 100).

    Now, some people here write an article every 10 minutes, or can produce one in 10 minutes... how come no one has ever really pushed themselves to do this (write an article in shorter time?), and when the challenge comes along, everyone just talks about how impossible it is then?

    What I have noticed with people, is that they will push themselves to write an article about every 10 minutes, and will assume this is pretty darn fast and good, and wont ever push themselves to write it any faster. They wont ever write it in 9 minuts, 8 minutes or 7... because if they did, they would be doing it already.

    I understand that not everyone types fast, but get real, this is internet marketing, and if one still cannot pick up HOW TO TYPE after 1,2,3 or even 7+ years of internet marketing.... then how is it that you can even expect to do well or go above and beyond your competition.... when your competition can probably type faster than you, when they JUST come onto the scene.

    As for using these programs to type for you, you sure can speak faster than you type. I sure do it, and you will find few people who can actually talk fast, and are able to get their thoughts out clearly. But how come you never worked on doing this, or improving this?

    Instead, people would rather sit and respond in a negative way, because they are unable to challenge themselves, and find this challenge so ridiculous- because they never thought they would be able to do it in the first place...

    Get your heads out of the gutter, and believe in yourself for a change maybe?

    I am a real human being, telling you now, I have done this, and will do this. So now WHO ELSE has the courage, and stamina to try something different and crazy sounding, which will put them well ahead, above, and beyond their competition.

    At the end of the day, this probably had nothing to do with article marketing itself- but rather the idea of challenging yourself to do something good... so that you can make money- and this something would have to sound so ridiculous that you wouldn't think it was possible.

    There was a guy in Tony Robbin's program who made something like $28 million in ONE NIGHT... if any of you have heard about it, and that seemed impossible too....
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    • Profile picture of the author Scott Ames
      Originally Posted by acrasial View Post

      I disagree, 100 articles a day is fully possible for anyone who wants to commit. It would take me about 14 hours per day, keeping in mind everything in this challenge... to complete this challenge, and while it would be working "over time", the point of the challenge was to do something most people cannot.

      I have done the above before, and I am a human. It sure is possible....Write an article every 5 minutes, that's 12 every hour. Multiply that by just 8 hours, and that becomes 96 articles (almost 100).

      Now, some people here write an article every 10 minutes, or can produce one in 10 minutes... how come no one has ever really pushed themselves to do this, and when the challenge comes along, everyone just talks about how impossible it is then?

      I am a real human being, telling you now, I have done this, and will do this. So now WHO ELSE has the courage, and stamina to try something different and crazy sounding, which will put them well ahead, above, and beyond their competition.

      My eyes would be buggy and I would have a massive headache. I guess its possible, but with the rate at which articles are approved I don't think it would make much difference if it took 7 days or 30 days to get 700 of them done.

      If you tag teamed with someone, you write, they submit, then switch perhaps share the article count, one could really push stuff out. I just don't really have 14 solid hours for 7 days to dedicate.
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      • Profile picture of the author acrasial
        Originally Posted by Scott Ames View Post

        My eyes would be buggy and I would have a massive headache. I guess its possible, but with the rate at which articles are approved I don't think it would make much difference if it took 7 days or 30 days to get 700 of them done.

        If you tag teamed with someone, you write, they submit, then switch perhaps share the article count, one could really push stuff out. I just don't really have 14 solid hours for 7 days to dedicate.

        Your articles are approved slow, because you wont damn upgrade your account. I cant help you there then.

        Your eyes get sore, because you never did this before- and you would rather, then, sit on this forum and chat people then? why not use your eyes for something useful, my friend?

        You sure do have the time- it's called CRUNCH time, what is more important? Meeting a goal, making some money- or cutting yourself down constantly, and making excuses as to why you CANNOT do something.

        I'd like to hear a reason as to why you CAN do it?


        This forum just became DISAPPOINTING. I thought people came here to mastermind, see goals met- see dreams made into a reality....

        But all I see now, is a bunch of people giving up on themselves. shame.
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        • Profile picture of the author Troy_Phillips
          Originally Posted by acrasial View Post


          This forum just became DISAPPOINTING. I thought people came here to mastermind, see goals met- see dreams made into a reality....

          But all I see now, is a bunch of people giving up on themselves. shame.
          Wow ...really hate we have disappointed you .

          No one is giving up on themselves . Some of us are wise enough to understand that there is no reason whatsoever to put in this much low quality work.

          Your approval of such nonsense may have validated the idea for a newbie . This newbie will more than likely be one of those that do give up for the fact they can not justify this type of work load on a continual basis .
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          • Profile picture of the author acrasial
            Originally Posted by Troy_Phillips View Post

            Wow ...really hate we have disappointed you .

            No one is giving up on themselves . Some of us are wise enough to understand that there is no reason whatsoever to put in this much low quality work.

            Your approval of such nonsense may have validated the idea for a newbie . This newbie will more than likely be one of those that do give up for the fact they can not justify this type of work load on a continual basis .

            So you are saying that the more people write, the less quality it has? So is that the same with your responses, and mine then?

            Is that the same with everyday conversation? Are you saying that the more one speaks, the less intelligence one would have?

            Or are you just saying that this is true, with noobs, and myself? I find this interesting, that someone brings an idea here- and everyone bashes it. no one could say one good thing about this idea, but rather why it cannot be done, what's bad about it, why it is impossible etc etc.... is that the kind of thinking that gets people forward as well? "I cant"... wow.

            Originally Posted by avenuegirl View Post

            Well, if anyone could attempt this, I would place my bets on you. I'll cheer you on should you actually decide to write 700 articles this week but I'm afraid I know my limitations and what I like to put into my articles requires me to sometimes stop and do a little bit of research.

            That being said, I think trying to do 100 articles of 500 words each in a 24 hour period that were useful, entertaining, and meaningful to someone would be something I would have to train for that would take me months to conquer if not years.

            So you just said you CAN in fact do it, but it would be ALOT of work. Yes, it's alot of work. At one point and time every single one of us could not talk, and could not write, and could not pronunciate properly...but our parents spent years on us, trying to teach us how to pronounce each syllable, letter, word... sentence even....

            But now we can talk fast, splur out sentences like it is nothing. There is a saying that my boss has and it goes like this "hard things get easy when you do them long enough".

            I think that Tina can do this, and everyone above me can do this, WITHOUT compromising the quality. She was able to respond to so many posts that I have made, and others here- without compromising the quality of the conversation, advice etc... I know everyone here can.

            It's just not what people would normally do, or want to do.

            Originally Posted by Allen Graves View Post

            Ummm, I do.

            But what I do cannot be done in 5 minutes. I spend about 3 hours on every article I publish (then relax!) and get much better results than 100, 5 minute, regurged articles could get.

            I don't throw a bunch of sh!t against the virtual wall, hoping some of it sticks...and I would never tell anyone to do it either.

            Allen
            That is perfectly fine- not everyone has to write all of these themselves (some people hire writers), but others cannot do that at the moment, such as "newbies" which seems to be the group targeted by the original poster.

            I know of people who do the same, who write and take a break, and then people who hire writers etc...

            But you know, you could do that too.... without compromising quality- don't you know your niches well enough by now? Even with research, this could be done. humans are creative beings, who have the ability to think faster than any supercomputer to date... we are still on top of everything else, we just don't harness it.

            But true, not everyone needs to- however my argument was simply directed at those who were saying its completely impossible, that it could never be done etc... We are internet marketers- anything can be done.


            Originally Posted by shermancox View Post

            OK average one article every 5 minutes for 8 hours and you trying to get "newbies" to do this?

            The highest rate I got to was 1 every 15 minutes...and could only keep that up in 2-3 hour bursts....

            I just can't even conceive of writing articles at that rate for any period of time...let alone 8 hours...and then for 7 days...


            There are people here who can do the above, as I have spoken to many. But if that is your highest, to date, that doesn't mean it will be your ALL time high. So I wonder then if you do not article market as your main source of income?

            I do, and therefore, this challenge and others like it are good for me- and others whose main source of income is article marketing. But as Allen said too, one may also just write one and produce the same affect as 100 could. However this was designed for noobs, and it is kindof ridiculous (yes) in the amount, since alot of noobs may not have an adequate typing speed- but it's still possible.
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            • Profile picture of the author Troy_Phillips
              Originally Posted by acrasial View Post

              Is that the same with everyday conversation? Are you saying that the more one speaks, the less intelligence one would have?
              I am saying the more some people speak the more I figure out they don't have a clue
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                • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
                  Yes, without an outline of each article sitting in front of you and complete knowledge of the subject you are talking about I think the quality of what you are kicking out will suffer greatly based on my little experiment above.

                  What I did just discover is that I am not using my dictation device nearly enough!

                  Get some keywords, do a little research, make an outline for each, and bang them out. That I think is a doable plan.

                  I could do 100 in a day - with a few weeks preparation. LOL
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            • Profile picture of the author AndyBlackSEO
              Originally Posted by acrasial View Post

              So you are saying that the more people write, the less quality it has? So is that the same with your responses, and mine then?

              Is that the same with everyday conversation? Are you saying that the more one speaks, the less intelligence one would have?

              Or are you just saying that this is true, with noobs, and myself? I find this interesting, that someone brings an idea here- and everyone bashes it. no one could say one good thing about this idea, but rather why it cannot be done, what's bad about it, why it is impossible etc etc.... is that the kind of thinking that gets people forward as well? "I cant"... wow.




              So you just said you CAN in fact do it, but it would be ALOT of work. Yes, it's alot of work. At one point and time every single one of us could not talk, and could not write, and could not pronunciate properly...but our parents spent years on us, trying to teach us how to pronounce each syllable, letter, word... sentence even....

              But now we can talk fast, splur out sentences like it is nothing. There is a saying that my boss has and it goes like this "hard things get easy when you do them long enough".

              I think that Tina can do this, and everyone above me can do this, WITHOUT compromising the quality. She was able to respond to so many posts that I have made, and others here- without compromising the quality of the conversation, advice etc... I know everyone here can.

              It's just not what people would normally do, or want to do.



              That is perfectly fine- not everyone has to write all of these themselves (some people hire writers), but others cannot do that at the moment, such as "newbies" which seems to be the group targeted by the original poster.

              I know of people who do the same, who write and take a break, and then people who hire writers etc...

              But you know, you could do that too.... without compromising quality- don't you know your niches well enough by now? Even with research, this could be done. humans are creative beings, who have the ability to think faster than any supercomputer to date... we are still on top of everything else, we just don't harness it.

              But true, not everyone needs to- however my argument was simply directed at those who were saying its completely impossible, that it could never be done etc... We are internet marketers- anything can be done.






              There are people here who can do the above, as I have spoken to many. But if that is your highest, to date, that doesn't mean it will be your ALL time high. So I wonder then if you do not article market as your main source of income?

              I do, and therefore, this challenge and others like it are good for me- and others whose main source of income is article marketing. But as Allen said too, one may also just write one and produce the same affect as 100 could. However this was designed for noobs, and it is kindof ridiculous (yes) in the amount, since alot of noobs may not have an adequate typing speed- but it's still possible.
              And there is your first article! Go and submit it under "Entertainment". Only 699 to go. Hurry, time is of the essence :-)
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          • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
            Just as an experiment here, I have just attached my Mac speech dictate my head.

            Right now, I am trying to find the timer on my phone so that I can tie them five minutes to write an article.

            And go.

            The MacSpeech Dictate it's quite a handy little device but you can use for several different things while working on your computer.

            What you need to know most about MacSpeech Dictate is that it only works on Macintosh computers and you will have to spend a little bit of time configuring your original speech patterns into the system.

            What I think I should tell you now, is that without my actually having put together an outline for this particular article is very hard for me to just talk about the MacSpeech Dictate.

            I think to actually do this kind of a challenge, the challenge that is of writing 100 hundred articles per day one would need to be extremely organized.

            You would also really need to have some kind of dictation device or your fingers just might bleed from typing so much.

            I'm now down to two minutes and 46 seconds.

            I've actually been waiting for some kind of typo but I have not seen one yet.

            Quite surprised. Could this possibly be because I have not had an en banc to drink? Whoops and there it is where I would have to go back and edit again.

            So with one minute and 56 seconds left to her really have anything else left to say an IM wondering just about now how many words I actually have written.

            Kind of funny how IM showed up as I' am.

            So if you don't like NaturallySpeaking Dragon, and I highly encourage you to go buy a Macintosh computer and get the MacSpeech Dictate.

            It works great for people who have fingernails wait too long to type and for those who just can't type it all.

            You will have to learn some of the common commands but once you master that you can write 100 articles in one day. You can probably even write more if you actually have it thought out in your head what the article is about and you have some good research behind you. Don't you wish all of our brains could be an encyclopedia?

            Okay, my time or just one off.


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


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              I had some pauses in there
              How long did this take you? Even if it took you 20 minutes, eventually one could reduce this time and reduce it. Everyone here seems to be very negative, and bashing anyone who says this is done or is possible.

              I said what I know, and everyone else says what they know- as they know it. But everyone here knows something, and that will either be your limitation, or your making.


              Originally Posted by TMG Enterprises View Post

              Tina could not do this in a million years and frankly, has no desire to do so. The fastest I have ever created a good quality article is 15 minutes and that is when I know the subject well.

              Five minutes? No way.

              Tina
              Tina, you sure can. I don't get why you are so hard on yourself- using the excuse of "quality" as a reason not to go any faster? How long did it take you to respond with all of these replies? i can understand you perfectly, and I cannot imagine each reply took you 15 minutes? Sure, some are short, but each could be a paragraph, done in only a few minutes time.

              I could also understand your point of view, what you meant to say, and the english was just perfect. Now, Tina, you just did it.

              Originally Posted by Asher View Post

              By the way... did anybody notice this?



              :rolleyes:

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              That was noted, but that was also written only 3 hours after this post was made... there is alot of speculation on this post... as to it's original intentions- and I think its 50% believing this is impossible, and the OP to be some sort of impossible challenger....

              and another 50% believing it was all to be taken into context, and may not have meant that exact amount, or maybe just was meant as a challenge in the end- which doesn't mean it has to be completed to the full, but one can try, do, or accomplish if they so wished- not that anyone here deems it necessary.
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    • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
      Originally Posted by acrasial View Post

      ...I am a real human being, telling you now, I have done this, and will do this. So now WHO ELSE has the courage, and stamina to try something different and crazy sounding, which will put them well ahead, above, and beyond their competition.
      Betcha I can get the same (if not more) traffic and sales from a single article. One.

      That sounds pretty crazy too, but I'll be at Disney with my family while you guys are slaving away for endless hours getting sore fingers and red eyes.

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      • Profile picture of the author acrasial
        Originally Posted by Allen Graves View Post

        Betcha I can get the same (if not more) traffic and sales from a single article. One.

        That sounds pretty crazy too, but I'll be at Disney with my family while you guys are slaving away for endless hours getting sore fingers and red eyes.

        Allen
        Yup, But now imagine having 100 of those out, if you can get the same traffic for all- how much money can you make then?

        Upscale things, friend.... why are you making this your enemy, when it wasn't meant to be such? Some people are their own worst enemy.

        sure it's difficult, but aren't you WORTH IT? When are you going to give yourself what YOU deserve? Even if that means working your butt off? Get out of that damn comfort zone, and get uncomfortable, so that you can do something you never even thought you could.
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        • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
          Originally Posted by acrasial View Post

          Yup, But now imagine having 100 of those out, if you can get the same traffic for all- how much money can you make then?

          Upscale things, friend.... why are you making this your enemy, when it wasn't meant to be such? Some people are their own worst enemy.

          sure it's difficult, but aren't you WORTH IT? When are you going to give yourself what YOU deserve? Even if that means working your butt off? Get out of that damn comfort zone, and get uncomfortable, so that you can do something you never even thought you could.
          Ummm, I do.

          But what I do cannot be done in 5 minutes. I spend about 3 hours on every article I publish (then relax!) and get much better results than 100, 5 minute, regurged articles could get.

          I don't throw a bunch of sh!t against the virtual wall, hoping some of it sticks...and I would never tell anyone to do it either.

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          • Profile picture of the author mikemcmillan
            Originally Posted by Allen Graves View Post


            <<<...I don't throw a bunch of sh!t against the virtual wall, hoping some of it sticks...and I would never tell anyone to do it either.>>>

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            Allen, if one throws enough sh!t against the wall, some of it is bound to stick! The problem being one of then having to live in a sh!t-filled home
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            So I go to an article directory and look for most popular or most read articles in a niche. Even there, most are written by 3rd rate hacks and IM grifters wanting to take without wanting to give.

            But when I find a really good article with great content, I am much more likely to read or use dozens more articles from the same author. There are some very good ones out there.

            They say that we don't get a second chance to make a good first impression. Unfortunately, in many cases, the first impression I often get of an on-line marketer comes from the articles he or she has written. A slopped together 5 minute 350 word article only convinces me NOT TO click on a link in a resource box.

            On the other hand, a great article that actually gives me something of value makes me think that the author might have more things of value at the other end of the links. It's all about getting people to click on the links--no, more than that, it's about getting the right people to click on your links.

            I don't want freebie seekers. I don't want unmotivated buyers. I want people with a burning desire in their gut for more information, willing buyers, and people who are willing to opt-in to my list.

            The only way to get motivated, qualified buyers to click on links is by first providing them with quality information--good content that makes them want more. Sorry, but 5-minute rehashed dribbled articles will get you neither the quantity or quality of link-clickers you want.

            Rather than thinking about how much you can get from those who read your articles, think about how much you can give to them. The rest will take care of itself!
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          • Profile picture of the author mrwoods
            Thanks for that point. Too many people just recycle vague or less meaningfull content in order to produce traffic. If more people spent more time working on less, could you imagine the quality content we would have. It sure would make purchasing decisions a whole lot simplier if the IM standard were higher.
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            • Profile picture of the author ryanman
              Originally Posted by mrwoods View Post

              Thanks for that point. Too many people just recycle vague or less meaningfull content in order to produce traffic. If more people spent more time working on less, could you imagine the quality content we would have. It sure would make purchasing decisions a whole lot simplier if the IM standard were higher.
              All her articles are above par...I mean in terms of quality she is right up there as well.
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        • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
          Originally Posted by acrasial View Post

          Yup, But now imagine having 100 of those out, if you can get the same traffic for all- how much money can you make then?
          The error in thinking that most people commit is precisely this: because they do not know the answer, they assume the answer is the same.

          How much traffic will article A generate? We don't know.

          How much traffic will article B generate? We don't know.

          Since we don't know either way, it's completely arbitrary whether we write article A or article B. But with more information about either article, we can get a better answer.

          If article A is targeted for keyword X which gets 5,000 monthly searches, and article B is targeted for keyword Y which gets 2,000 monthly searches... it's reasonable to assume that article A will get about two and a half times the traffic of article B. So you should probably write article A first.

          Now, extend that out to a hundred articles. You have a hundred articles to write. Which ones should you write first? The most effective ones, right?

          Now we encounter what's called the Pareto principle: 20% of the product produces 80% of the results. Which means out of your 100 articles, 20 of them will generate 80% of the traffic. And 4 of those 20 will generate 80% of that traffic, or 64% of the overall traffic. And one of those four will generate 80% of that traffic, or 51.2% of all the traffic combined.

          When you really calculate out the numbers, you start to find that after about ten articles... you've got 90% of the traffic, on the average, if you've done the best articles first. Why write the other 90 articles at all? Don't you have better things to do?

          When you don't have this information, you have to write all 100 articles, sure. But you should be trying to get this information, so you don't have to.
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          • Profile picture of the author acrasial
            Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

            20% of the product produces 80% of the results. Which means out of your 100 articles, 20 of them will generate 80% of the traffic. And 4 of those 20 will generate 80% of that traffic, or 64% of the overall traffic. And one of those four will generate 80% of that traffic, or 51.2% of all the traffic combined.
            That was an interesting study, unfortunately I am bad at math. Someone also told me that I am not good at it, because "I don't want to be", since I am inevitably lazy as well, I would like to work out how this works with just "4" articles then, but won't.

            What if the traffic could always be targeted, and always be generated, for each and every single article?

            Let's say these were books as well. If I had written 10 books, does this mean that only one would get most of the reader's attention? Does this mean that each book loses it's value as the numbers go up as well?

            check out the Twilight and harry potter series. Those writers pumped out alot (especially J.K. Rowling) In a short amount of time...one book after the other... and they became more popular, the more that were written.

            Articles are like mini-books to me. Each has to sell itself... a book does, and so does an article; and yet each provides something for the reader. It may be information, concepts, ideas, keys, advice, entertainment...
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            • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
              Originally Posted by acrasial View Post

              What if the traffic could always be targeted, and always be generated, for each and every single article?
              That's rather the point. If sufficient traffic can't be generated, or won't be targeted, for a given article - DON'T WRITE IT!

              Let's say these were books as well. If I had written 10 books, does this mean that only one would get most of the reader's attention?
              Yes. Yes, it does.

              Those writers pumped out alot (especially J.K. Rowling) In a short amount of time...
              Seventeen years is a short amount of time?
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              • Profile picture of the author acrasial
                Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

                That's rather the point. If sufficient traffic can't be generated, or won't be targeted, for a given article - DON'T WRITE IT!



                Yes. Yes, it does.



                Seventeen years is a short amount of time?
                I am wondering how harry potter was written in 17 years? I have read and found it was 10 years or less, as the first one was finished in 1997, and the last one in 2007.


                Other example was published from 2005-2008, and is four books. That's a fast time in terms of "BOOKS" for a series of books to be pumped out, and what I meant was in that context, alot of book writers may say it's impossible as well...

                to write a quality book, in a short amount of time, and have it become well received by people.

                Which is what both authors have done, and that is what I had meant, that in everything.... there will always be people saying something cannot be done, and giving reasons- and then there will be people who prove them wrong.


                Originally Posted by Allen Graves View Post

                The funny thing here is that the people who are strongly against the idea that 100 articles/day is possible are professional article writers who have been doing it for years! Doesn't that tell you something?
                I also market articles for a living. Who decides that an article marketer is "professional"...? Oh time?

                There are doctors who cause deaths, and all kinds of things- and they too are supposed to be professional. Not everyone who does their job, even for 50 years, knows everything about it, and has mastered it. Everyone here also has different ideas of what works for them, so that is what I have been told here, if anything.


                Originally Posted by Allen Graves View Post

                I am so happy to see that the serious article marketers and writers participating in this thread are so focused on quality.

                You know, a couple of years ago, a great majority would be praising this as one of the best ideas of the century - but times change and rules change.
                They sure do change, but people do not. If these people are so damn serious about their article marketing, how come most here seem to not have pushed themselves to do more than 10 a day, when they know they can?

                Instead, they will stick to 2-3... because that works for them, right now. What would happen if 2-3 stopped working for them, and more were required? competition builds... what do they just
                abandon that niche then, and go onto something else?

                Originally Posted by Allen Graves View Post

                One thing that has persisted longer than all the tricks and fly-by-night strategies and $17 gimmicks is...<drum roll>...quality, researched, well-written content. And writing 100 articles per day is not going to generate articles which fall into this category.
                Let me ask you, how long do you read something, before you finally know it? 1000000000 times?
                Research, research...ok? But aren't you smart enough, that after some time you just know the content inside and out. Especially if it's your own product, how is that difficult then, to write about something that you should know about? It's like having a doctor stand in front of you... and tell you that he/she has to go find a book in the library or google a term to diagnose you!! Imagine that?

                After some point and time the excuses need to be laid to rest, because if everyone here is a so called expert, then shouldn't they know what they are writing about by now? I get "brushing up" on things, or learning new concepts... but constantly having to research what you write? What does it go in one eye and come out the other?

                Originally Posted by Allen Graves View Post

                If you go back and read this thread again, you will see that there is an underlying theme - quality content vs. quantity content.
                If i go back and read, I see people complaining and making excuses. Then I see people explaining themselves. Then I see people actually saying what such an idea can or could do for them, and also showing methods they use now. Then I still see people in between who will continue to do the first few things, even if they know the last part.

                I got that idea a long time ago, but there are far too many arguments over that already, so I changed the pace. I made a thread once on article spinning- and immediately people came in telling how bad it is, how it reduces quality... and on and on and on.

                I don't even article spin for myself, but I had just learned how to do it. But people then assumed that I do it, and got mad, angry, and so upset that I just got my thread deleted, because it created such a huge argument.

                I am well aware of the "quality" police here on the WF. I don't say that anyone spending the time to sit down and write, is really trying to reduce their quality. I don't say that anyone sitting down and writing more, is incapable of producing quality.

                There are writers who have to write for newspapers everyday, in quality formatting, telling captivating stories... they constantly have to generate things too. As well, as others have mentioned... there are doctors who work 14 hour shifts...

                When you damn go to the hospital... is that what you are thinking, that the doctor is tired and cant stitch you up right? Are you doubting them in that moment? I really doubt it! Just because they do more, doesn't mean they are suddenly incapable of delivering what it is they should.

                Apply this to anything, where someone works their butt off and puts in far more than is expected of them.... does the quality of their work go down then!?

                Much the same for article writers. I can stay up 24 hours, and even 48 hours and still talk like I am talking now, and write exactly the same. I don't let my mind slip that way, and should I need sleep, heck I go and take it. Should I need a break, or food, I go take that too.

                The quality of YOUR WORK can only go down, if you let it. if after 10 articles, you truly believe that your work will stink, it sure as heck will, and if you cannot write any better after that point, then YOU cannot. Doesn't mean others cannot, so to everyone here saying that, your beliefs are not others' limitations.



                Originally Posted by VinnyBock View Post

                PS I'm sorry this post is worded weird, I've been writing all day and I'm actually starting to have a hard time thinking.. LOL
                Apparently,some may have a hard time thinking after writing for extended periods of time...


                Originally Posted by Allen Graves View Post

                Now, looking at the dynamic history of article marketing, watching current and long-term trends, which one would you choose?
                I obviously choose the one that no one else thinks is right. Look back at any famous person in history too- at one point and time they were called stupid, crazy, dumb... and their ideas were viewed as being extreme- but now they are respected and loved worldwide for standing out and trying something different.

                Originally Posted by Allen Graves View Post

                I think the successful people in this thread (at least those who claim to be successful) have answered this question for us. And those who are pro-100 articles/day - are you successful, are you full time online, are you banking hard cash in AM/IM, or are you just chasing ideas?
                Sure, many of a time I have had a dream, a goal, an idea- and absolutely nothing came to life. But whose fault was that? it was my own. My drive went down, my ambition became less etc... and eventually I didn't do it. Sometimes I didn't believe in myself enough, other times I was just plain lazy- but really, if it doesn't work, if someone isn't successful and they accept that failure, then it sure as heck is a failure...for them.
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                • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
                  Originally Posted by acrasial View Post

                  I am wondering how harry potter was written in 17 years? I have read and found it was 10 years or less, as the first one was finished in 1997, and the last one in 2007.
                  The first book was started in 1990. There's this part of the process called "writing" which is rather important.

                  Other example was published from 2005-2008
                  Again, started in 2003.

                  Which is what both authors have done, and that is what I had meant, that in everything.... there will always be people saying something cannot be done, and giving reasons- and then there will be people who prove them wrong.
                  I'd like to know who told anyone "nobody can write a book in a year."

                  After all, Stephen King has written an average of two books a year for three decades, as I already mentioned. Next month, thousands of people around the world will write a novel in thirty days.

                  But none of them will write it in 24 hours. NONE. Because you can't.

                  Want to prove me wrong? Go right ahead. Race right on out there and write 350,000 words of articles in a week.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
      Originally Posted by acrasial View Post

      I disagree, 100 articles a day is fully possible for anyone who wants to commit. It would take me about 14 hours per day, keeping in mind everything in this challenge... to complete this challenge, and while it would be working "over time", the point of the challenge was to do something most people cannot.

      I have done the above before, and I am a human. It sure is possible....Write an article every 5 minutes, that's 12 every hour. Multiply that by just 8 hours, and that becomes 96 articles (almost 100).

      Now, some people here write an article every 10 minutes, or can produce one in 10 minutes... how come no one has ever really pushed themselves to do this (write an article in shorter time?), and when the challenge comes along, everyone just talks about how impossible it is then?

      What I have noticed with people, is that they will push themselves to write an article about every 10 minutes, and will assume this is pretty darn fast and good, and wont ever push themselves to write it any faster. They wont ever write it in 9 minuts, 8 minutes or 7... because if they did, they would be doing it already.

      I understand that not everyone types fast, but get real, this is internet marketing, and if one still cannot pick up HOW TO TYPE after 1,2,3 or even 7+ years of internet marketing.... then how is it that you can even expect to do well or go above and beyond your competition.... when your competition can probably type faster than you, when they JUST come onto the scene.

      As for using these programs to type for you, you sure can speak faster than you type. I sure do it, and you will find few people who can actually talk fast, and are able to get their thoughts out clearly. But how come you never worked on doing this, or improving this?

      Instead, people would rather sit and respond in a negative way, because they are unable to challenge themselves, and find this challenge so ridiculous- because they never thought they would be able to do it in the first place...

      Get your heads out of the gutter, and believe in yourself for a change maybe?

      I am a real human being, telling you now, I have done this, and will do this. So now WHO ELSE has the courage, and stamina to try something different and crazy sounding, which will put them well ahead, above, and beyond their competition.

      At the end of the day, this probably had nothing to do with article marketing itself- but rather the idea of challenging yourself to do something good... so that you can make money- and this something would have to sound so ridiculous that you wouldn't think it was possible.

      There was a guy in Tony Robbin's program who made something like $28 million in ONE NIGHT... if any of you have heard about it, and that seemed impossible too....
      Well, if anyone could attempt this, I would place my bets on you. I'll cheer you on should you actually decide to write 700 articles this week but I'm afraid I know my limitations and what I like to put into my articles requires me to sometimes stop and do a little bit of research.

      That being said, I think trying to do 100 articles of 500 words each in a 24 hour period that were useful, entertaining, and meaningful to someone would be something I would have to train for that would take me months to conquer if not years.
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      • Profile picture of the author Kay King
        Your articles are approved slow, because you wont damn upgrade your account. I cant help you there then.
        B.S. !!! I don't have to pay a fee monthly to get my articles approved - and neither does anyone else. Write good articles, get platinum status and fast approval. That's the smart way.

        Arguing that the impossible is possible is ridiculous. And, no, neither I nor anyone else believes you write 100 readable articles a day for seven days.
        Sometimes being contrarian just makes you look argumentative and nothing more.

        Yup, But now imagine having 100 of those out, if you can get the same traffic for all- how much money can you make then?
        You can imagine being rich - but it doesn't make it so, either.


        I think to actually do this kind of a challenge, the challenge that is of writing 100 hundred articles per day one would need to be extremely organized.
        Good luck - I can't believe anyone would take these comments and numbers seriously and waste time trying to see if they can be done....for 7 days, of course.
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    • Profile picture of the author scrofford
      Originally Posted by acrasial View Post

      I disagree, 100 articles a day is fully possible for anyone who wants to commit. It would take me about 14 hours per day, keeping in mind everything in this challenge... to complete this challenge, and while it would be working "over time", the point of the challenge was to do something most people cannot.

      ....
      Go for it! I guess you don't have any other responsibilities in life either? Geez there is no way!
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      • Profile picture of the author acrasial
        Originally Posted by scrofford View Post

        Go for it! I guess you don't have any other responsibilities in life either? Geez there is no way!

        I market articles= main source of income. Thus, I should really be going for it, as this is my "job".

        Originally Posted by avenuegirl View Post

        Imagine this in my signature line:

        "I wrote 700 articles in 7 days! And you can too!"

        I could imagine this, however since everyone is so damn skeptical and likes to instantly bash things- I doubt anyone would buy it anyways, nor would they be interested in it, by the sounds of it. I've had previous experience with this kind of thing... people just don't seem to like "thinking outside of the box", at least in a beneficial way. But I have seen a few people think outside the box with this challenge, and produce some ideas that it may be useful for, but more scaled down, which is great.

        Originally Posted by Dennis-White View Post

        You cant expect anyone to take the post about 700 articles in 7 days serious c'mon, and newbies?

        Start small, try writing 3-5 a day and work up from there... The whole key is as long and you stick with it you will see results, so even if you can only submit 2-3 a day well at least in 30 days you will have close to 70 articles and ina few months a couple hundred.

        Yup, it's true that alot of noobs will just give up, and will fail miserably at such a huge challenge. But are people really that thick, that they will just jump into something so huge, fail, and then think it can't be done?

        I was told once that over 95% of the people who try this market fail, because they give up so early and so easily. They don't see the results that others have soon enough, so they just give up on themselves.

        If that is the case, then I doubt it has anything to do with the methods, but rather the person's views of those methods and of themselves in general- because the chances are, if they take everything so literal and jump into a challenge like this and fail... and think it doesn't work then, well I can see them doing the same thing over and over and over, with other things as well, until they finally realize a few things, or just go back to their 9-5 job.


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        And to everyone above me commenting on whether or not the O/P is a noob- how the heck does that even relate? Sure it's a crazy sounding challenge- sure they edited their post 3 hours later... and?

        There are some things that a child knows, that his/her parents do not. Just because a child hasn't lived the 30+ years the parent has, that doesn't mean they don't know anything.

        In fact, it's better to be like a child sometimes anyways, because children cannot see the failures or disbelief that adults seem to. This original post reminds me of that... there is a huge obstacle- and here are all the parents coming in telling the children that they cannot do this, and that it's stupid, and how retarded this challenge is...etc....

        I doubt then, that anyone cares about the noobs or even really can direct anything towards noobs in the firstplace- except for those contributing ideas on how this challenge should actually be attempted, done, or used for noobs.

        Remember that the teachers can be taught too, as can the "children".


        To End Game:

        Yup, you are right, not everyone has to do everything the same way, in order to push themselves. What was being said here, in the first few posts... was basically that it couldn't be done at all.

        Later it came out, what people can actually push themselves to do, and why they felt it wasn't right for them.... however without mentioning that, the first words out, were still negative ones just bashing, rather than suggesting how this could alternatively work.

        I don't think our job as warriors is to simply bash what may seem impossible to us... imagine if that happened on every single thread? This forum wouldn't get very far either.... thankfully it doesn't happen all the time.

        It's also interesting that you wanted to be an escort? ....? Also, it is true as well, that one should push themselves to do things which are beneficial, not harmful.

        Avenue Girl pointed out to me, that there are some things that just take up so much effort, and can be done in less effort. I understand the idea of making things as smooth and easy as well- such as in the idea of "auto pilot".
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        • Profile picture of the author EndGame
          Originally Posted by acrasial View Post


          To End Game:

          Yup, you are right, not everyone has to do everything the same way, in order to push themselves. What was being said here, in the first few posts... was basically that it couldn't be done at all.

          Later it came out, what people can actually push themselves to do, and why they felt it wasn't right for them.... however without mentioning that, the first words out, were still negative ones just bashing, rather than suggesting how this could alternatively work.

          I don't think our job as warriors is to simply bash what may seem impossible to us... imagine if that happened on every single thread? This forum wouldn't get very far either.... thankfully it doesn't happen all the time.

          It's also interesting that you wanted to be an escort? ....? Also, it is true as well, that one should push themselves to do things which are beneficial, not harmful.

          Avenue Girl pointed out to me, that there are some things that just take up so much effort, and can be done in less effort. I understand the idea of making things as smooth and easy as well- such as in the idea of "auto pilot".


          Why was it interesting I looked into being an escort?

          I think negativity was present in this thread because the OP had not made a fantastic suggestion to the people the thread was aimed at (i.e. "noobs" as they are being called).

          I agree there is merit to getting practice and getting good through volume writing, but as a first time suggestion to a newcomer, this was not hot stuff, and would not give some one new a real taste of internet marketing.
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          • Profile picture of the author acrasial
            Originally Posted by EndGame View Post

            Why was it interesting I looked into being an escort?

            I think negativity was present in this thread because the OP had not made a fantastic suggestion to the people the thread was aimed at (i.e. "noobs" as they are being called).

            I agree there is merit to getting practice and getting good through volume writing, but as a first time suggestion to a newcomer, this was not hot stuff, and would not give some one new a real taste of internet marketing.

            It's not something one would generally hear someone say aloud, nor is it something I would expect... so that's what made it interesting.

            Alot of people may say they wanted to market online... be a pilot...work at a club even, as a bartender... so that's why I found it interesting.

            I think it would give too much taste of internet marketing... all in one go- without the actual food. It's like gum, people chew it, and spit it out later when it loses it's flavor. It should be like food, where people chew it and get nourished and actually fed... 700 pieces of gum, yum!

            Yup, yup, I agree now on the noob standpoint, and on the standpoint of it being a person's choice on what challenges them and what doesn't, as well as on the idea that not everyone has to take the same action to get results, especially drastic action. Thus, if something can be done easier, faster, and with less effort, and more smoothly + consistently, then why not?
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            • Profile picture of the author EndGame
              Lol,

              The reason I mentioned it is because me and a couple of friends egged each other on about it after hearing how much money could be made. None of us went ahead with it though. It was Summer holidays in-between term time and we had a lot of time on our hands and no money. Male escorting was no big ambition of ours. The point was, there are lots of things that will make you money and successful (if you define success by how much money some one has), but it doesn't mean you should do them.

              As for the rest of my CV (jobs I have actually done):

              Online marketing consultant
              Traffic manager/specialist
              Affiliate Manager
              Content Creator
              Customer Services Supervisor
              Bartender
              Doorman
              Musician

              Now, back to the point:

              I like your enthusiasm acrasial, but I have to say on this one, I have to agree with a lot of the more learned and experienced Warriors, I don't think the 700 article challenge would be helpful to many people.

              In all likely-hood I think a good deal of people would fail at it, feel bad about it, get left with a bitter taste in their mouth, and may never try making money online again, which would be a shame in some cases.
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  • Profile picture of the author Scott Ames
    Dr Pro..

    This had me falling off my chair with laughter. You tell people to write 100 articles a day, but your signature says:

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  • Profile picture of the author pheonix44
    I disagree, 100 articles a day is fully possible for anyone who wants to commit. It would take me about 14 hours per day, keeping in mind everything in this challenge... to complete this challenge, and while it would be working "over time", the point of the challenge was to do something most people cannot.

    I have done the above before, and I am a human. It sure is possible....Write an article every 5 minutes, that's 12 every hour. Multiply that by just 8 hours, and that becomes 96 articles (almost 100).

    Now, some people here write an article every 10 minutes, or can produce one in 10 minutes... how come no one has ever really pushed themselves to do this, and when the challenge comes along, everyone just talks about how impossible it is then?

    I am a real human being, telling you now, I have done this, and will do this. So now WHO ELSE has the courage, and stamina to try something different and crazy sounding, which will put them well ahead, above, and beyond their competition.
    Can you do this consistently for 7 days? The though of waking up having to do this would have me very depressed. I could see mustering up the nerve to do it for one day, very shory 350 word articles, but I could not do it for 7 days. I would just burn out.
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  • Profile picture of the author Don Schenk
    When I read the OP I wondered if it had suddenly jumped forward to April 1st? (Here in the States that day is called "April Fool's day" and pranksters have a lot of fun.)

    Just think what would happen if you sent 700 articles to EZA at one time. Banned for life.

    :-Don
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      • Profile picture of the author scrofford
        Originally Posted by TMG Enterprises View Post

        Acrasial, you seriously expect us to believe that you type 100 words per minute consistently and during that five whole minutes allotted to the article, can actually manage to create something people will want to read?

        All day long, five minute articles that are readable and high quality?

        That's complete B.S.

        Tina
        My mom can type 100 words per minute...hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author shermancox
    OK average one article every 5 minutes for 8 hours and you trying to get "newbies" to do this?

    The highest rate I got to was 1 every 15 minutes...and could only keep that up in 2-3 hour bursts....

    I just can't even conceive of writing articles at that rate for any period of time...let alone 8 hours...and then for 7 days...
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    By the way... did anybody notice this?



    :rolleyes:

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  • Profile picture of the author mikemcmillan
    I've got a better idea. Set up 100 WordPress blogs a day, each optimized to promote a different Clickbank Marketing & Ads product, and get 100 PR 5+ backlinks per day for each. Doing this would get you a lot more sales than just writing 100 articles a day, of course...
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    • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
      Originally Posted by mikemcmillan View Post

      I've got a better idea. Set up 100 WordPress blogs a day, each optimized to promote a different Clickbank Marketing & Ads product, and get 100 PR 5+ backlinks per day for each. Doing this would get you a lot more sales than just writing 100 articles a day, of course...
      Very good point there, Mike.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Fullman
      Originally Posted by mikemcmillan View Post

      I've got a better idea. Set up 100 WordPress blogs a day, each optimized to promote a different Clickbank Marketing & Ads product, and get 100 PR 5+ backlinks per day for each. Doing this would get you a lot more sales than just writing 100 articles a day, of course...
      OR...

      Set up 10 Wordpress blogs a day.

      Write 10 articles for each.

      After 7 days, you have 70 blogs, each with 10 articles.

      Let's say (conservatively) you flip each blog for $200.00

      That's fourteen grand in your first week...!

      Take that 14 grand, and double your business. In week 2, you create another 70 blogs (700 articles)... PLUS you pay some one else to create ANOTHER 70 blogs for you.

      Result: Week 2 - $28k

      Rince and repeat.

      You can retire after ~ 6 weeks.

      :rolleyes:

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      • Profile picture of the author acrasial
        Originally Posted by Steven Fullman View Post

        OR...

        Set up 10 Wordpress blogs a day.

        Write 10 articles for each.

        After 7 days, you have 70 blogs, each with 10 articles.

        Let's say (conservatively) you flip each blog for $200.00

        That's fourteen grand in your first week...!

        Take that 14 grand, and double your business. In week 2, you create another 70 blogs (700 articles)... PLUS you pay some one else to create ANOTHER 70 blogs for you.

        Result: Week 2 - $28k

        Rince and repeat.

        You can retire after ~ 6 weeks.

        :rolleyes:

        Steve

        SEE how you can damn turn this thread into a positive one? I'm so happy!

        Let's see it then, lots of good ideas churning out now, from one crazy sounding challenge. That's an awesome idea, are you going to do it?
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        • Profile picture of the author Steven Fullman
          No. I value my sanity. But don't let that stop YOU from participating

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          Originally Posted by acrasial View Post

          SEE how you can damn turn this thread into a positive one? I'm so happy!

          Let's see it then, lots of good ideas churning out now, from one crazy sounding challenge. That's an awesome idea, are you going to do it?
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    • Profile picture of the author wordwizard
      Originally Posted by mikemcmillan View Post

      I've got a better idea. Set up 100 WordPress blogs a day, each optimized to promote a different Clickbank Marketing & Ads product, and get 100 PR 5+ backlinks per day for each. Doing this would get you a lot more sales than just writing 100 articles a day, of course...
      ROFL! Isn't it a shame that the days are so short and our energy is so limited. Imagine
      what we could do if that were actually possible!

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  • Profile picture of the author Steven Fullman
    Man...

    Imagine overtaking Sean Mize in 6 months...from a standing start

    At a push, I could write 100 sentences a day - for about 3 days - before I turned into Jack Nicholson in "The Shining".

    But that's just me.
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  • Profile picture of the author Asher
    *watching the ladies go at it*



    Everytime I refresh the page, I see a new entry inserted
    somewhere.
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    Accrasial,

    Did you just come from a self-development/enrichment seminar or something?

    Allen
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    • Profile picture of the author acrasial
      Originally Posted by Allen Graves View Post

      Accrasial,

      Did you just come from a self-development/enrichment seminar or something?

      Allen

      Nope, I just don't see why everyone doesn't believe it's possible for themselves, and the negativity here is endless. But Allen, you too, said you COULD do it. So now we have a few people who CAN, but it's then a choice to do it or not, as you said.

      That's all I had to say on those lines, and you helped it along too.

      Originally Posted by mikemcmillan
      I've got a better idea. Set up 100 WordPress blogs a day, each optimized to promote a different Clickbank Marketing & Ads product, and get 100 PR 5+ backlinks per day for each. Doing this would get you a lot more sales than just writing 100 articles a day, of course...


      So you think it's possible, it seems? Sure is a fantastic idea, and now this thread is turning into something.

      Originally Posted by Steven Fullman View Post

      Man...

      Imagine overtaking Sean Mize in 6 months...from a standing start

      At a push, I could write 100 sentences a day - for about 3 days - before I turned into Jack Nicholson in "The Shining".

      But that's just me.


      So it also seems as if that is a dream that you have- which you think isn't easily made possible. Of course it's not easy, that guy is on top of his game, but you can be too! But you sure can push yourself, that is true.

      It isn't you, only because you don't want to get out of that comfort zone to actually try and do something different. What you are doing now works for you, and gets you enough so that you can stay Comfortable... which is why you don't really want to push yourself to do anything further.

      I understand that, but I would still love to see you push yourself. No one said it was forever, it was a challenge... challenges end.
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    • Profile picture of the author big steve
      Originally Posted by Allen Graves View Post

      Accrasial,

      Did you just come from a self-development/enrichment seminar or something?

      Allen
      hahahahahaha "accrasial" must be the OP's wife or sister..lmao

      OK i agree with alot of people here in that 700 articles in 7 days is just totally ridiculous. If I was a newbie trying to get into IM and read that I would be looking elsewhere straight away.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dr. Pro
      Look At that I just posted this thread, and buy now I know I have over enough here to make a book, write articles and have some left over for tomorrow.

      Talk about the Impossible. Some of you have already written more than ten articles with the amount of comments you have made.
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      • Profile picture of the author acrasial
        Originally Posted by Dr. Pro View Post

        Look At that I just posted this thread, and buy now I know I have over enough here to make a book, write articles and have some left over for tomorrow.

        Talk about the Impossible. Some of you have already written more than ten articles with the amount of comments you have made.
        OOOO NOOOO!!!! REALLY? people really can write that much? How dare they!!!
        Just don't tell them that they did it. :rolleyes: they may get upset again.

        Originally Posted by Pat Blank View Post

        It's easy to write 100 articles a day. All I have to do is redefine the word "day" to mean "the amount of time it takes me to write 100 articles."

        So how many minutes would this day be then? Its amusing how people amuse themselves.

        Originally Posted by ishansoni View Post

        I cannot agree with you at all.

        Instead do this and YOU WILL MAKE MONEY!

        1. Research a market
        2. Research uncompetitive keywords
        3. Write 3 articles per keyword!
        4. Make Money.

        700 articles? That's flat out insane.
        So your method to making money is 3 articles per keyword. How many keywords per day to be written on then?
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    • Profile picture of the author achivement84
      It`s really a big challenge, i don`t think even a professional will be able to write all these articles in your mentioned time, and even it he did i don`t think it will the good level to be sucesful in getting more traffic.

      B.Regards
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  • Profile picture of the author pheonix44
    I think the bigger point is what do you expect to accomplish writing this many articles. I can write one or two and make hundreds if I do it right. The goal is to offer real solutions to real problems and the money will follow if people find what you're offering to be worth more then the money in their pocket. What I typically do is write 3-5 articles around a keyword I have researched. I then market them to see which one get a good response. I then outsource backlink building to that article to get it ranking on the front page. The other articles I might use in an autoresponder series to market to my list. Even if I wrote 100 articles in a day I would use them for other purposes and not for article directories.
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    • Profile picture of the author acrasial
      Originally Posted by pheonix44 View Post

      I think the bigger point is what do you expect to accomplish writing this many articles. I can write one or two and make hundreds if I do it right. The goal is to offer real solutions to real problems and the money will follow if people find what you're offering to be worth more then the money in their pocket. What I typically do is write 3-5 articles around a keyword I have researched. I then market them to see which one get a good response. I then outsource backlink building to that article to get it ranking on the front page. The other articles I might use in an autoresponder series to market to my list. Even if I wrote 100 articles in a day I would use them for other purposes and not for article directories.

      Now that is some effective brainstorming- so why not do it then? Certainly there can be some use for even just a FEW MORE articles, doesn't even have to be 100. Could be 25, or 50, or even just 15 more articles than you normally do.

      Maybe it still takes one more time, but imagine if each article was e-book quality (yes, maybe it would take you some time for each article), but then you could compile that into a book and offer it somewhere too!
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  • Profile picture of the author RebeccaL
    Only 700? I write 700 articles a day, not per week :p

    Seriously though.. it would be possible. If you take 70 articles and spin them 10 times each and then submit that mass produced goobly goop to low quality directories.

    You won't see any results, but hey at least you'll succeed in this challenge. LOL
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  • Profile picture of the author pheonix44
    OR...

    Set up 10 Wordpress blogs a day.

    Write 10 articles for each.

    After 7 days, you have 70 blogs, each with 10 articles.

    Let's say (conservatively) you flip each blog for $200.00

    That's fourteen grand in your first week...!

    Take that 14 grand, and double your business. In week 2, you create another 70 blogs (700 articles)... PLUS you pay some one else to create ANOTHER 70 blogs for you.

    Result: Week 2 - $28k

    Rince and repeat.

    You can retire after ~ 6 weeks.

    :rolleyes:

    Steve
    You have no idea how realistic it is to do what you just mentioned. The only thing I would say is to add a custom niche header with proper plug-ins. Put a little bit of work into ranking some of those articles, you can use odesk to hire someone to build links to your homepage for your keyword. Forget adsense, once you have traffic build a mini newsletter with some of your extra content to get subscribers. You can even use the wordpress membership technique to make it into a membership site. After you've done all this hold it for a month and then sell them for hundreds. I plan on doing this very soon.
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  • Profile picture of the author bryemidas
    Well... I gotta admire your drive buddy; I mean you got real balls coming out with this... Seriously though... Think it through!!

    Your hearts in the right place, so good on you - We all need goals...!


    Please post some more!
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  • Profile picture of the author Slin
    I used to do 30 to 60 articles a day.

    Yes you read that right.

    I did this for half a week before realizing, it is not a good idea.

    Much better to do 3 articles a day and proper SEO on all of them, read article marketing 102 guide by Daniel Malono here, it's free and outlines all of this.
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  • Profile picture of the author DASHBOY
    Must agree article marketing does generate cash, but if no one can do 100 articles a day even if they had KW research, Niche Research done. Best you could at a push I would say is 60 thats with 9hrs to spare for sleep and eating. 50 would be realistic, but maintaining that now thats another thing!!

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    • Profile picture of the author pheonix44
      I used to do 30 to 60 articles a day.

      Yes you read that right.

      I did this for half a week before realizing, it is not a good idea.

      Much better to do 3 articles a day and proper SEO on all of them, read article marketing 102 guide by Daniel Malono here, it's free and outlines all of this.
      I remember when I first got into IM I read a free report that said to write 30 articles a day for a month to make 150.00$a day. I was a noob at the time and bought DNS to do this. I now know I can write two or three articles a day to get to this same goal. Once I knew what the purpose was it made sense.
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  • Profile picture of the author yourreviewer
    I won't comment on whether it is possible or not possible, but my God.....

    Best of luck mate. Use Dragon Naturally Speaking

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  • Profile picture of the author scrofford
    Originally Posted by Dr. Pro View Post

    I know many of you question whether or not Article Marketing Works, and if it does just how effective is it.

    Article Marketing when done correctly is one of the most effective ways to do Affiliate Marketing. It is also a very easy way to drive laser targeted traffic to your website, blog or special offer.

    So here is the challenge:

    1. Choose A Niche: Health, Make Money, Entertainment Etc.

    2. Write over 700 Articles in the next 7 days (no ghost writing).

    3. Create a blog or website about the product or the niche your
    promoting.

    4. Publish your Articles to at least 3 article directories: Ezinearticles.com,
    Goarticles.com and Ideamarketers.com

    5. Post your progress as you go along. My aim here is to help you stay
    focused and to also help you realize that Article Marketing does work.

    6. The Reward You Finally Make Money Online.

    You will be surprised at the success you will attain by sticking with this challenge.

    I know this seems like a lot but it really isn't. If you think about it, how many hours do you spend surfing the internet for the magic formula that will become your automatic cash pulling machine? I bet if you should really keep track of the amount of time you waste searching for a quick answer, you'd realize that you could have spent that time writing some articles.

    So here is how you'll break down writing your articles.

    Firstly choose a broad keyword and then select keyword phrases that is relevant to your niche. Your Articles do not need to be long, it however needs to be attention grabbing and informative. Remember people on the internet search for specific information give them what they are looking for.

    your articles can be about 500 words in lenght. You should be able to get your point across to your readers in 500 words. In my experince no one likes to read a 1000's page article. Remeber your article is not to sell to your readers but to provide quality information, which will lead them to seek more information from you as the idea is to have your visitors trust you as an expert in your chosen niche.

    Writing 100 articles per day seems very difficult. however lets break it down into small increments.

    Use your first 30 minutes finding keywords, and information about your niche. Now you will not be copying anyones writing as this is wrong and should not be done. However, what you will be using this information for is to gather knowledge about your niche.

    Once you have read up about your niche you will write an article for each of your keywords from the top of your head. However, you will be writing with a purpose and that is to provide your readers with informative information. It is important that you have a structure to your writing. That means, an introduction, a body and a conclusion.

    Be specific, concise yet infomative. After which call your readers to take action in a catchy way. This is very important as this is the action that will lead visitors to your website or blog. which will be promoting your affiliate product.


    To your Success,
    Dr. Pro

    Helping others to success online.
    What are ya new? Have you actually been able to do this? If you tell me you have I won't believe it! Whatever dude
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis-White
    You cant expect anyone to take the post about 700 articles in 7 days serious c'mon, and newbies?

    Start small, try writing 3-5 a day and work up from there... The whole key is as long and you stick with it you will see results, so even if you can only submit 2-3 a day well at least in 30 days you will have close to 70 articles and ina few months a couple hundred.

    1: Choose a niche
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    3: Buy a domain
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    • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
      Originally Posted by Dennis-White View Post

      You cant expect anyone to take the post about 700 articles in 7 days serious c'mon, and newbies?
      Imagine this in my signature line:

      "I wrote 700 articles in 7 days! And you can too!"
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        Originally Posted by avenuegirl View Post

        Imagine this in my signature line:

        "I wrote 700 articles in 7 days! And you can too!"

        It would probably be in green Crayon and from the close observation ward of the local mental institution
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  • Profile picture of the author EndGame
    I sincerely hope some of the people in this thread never release a product in this market/industry.

    I mean, okay, maybe some one can write 700 articles in 7 days. Okay, cool and kudos.

    However, I cannot imagine that being in anyway enjoyable, even with such a positive outlook such as acraisal's. Yes, you could make some money from doing this (if the articles were of any quality).

    Making Money:

    As a 20 year-old ( 2 years ago at the time of writing) I thought it would be fun and interesting to research the possibility of being a male escort (not that I'd make an especially good one). I discovered I could make £250 ($500 at the time) an hour. I worked out I could meet ladies for 4 hours a day and make £1000 a day. On that maths, I could have made £3000 a day if I had done it for 12 hours!

    If I did that a 100 days in a year, that would be £300,000 in income. This is something I could do and have the ability to do.

    It was only after some more research that I discovered what kind of requests might be put my way, what kind of things would be expected of me.

    What is more, did I really want to meet a lot of people who I didn't know and like etc, and put all my time, energy and life into pretending to find them fascinating and wonderful?

    I concluded this was not a good way to invest my time, life and energies. I COULD do it, it was A LOT of money, but it was never something I could have done, for health, sanity and moral reasons!

    My point is, there a lot of things you could do for money. You could push yourself to do some incredibly difficult and challenging things and you might profit from it, but money should not be the only goal.

    You see, you could write 700 articles in 7 days, but I would prefer to enjoy some of that time. I'd prefer to interact with human beings, enjoy a nice meal, watch a good film and take some time out with the family. Does this mean I am not built for success? Does this mean I am not as ambitious or skilled as some one who writes 700 articles?

    Not at all.

    You see, I have this romantic notion that people looking to make money online do so, because they can, the opportunity excites them and they feel they have value to add to the marketplace.

    I also like the idea of people running a business because they love the industry or business model they are involved with, not just because they get off looking at the clickbank bars moving further to the right-hand-side of the screen.

    Just because some one doesn't do something, doesn't mean they aren't pushing themselves or being all they can be. To each their own.

    I don't know if any of my reply has made sense. It's very late in the UK, and I feel this thread may have warped my thinking some as well. Anyway, I'll finish with a quote from one of the Greatest Brit's of all time:

    "If you find something you really love, you will never work again." -- Winston Churchill.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Williams
    I'm sorry, but I'm a REALLY fast typist. I can pump 400 word articles out at 10 minutes each and have them SEO. But this isn't a "crazy" challenge - it's stupid. I would have to type constantly for about 16 hours each day and that doesn't even count eating.

    Acrasial is just making this thread a pain to read. At least it was funny at first.
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    • Profile picture of the author acrasial
      Originally Posted by spire8989 View Post

      I'm sorry, but I'm a REALLY fast typist. I can pump 400 word articles out at 10 minutes each and have them SEO. But this isn't a "crazy" challenge - it's stupid. I would have to type constantly for about 16 hours each day and that doesn't even count eating.

      Acrasial is just making this thread a pain to read. At least it was funny at first.

      Well Go Ahead, kick me out of this thread- heck, kick me out of this forum, if you can.... as you seem to hate reading what I write, or suggest, or topics surrounding me.

      Seems you can work very well as well, and that's great there's someone else who can in fact produce good articles in a short amount of time, as I had mentioned.

      But I am not forcing you to read this, or my posts, nor am I forcing you to respond to me or anyone else.

      I understand that over 50% of the posters above seem to be upset with me, that is fine, But I guess to you, bashing someone's post, and idea is really fun and amusing.

      I don't find it amusing- and if this person is in fact a noob... how do you think you would feel, if you were in his/her position... having all of your ideas, dreams, ambitions and other goals bashed online by people... simply because they find it amusing?.. at least that was what you suggested about the first few posts after the O/P's post.

      I think then, that everyone here has something better to do with their time, aside from the above, right? Thus, I tried to direct this into something positive- and for that, I am getting bashed too, because... I guess people think this thread is a waste of time?


      Originally Posted by Allen Graves View Post

      Typing speed aside - if you write 700 articles in 7 days, not only will they all be the same thing repeated over and over and over again, there's no chance in hell they would be approved by any respectable/worthwhile article directory.
      True, I understand this as well. That is very true, and with EZA's new rule which heavily controls the submission of "rehashed content' as well as useless articles (low value content), it would make the above very difficult (writing many articles). I understand that as well, and you are definitely right about this, thus from that standpoint, I could agree that it may be ridiculous to ask anyone to write 700 articles in a short amount of time, and also write without compromising on the quality in the above manner.


      Originally Posted by Allen Graves View Post

      I sincerely believe, practice and preach that a single article a day can bring in just as much traffic and sales as 3 or 4...or 700.

      So really it's your decision - type all day, without stopping for 16 hours, or leisurely write an article and spend the rest of the day doing whatever you please!

      Maybe I'm crazy or stupid, but I choose the latter.
      WHOA WHOA... back things up here- No one is calling anyone crazy or stupid here. I agree with you here Allen, and I don't think it's stupid to do the same amount of work with less. It's in fact smarter on many levels. I know people who do exactly what you say, and spend the rest of their day doing what they please- but obviously you have mastered this, whereas noobs have not.

      Writing more for noobs (but ok, not 700) may help them to learn how to test their articles, as in what works and what does not, as well as give them experience in writing, alongside allotting for SEO practice, should they choose to learn it.

      When someone is a noob, not everything they write can hit the search engines either, so they do need to learn how to write, so that search engines can love their articles; alongside the SEO, and I presume they will not know this directly upon the very first article they have written.

      So now I want to ask you, Allen, how many articles did you write, before you finally mastered being able to just write a few, and properly SEO them, and have all of them achieve success?

      I would like to ask the same question to anyone here?
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    Typing speed aside - if you write 700 articles in 7 days, not only will they all be the same thing repeated over and over and over again, there's no chance in hell they would be approved by any respectable/worthwhile article directory - for that very reason.

    I sincerely believe, practice and preach that a single article a day can bring in just as much traffic and sales as 3 or 4...or 700.

    So really it's your decision - type all day, without stopping for 16 hours, or leisurely write an article and spend the rest of the day doing whatever you please!

    Maybe I'm crazy or stupid, but I choose the latter.

    And by the way - the rest of the OP is very sound and is actually great advice for a newbie. I'm only disagreeing with the obscene amount of articles he suggested.

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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Williams
    I agree, I have no problem with his idea nor anything else he posted, just the amount of articles he suggested. It could have been a real winning thread if he had put a reasonable number.

    I also have nothing against you Acrasial - I'm just hungry
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    • Profile picture of the author acrasial
      Originally Posted by spire8989 View Post

      I agree, I have no problem with his idea nor anything else he posted, just the amount of articles he suggested. It could have been a real winning thread if he had put a reasonable number.

      I also have nothing against you Acrasial - I'm just hungry

      So PM the guy and tell him to change the number, and ask him to read all the replies, to find out why... or maybe wait till he comes back online and reads all of these.

      Maybe he was just sharing his goal, and wanted others to join in on the challenge... that's what I think it really was. But as others had mentioned as well, such kinds of posts/threads are often deleted... the progress ones.

      So how many articles do you normally pump out per day, or you have moved on to bigger and better things?
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      • Profile picture of the author Kevin Williams
        Originally Posted by acrasial View Post

        So PM the guy and tell him to change the number, and ask him to read all the replies, to find out why... or maybe wait till he comes back online and reads all of these.

        Maybe he was just sharing his goal, and wanted others to join in on the challenge... that's what I think it really was. But as others had mentioned as well, such kinds of posts/threads are often deleted... the progress ones.

        So how many articles do you normally pump out per day, or you have moved on to bigger and better things?
        Agreed I probably will pm him. I only do about 5 per day but I make sure that I set Google's keyword tool to sort by relevant and I use the 10 most relevant keywords when writing it. Works amazingly and I don't know why other people don't do it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Pat Blank
    It's easy to write 100 articles a day. All I have to do is redefine the word "day" to mean "the amount of time it takes me to write 100 articles."
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanman
    All I see here is people trying to force their opinion on each other when at the end of the day I am sure they aren't even doing what they are preaching here.

    Everyone is trying to say oh this is right or my way is the best way but the fact is what works for someone else might not work for you and at the same time what works for you might not work for someone else.

    So it all boils down to- What works for you.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kevin Williams
      Originally Posted by ryanman View Post

      All I see here is people trying to force their opinion on each other when at the end of the day I am sure they aren't even doing what they are preaching here.

      Everyone is trying to say oh this is right or my way is the best way but the fact is what works for someone else might not work for you and at the same time what works for you might not work for someone else.

      So it all boils down to- What works for you.
      I wrote an article in-between each one of my posts here. So HA! Really though I agree, instead of being here arguing we should be working!
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  • Profile picture of the author loriezkie
    Hi guys...this post gets my interest...Its like telling me to be a super human in no time...I'm just new here and I want to learn so much about online marketing...Please feed me with the right info...Feel free to email me or redirect me from other links and site.

    Thank you!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author Kelly Verge
    I understand everything now.

    This is where the articles in those huge PLR packs come from. No wonder they're such literary gems.
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  • Profile picture of the author pcjunior
    would it give you the total brain stew and absolute nosebleed? even if I do 5 articles per day, and boy do i want to lean it all, i still think that i would not be able to absorb everything.

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    • Profile picture of the author Ehanson
      That's quite a challenge... 700 articles in a week?? It takes me about 1 hour to write just 1 article. The thought of even trying to write 100 articles a day by yourself or with an army of outsourced writers (can you imagine how much that would cost?) gave me a good laugh.

      When Japan invents the worlds fastest typing robot then we'll talk.
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      • Profile picture of the author XRay
        Writing 700 articles in 7 days, 7 weeks or 7 months doesn't mean you're going become a rich affiliate. How many articles you have to write to make money depends on the niche and your ability to sell click-thrus to people in that niche that have money to spend on a solution. It all varies. IMO it's far better for them to go thru the process of thinking and doing as they go through the steps of putting together an affiliate campaign.
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        • Profile picture of the author redrossero
          700 articles in seven days????...And I thought those who wrote 20 articles per day were nuts...
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    • Profile picture of the author Ray Erdmann
      While I find the OP's reference to writing 700 articles a 'little crazy', I'm in the same boat as "acrasial" in that if we decide to push our inner abilities to the max, even for a short while, great things 'can happen'.

      Now, for those who say you'd never spend 7, 8 or god forbid 12 hours 'writing articles', you do realize that there are people right now, who work 10, 12, 14 hour days doing things WAY MORE stressful then writing articles...right?

      So, that being said, let's not make article writing out to be some type of life-threatening or extremely dangerous line of work when it really isn't.

      Sure, it's mind-numbing at times, but then again, so is being a truck driver sitting behind the wheel of a big-rig, driving 12 hours through the mid-west.

      I think for everyone who says they couldn't imagine wanting or even attempting to write articles for even more then a few hours a day at best, the type of people who probably never had, nor let alone handle, working a manual labor job, even if it you were broke, homeless and desperately needed the money!

      But...that is just the impression I'm getting from reading the replies so far in this thread...
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      • Profile picture of the author acrasial
        Originally Posted by Ray Erdmann View Post

        While I find the OP's reference to writing 700 articles a 'little crazy', I'm in the same boat as "acrasial" in that if we decide to push our inner abilities to the max, even for a short while, great things 'can happen'.
        THANKYOU!!!

        Originally Posted by Ray Erdmann View Post

        Now, for those who say you'd never spend 7, 8 or god forbid 12 hours 'writing articles', you do realize that there are people right now, who work 10, 12, 14 hour days doing things WAY MORE stressful then writing articles...right?
        So, that being said, let's not make article writing out to be some type of life-threatening or extremely dangerous line of work when it really isn't.

        Sure, it's mind-numbing at times, but then again, so is being a truck driver sitting behind the wheel of a big-rig, driving 12 hours through the mid-west.
        Why are you in my head!!? Better said than I could put it! cheez! Everyone sure did blow this way out of proportion, claiming it was based on the title being noobs, but I noticed that most people responding here saying it's impossible are not noobs either.



        Originally Posted by Ray Erdmann View Post

        I think for everyone who says they couldn't imagine wanting or even attempting to write articles for even more then a few hours a day at best, the type of people who probably never had, nor let alone handle, working a manual labor job, even if it you were broke, homeless and desperately needed the money!

        But...that is just the impression I'm getting from reading the replies so far in this thread...
        Seems like it, people love their comfort zone. I don't really think it has anything to do with what they have worked at, but rather how much work they DON'T want to do, and how much work they think is far too much.

        I am guilty of the above as well, where I know I can do something, but just don't because I get lazy, and prefer comfort to real success. Heck there are even threads here where people state that they don't want to "earn millions" but rather just want to "pay their bills"... so it seems a consensus here as well, that people will work enough so that they can have some comfort, but not enough so that they can have some really great success.

        But once again, we cannot measure what everyone's success is, by what we want our own success to be. But I still cannot see anyone here who really wouldn't love to be a millionaire either... it would just take some work. Can it be done with article marketing? Well that's another question, and alot of people, I am sure, would come and argue that it can't and I am dreaming....

        I am sure that this doesn't apply only to article marketing, but a few online marketing techniques in general- where people would come and say "oh that's impossible!" or "that's crazy"... and even if they saw proof of someone doing it, they would still say it's too much, and not for them.

        But that is fine, because as mentioned, we aren't here to sit and judge what success is for everyone... as everyone does have their own limits. But I still have the idea that every single person here can push themselves to try something like this, if they do in fact article market... as it could really have some great benefits.

        It sure isn't everyone's cup of tea.
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  • Profile picture of the author yuyuan
    I write articles frequently and the most I ever wrote in a single day is 15 articles.

    Good articles require good research, and even if you are able to write 100 articles a day, the quality will not be there i guess. So how are you going to get lots of sales from your articles?

    100 articles in a day is simply not possible. If I can write 100 articles a day, i think i am better than most article rewriting software in the market... and I most probably will own an article directory and earn my living off Adsense!
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  • Profile picture of the author Charann Miller
    Writing 10 good articles a day leaves my brain fried how on earth could I possibly do tens times that?, let alone the amount of red flags I would be sending up trying to squeeze them all through the article directories in one go.

    I'd rather go for quality and write less thanks.

    PS - Dr Pro, you first buddy. You can tell us how you get on with your 700 articles in 7 days.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bossman34
    I haven't read every reply in this thread, but here's my perspective on this...

    700 articles and an average of 500 words each is 350,000 words. Moby Dick is about 210,000 words.

    You are asking newbies to write a Moby Dick and a half a week! Not only is this nearly impossible physically...it has to be nearly impossible mentally as well.

    What on earth could you write of that length in a week that has any value to readers and ultimately yourself? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say NONE.

    I'm all about working hard, but I'm more about working smart. Pumping out a worthless article every 5 minutes for 12 hours a day is not smart.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marcel Hartmann
    Seven hundred articles in 7 days? Right.

    At your recommendation of 500 words a pop, you'd have to write at 83.3 words per minute for 10 hours every day. The reward? You will finally have Carpal Tunnel.

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    • Profile picture of the author YseUp
      I have a solution.

      We can set a challenge.

      How about we each contribute a little bit of money $ 1 -5 and ask Dr Pro or Acrasial to write us 100 articles in one day. They can't start writing until they receive the topic which will be kept secret until the start of the challenge.

      What do you think?
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  • Profile picture of the author TristanPerry
    Originally Posted by Ray Erdmann View Post

    While I find the OP's reference to writing 700 articles a 'little crazy', I'm in the same boat as "acrasial" in that if we decide to push our inner abilities to the max, even for a short while, great things 'can happen'.

    Now, for those who say you'd never spend 7, 8 or god forbid 12 hours 'writing articles', you do realize that there are people right now, who work 10, 12, 14 hour days doing things WAY MORE stressful then writing articles...right?

    So, that being said, let's not make article writing out to be some type of life-threatening or extremely dangerous line of work when it really isn't.

    Sure, it's mind-numbing at times, but then again, so is being a truck driver sitting behind the wheel of a big-rig, driving 12 hours through the mid-west.

    I think for everyone who says they couldn't imagine wanting or even attempting to write articles for even more then a few hours a day at best, the type of people who probably never had, nor let alone handle, working a manual labor job, even if it you were broke, homeless and desperately needed the money!

    But...that is just the impression I'm getting from reading the replies so far in this thread...
    I'd agree with this post.

    I'd personally not want to write 700 articles in a week (especially since there's no guarantee that those articles would make a lot of money), although it's certainly not outside of the realms of possibility.

    I know of people who have worked much harder than this (mainly in the past - i.e. when the UK was still deep in primary production - but the point still remains, and people still work that hard today in other countries)

    Whilst it would be very boring and I do think that you could make better money from doing other things with a 12-16 hour shift, it would be possible to write 100 articles in a day.

    For example, say someone does 1 ~260 word article every 8 minutes. That's 32.5 words per minute, which isn't crazy. Tough, but not crazy.

    That'd be 7.5 articles per hour. Lets call it 7, there's bound to be Human downtime.

    Then a little over 14 hours would be required to write 100 articles at this pace.

    Then you'd need another couple of hours to submit them all.

    Yes, it'd be a lot of work. And doing this for an entire week would probably be a bit too much for most of us (I wouldn't be able to keep doing it), although it *is* possible (perhaps not at 500 words though; but if you are going for click-throughs, you would want ~260 word articles, not 500 word articles)

    As Ray says, some people work a lot more than 14/16 hours per day. People in other countries, and in the West a few decades ago, would work this number of hours doing hard, manual labour.

    Of course, I'm not saying since other people did it, we should all sit down and struggle through 700 articles in a week.

    I'm just saying that it *is* possible, and people *have* done harder things.
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  • Profile picture of the author drwhogoesthere
    Writing 10 good articles a day leaves my brain fried how on earth could I possibly do tens times that?, let alone the amount of red flags I would be sending up trying to squeeze them all through the article directories in one go.

    I'd rather go for quality and write less thanks.
    I have to agree. Quality over quantity every time. No one want to read an article that has no substance. 100 articles a day? What are you writing about? Same article different title?

    I tried an article spinner. Sure it gave me 100 articles in just a few minuets, but they all read like rubbish.

    Personally I try for one to two articles a day that are of a high standard. I want to build a continuing relationship with my readers, not just pump them for cash.
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  • Profile picture of the author EndGame
    Having read this thread over in the cold light of day, I realize it is such a non-issue, because no one in this thread is writing 100 articles a day.

    Lots of people saying it's possible, but no one is actually doing it. The only thing that is happening, is people telling each other to do something. A lot of speculation and thoughts, but no numbers, no one taking up the "challenge" and no one is closer to making this year a success for themselves as a result of this conversation.

    Lively and interesting debate though.
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    • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
      Originally Posted by EndGame View Post

      Lots of people saying it's possible, but no one is actually doing it. The only thing that is happening, is people telling each other to do something. A lot of speculation and thoughts, but no numbers, no one taking up the "challenge" and no one is closer to making this year a success for themselves as a result of this conversation.
      Indeed - maybe acrasial could take up the challenge and show us 'non-believers' how it's done?
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    • Profile picture of the author Liam Hamer
      Originally Posted by EndGame View Post

      Having read this thread over in the cold light of day, I realize it is such a non-issue, because no one in this thread is writing 100 articles a day.

      Lots of people saying it's possible, but no one is actually doing it. The only thing that is happening, is people telling each other to do something. A lot of speculation and thoughts, but no numbers, no one taking up the "challenge" and no one is closer to making this year a success for themselves as a result of this conversation.

      Lively and interesting debate though.
      I can only speak for myself, and this thread has certainly helped me to question my own limits and acrasial's contributions(amongst others) have inspired me to take even more action than I already am. Threads like these are good, and even if nobody is taking up this challenge - the content within could very well be moving more people(like myself) forward than you may think
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      • Profile picture of the author EndGame
        Originally Posted by Crubalo View Post

        I can only speak for myself, and this thread has certainly helped me to question my own limits and acrasial's contributions(amongst others) have inspired me to take even more action than I already am. Threads like these are good, and even if nobody is taking up this challenge - the content within could very well be moving more people(like myself) forward than you may think
        In which case then, if the thread has genuinely helped just one person then I guess it's been worthwhile on some level.

        It is littered with bad advice though and at times, unhelpful thinking. I think the analogy that Jay Jennings about climbing Mount Everest is an excellent one.

        I agree, believing in your abilities, pushing your limits and stepping out of your comfort zones are all good things, but it's good to retain some good, considered critical thinking.
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    • Profile picture of the author shermancox
      lol...I think this thread is on the way to being 100 a day...

      Originally Posted by EndGame View Post

      Having read this thread over in the cold light of day, I realize it is such a non-issue, because no one in this thread is writing 100 articles a day.

      Lots of people saying it's possible, but no one is actually doing it. The only thing that is happening, is people telling each other to do something. A lot of speculation and thoughts, but no numbers, no one taking up the "challenge" and no one is closer to making this year a success for themselves as a result of this conversation.

      Lively and interesting debate though.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jay Jennings
    acrasial -

    I don't believe you can do it -- write 700 "decent quality" articles (from scratch) in 7 days. I do NOT believe you can do it. Period.

    A previous poster mentioned Moby Dick being about 210,000 words -- and 700 articles each at the EzineArticle bare minimum is 175,000 words.

    The big difference between writing a book in a week and 700 articles is that each article must stand on its own -- you have a beginning, middle, and end in each one of those 700. Writing Moby Dick in a week would be easy compared to 700 articles.

    Again, I don't believe you can do it.

    And suggesting that as a way to "finally make money online" is doing a disservice to people who are looking for answers. That's like saying, "Want to get in shape? All you have to do is climb Mt. Everest!" It's too much all at once to be realistic and if that's what people thinks it takes they'll go away frustrated/dejected.

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    • Profile picture of the author waken
      Originally Posted by Jay Jennings View Post

      acrasial -

      I don't believe you can do it -- write 700 "decent quality" articles (from scratch) in 7 days. I do NOT believe you can do it. Period.

      A previous poster mentioned Moby Dick being about 210,000 words -- and 700 articles each at the EzineArticle bare minimum is 175,000 words.

      The big difference between writing a book in a week and 700 articles is that each article must stand on its own -- you have a beginning, middle, and end in each one of those 700. Writing Moby Dick in a week would be easy compared to 700 articles.

      Again, I don't believe you can do it.

      And suggesting that as a way to "finally make money online" is doing a disservice to people who are looking for answers. That's like saying, "Want to get in shape? All you have to do is climb Mt. Everest!" It's too much all at once to be realistic and if that's what people thinks it takes they'll go away frustrated/dejected.

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      Well, well ...

      It's not only possible but very doable to write an article in 5 minutes. However, it might not be accurate to assume that writing 100 articles only requires 5 x 100 = 500 minutes = 8.3 hours in a day.

      Anyway, I am with acrasial that it can be done but that will never be me.

      What's surprising is that, the OP is missing in action after (I think) 2 to 3 posts in this long thread. Maybe, acrasial holds the formula / secret but not the OP.
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  • Profile picture of the author acrasial
    As for all the posts and responses in this thread made by myself and others, I do realize that I could have spent my time writing articles instead, but I think I delegate what goes on in my life as well, in terms of what I can do in my spare time, and that just so happens to also include more writing.

    As to the others who have already written a few articles in here, well of course, a few points were already proved here. This sure is a great discussion, and I am also wondering why the O/P is missing in action, and I guess that's what makes this thread so great and "fun" now, because the O/P seems to have little to none input on this.

    Thus, the warriors made this thread what it is... I think by now the O/P'ers post is pretty much obsolete anyways, as this discussion has gone all over the place, and everyone seems to have come to some sort of stand point in one way or another on it.

    So Original Poster, where are you? Come back into your thread... oh wait...maybe he/she is busy writing...
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    The funny thing here is that the people who are strongly against the idea that 100 articles/day is possible are professional article writers who have been doing it for years! Doesn't that tell you something?

    I am so happy to see that the serious article marketers and writers participating in this thread are so focused on quality.

    You know, a couple of years ago, a great majority would be praising this as one of the best ideas of the century - but times change and rules change.

    One thing that has persisted longer than all the tricks and fly-by-night strategies and $17 gimmicks is...<drum roll>...quality, researched, well-written content. And writing 100 articles per day is not going to generate articles which fall into this category.

    If you go back and read this thread again, you will see that there is an underlying theme - quality content vs. quantity content.

    Now, looking at the dynamic history of article marketing, watching current and long-term trends, which one would you choose?

    I think the successful people in this thread (at least those who claim to be successful) have answered this question for us. And those who are pro-100 articles/day - are you successful, are you full time online, are you banking hard cash in AM/IM, or are you just chasing ideas?

    All due respect,
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  • Profile picture of the author JT0713
    where can I find good quality, well-researched and written content articles??
    warriors...any recommendation??
    I have to say, coz English is my second language...find it quite difficult to write 3 articles a day.
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  • Profile picture of the author prime777
    I was having so much fun reading the responses to the original post that at the end I am bursting into tears literally with laughter and thinking as much as I love online marketing, before I spend all this time trying to write articles that may in some cases be rejected by the ezines.

    Why don't I just go straight ahead and write a good book get Oprah or CNN to endorse it and become rich overnight.

    This was my morning inspiration for sure I am in tears but only because I am laughing so much.
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  • Profile picture of the author Baldpilot
    The title sure caught my attention! I too, think I will have to pass on 100 articles/day.
    Your idea of maintaining focus is great, but writing that many articles in 1 day, let alone 7 is a little far fetched.

    ...Back to looking for the next "secret". ;p
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  • Profile picture of the author Kelly Verge
    There are two farmers - Bob and Dave.

    Dave's story:
    Dave has an idea. He wants to cut 20,000 2x4 boards in seven days. He's thought things through and has figured out how he can cut every single board at a random length. He's got the process streamlined and he's ready to begin. Dave calls the lumberyard and has the wood delivered.

    He works with a fury. He alternates between cutting the lumber into pieces then pushing the cut piles into his field with his Bobcat. Twice per day he has to move piles of sawdust as well.

    At the end of the seven days, his wood is all cut into pieces.

    He then decides that he'll take the cut wood, sort it by size, and build a barn. Of course, there will be a lot of unused pieces. After a few weeks his barn is done.

    Bob's story:
    Bob wants to build a barn.

    Bob draws out some plans. He breaks out his calculator and figures out exactly how much lumber he will need. He plans his cuts so that he'll use as little lumber as possible and be as efficient as possible with his time.

    The lumber is delivered, he starts working, and a few weeks later he has a finished barn.

    Who was the most successful? Was it Bob or Dave?

    It really all depends on their goals.
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  • Profile picture of the author YseUp
    So does anyone want to pool together some money in order to pay Acrasial to write 100 articles in 24 hours?

    If 25 of us pledge $20 each that would give her $5 per article. Would you write 100 articles for us in 24 hours for $500 Acrasial?
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    • Profile picture of the author acrasial
      Originally Posted by YseUp View Post

      So does anyone want to pool together some money in order to pay Acrasial to write 100 articles in 24 hours?

      If 25 of us pledge $20 each that would give her $5 per article. Would you write 100 articles for us in 24 hours for $500 Acrasial?

      I had already written for warriors on here, and didn't like it. Too many weird demands, and other demands that aren't demanding enough. On top of that, most wanted recurring articles written, and that's not going to happen.

      Why should I write for others. If you need articles, I am sure you know where to go look for it, and since a few people here are asking where to find quality articles/content etc... here is the link once again, for those who cannot go look....

      Warriors For Hire

      For the same price, you can hire someone who will be happy to meet your demands, and who will be happy to write about the topics you wish. Heck you can even find cheaper prices there.

      I would pass on that one, I would write for myself instead.
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      • Profile picture of the author YseUp
        Originally Posted by acrasial View Post

        For the same price, you can hire someone who will be happy to meet your demands, and who will be happy to write about the topics you wish. Heck you can even find cheaper prices there.
        But Acrasial, I need 100 articles within 24 hours and you're the only one who can do it!
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      • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
        Originally Posted by acrasial View Post

        I had already written for warriors on here, and didn't like it. Too many weird demands, and other demands that aren't demanding enough. On top of that, most wanted recurring articles written, and that's not going to happen.

        Why should I write for others. If you need articles, I am sure you know where to go look for it, and since a few people here are asking where to find quality articles/content etc... here is the link once again, for those who cannot go look....

        Warriors For Hire

        For the same price, you can hire someone who will be happy to meet your demands, and who will be happy to write about the topics you wish. Heck you can even find cheaper prices there.

        I would pass on that one, I would write for myself instead.
        It's interesting you should say that. I'm pretty sure I saw a thread from yourself just a week or two ago asking how you could get some freelance writing work. It surprised me at the time considering how many articles you claimed to be churning out - surely anyone who was successful with article marketing wouldn't in a million years consider going back to freelance work? Maybe submitting article after article isn't so profitable after all?

        I think one of the reasons you need to submit so many articles is you niches - for example the 'ex back' niche is probably one of the most competitive niches on Ezinearticles, and your articles will disappear VERY quickly. But do you really want to be churning out a huge number of articles daily for the rest of your life? That's no business model, and to be honest I'd go back to an offline job before I'd write and submit 100 articles a day. Why not work at optimizing a smaller number of articles, get them ranked on page 1 of Google, and then carry on doing other things to build your business for the long term? There are a whole lot more important things to life than writing 700 articles a week.

        You're obviously a hard worker and very motivated - which is a great thing, but in the area of article marketing you can definitely do better working smart (rather than working hard for very little return.)
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    Acrasial,

    It is obvious that you just don't get it (although you are probably going to say that you do) - and you are going to fight this to the end. I really, really want you to succeed, but I feel that this will be a HUGE waste of time for you. You could take those hours and do so much better using a different, far less stressful method.

    But if you're doing it - more power to ya.

    So, its been a while since you said you were going to accept this challenge. How many articles have you written so far and how many hours have you spent?

    I want to know everything - views, click through rates, conversions, hours of sleep, LOL. What is the account name you are submitting them under? I want to subscribe to the RSS feed and watch you do it.

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  • Profile picture of the author BigRedNotebook
    I could write 700 articles in a week.

    If you want to challenge someone to prove it's possible, I'm your guy.

    Here's what I'd need:

    A month's warning so I could clear a week from my schedule.
    Several cartons of cigarettes and a quiet hotel room in an undisclosed location--with room service.
    A sufficient supply of OTC stimulants.
    Enough money to justify wrecking the rest of my life for a week.
    Enough money to cover the time I'd take off following the project to recuperate.
    Enough money to cover the money I'm losing by not tending to the rest of my business.

    Articles would be 400+ words and I'd guarantee 90%+ approval at EzineArticles IF they weren't all dumped into the system at one time by one person.

    So, if you all want to see someone do this, just gather up the cash. Someone drop me a line when you've put about $50,000 together.

    Look, it's not an accident that you don't see people writing 100 articles per day. It has nothing to do with an unwillingness to "think outside the box" or a refusal to take on a challenge.

    People don't write 100 articles day after day because it's F**KING STUPID.

    In the past, I've made a good living writing articles for others. I was able to out-earn nearly all of my clients because I'm good and I'm rocket fast. I've never written 100 articles in a day, but I've had emergency situations where I did more than 50 per day for a few days in a row. Anyone who's been there will tell you the same thing: It sucks so hard that it just isn't worth the money. Period.

    I'll put my speed/quality combination up against anybody. I've also had more than one person tell me that I'm crazy in terms of the amount of work I do. So, when I'm joining the chorus of people who say this 700/week thing is nothing short of dumbassery, you can rest assured that it is.

    Look through this thread. Run the numbers. Realize that the optimistic assessments don't allow you any time to run to the bathroom, take a shower or eat a sandwich. Note that they don't include an occasional five minute break to stretch or walk around. Recognize that in order for you to avoid getting A TON of low-grade crap, you'll need to match the perfect topic areas with the ideal writer for those topics.

    Impossible? No.

    Stupid? Certainly.

    And trying to justify the utter insanity of the OP's recommendation by talking about how it's just the kind of aspirational thinking that can open new doors is a too-kind rationalization of sheer silliness. The idea is bunk. It's no more inspiring than someone telling you to hold your breath until you pass out.
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  • Profile picture of the author JAIDEEP2959
    Writing 100 articles daily is very difficult for newbies.

    Professional writers can do it.

    If you can submit 700 articles weekly, you can start your own article directory. It will be a profitable for you.

    However, I believe that Ezinearticles.com has become extremely competitive due to large numbers of articles and it is not easy to make money from articles as it used to be 2 years ago.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jason_V
    For all of those who are laughing about the idea of 700 articles in 7 days. Here's a guy who quite frequently writes a huge amount of articles per day. Here's one day where he wrote over 100. He even included the screen shot of his Word docs to prove it:

    Day 158 - Wrote 101 Articles Today | Mike Iser .com - Mikeman's Journey To A Full-Time Income Online!

    You have to go to his older posts to see him writing a lot of articles himself. Since he started making a lot of money he now outsources a lot too. If you doubt the power of what the OP is talking about you need to read this blog.
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    • Profile picture of the author Scott Ames
      Originally Posted by Jason_V View Post

      For all of those who are laughing about the idea of 700 articles in 7 days. Here's a guy who quite frequently writes a huge amount of articles per day. Here's one day where he wrote over 100. He even included the screen shot of his Word docs to prove it:

      Day 158 - Wrote 101 Articles Today | Mike Iser .com - Mikeman's Journey To A Full-Time Income Online!

      You have to go to his older posts to see him writing a lot of articles himself. Since he started making a lot of money he now outsources a lot too. If you doubt the power of what the OP is talking about you need to read this blog.
      Dang... is this another 4 minute mile type thing?
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    • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
      Originally Posted by Jason_V View Post

      For all of those who are laughing about the idea of 700 articles in 7 days. Here's a guy who quite frequently writes a huge amount of articles per day. Here's one day where he wrote over 100. He even included the screen shot of his Word docs to prove it:

      Day 158 - Wrote 101 Articles Today | Mike Iser .com - Mikeman's Journey To A Full-Time Income Online!

      You have to go to his older posts to see him writing a lot of articles himself. Since he started making a lot of money he now outsources a lot too. If you doubt the power of what the OP is talking about you need to read this blog.
      I'm not denying the possibility of writing 100 articles in a day - I haven't done it, but I'm a fast typist so I'm pretty sure I could. What I can't understand though is the point of writing 100 articles in that short a time? 700 articles in 7 days will bring you great traffic for the 7 days, but what then? All your articles will have disappeared into the article directory, maybe a few will stick in the search engines (although it's fairly unlikely) and you're faced with having to repeat the process over and over again.

      If you look at that guys earnings he seems to be making less than $100 a day? That's crazy low for that amount of work. The real power in article marketing is in writing great articles, optimizing them properly for the search engines, or maybe building a list - not in churning out hundreds of articles that will only ever be seen 50-100 times (if you're lucky).
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      • Profile picture of the author Jason_V
        Originally Posted by Hamida Harland View Post

        I'm not denying the possibility of writing 100 articles in a day - I haven't done it, but I'm a fast typist so I'm pretty sure I could. What I can't understand though is the point of writing 100 articles in that short a time? If you look at that guys earnings he seems to be making less than $100 a day? That's crazy low for that amount of work. The real power in article marketing is in optimizing them properly for the search engines, or maybe building a list - not in churning out hundreds of articles that will only ever be seen 50-100 times (if you're lucky).
        Before you make statements you really ought to check facts. He's had quite a few over $100 days. If you bothered to read his blog, you'd see that the reason his income is down is because one of the Clickbank products he was promoting changed their landing page.

        They claimed the tests proved it was converting just as well. However, he knows they're full of crap because his earnings dropped significantly.

        By the way, his early attempts were strictly 1 page Google Sniper sites. Now he's building multiple page Adsense sites.

        Again, if you bother to read you'll see that he's only been doing the Adsense sites for a short while. His income is picking up. He's having trouble getting his interior pages ranked. That's just because these are all relatively new sites.

        He's using UAW to build links to his interior Adsense site pages. He's making sure they disperse slowly so as not to screw up the rankings he does have for the main pages. Once these articles go out and those links stick, there will be no stopping him.

        He has SENuke and tried that, but didn't stick with it. If he would have made link wheels to his interior pages he would have probably done much better too.

        He also submits articles to ezine articles with links to his interior pages. They're just now going live. If you look at 10/11 and 10/13 you'll see he submitted 66 articles to ezine. That's 132 articles submitted within a 2 day period. All of them have back links to his interior pages. I'm waiting with anxiousness to see what happens when those batches go live.

        Many days between his Clickbank and Adsense he makes over $100. Once his interior pages of his adsense sites start getting indexed I have no doubt his adsense earnings will be over $100 per day alone.
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        • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
          Originally Posted by Jason_V View Post

          Before you make statements you really ought to check facts. He's had quite a few over $100 days. If you bothered to read his blog, you'd see that the reason his income is down is because one of the Clickbank products he was promoting changed their landing page.
          Before you make assumptions about me maybe YOU should check facts. How do you know I didn't read his blog? I've actually been following Mike Isers blog for a while on and off, and right now he's earning approximately $30 a day from about 30 sites (it doesn't matter what he's earned in the past).

          Seriously, do you really believe it's worth writing 100 articles a day to even make $100 a day? I certainly don't.

          Mike is certainly to be congratulated for taking action, and I have no doubt with his dedication that eventually he will be making a very decent online income. I'm not in any way putting down his efforts, and you shouldn't have taken my post so personally.
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          • Profile picture of the author Jason_V
            Originally Posted by Hamida Harland View Post

            Before you make assumptions about me maybe YOU should check facts. How do you know I didn't read his blog? I've actually been following Mike Isers blog for a while on and off, and right now he's earning approximately $30 a day from about 30 sites (it doesn't matter what he's earned in the past).

            Seriously, do you really believe it's worth writing 100 articles a day to even make $100 a day? I certainly don't.

            Mike is certainly to be congratulated for taking action, and I have no doubt with his dedication that eventually he will be making a very decent online income. I'm not in any way putting down his efforts, and you shouldn't have taken my post so personally.
            I didn't take it personally. You claimed he's not even making $100 per day. Yet, he has many times.

            That's the thing with article marketing. It takes a while for things to get going. What I was trying to say is that it's true his 30 adsense sites are only earning him about $30 per day. However, his articles he submitted to ezine and UAW haven't been published yet. Once those articles that he keeps mass submitting to ezine go live, his income will probably increase monthly.

            Ask any article marketer. They'll tell you that the third month is usually more profitable than the first month.

            @CDarklock

            I meant to mention he only writes 250 word articles. I know the OP suggested 500 word articles, and I meant to address that. Thanks.
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          • Profile picture of the author pheonix44
            I believe it's possible only if you trick your mind into doing it so that the quality did not suffer. If I were to try this I would do it this way. I would write them all in a similar niche but I would not focus on writing 100 articles a day.

            I would focus on writing a full fledged book. I would make an outline and make it entertaining. I found when I do this I could easily write all day because if I write like I'm telling a story or like I'm talking to a group of people writing becomes fun. I've spent enough time talking to myself where it could have been 20 articles dictated. Hell this thread I could write 100 350 articles on.

            Once I wrote the book I would break it down into segments of 300-350 words. I wouldn't even think about the 100 article a day goal. Plus you'd be programming your mind to not have to start a new article but instead stay in a flow state with what you were writing. Before you knew it you'd have alot of work done. But you would have to use the 6 Ps, prior proper planning prevents poor performance
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    • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
      Originally Posted by Jason_V View Post

      Here's one day where he wrote over 100. He even included the screen shot of his Word docs to prove it:
      "I try to keep these just over 250 words"

      Day 153 - ASniper#26 + 24 Articles + Speed Writing Tips | Mike Iser .com - Mikeman's Journey To A Full-Time Income Online!

      The OP is recommending twice that length. Mike's output (impressive as it is) comes in at about half the size we're saying can't be done, and it's done over a 14 hour period. Do the math on trying to accomplish this twice in a day.
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      • Profile picture of the author TristanPerry
        Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

        "I try to keep these just over 250 words"

        Day 153 - ASniper#26 + 24 Articles + Speed Writing Tips | Mike Iser .com - Mikeman's Journey To A Full-Time Income Online!

        The OP is recommending twice that length. Mike's output (impressive as it is) comes in at about half the size we're saying can't be done, and it's done over a 14 hour period. Do the math on trying to accomplish this twice in a day.
        Yes, however the OP was wrong, IMO, in saying it should be 500 words per article.

        That will result in less click-throughs, not more.

        250-280 word articles would be best for an optimal CTR (cēterīs paribus) - and as we know, this *is* possible.

        I did some basic maths earlier and estimated that you could do 100 ~250 word articles in 14 hours. That blog post shows that my maths is true in practise too.

        Don't get me wrong, I also said I'd never dream of trying to write 700 articles in 7 days. I wouldn't have the patience.

        But it *is* possible. At least, 100 articles in one day is.

        The debate, IMO, should be about whether you can use your 14/16 hours doing something more productive.
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        • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
          Originally Posted by TristanPerry View Post

          The debate, IMO, should be about whether you can use your 14/16 hours doing something more productive.
          That's pretty much where I was coming from on the question of the Pareto principle. If 20% of your work produces 80% of the results, then it's a smart use of your time to identify that 20% - then concentrate on doing more of that, and less of the rest.

          I think it really comes down to the two "extreme" cases of article marketing. The high-quality extreme is to write a fantastically popular book on the subject. The high-volume extreme is to get as many articles out there as possible. Both of these can generate a good living, but they come with a tradeoff: high-quality is beyond a lot of people's ability (there are only so many fantastically popular books), and high-volume doesn't tend to create lasting effects - you have to keep doing it forever.

          The key isn't to figure out which of those two things is better, but to figure out where you fit between them... both in terms of results, and in terms of ability... and concentrate on building something that strikes the best balance.
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          • Profile picture of the author TristanPerry
            Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

            That's pretty much where I was coming from on the question of the Pareto principle. If 20% of your work produces 80% of the results, then it's a smart use of your time to identify that 20% - then concentrate on doing more of that, and less of the rest.

            I think it really comes down to the two "extreme" cases of article marketing. The high-quality extreme is to write a fantastically popular book on the subject. The high-volume extreme is to get as many articles out there as possible. Both of these can generate a good living, but they come with a tradeoff: high-quality is beyond a lot of people's ability (there are only so many fantastically popular books), and high-volume doesn't tend to create lasting effects - you have to keep doing it forever.

            The key isn't to figure out which of those two things is better, but to figure out where you fit between them... both in terms of results, and in terms of ability... and concentrate on building something that strikes the best balance.
            Yes, I completely agree with you on all of that I do agree that you need to find the trade-off and balance it correctly. I certainly don't feel that 100 articles per day is the most efficient use of time. (But as before, I was just pointing out generally that it's possible)
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    I could go flip burgers for 8 hours and double that amount of cash...and I wouldn't have to worry about filing the damn taxes on it. LOL

    You go ahead and run that 4 minute mile, I'll take a cab.

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    • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
      Originally Posted by Allen Graves View Post

      I could go flip burgers for 8 hours and double that amount of cash...and I wouldn't have to worry about filing the damn taxes on it. LOL

      You go ahead and run that 4 minute mile, I'll take a cab.

      Allen
      At least SOMEBODY has some sense. Unfortunately I think too few people in this thread have experienced the real power of article marketing.
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  • Profile picture of the author waken
    Hehe .. it's funny to see people still debating on this. I had just written 2 articles - one with 500+ words, another about 380+ words...

    How many articles have you guys written today? Come on .. stop challenging the idea but yourself. See how far can you go. You're the one who will benefited in the end.

    Ciao! Writing my 3rd articles ..
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    • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
      Originally Posted by waken View Post

      How many articles have you guys written today?
      Twelve.
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      • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
        Originally Posted by Jason_V View Post

        You claimed he's not even making $100 per day. Yet, he has many times.
        I said 'he seems to be making less than $100 a day', based on this quote from the man himself:

        right now I seem to be hovering at around $30/day with 30 odd sites.
        What one is earning right now is surely what counts? From that quote it looks to me like he isn't earning $100 a day, and he said himself that he will need to build his VRE up to about 100 sites to do this.

        I've had $2000 days, but I would say that I earn less than $2000 a day (because I don't earn that much daily - yet).


        Originally Posted by Jason_V View Post

        That's the thing with article marketing. It takes a while for things to get going. What I was trying to say is that it's true his 30 adsense sites are only earning him about $30 per day. However, his articles he submitted to ezine and UAW haven't been published yet. Once those articles that he keeps mass submitting to ezine go live, his income will probably increase monthly.

        Ask any article marketer. They'll tell you that the third month is usually more profitable than the first month.
        I'm actually well aware of how article marketing works (I make a 5 figure monthly income from it), but what I'm considering is the initial traffic and I'm wondering why conversions and Adsense clicks are so low (he does seem to have quite a few articles live already). Of course income will build as the articles are ranked in the search engines, but most articles will get at least 100-500 views the day they're submitted.

        Anyway, arguing the finer points isn't going to make any of us any money - I'm off to write some articles
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Williams
    I have a challenge for Warrior Forum addictee's (myself included):

    Write a keyword rich and helpful article (and submit it) between every post you make here.
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    I needed a dose of good sarcasm today. Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanman
    Alright guys...Let's stop here a bit.

    acrasial got in touch with me yesterday via gmail...And challenged me that she can do this within 24 hours. It started at 8 pm canada time...The challenge was that I would pay her $3 per article if she manages to do a 100 in 24 hrs.

    It's almost the same time now and so far she has submitted 91 articles. Most of these articles are 400-600 words and I must say I am highly impressed with the quality.

    I have already paid her $105 for the first 35 articles which my team of editors has approved. And will pay her for the rest as well since the quality and content is great.


    So the lesson here would be...Not to underestimate someone's potential. Now she might not have done 100 but...91 is close enough.

    While most of us sat here convincing ourselves and everyone else that it can't be done...Here is this young lady proving everyone else wrong. Hats off to her.

    Here is the paypal screenshot of the payment for first 35 articles-

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    • Profile picture of the author Liam Hamer
      Originally Posted by ryanman View Post

      Alright guys...Let's stop here a bit.

      acrasial got in touch with me yesterday via gmail...And challenged me that she can do this within 24 hours. It started at 8 pm canada time...The challenge was that I would pay her $3 per article if she manages to do a 100 in 24 hrs.

      It's almost the same time now and so far she has submitted 91 articles. Most of these articles are 400-600 words and I must say I am highly impressed with the quality.

      I have already paid her $105 for the first 35 articles which my team of editors has approved. And will pay her for the rest as well since the quality and content is great.


      So the lesson here would be...Not to underestimate someone's potential. Now she might not have done 100 but...91 is close enough.

      While most of us sat here convincing ourselves and everyone else that it can't be done...Here is this young lady proving everyone else wrong. Hats off to her.
      Wow, very well done acrasial I never doubted you Whilst writing this amount of articles is not everyone's thing, you demonstrated what can be achieved when you put your mind to something. Again, very well done
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    • Profile picture of the author TristanPerry
      Originally Posted by ryanman View Post

      Alright guys...Let's stop here a bit.

      acrasial got in touch with me yesterday via gmail...And challenged me that she can do this within 24 hours. It started at 8 pm canada time...The challenge was that I would pay her $3 per article if she manages to do a 100 in 24 hrs.

      It's almost the same time now and so far she has submitted 91 articles. Most of these articles are 400-600 words and I must say I am highly impressed with the quality.

      I have already paid her $105 for the first 35 articles which my team of editors has approved. And will pay her for the rest as well since the quality and content is great.


      So the lesson here would be...Not to underestimate someone's potential. Now she might not have done 100 but...91 is close enough.

      While most of us sat here convincing ourselves and everyone else that it can't be done...Here is this young lady proving everyone else wrong. Hats off to her.

      Here is the paypal screenshot of the payment for first 35 articles-
      Thanks for the update, that's great stuff

      Fair play to acrasial; everyone was against her from the off and she still got it done.

      As a few of us were saying, it definitely *is* possible. The debate is only about whether it's worthwhile.

      In some ways it's a great advert for our societies and economies today that we see 100 articles in a day as "too much" and may cause health risks (when, going back 30 years ago, primary labour was massive and loads of British citizens were working as miners underground in awful, awful situations for a tiny amount of cash)

      I'm not saying we should all 'punish' ourselves by writing 100 articles in a day, I just find it odd how people kept saying it's impossible when it definitely is in-fact possible

      (Not that I'd like to do that many in a day)

      I'm currently reading a 'starting' business book by Duncan Bannatyne, a businessman in the UK. He reguarly worked 14/16+ hour days and ended up growing his wealth from £0 to around £310m in around a decade. Again, I'm not saying that by writing 100 articles per day we'll all become rich, I'm just saying that putting the effort in and going against popular opinion can sometimes be the best way to win big.

      And congratulations to acrasial who kept arguing her point and has not lived up to her words. I wonder whether those who said it was impossible and that acrasial was silly will post back here?

      "When everyone's going in the same direction, it's often the road that leads the other way which is paved by gold."
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Williams
    I don't expect to see her posting on this thread for a while, her hands probably hurt

    Good job anyways
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    • Profile picture of the author Liam Hamer
      Originally Posted by spire8989 View Post

      I don't expect to see her posting on this thread for a while, her hands probably hurt

      Good job anyways
      If I was her, I'd only need to type one line before I rested my hands:

      "I told you so"

      :p
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  • Profile picture of the author Jay Jennings
    The question was never 100 articles in a day -- the question was 700 articles in 7 days. There's a WORLD of difference between those two.

    100 articles in a day is impressive, sure. But that's not what we were talking about.

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    • Profile picture of the author ryanman
      Originally Posted by Jay Jennings View Post

      The question was never 100 articles in a day -- the question was 700 articles in 7 days. There's a WORLD of difference between those two.

      100 articles in a day is impressive, sure. But that's not what we were talking about.

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    What are you smoking...You have to be joking...
    I fine this post silly...
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    • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
      Originally Posted by Jay Jennings View Post

      The question was never 100 articles in a day -- the question was 700 articles in 7 days. There's a WORLD of difference between those two.

      100 articles in a day is impressive, sure. But that's not what we were talking about.

      Jay Jennings
      Maybe she is just getting warmed up. This requires training.

      I too had a conversation with her. I did not doubt it could be done, but I likened it to a hot dog eating contest.

      These guys train for this! Is it possible to eat a gazillion hotdogs in x amount of time? Sure it is! Is it good for you - or better question would it be good for you long term?

      A week is probably doable. But like I said this is something you'd want to train for and if you have not been doing it for a while already you'd want to research the heck out of some topics first to have a leg up.
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  • Profile picture of the author sahi
    Some of the people spend too much energy here to prove that one cannot do something or it's impossible to do something. I see this this sort of trend widespread in here especially in threads where article marketing is discussed.
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  • Profile picture of the author YseUp
    Well that's all the evidence I need (/sarcasm)... you paid someone money.... ppfffttt.
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    • Profile picture of the author TristanPerry
      Originally Posted by YseUp View Post

      Well that's all the evidence I need (/sarcasm)... you paid someone money.... ppfffttt.
      You said:

      Originally Posted by YseUp View Post

      I have a solution.

      We can set a challenge.

      How about we each contribute a little bit of money $ 1 -5 and ask Dr Pro or Acrasial to write us 100 articles in one day. They can't start writing until they receive the topic which will be kept secret until the start of the challenge.

      What do you think?
      Originally Posted by YseUp View Post

      So does anyone want to pool together some money in order to pay Acrasial to write 100 articles in 24 hours?

      If 25 of us pledge $20 each that would give her $5 per article. Would you write 100 articles for us in 24 hours for $500 Acrasial?

      Originally Posted by YseUp View Post

      But Acrasial, I need 100 articles within 24 hours and you're the only one who can do it!

      Sounds like you were trying to be ackward and now you can't admit that Acrasial was right and that you were wrong (to be sarcastic, that is)

      Plus you pledged $500. Acrasial did it for almost half that.
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      • Profile picture of the author Kevin Williams
        Originally Posted by TristanPerry View Post

        You said:









        Sounds like you were trying to be ackward and now you can't admit that Acrasial was right and that you were wrong (to be sarcastic, that is)

        Plus you pledged $500. Acrasial did it for almost half that.
        To be completely fair - she did only make it to 91...
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        • Profile picture of the author TristanPerry
          Originally Posted by spire8989 View Post

          To be completely fair - she did only make it to 91...
          Lmao, a fair point
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          Originally Posted by spire8989 View Post

          To be completely fair - she did only make it to 91...

          At least she tried, and not just sat here on forum.
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  • Profile picture of the author crystalq
    LMAO this thread is so funny! I was laughing for like 10Minutes!

    @ acrasial

    You are so right! (referring to first page posts) and you have a
    much more positive attitude than most here, your posts made my day.
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  • Profile picture of the author ninja newbie
    well, this has to be one of the funniest threads I've ever seen on any forum,and some of the replies are hilarious, thanks guys
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  • Profile picture of the author Jay Jennings
    Fair play to acrasial; everyone was against her from the off and she still got it done.
    I don't see 700 articles in 7 days.

    People in this thread seem to have very selective memories.

    Write 100 articles a day for 7 days without repeating yourself and keeping the quality up and then you'll have "proven" you can do it.

    To bring back my Mt. Everest analogy...

    Person A: "I can climb Mt. Everest in 7 days!"

    (24 hours later)

    Person A: "I'm on the top of Pike's Peak!"

    The Masses: "Oh, we knew you could do it! Those negative ninnies can just suck it! You rock!"

    Bah.

    Jay Jennings

    PS - Like I said before, writing 100 articles (or even 91) in a day is some feat (very few people could/would do it) -- it's just not what was talked about, so don't pretend it was.
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    • Profile picture of the author Spencer Jones
      Originally Posted by Jay Jennings View Post

      I don't see 700 articles in 7 days.

      People in this thread seem to have very selective memories.

      Write 100 articles a day for 7 days without repeating yourself and keeping the quality up and then you'll have "proven" you can do it.

      To bring back my Mt. Everest analogy...

      Person A: "I can climb Mt. Everest in 7 days!"

      (24 hours later)

      Person A: "I'm on the top of Pike's Peak!"

      The Masses: "Oh, we knew you could do it! Those negative ninnies can just suck it! You rock!"

      Bah.

      Jay Jennings

      PS - Like I said before, writing 100 articles (or even 91) in a day is some feat (very few people could/would do it) -- it's just not what was talked about, so don't pretend it was.
      Jay, If acrasial can do it in one day, then why can't she reapeat it for the next six days? Sounds like you are pushing her to enter the guinness book of world records... LOL...

      I believe she has enough positivity to get the work done, unless the 99.9% negativity in this thread corrupts the positivity...

      Well done acrasial... Warriors give acrasial a standing ovation...
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    Am I the only one that saw what happened here?

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  • Profile picture of the author Jay Jennings
    Well, I saw a couple posts vanish, if that's what you mean.

    Jay Jennings
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    • Profile picture of the author Liam Hamer
      I haven't noticed anything, and have been keeping an eye on the thread :confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author priyankeshu
    well i would like to thank you for encouraging words.. It might not be possible to write that much in 7 days but may be 10 days.. and it really is all about how you plan to write the content and how your ogranize the information..

    I have written around 40 articles in 6 hours.. so 100 would not be that difficult.. yes guys before you start shouting at me.. it really is all about changing the way you work.. be creative and the results could be better...

    I was thinking of creating individual sites but now i think i will give article marketing a shot...

    thanks for the tip again
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    No, I'm not talking about missing posts. I just think it smells in here.

    Im out...
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    • Profile picture of the author BigRedNotebook
      I'm with Allen. This thread needs a can of Lysol.
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  • Profile picture of the author M Thompson
    This is certainly one of the most amusing threads i've read for a long time.

    acrasial, well done on the 91 that is quite an accomplishment, but you really be able to repeat it and keep up the quality for a further 6 days?

    700 articles seems like taking a shotgun approach, personally I prefer a more sniper like approach. Pick a target and write some good quality content that gets results.

    I suppose if you really want the 700 articles to be useful they should all be on different niches and keywords so that you can get results you can analyse.
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  • Profile picture of the author preethi daniel
    Hi,
    This is preethi. I am a newbie. I have been writing articles to lot of my clients who are making money through article marketing. I wish I could do that too. I just know that hey submit articles to websits like ezine but I really do not know, How we get paid or how much we have to invest to get started. Please can you help me from scratch. I am a good writer but I am suffering from financial crisis. Thought this money could help me. Can you help me plz.
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