Wow.. Took me 30 minutes to make an Article! How long do you spend writing 1 article?

There's an article I started working on back in April.

Hopefully, one of these days I will finish it.

Same here Bill. I don't focus on writing article FAST. I don't do hit-and-run type of articles anymore.

In fact, I spend as much time as I could, to write something out, based on other people's questions asked, and I write what I thought, quality reports with 3k-4k words.

It's not even an article anymore. It usually came out as a report that I can break it down to multiple series, and sell it as a front-end lead generation small report.

Time spend on a good "article report" for me is usually around 3-5 hours.

My last few "article reports" has made me a lot of future JV partners and networking partners. That's even better than monetary form of result, in the long run.

So yes, Bill, I agree with what you've mentioned, quality comes first, quantity comes second, at least, that's my case.

Aiden Chong

If I am writing an article for backlinks, then I can whip one out in 5 minutes.

But I think Bill might be rubbing off on me because that last few I have written have taken an hour to 2 hours. Like Alexa, I write a bit, then go off and do something else, then come back and write or edit some more. That seems to be the most effective for me. I think both of them ended up being over 1000 words, but I wasn't focusing on word count, just on a good article and that's just how many words it took.

Of course, these have been much higher quality and to tell you the truth they are a lot more fun to write.

Sure, I still like to have "quickie" articles for backlinks, but now I outsource those and reserve my "writing time" for the higher quality stuff.

Still, I can't say that one has made me $1200, so maybe I better stop slacking off with those fast 2 hour articles and ramp up to the 4 hour ones

Lee

Amen!

Content is king, and something that represent YOU!

Speed writing can't deliver good results, therefore investigate your articles, give personal opinion and connect with your readers! If you give them value, they will follow you. Become a market leader

I bought Jason Fladlien's 7 Minute Articles some time back. It's excellent.

I don't know which was better, getting my article writing time down a bit (never got it to 7 minutes) or the bonus Turn 1 article into 8.

You can check it out here. No affiliate link.

How to Write an Article in 7 Minutes

Hope this helps.

Joe Mobley

It all depends..

If I am writing about a topic that I am knowledgeable about then i can get a 400 words article done in about 10-15 minutes as I would be writing from my head.

However, if it's a topic that I am fairly new to, I would have to do some research to get familiar before start writing and that can take anywhere from a few minutes to possibly hours!

It's all about what you need that article to do, and what it takes for you to get it there.

If an article returns a couple hundred dollars or so and it takes 2 hours to write it...you are earning a hundred an hour for your efforts.

It's more important that the article will do the work for you than to obsess how long it took you to get there (within reason, of course.) Once the article is placed on a site, it will continue to earn for as long as it is relevant in search. This, of course, assumes you know how to SEO.

Articles I write for my own affiliate marketing typically take me between 3 and 4 hours each, maybe even a little more. It's difficult to measure accurately because I almost never do them "all in one session" but keep returning, in-between various other activities (including posting here!), for further "edits".

It's worth spending the time on, for me, because I need them to filter out all the people who aren't going to be customers, and reduce the resource-box clickers to "high probability prospects".

And it's worth taking the care, because each article can be so widely syndicated elsewhere in front of targeted audiences who already are high probability prospects.

For me, it's not a numbers game at all - it's a quality game: quality effectively breeds and multiplies, generating real increasing residual income, while quantity can only decline.

I thought I heard from more than a few people that the ideal length is a few hundred words... generally speaking. Does it depend on the niche you're in?

I love using them too, for something that I don't have any idea on how and what to write about!

I have been using them for around one year, I like how their system works too...

I don't use them as often nowadays, but yea, they are good!

Aiden

not bad at all, take your time. Research the topic, and try to make something that will appeal to them. Obviously that's what you were doing with research, but it's good to try and hook them in, that way they continue to look over your site.

30 minutes is pretty good considering you had to do some research. It varies for me. In niches I'm pretty familiar with I can write an article in 20-30 minutes, otherwise just the research can take me 30 minutes or more, then another 30-60 to write the article.
Then there are the days that it takes me 30 minutes just to put a comma in... And the funny thing is, another 30 minutes and I wind up removing it!

I'd rather have quality than speed. It's my reputation out there...

Thanks,
Ted

I guess it would be sacrilege to suggest that sometimes I spend 4-5 hours writing an article even when I actually know the topic much better than most experts.

I am not slowed down because I don't know the topic. I am slowed down because I want to create a persuasive article that will lead people to take from the article what I want them to take, and it will lead people to take the action I want them to take at the conclusion of reading the article.

How many articles have people written in 30 minutes that ended up leading directly to sales in the 4- to 5-figure range?

Not to brag, but I have written quite a few articles that have produced results at this level of performance.

While I may have sat down and cranked out 1000-words in 30 minutes or 1400-words in 45 minutes, I am never done at that point in the process. In fact, the hard work is about to begin.

Now I have to edit the article for length, readability and persuasion.

(I try to get all of my articles down to 1000-1200 words in length, so I need to cut words when editing.)

Often the most difficult part of the process is brainstorming the angle that I will use to create the next article.

Then I spend 30-minutes cranking out draft one.

Then I spend the next 3-hours tweaking and fine-tuning the copy.

It is never the first 30-minutes that make me the most money, but rather the final 3-hours of editing that turns an average article into one that will deliver serious results to me.

I often go through an article one dozen times, tweaking and editing as I go, before I finally conclude the process with an article I am proud enough of to slap my own name on.


p.s. I write under pen names as well. And you can bet that if I am not 100% sold on the final draft of the article, it will be distributed under a pen name. Some times the idea sounded better in my head than it looked on paper, so rather than to throw it all away, I will pen name it and let it go out as it stands.

p.p.s. If you want to start making more money from your article marketing, then stop writing draft one and calling it good enough!!

30 minutes is a good pace.

For me the key is to get the framework laid out first and then fill in the gaps around these key points.

Just diving in results in wooly articles that provide limited benefit to the reader or the writer

To me, writing a high quality article that will endure as a solid source of passive income for a very long time, is akin to building a house. Maybe some of you guys/gals are really just THAT good, but, I've never written a single article in 10-15 minutes....

Then again, I'd say it's worth it because many of my articles have thousands upon thousands of views. Not bragging...just saying

There appear to be alot of 'superhumans' on this forum lol

When we speak about duration of writing an article, I think it helps to quantify what exactly we mean by "article". Are we talking about a 100-300 word article? When I think of a high quality article, I think of articles like THIS:

11 Celebrities Who Were Secretly Total Badasses | Cracked.com

(Not my article, just citing an example of how I like to write my articles.)

I challenge anyone to write an article like that in 10 minutes.

I suppose it all depends on what exactly you use the article for, I guess.