How many articles per day to be successful?

I think you should write as many as you possibly can! If you can write 15 then do it! If you can only write 5, well as least you doing something!

Your articles should be about your niche and the product(s) you are promoting and/or problems associated with those products (the product is the solution)...

Good Luck

Oh I can't wait to see the answers to this. I wish you added a poll. What I notice is the people who actually claim they earn money oppose each other views on this topic.

It's not the quantity of articles you write that will make you successful, it's the quality. Focus on writing as many quality articles as you can. If you do that consistently, eventually, you will reap the rewards. But it won't happen overnight.

Remember, one quality article will produce greater long-term results than 100 bad articles.

David Jackson

There is no set number of articles to write. The key is quality and consistency.

Yes, you do want to have many articles working for you. But if you can only create 2-3 quality articles per day, do that every day. The quantity will come with consistency.

Personally, in the interests of high quality, I cannot conceive of writing more than two articles a day. Those two articles are in depth pieces, full of information and are anything between 12,000 and 15,000 words long (very occasionally even longer).

Those articles first go on my blog, then, once they have been indexed by Google, they get submitted to Ezine Articles.

I believe these articles provide much more benefit to me in the long term than had I thown together 5, 10 or maybe 15 much shallower pieces. I honestly believe that quality beats quantity every time!

I don't believe that the quantity matters.
I suggest writing 1 or at most 2. But make them good quality.

You can make A LOT of money by doing 1 every 2 or 3 days. Articles over 1000 words are often way more interesting for your reader than 400 words. You can target a bigger keyword and build backlinks. You will make money in the long run.

You can also write 10 bad articles every day, don't give a **** and still make money. Or you can go for the middle

Write as many as you can

Why not write posts on your blog or website ? Articles take too long to complete ...

If you are doing this constantly (every day) then even 3 articles are enough and you should see very good success within 30 days. Good luck.

here you go....

write only 5 very high value unique content around your niche. yes only 5 a day.
and post them in this order:
1 -your blog
2- ezine articles
3 -squidoo
4- go articles
5 -hubpages

and your good to go

clean, rinse and repeat

I agree with most everyone here... it is article quality that counts, not quanitity.

And here is another thing I do with every article. I also turn them into a video, as well as a pdf for the doc sharing sites.

The better the quality, the more click thrus; and 2 articels per day is 60 every month out there working for you. not to mention the backlinks...

Just do as many as you can.

I have a question about backlinks. If you make hundreds of backlinks from several sources to your own site from one IP address will you get penalized?????

'How many articles per day to be successful?' - that's like saying 'how long till I'm rich?' -
Most professionals would have some sort of measurement attached to what 'success' means'.

I.e. #1 in google, on first page, made me more than it cost me, if I'm making more per hour than I do at my day job, etc.

So as people have said the amount of articles needed to 'succeed' (insert your own definition here of what that means) - also takes things like the niche/competition into account... it's how you leverage the articles... whether you spin them, where and how you submit them, whether you then also promote the backlinks, etc etc

I mostly do client sites for local business these days, (as in, keywords have a local modifier) and I am doing generally 1-2 articles a week if the keyword is tough, specially in the beginning, and 1 a month if it's not. This is usually enough to rank within 3 months, if - article is good quality, headline is catchy, spins are good, article is submitted to quality link networks (I use SYA, AMA and sometimes BLS) - as well as flinging up the odd Squidoo or Hub kinda thing. Then the RSS thing... etc etc

repurporse into podcasts by reading them out... repurpose into video by adding pictures to the podcast... and so it goes on. So yeah you can get a lot of mileage out of a couple of articles. But they do need to be spun or rewritten to be able to be successfully leveraged I think.

That said: I don't actually write my articles, I just proof read them and tweak them up a bit if needed. I have two writers, one specialises in business/financial niches and the other in medical niches, which seems to cover most of my clients. I think the going rate for getting articles written is currently around $5-15 each depending on the quality required (I usually get a sentence rewrite done for my ones.)

Also, SYA and AMA and BLS have monthly fees and it does add up. You can do it yourself manually but it will take you 14 times as long as SYA and in terms of the blog networks like AMA and BLS you just won't get access to them unless you pay for the privilege. Anyway good luck

cheers Barb

i tried before submitting 5 article everyday to article directory continuously for 30 days, it drive decent amount of traffic to my website. wish you good luck in your journey.

CY

Hey Myob!

Very useful info, thanks! You mentioned a couple of times in some of your posts that you are able to submit your high quality articles to high profile authority niche blogs, websites. And sometimes you don`t even bother with article directories, even with the top ones.

You say you can reach: "24,000 online and offline outlets"

Could you share some more details on your method? I know you use solo ads in places like DOE, but how on earth do submit your articles to thousands of high quality niche websites?

With a big budget it`s possible to frequently send out solo ads to big list of subscribers in different niches, but the "solo ads" are only email ads or not? It`s not article syndication. And yes you can contact with the niche websites to publish your articles, but with "24,000 online and offline outlets" ?

Nobody's mentioned this but here's one more valuable tip: If you can't write, don't! There's nothing worse than reading something written by somebody that has no idea how to write an article and/or they just aren't any good at it. It would be like someone asking me to draw 3 pictures a day for marketing. I can't draw my way out of a paper bag so I'm not going to pretend I could come up with anything good for IM. There are lots of different ways to market. Play to your strengths or hire it out.

I would suggest if you are new to writing, start by writing 1 article per day. As you get used to it, then increase the dosage. I know 1 article per day is very minimal. I'm taking into account that you have other commitments. If not, you can try 3 articles per day. And just to be sure, write with quality over quantity.

The quantity doesn't matter, the quality does.
So you can write 10 not good articles per day.
Or 1 article that can be the best.

quality matters. visitors then will return again and again and again for quality articles... which means higher ctr and loyalty

Hi there aoket,

Here's the thing.

Why don't you try writing 10 articles a day first, then test the results yourself? Do you have the luxury of time? Why not try writing 2 to 3 1000 words articles that get distributed and syndicated like crazy? For both methods (quantity and quality approaches), there are different methods to make each of them work properly. I for one, have made it successful with quantity route. And I'm happy with it.


Product reviews type of articles convert very well and easily and work. Period. That's what I do and I advocate you do the same.


If I were you, I'd promote as many products as I can. Why? Because not all products are going to convert (yes, are you surprised?). The best way to find out winner and highly converting (I'm talking about the crazy converting product that sells for every 10 or so targetted visitors!).

Ultimately, what you're looking for is the sneak peek at a successful article marketer. You don't want to walk through the unknown all by yourself. I totally, totally, totally, totally understand. Who doesn't feel that way in the beginning?!

Hope my experience helps.


Calfred

Number of articles have little relevance. what is more important is the quality of the article and how best they suit to your product and subject. How you have used keywords also is important. Do as you wish, but do only quality work - do not run after the number game.

The more articles you write , the more traffic you are going to get .

But , one thing that you need to know is that Quality really matters . If you can write 1 high quality article , it can help you get lots of free traffic . For instance , one high quality guest post article could get you 10x traffic that 10 normal articles .

You should most definitely write as many as you can. After all article marketing really is a numbers game. The key is to provide value in your articles. Don't try to sell people. Instead help people. Always write a great title because that is the first thing people see. If the title doesn't grab their attention then they won't click on the link to read the article.

NEVER use spinners to help you write articles and never sacrifice quality for quantity. 5 well written articles that provide a ton of value will out do 100 pieces of junk any day. Yes, you might have more backlinks with 100 articles but if people aren't reading the articles they are useless.

Here are 3 great formats to write your articles in.

Format #1 - Product Reviews - When people are ready to buy they tend to look for reviews on a product.

Format #2 - Lists - People love lists because it makes the article really easy to read. Example, Top 5 fat burning foods would be a great article to write in list format. Of course you would cater it to your specific niche.

Format #3 - How To - How to articles are also great because they show people how to do a specific thing. For example, How To Fix A Flat, How To Find The Perfect Mate, How To Pack On 10 Pounds Of Pure Muscle, etc. People love that type of article.

Go for the 10 articles a day.

I'd go with one quality article a day, even if it takes you an extra hour to complete it...this will pay you dividends in the long run.

People rushing to send off 10 or more articles in a day usually end up putting out poor quality.

Really helpful post for a newbie like me.Sincere appreciation to all of you,including the poster,ha

The more you write - the more you will make, that's the bottom line. Write as many as you can in 2-3 hours per day. That's what I did when I first got started...and that's what got me started on the path the becoming #1 at ezinearticles...

You can do it...

For all the details on what to write...choose an article marketing course - and simply follow the directions :-)

Sean

I would recommend writing as many good quality articles
as you can...If you can do that and stick to it then within
30 to 60 days you can see some real results.

There is no right or wrong answer to this question (except "zero")!

The answer is that it depends on how you are structuring your article marketing plan:

1. Is your plan to use the "bum marketing method" and just write as many articles as you can, linking them all to an affiliate link (or a top level domain that redirects to an affiliate link)?

2. Is your plan to write articles that point to your own website (such as a Wordpress blog)?

3. Is your goal to get the articles themselves to rank on the first page of Google? Or is your to use your articles as back links to your own website?

4. Do you expect the source of your traffic to come from article directories themselves, from the Google search engine, or from article syndication?

I once made a 30-day goal for my self to write 100 Ezinearticles that all pointed to a top level domain that redirected to a Clickbank product. Well, I stopped short at about 60 and did nothing else.... And to this date (a year later), I have never made a single sale from that (because it was a saturated niche).

On the other hand, to this date, I make consistent sales a couple of articles I wrote. (I am able to track each sale back to these specific articles).

Now, I would no longer bank on trying to get articles ranked anymore, but rather writing articles with the intention of serving as back links to my own websites, with the added benefit that that these articles might be syndicated or might be read by other readers.

I have one article that consistently shows up in "the most read articles in this category" in Ezinearticles, and that gives me steady and consistent traffic.


When I first started out with article marketing, I subscribed to the "Bum Marketing Method", in which we are taught to expect to make 1 sale per month per article that we right. But today I now realize that that is absolutely not a reliable way of measuring article conversion / performance.

So, your focus should be on quality, not necessarily on quantity.

(Or maybe a happy medium of both).

If your looking for traffic purely from article marketing then your going to want to write as many as you can per day to really see some returns on your investment.

Though 10/15/10000 a day that people are posting is alright if you know your stuff and can push out that many. If your just starting you probably dont know a good layout for an article, you wont know exactly what you want to put and you may spend half an hour researching the niche/topic you want to discuss before you even start...

From my experience I try to create one article per day, but im more into quality and I see when i look at my article statistics that some articles I zoomed out and onto Ezines are getting maybe a couple of views a week, though if i did all the keyword research and spent some good time doing what you need to do then I found my article getting loads of good targeted traffic CONSISTENTLY.

So theres that message again, its quality not quantity

Start with one GOOD article per day and stay consistent. It is better to write 1 Good article each and every day, than to write 10 articles late Friday night after a long week and your brain is fried... the content will not be good quality! Track your results and then re-evaluate in 2-3 weeks. Good luck!

Thanks a lot for taking the time to answer my questions, you are being really helpful!

I was always wondering how it`s possible to successfully manage dozens of different niches. Obviously you need some great article writers. Let`s say I have some, and I pay very good money, $200-$500 for well researched in depth articles. Let`s say I can easily afford it becouse I have a very good sales funnel, I always build list etc. I syndicate these articles to many high traffic authority websites, I get good amount of targetted traffic, so all in all they brings in much more than the initial cost. I have a good ROI. But I can only do this in niches where I have a fairly big experience. So I can verify the quality of the articles written by my ghost writers. But the question is what about those niches where I have no clue about the topic? How do you verify the quality of your outsourced articles if you are not an expert in the niche?

For instance I`m interested in the "private jet flight booking" niche. And in many others, but I don`t have time to learn, study and research every niche where I wanna participate in, you know what I mean. And if I outsource the article writing than I won`t know what kind of quality to expect, if the info in the article is reliable or not etc. Do you work with experts in your particular niches or you simply have great writers who can create high quality articles on any kind of topic if you provide them with the researched material. I mean you have niche researchers who looks for quality info on the topic AND article writers who actually puts the info together based on the research.

The question shouldn't be how many articles per day......it should be, "what kind of content should I be creating and what channels of distribution should I be using to maximizing my return on investment (investment meaning either your time and/or your money)?

A few years ago I often recommended writing 2 quality articles per day, per product / service and one for each keyword. But as time went on, I began to realize that there are so many moving parts to the umbrella called content marketing, of which article marketing is merely a subset of. Submitting to article directories still works, but it is not as effective as it used to be, hence the distinction made in this forum between article marketing versus article directory marketing versus content marketing.

Think about it this way (this is only an example mind you): if you invest the time to write 2 quality articles in one day, you can also turn those into 1 or 2 short, quality videos. You can then figure out a way to make those articles newsworthy and create an effective press release and submit it to a site like PRWeb.com, et al.

You can use services like PromoteMyArticles.com or SubmitYourArticle.com to help with syndication and article submission. You can use a product like RadioPublicity.com to contact radio station producers (yes, there's a way to do this) so you can talk about an interesting topic that directly ties into your product or service. Look at what Ron Douglas has been able to do going the PR route to promote his recipe book.

As already mentioned you can seek out e-zine authors and webmasters to see if you can set up an arrangement by providing them with quality content and/or setting up JVs or strategic alliances. One example of a strategic alliance that we have is that I'm an expert author in two niches and I write content for other e-zines in those niches as a guest writer. I get to plug my name, my website, and my products while doing so and it gives me tremendous exposure. I even got an offer to come on a UK documentary because of it.

So don't just focus on how many articles you should write per day, since that is only a small part of the equation. Also think about how you're going to distribute your content. In my not-so-humble opinion, you should be promoting no less than 10 quality products, whether they are your own or someone elses or both. In one niche, we promote over 40 products and 6 services, though it took about 6 months worth of research to get to that point (we don't recommend anything we don't personally use, but that is just my preference).

Good luck,

RoD

Paul, big thanks again! Do you know any good book on list building as well? What I do sometimes is, I subscribe to a couple of lists of the big players in my niche just to study the sales funnels. I need to increase my conversion rate but I find this part very difficult. It would be great to read some guru stuff on this topic.

Article marketing really pays off, it's probably the best way to make money online.

I would say 1-2 articles per day will bring you good passive income

I have yet to write a single article or hire anyone to do that.

Main sites are still on page one in Google for the primary keyword.

Take that for what it is worth. It can be done without writing articles or backlinking despite what you hear.

its the quality that helps not quantity.I also syndicate my artcicles onto e books and create video articles and record my articles to create audios so now you have an information product as well.You can even convert your article information to podcasts and place them on itunes for downloads.There are so many ways to maximise your results.Hope that helps.

Before being able to properly answer the original question, you first have to answer one question yourself:

You can only really know if you've achieved something or been successful when you first set the goal that you want to achieve or succeed at.

Is achieving a Google Page Rank of 4 or better your goal?
If so, I can tell you from experience that you can achieve this in less than a year while writing no more than 1 original, quality article a month. I've done it. I have 4 blogs that deal with 4 different industries, but a related topic. All 4 of them are set up using the same Wordpress template (not even a premium template - a freely available one) and have similar header graphics and use the same free plugins for SEO.
I rarely write more than 1 article a month for any of these blogs, but when I do, I ensure that it is original content, dealing with a question or concern that my industry would appreciate.

After I finish the article, I send out a tweet or two directing people to the blog post only within the first day or two. Sometimes, for a particularly good post, I'll tweet about it again a month or two later and see a direct correlation in traffic.

Using that technique, I've driven these blogs to a PR3, PR3, PR4, and even, to my surprise, one sits at a PR5.
During their life, I've never made an attempt to get back links, but each of them have a few. As you'd expect, the PR5 has the most -- a whopping 7 back links (but they are from pretty good PR sites.)


Now, if PR was your goal, I'd consider this a success. For these blogs, the PR was really just sort of a nice surprise. Our real goal was to build up readers and establish ourselves as experts in our field, which these blogs have done in spades.

Now on the other hand, if you measure success by how much revenue your blog has driven you, sad to say, these 4 blogs would be dismal failures. Their goal is not to convert or to move product. They don't have any Adsense on them nor any other advertisements. They are informational by nature, designed to help our clients and present ourselves as knowledgeable to potential clients.

By this measurement, these blogs have been very successful for us, though they are around a year old and I typically only write posts for them once a month.

My advice to you is to set your own goals and then do some experiments. It's impossible for anyone to tell you the exact technique to achieve it, but there are lots of people who can help point in the right direction and tell you what they found helpful. Just because something didn't work for them, though, doesn't mean it couldn't work for you, and vice versa. I'm intrigued as to why my 4 very similar themed and maintained blogs have a PR range from 3-5. It's tough to put my finger on it.

Try a split testing approach where you see what methods give you the result you're after, then do more of what gives you the good result!

Have fun!

I competed in an Ironman triathlon about 10 years ago and the best advice I got was that the training is possible...if 'life doesn't get in the way...'

Writing 10 articles per day just isn't feasible for most newbies. Period. Job, kids, soccer games, etc. Whew! Before you know it, it's 10p and you have (10) articles to write! Just do what you can. I'd say the average newbie can write 2-3 articles per week. The main idea is to stay focused...keep writing and submitting!

Article Marketing works for 'traffic' - that's obvious. Converting traffic is a whole different story...so let's stick with the traffic for now. It's not going to happen overnight, so once again - stick with it. You can expect noticeable results in 60-90 days if you're writing quality content and submitting to top directories.

The average article gets 1-2 views per day. Article Marketing is a numbers game (...like most online marketing strategies). The more articles you have out there, the more views to your SIGNATURE you will get.

You won't go wrong with Article Marketing even with a limited number of articles per week. Just be consistent and be patient. As your business grows, phase in other marketing techniques and you'll have more traffic than you once thought possible.

To Your Success,

Hi:

Shireen here :-)

That'so right or wrong answers here. Base on your ability, try to produce as many quality articles as possible per day.

You can either create them yourself or outsource it :-)

Hope it helps...

I think it depends on how you define success...

How much would you need to earn from your articles before you consider yourself successful?

Some people are happy with $10 a day.