How can you write so much?

5 articles per day is very little. It shouldn't take you longer than 20 minutes to write a quality article once you know about a topic.

We aren't writing pulitzer prize winning pieces here - don't be a perfectionist as it just slows you down

I would like to know this as well. Okay I haven't written a single article as of yet, but I believe if I were to try and write a quality article with proper research done, it would at least take me one whole day.

10 articles a day is about the limit for me.

But you have to keep in mind that these are articles with about 5 or 6 paragraphs on a limited subject. Not a huge in depth piece like something you would find in a magazine.

If you know your niche, you should be able to pump out even more than 10 a day but I find that if I hunch over the keyboard for too long, the quality suffers.

If you use article marketing as part of your strategy, you'll need to spend a lot less than a day on 1 article. But if your goal is to have super quality articles on your website and you have other means of getting traffic to it, than you can take the time.

Lee

I feel the peoples those who are writing articles 4-5 they are very precise,accurate and very much preplaned with their Topics . Also you can try to do this by researching yourself oneday in internet and next day start writing . You can mange too.

I didn't really mean it that way. What I meant was that the articles don't need to be a Pulitzer prize winning piece of 2000 words that quote all types of industry publications etc.. In fact, I think if they are too long, you might lose the reader but on the other hand you don't want them to be too short so that they are meaningless.

I think the articles need to be well written, but the purpose of the article is to lead the visitor to the bottom and click the link. Therefore it has to be about 1 thing and, hopefully, written in a preselling type of manner. That doesn't really take a lot of research (as opposed to the pulitzer prize winning type of article) and, for me at least takes less time.

I hope that makes sense.

jkiley - it sounds like you must have a good product - not sure why you think you need to write so many things a day. I think when people usually say that they write a lot of articles a day it is for submitting to article directories (maybe I am wrong about that ?) but it sounds like you are just talking about starting a blog. I don't think you need to write 10 posts to that a day, do you? You could just write 1 or two posts about the benefits of your applications, would that take a long time?

Wow ProductCreator, that's amazing. perhaps you achieved that because you were writing on your own articles along with your own interest and skills.

But if someone gives you keywords on different niche other than your own skills, perhaps that would be a totally different situation. You need to find some time for research.

This is a bit off the original topic but what I'm finding bogging me down isn't the writing, it's the research.

How do you deal with the research?

Leslie

It's much easier if you actually have a passion for what you are writing about. I could write all day about hockey, and crank out a lot of quality articles on the subject. Unfortunately this isn't exactly the highest paying niche around. If you are lucky enough to have a passion for a subject that does pay well and are a talented enough writer to create quality content then the money will definitely follow.

By focusing and using your creative mind

Either you are writing articles for traffic or for link juice. If I were writing for traffic, which is usually not the case, I would spend a little more time on them. My record was 22 in one day (all submitted) and I don't think I spent more than 12 minutes on any one.

Try this: Give yourself 60 minutes to write an article. You say you can't do that, but give it a shot. If you get it done then submit it. If you don't, then the next day throw the article out, start over but give yourself only 50 minutes. Do this over and over until you can get down to where you knock off a 350 word article in under 15 minutes--any more than that and your time is being used inefficiently--really. If you really need articles and can't do them in under 15 minutes, you should outsource them.

Like the hockey guy said above--if you write about something for which you have a passion--they ought to come flying out of you like sh*t out of a pig. Really, try what I said above. Hope it works!

Bottom line is hopefully your niche is something you like and are knowledgeable about.

If this is the case, which it should be, you should be able to write articles as easily as talking to someone about your passion.

Quality copy writing skills will develop over time. As will speed.

Educate yourself with proper format and layout, not to mention leading your readers to your bio.

Using short snappy paragraphs, headlines/subheadlines, bullets non promotional links are also a part of the equation you need to become proficient at.

Ever notice forum posters who often write a post which could just as easily be published as an article?

It's no coincidence you will almost always see a large post count next to their name unless they just happen to be new to that particular forum.

I could go on, but then I might just as well write an article about it then shouldn't I. LOL

Cheers,
Zac

It is all about practice and repetition. If you are consistently writing a decent amount of articles day in and day out then sooner or later it is going to become second nature to you.

On the other hand, if you are someone who struggles to produce anything of value or has a hard time putting thoughts together into writing then pumping out 10 articles a day may just not be for you.

When i first started out i sucked at it. But then it became easier and i learned not to be such a perfectionist.

There are several things you need to consider.

1: writing is like a muscle, use it or lose it. For someone who has never written an article writing several articles today may seem insurmountable.

2: use voice recognition software. I use Dragon Speak voice dictation software. I think I paid $50 for a couple years ago on Amazon. It allows me to type at between 40 and 70 words a minute, depending on the content.

3: the more you know about a subject the easier it will be to write about some aspect of it. If you're having trouble coming up with ideas then perhaps you need to learn more about the subject.

4: keep notes. When I come across some good idea I write it down. Sometimes I have great ideas when I'm in the shower and sometimes I come across great ideas when reading other people's blogs. When I sit down to write an article I look through my notes.

That's pretty insane
I've managed 30 in a day and felt totally drained.

If you look at most of the articles on EZA it proves your last comment there - many are such a low standard that even spending 5 minutes on an article is good enough to provide a better quality piece.

I have no interest in sending very quality content to article directories. They exist solely for themselves, to make money from Adsense. I submit what is needed to get traffic to my sites.
Save your really quality content for your OWN site.

My advice is to rewrite PLR. That cuts out the research. Open up dupecop, slip the PLR article in the left. Now start reading and just rephrase as you type on the right. Use short PLR articles and keep yours short and sweet. When the number of uniqueness shows me 70% unique, I am satisfied and stop. I am not after traffic, I am after links. The articles are just the vehicle for the anchored links to my monetized site.

Nobody actually does this. They're just filling the web with trash by regurgitating what they've read and rewriting 2-3 other articles into their own.

Real content that adds value to the web, the kind of stuff you might see on a major site or published in a magazine, takes days or weeks to research and produce.

If authors could push out 4-5 quality articles a day, newspapers wouldn't be going out of business. They'd just have two people write each issue and fire the rest of the research and writer staff.

I tend to agree with Diane. Was not aware of dupecop. thanks again for new information.

I've wondered about that too.

Took me two days to write an article for Wikkihow, and 20 minutes just to type this response.

Grant

The simple answer is I can't
Even if I know the subject really well my limit is probably about six articles a day- if I don't know the subject it's alot less
I have outsourced sometimes as well and to be hoenst it rarely is as good as my writing- and I would hardly classify myself as a top notch, grammatically perfect writer.
I still find it so hard ot understand why people think it's so good to populate the net with badly written articles- I still stand by the truth that ONE good, well written article will pay more than 100 badly written ones.
Anyone who says they can write huge numbers of articles every day, and these are not just rewiters off someone else's work or a topic they are specialised in is not, in my opinion, judging thier own work accurately.

Practice makes perfect. Writing is a natural talent for some, but for most, it is an acquired skill.

When I started marketing, I was pretty resistant to the idea of writing articles but since I was not getting anywhere, I decided to start. And boy, my first article was ranked No.1 for a highly competitive keyword and since then, I am all over article marketing.

It is possible to write 4 or 5 articles per day. But after a while, you can consider outsourcing. Makes your life much easier so that you can focus on other things.

I just think of it as talking to somebody, but I am typing instead. Just think that you are having a conversation with someone and they say, "hey do you know about xyz?" then you go and tell them about it.

Your focusing too much on quality. To rank in search engines you need quantity not quality. I write between 5 and 12 articles everyday, seven days per week. So, it can be done.

The thing is, writing the articles gets easier and easier. Okay, I'm a writer so I've had lots of practice BUT I wasn't always as fast as I am. I can bust out a 400 word article in ten minutes if I'm super focused. Being a fast typer helps. Writing a lot helps. The fact that I've been a writer for 7 years helps, too.

But mostly, I attribute my timer to helping me reach those speeds. If I set my timer for 15 minutes and I say, ok, the article will be done by the time it goes off, then I type my a*& off to beat my own goal.

If left to my own devices and I try to do all that writing without a timer, I get too distracted. I keep getting up. In fact before I finished this post I got up to make a cup of tea and get some fruit to munch on. I wouldn't have done that if the timer was ticking.

And take a look at my sites - I am not compromising quality. If I were, I wouldn't let myself write that fast, I'd slow down.

I used to feel the same as you do now.

Trust me it is lot easier to do, I mean start writing and let it come from you head as start typing. Don't worry about the quality at the beginning.

Now a days I am setting up a stop watch and dedicate abt an hour of my time to write articles.

Rather than focusing on number of articles I clock myself for a certain time and try my best to write as many as I can.

My goal is to hit 10 articles in an hour in any niche I wish

I leverage every possible articles resources in order to get ideas for writing articles.

Hope this helps.
-Gaj

How many of you article writers use speach to text software i hear Dragon is extremly accurate that would make a huge time difference

Each one has their own unique strengths or may have been used to it -that's why they can pump out a number of articles in an hour.

But articles for your marketing on your niche? Days for a single article is way too expensive! Those hours might better have been spent in growing your business for profits.

Outsourcing might help but if you want to do it yourself, I suggest pulling in together some articles, get the idea, organize and summarize everything in your own words and that should have you one in few minutes.

And the more articles you create, make it your goal to finish one in a shorter time than the last one you've created.. Gradually you'll realize that you're pumping out a number of articles too in an hour!

Hey Kiley,

actually writing a quality article in 20 minutes or less,
is a skill, like anything else. You can master it, just start practising.

Igor

oh wow. 60 per day is a lot!!! i think eventually that will happen -burnt out. im sure you will run out of things to write about.

I can churn out 4 articles on the weekdays because I do IM part-time. Had I been full time, I think I am capable of writing more than 4 a day.

You have to love what you do and you won't get tired of it. Or you can treat it as a job. When it's a job, you have no other choice but to do what your job requires you to do.

simple answer....
with our keyboard./

I believe the best way to write articles is to write areas you understand and if you don't have any area of specialization simply get down to studying an area or niche that interests you you would be surprised that after a short time (as little as a week) you would be able to talk and write about it with confidence and then the more you write the better and more knowledgeable you would become.

I have a day-job, and don't write articles all day. But I do know that generating new content is the lifeblood of my internet side-business.

I try to find as many quick ways to add new content as I can. I need it to be fast, but I don't want to neglect adding new content.

I list a bunch of my strategies for finding stuff to write about in "Uniquification". It's a free report with tactics and tips on finding topics to write about, methods for generating content quickly and taking existing content and making it unique.

No Duplicate Content

Hope it helps!

Others here have said it. You have to know your topic and once you do you can pump content out pretty quickly. You also get faster as you practice writing different niches. Also think about how long the articles are. 250 words isn't that much... maybe half a page to a full page.

Practice practice practice. That's the key. And a little bit of knowledge in the niche.

Hey jkiley,

I enjoy writing and quality is important to me. However, I learned how to understand when I had reached the quality point pertinent to the project.

I think your site is really neat. What site do you need articles for? I may be willing to do a couple articles with my bio intact. PM me.

That's 114 words right there, and they're pretty well written. You're half way to a short article with just that forum post.

Can you talk about a subject for awhile? That's really all it takes. Tell us what you like about it, what you don't like about it, what somebody needs to know before they get involved with it, the easiest way to get involved with it, etc.

Write the way you talk and you'll do fine. If you want to make it even simpler, get a speech-to-text program like Dragon Naturally Speaking and just talk at it and let it do the typing.


Scott

I can write 50 articles a day and charge $20 for every one of them...and my buyers are very happy with what they get.

There are definite strategies and hacks to it.

Professional quality requires professional effort. Professional quality is worth all the effort required to produce it.
Many of the articles I produced 10 years ago are still bringing in traffic.
Purely for your information, back then it took me 2 weeks to produce a 500-800 word article good enough to sell to national publications. I had to sweat for every word. By consistently writing from 5 to 25 hours a day I have improved so much that now I can produce an excellent thousand word article per day if I never do more than 5 per week. Otherwise it is just one 1,000 word article per week and I'm really straining to do that much. I just returned from a retreat where I finally completed a 48 page treatise on the atonement -- with daily and weekly rewrites for the past 3 years.
Robert Bly can and does write circles around me so I know there are good and fast writers out there. I still don't see any reason to be ashamed of my production rate. Indeed, I am quite proud of how fast I do produce a finished product.
If you want to be a writer, or if you just want to write, my advice is to throw the clock out the window and concentrate on producing the very best work you are capable of. Gradually the quality of your writing will improve and gradually you will develop speed. When that happens it will be your quality and your speed. You will be comfortable with your talents and you will very likely be comfortable with your income.

If you are in a good mood, you would never know you have written so much. Also, write slow .

Well, to answer your question...

When you've developed a high level of skill as a writer, you soon experience the ability to write for hours (non-stop) as if you were in a.... Zone. While in this state of mind, creative ideas and new sentence combinations start flowing into your brain at warp speed.

Also, you've got to remember, the niches we choose are usually something of interest to us. When I'm writing articles for my own niche, I can write them with my eyes closed.

Writing 5 articles takes me a little over an hour to complete. Then, after one quick run-through, they're ready to be submitted to my sites or directories.

I guess the moral of my story is... practice makes perfect. :-)

There is a huge difference between the style of writing used in a newspaper and the style of writing used in a (good) online article. Most good article writers use an informal, chatty style and this allows them to write an article in their head as quickly as they can type one.

Imagine that you've done an hours work researching a particular niche. You may think that you haven't got any near enough information to write an article, but what if you were not writing, but talking? How many words would you use if you were describing what you just learned to a friend?

I'd be prepared to bet you'd use at least 500 words - easily enough to write a long article! I have set formats or templates that I always stick to when I'm writing articles, and I'll alternate between ten or so different templates. This allows you to always be sure what part of the issue you will tackle with your next paragraph, so you don't spend all of that time sitting and thinking.

Article spinners can also be handy, and if you use them right you can produce many more articles without sacrificing any content quality. The problem is that most people don' use them right!

Above all, practice makes perfect! You will find that over time your articles come out quicker and quicker. This doesn't mean that the content suffers - it just means you're getting better!

woow,, o think a good writer knows what the readers wants....

all things must be worth saying..

do you think you have this..?

im not a writer but as reader i notice this all...

long articles but no point at all...

The thing is, Writing isn't for everybody.

If you're a slow writer or someone who don't enjoy
writing. The best approach is to outsource.

There's no point spending hours doing something
you don't like. Why not leverage other people's
time and work when you can.
PR: wait... I: wait... L: wait... LD: wait... I: wait...wait... Rank: wait... Traffic: wait... Price: wait... C: wait...
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There's are many ways that you can write a couple of good quality articles in a day and it doesn't matter if your language sucks.

One simple approach is just to talk about problems and solutions in an article.

For example, if you are writing an article for the weight loss niche, you can write

1. Problem: need to fit into wedding dress because wedding is only 6 months away.
Want to look best since this is once in a lifetime.....

2. Solutions: choose superfoods that can reduce weight...

3. Bio: put link to your website which offers some product reviews.

If you write articles based on your target audience, you should have no problems
churning out couple of quality articles in a day.

Always remember that every articles that you write is going to be read by a person who is emotional and got feelings, and if you give them what they want, you are going to get a sale!

I have to schedule a time to site down and write and if nothing is coming I just start writing anyways. Many of my rough drafts start out with, "so I'm just sitting here in my room and there is nothing really happening right now..." and then I'll start thinking of ideas and get the post done.

Well I think with time people develop this ability and somehow can manage to come up with a lot of quality content in short periods, especially if you've got your researching down to a formula ie you know where to go to get really good information on your niche

When you start making money off those articles, it's actually very easy to write a bunch of them

I used to think like that. Now I typically generate 3-4 articles per day. It's an essential part of my SEO strategy for example.

This article on article marketing addresses your question.

And by the way, the hardest part of regular article marketing is finding inspiration. I only arrived in these forums a few days ago, but they've already inspired 5 articles and a couple of blog entries. The problems people ask about in these forums are the sorts of things that make for great articles.

Maybe this will help, I found this link right here in Wf.

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...-its-easy.html

Once you get started, it's not that hard. Also, if you use Dragon Naturally Speaking it can cut that time in half. It's not a sales letter, it's just an article. Good luck!