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MainstreamMom said:

I was starting off wanting to write the most articles in a week that I could. My first week was 4, then 5. This week I think I'll find a happy medium with 3… likely Mon, Weds, Fri. I'm very anal when it comes to my article writing and it takes me at minimum an hour (with the pictures and making it look professional).

I found with the 5 articles, I was just putting up pieces to put up pieces. My content wasn't as focused and useful. I did create a nice "MainstreamMom Headquarters" excel sheet… which includes my weekly posts. So now I have post ideas for the next couple months and I can prepare ahead of time.(It also contains my stats for the week, guest post sites, project ideas, goals, newsletter topics etc.)

Just wanted to give my two cents on writing articles and what has ended up working for me.

Also, I'm at 300k in Alexa! (I started in the millions only three weeks ago).

Thanks!

Andrea

What works for everyone is different. If your happy medium is three posts  a week that is totally fine. I think consistancy matters more than frequency. I personally do 5 days a week but I started doing 7 and found that was too much. I can keep up 5 but only because of my staff writers. If I didn't have them it would be 2-3 a week.

Congrats on the Alexa rating Andrea! I

I struggled with this as first too, but I've seem to find a happy medium at 3-4 articles a week. When you're just starting out you definitely want to feed the Google giant with new content, but if you're posting everyday you're never going to have enough time to market and build enough backlinks to all those articles. 

I think it also depend on the type of posts you're creating. Sites like MoneySavingMom post 15+ posts a day because they are short and mainly links to deals, contests, etc. My content is a little longer and include homework assignments for my readers, so I don't want to overload them.

I started off as 4, now I'm doing 3. I find a lot of people like 3, because it's almost one post every other day, but not too much as it would overwhelm you.

I personally have written three articles a week for the last two years at least. Works well for me and my readers. One of the articles if my Frugal Confessions Friday where I show living proof of living in frugal decadence, and then my readers comment about their own ways they saved money over the last several weeks. So really, just two longer, researched articles, and then one much shorter one.

SavingMentor said:

You're doing well at 1 hour per article. It can take me up to 10 hours to write an article sometimes. I think I'm the world's slowest writer. I need to do something to fix that and spend less time wasting time!

Right now I'm shooting for 1 good post a week and maybe finding a way to work in a 2nd shorter but useful post. I'll figure it out eventually!

Thing is SM, almost every post you write is a pillar post – thousands of words.  The level of detail you put into your precise research and well thought out article structure (not to mention the content itself) should take hours.  Many of my posts, which usually land in the 1500-2000 word range take me 4-6 hours to research, write and edit.

I don't do the pillar posts too often because they take so much time to write. I should probably be writing more of them though.