How to Publish 30 Articles in 30 Days

Posted by Lima Al-Azzeh Oct 15, 2009

Prerna Malik joined the Suite101 community in May 2009. She captured the interest of her colleagues as well as the editorial staff when she decided to challenge herself to write 30 articles in 30 days and keep us posted on her progress.

After publishing 20 articles, Malik knew that the 50 article milestone, and its corresponding 10% revenue bonus, was just around the corner. She decided to write an article a day for a month and reach her goal sooner rather than later.

While Malik didn’t have many trepidations about whether or not she could in fact finish this ambitious feat, she did realize that focusing only on producing a large quantity of articles may have its down sides. She didn’t want to slacken on the quality she presented in each article, and needed to find some way to balance the two goals. “I had to pay special attention to editorial feedback and the research that I did for quite a few articles”, says Malik.

According to Malik, “coming up with ideas [was] the easy part”. An avid organizer, Malik’s articles largely focus on handy tips to maximize on storage and find creative solutions to better organize one’s home. With so much information to share, Malik had her own organizing to do, and needed to find an efficient way to produce a large quantity of quality articles in a short amount of time.

“I divided longer articles, such as the ones on Stain Removal and Photo Organizing into two articles of 500-600 words. I also came up with topics where I could link to existing articles. I created a list of 35 topics, to be on the safe side, along with relevant keywords. All I had to do was pick a topic and write on it!”

As her self-imposed challenge continued, Malik found that time was the biggest hurdle of all. As a mom and homemaker, she could only find so much time in each day to devote to writing. Not only that, but she also writes her own blog and freelances for a few websites and some private clients. Somehow, she managed to compartmentalize her day enough to allow time to contribute articles towards her challenge.

To date, Malik has published 74 articles on Suite101, far exceeding her previous goal and quickly propelling towards her next goal of contributing 100 articles. Malik has gained a lot from the advice of her fellow writers and has this to say to any writers who wish to set themselves an equally challenging writing goal:

1. Use editorial feedback to improve your writing. It really helps.
2. Learn how to do keyword research My first 10 articles were all written without any idea of what a keyword was. I’ve used the tutorials here plus done my own research and now am happy to say that revenue and page views are both doing well.
3. Interlinking helps! For instance, when writing my article on stain removal, I decided to write one on fabric stain removal and the other on carpet stain removal. The topics are related enough that I can link them to one another.
4. Write often and write well. The results that I’ve seen with Suite are incomparable to the other residual income sites that I write for. As far as revenue is concerned, do not be disheartened by the first month’s earnings. It just gets better and better.