30 Minute Article Writing System – How To Write And Submit An Article In Under Half An Hour
If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you know that I’ve been doing a lot of article writing. The more I write, the better and faster I’m getting, mainly because I developed a step-by-step system that allows me to get things done quickly. Here’s my 30 minute article writing system. Feel free to try it, tweak it and use it to write and submit plenty of articles.
Here’s a little check list I use whenever I sit down to write.
- Topic
- Keyword
- Title
- Resource Box
- Outline
- Writing
Extra Tip – If you are planning on writing several articles, it’s usually faster to do one step (i.e. keyword research) at a time for each article before moving on to the next one.
Now let’s look at each of these steps in more detail.
Topic
This one’s pretty simple. Sit down and come up with some topics for your articles. What do you want to write about? If you can’t come up with anything on your own, get some inspiration by reading a few of your favorite blogs on the topic, browse through an article directory etc. Be sure to make a note of every single article idea that crosses your mind. You can always use them later if you’re not in the mood to write that particular article right away.
Keyword Research
I’m assuming you want your articles to rank in the search engines, no matter where you post them. Do a little keyword research and find one that applies to your topic and also has a good chance of ranking well. I explained how to pick a good keyword in this post. The same principles apply for choosing keywords for an article.
Title
Now it’s time to start writing the actual article. Open up your favorite word processor and come up with a title. There are two things you want to pay attention to here. Use your keywords and the earlier in the title you can use them the better. Secondly, you want your title to sound interesting. You have to “sell the click” so to speak – meaning that you need to write a title that will invite and entice the reader to click through to your article. Words that work well for me in article titles are “tips”, “secrets”, “fast and easy” etc.
Resource Box
Next I like to write the resource box or author bio. This may seem a little backwards at first glance because it goes at the very end of the article, but I have two good reasons for doing this. The first is that I don’t like writing resource boxes very much, and by getting it out of the way early, I can usually ensure that I’ll finish and submit the article right away (and to quote Brian Tracy – I’m eating that frog first).
The more important reason thought to write the resource box first is to make sure I can end my article in a way that makes it flow nicely into the resource box.
Start with your anchor text and then write something that will grab the reader’s interest. When possible I also work in a Call to Action to get them to click through to my site.
Outline
My next step is to come up with an outline for my article. It will give the article some structure. If you look at this post – which is basically just a long article as well, you can see that the checklist I gave you at the beginning is my outline. Once you have your topic and title, it’s usually pretty simple to come up with a 3 to 7 point outline for the article.
Writing
This is actually the easiest part. All the hard work is done and all crucial decisions have been made. Enjoy the process and just start filling in the blanks of your outline. For this post, it took me less than 10 minutes of actual writing.
Start with a little introduction, then write a paragraph or two for each point on your outline and then an ending paragraph that flows well into your resource box.
That’s it and with a little practice you can use this step-by-step system to write and submit an article in under 30 minutes, especially if you bulk your article writing together and work on each step for multiple articles. By the way, you don’t have to do all of this in one day, especially if you’re working on 10 or more articles. Brainstorm topics, do your keyword research and come up with titles one day, write your resource boxes the next and then finish the articles the following day. The most important part is to keep doing something every single day.
P.S. Ready to get better at article writing? I’m going through Article Marketing for Beginners and am still picking up new tips in every single lesson. They help me improve both the speed at which I write and the quality of my articles.
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