Recently I announced that I would be publishing one article per day for the next 30 days.

That is exactly what I did. For 30 days I wrote and published one article every single day.

Every article was written the day it was published (with very few exceptions).

Each morning I would wake up and have no idea what I would be writing about that day.

I would wake up, eat a bodybuilder's breakfast of fish and rice, hit the gym, come home, shower, eat another meal and then it would be time to let the magic happen.

I found that once you have decided to do something no matter what, it becomes easy.

I am not saying every article was easy to write, as there were a few days where I didn't know what I would write. But I did know that I would write something no matter what.

Knowing that you will move forward no matter what, writer's block or not, makes you act even when you think you have nothing to act on.

For the 30 days of blogging challenge I did not write about writing. Many times I have seen people do some sort of writing challenge and all they write about is the writing challenge.

Example: “Well, it's day 3 of the writing challenge. Here's what I learned in 3 days of writing about a writing challenge.”

I did not once discuss the challenge in the words. I simply announced I would write 30 articles in 30 days and then I did.

All of the articles varied in topics but the main theme was simplicity.

People like to make things so complicated. I believe that making things complicated is a form of self-sabotage.

Everything is very easy and when you believe that everything is easy, everything can be done.

When you believe things are very difficult and complicated, things become very complicated and difficult to achieve.

Writing one article per day for 30 days was not hard in the slightest. It was easy and more than that, it was fun.

I never thought I would actually enjoy writing every day but I enjoyed it immensely.

I fell in love with the challenge of waking up with nothing and having something by dinner time.

I even became addicted to it and giving up that addiction is something I do not want to do.

Before my 30 days of blogging challenge, I always believed in taking my time to create the best articles I can create.

Rather than writing and publishing in the same day, I would spend as long as I needed to spend editing an article before I thought it was perfect.

Because I like to do big articles that take a long time to create, I could spend weeks in-between articles. I have even gone so long as 6 weeks or more between articles.

This method has always been the only way I can do the best work I'm capable of. I'm very happy with the good work I do, but I've never been happy with the consistency.

So I decided that for the month of November I would write one blog article every day for 30 days. I called it…

30 DAYS OF BLOGGING

I wrote 44,159 words in total. That's an average of 1,472 words per article.

Writing a 1,472 word article every day for 30 days was a challenge. Thankfully I love challenges and I excel when “forced” to do something.

There were times when my motivation was down but there were far more times when my motivation was very high.

I am proud of being able to do something I never thought I would be able to do (let go of perfection and just publish, publish, publish).

I cannot lie and say all 30 articles are masterpieces, as they are actually rough drafts, but I can say for certain a good percentage of the articles will make me good money and bring me great traffic 3+ years from now.

Writing 30 articles in a month is all about planting seeds for the future. I didn't do it to receive traffic today, I did it to get traffic several years from now.

The articles that bring me the most traffic today are articles that were written over 6 years ago.

Articles are seeds, you write them, forget them, and in the future they bare fruit for you.

The very simple reason I wrote 30 articles in 30 days is to receive traffic 3+ years from now.

The 10 Most Popular Articles (by page views):

Honorable #11) RED GROWTH: The New #1 Legal Supplement That Actually Works

The other articles were average in terms of popularity.

But I know a secret that you do not know…

The best articles, the articles that bring you the most traffic, are never popular in the beginning.

The best articles mature like a fine wine and bring you traffic only in time.

One of my most popular articles, 10 Reasons to Stop Using Internet Porn, which now has over 460+ comments, did not receive one single comment for over two months after it was published.

Here is the first comment that it ever received:

“I’m actually quite shocked that this post has no comments cos this happens to be the greatest post in internet history!”

An old article called How to Pick the Right Wife turned me from an amateur to a pro overnight (a year after it was released). It only got 3 comments the day it was released.

It takes many years for a blog article to prove itself as a hit. My biggest articles that bring in the most traffic were not hits for years after they were published.

You have to publish them and forget them and let the world find them. Some will be find, some will not be found.

It takes much more than 30 days to find out what was a real hit and what was a real miss.

It will take 3+ years to know what was a real hit.

It is a big mistake to rely on immediate reactions when the only thing that matters is long-term reception.

The 2 articles that received the most positive feedback:

The most read article was 33 Ways to Be a Billionaire which was read over 250% more than many of the other articles.

It is also the longest article at almost 4,000 words.

This shows me one thing: readers of B&D love big articles about big money. I cannot blame them, I love big articles too.

The other 2 most read articles were:

Like I said a million times, all people want the same things: Money, body, respect.

The downside of writing an article every day for 30 days

The biggest downside of writing an article every day is that you simply do not have adequate time to write big articles.

Big articles can take many days, even weeks to perfect.

When you write and publish in one single day, you simply do not have the time necessary to build the depth that big articles require.

When you publish everyday you do not have time to do the most important part of the work – the editing.

There is no great writing without extensive editing!

Editing is NOT about fixing typos.

Editing is about layering depth, arranging the layout of the words, and making the piece as close to perfect as you can make it.

A rough draft is like a puzzle of words, editing is the way you put the pieces together.

To layer and arrange a great article requires at least two full days of work.

When you publish every single day you do not have this necessary time to layer.

Layering happens when you read the piece 10,000 times and add something small each time, even something as small as a comma.

HOWEVER!

(And this is a secret you cannot share with anyone else…)

ALL of my most popular articles were written in a single day and not edited.

The best art is not necessarily the best business.

My favorite articles take time to create, but the readers enjoy the articles that were done quickly without any after-thought.

Like I told you once before: The best art is not mindful it is mindless.

Writing one article per day will force you to be mindless.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't…

Sometimes a single day may be all that you need, there have been times where my fingers touched the keyboard and out came a masterpiece.

(But those instant masterpieces are few and far between, usually I have to work hard to create a great piece.)

4 Big Benefits of 30 Days of Blogging

Increase in reader comments

The 30 Days of Blogging articles received over 650 reader comments.

Those do not include comments made by me as I did not comment on the 30 Days of Blogging articles.

If I had responded to comments, that would be over 1200 comments for the month. That's a big month of comments and I very enjoyed waking up to 20+ positive comments daily.

Increase in traffic

30 Days of Blogging brought a big traffic increase to B&D.

Traffic went up by over 100,000 views.

That's 100,000 more views than we would have had without the 30 extra articles. That traffic increase is very modest, I expect it to grow in the coming months.

The 30 articles came so quickly, many people have not even had time to read them yet.

The articles will be there forever, building my brand and making my mark while I am already on to the next thing.

Frequent articles reach people in all parts of the world

With a blog business, you can really have friends and partners all over the world.

Below is a list of locations that commenters on the How To Transmute Your Sexual Energy article are from:

Poland

U.K. (2)

U.S.A. (9)

Austria

Canada

Bulgaria

South Africa

Macedonia

Netherlands

Mexico

In what other business than an internet based business can you have daily contact with people from all over the world?

30 Days of Blogging reconfirmed my endless love for big & bold blog articles

Even though small articles are actually the articles that bring me the most traffic, I very much enjoy the labor intensive big articles.

What can I say? I just love to work.

The Best Days to Publish Blog Articles

The best days to publish blog articles are:

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

The worst days to publish blog articles are Friday and Saturday.

Friday and Saturday are dead days in the blog world and I won't miss publishing masterpieces on Friday and Saturday knowing they won't be read.

(One of my personal favorite articles was published on a Saturday: How To Start Your Journey of a Thousand Long Miles)

Sunday is better than Friday and Saturday but much worse than Monday-Thursday.

Sundays are half-awake days and it is not a very good day to publish articles.

My Best S.E.O. Tip (Search Engine Optimization)

SEO is not complicated and there is not much more to it than this: Write about the topic you want to rank for.

If you want the article to stay on the top of google results, write a good article.

Good content is the best SEO.

Just write about the topic you want to rank for and if you do a great article, you will rank for it.

See more: 3 Secrets of the Blog Business

Addicted to Winning

I have become fully addicted to writing and publishing one article per day.

It has a type of thrill that I cannot explain, and everything about publishing an article per day has been a big win.

“But Victor, addictions are bad!”

Addictions to nonsense are bad but an addiction to winning is fantastic.

Will I continue publishing an article every single day in the future?

That's a great question and here's the answer:

I will or I won't, you'll just have to wait and see.

In the meantime…

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Buy it, hug it close to your heart, and then use it as fuel to live your version of a life well lived.

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