An interesting discussion came up on the Warrior Forum today. Somebody was looking at how many articles I had written for EzineArticles and were wondering how I was able to make so much money off of so relatively few articles. Well, the answer to that question is quite complex but I’ll try to simplify it somewhat. So, just how many articles IS enough to begin to make a nice income online?

Probably the biggest factor to this answer is the niche that you’re writing for. Some niches don’t have a very big demand, so the number of actual views that you get from your articles is going to be limited right from the start. Then you have some niches where the demand is there but the competition is so overwhelming that getting a fair share of the pie is going to be hard to do. I try to look for niches that have a high demand and not so much competition, or as I call it, good Keyword Efficiency Index (KEI). Anything over 100 is considered a good KEI.

Another factor is the quality of the article itself. If an author is writing good quality articles, more people will ultimately check out his web page, as opposed to a writer who just throws a lot of junk together and calls it an article. What they don’t realize is that after the first paragraph, most readers will be gone. So if you write mostly good quality articles, those articles are going to make you more money. It’s that simple.

And then there’s your resource box. If your resource box does its job and gets people to your site, provided that the article itself gets them that far, then you don’t need as many articles as somebody who writes resource boxes that don’t do the job. Think about it. If you have 1,000 articles out there and your CTR is 30%, that means you get 300 visitors for every 1,000 article views. But what if your CTR is only 10%? You’d need to write 3,000 articles to get the same number of visitors to your site.

So as you can see, there is no easy answer to this question. The above factors, niche, quality of article and resource box, all contribute to how many articles you need to write to start seeing some decent money coming in.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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