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
- How To Gain Weight
- The Magic of Thinking Small
- BOSS MENTALITY (and Why I Put Interns Through Hell)
- How To Start Your Journey of a Thousand Long Miles
- RED FOCUS: The Focus Supplement That Actually Works
- How To Increase Your Self-Confidence
- 30 Things Every Bodybuilder Should Do
- PERMANENT SATURDAY.
- How To Find Your Own Voice
- Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Testosterone
- How To Meet Like-Minded Friends
- The Magic of Editing: How To Take Your Art From Ordinary To Extraordinary
- RED GROWTH: The New #1 Legal Supplement That Actually Works
- How To Get Respect From All People
- How To See With Your Third Eye
- 33 Ways To Be A Billionaire
- The Power of Concentration (How To Focus Like Nikola Tesla)
- How To Be A Monopoly Man (The #1 thing you MUST do to succeed)
- 7 Years of Pride: Happy Birthday to Bold and Determined
- The Language of Magic (The Unlimited Magic of Life)
- Why You Should Exercise Every Day (How To Get Jacked Like Jack LaLanne)
- OSTARINE: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About MK-2866
- How To Always Be Thankful For What You Have (Happy Thanksgiving)
- How Intermittent Fasting Cured My Allergies Forever
- 3 Secrets of the Blog Business
- Why I Only Set Impossible Goals
- Why You Shouldn't Be Too Nice
- 15 Best Books For Bad Guys
- How To Transmute Your Sexual Energy
- How To INSTANTLY Get Stronger
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):
- 33 Ways To Be A Billionaire
- 30 Things Every Bodybuilder Should Do
- How To Get Respect From All People
- How To Increase Your Self-Confidence
- The Magic of Thinking Small
- How To Gain Weight
- 15 Best Books For Bad Guys
- Why You Shouldn’t Be Too Nice
- How To Transmute Your Sexual Energy
- How To INSTANTLY Get Stronger
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…
Bold & Determined Vol. 3 is NOW AVAILABLE on Paperback!
YOU CAN BUY IT HERE.
Hey Victor man, your 30 days of blogging was badass. I liked it a lot.
I am certain that I actually have the skill set to make it as a writer-businessman. I just needed a little push. Your work did it for me. Thanks!
Three brief questions:
1. Do you think Latin America is a ready place to make money from blogging and selling info products?
2. Do you think it is a must for a domain name to be instantly descriptive of the website’s content?
3. Businesswise speaking…do you think I should tone down my writing so I won’t alienate guys that are not ready or looking to be hardcore? I mean, words like “aggression”, “discipline”, “no bullshitting around”, etc….I guess such words are not for everyone.
Thank you, sir.
PS: I’m getting myself a copy of your New World Ronin for Christmas (looking for ways to improve my learning curve).
PS2: When I’m famous I’ll make sure to give you credit.
Publish, publish, publish.
Just get it out there.
The procrastinator who takes too long over every single thing, trying to correct every little error, never gets it done.
I’d planned on writing one song each week for the next 4-6 months, but I might just revise my plans to one a day for all of January. Great article.
40,000+ words and 30 posts in a month. Very impressive. You make me feel like a lazy shit! haha.
Well done!
IMO one of the best articles ever is your piece on how to be attractive to women. Extremely simple and concise in wording, captures every concept that RP teaching in the sphere could ever teach you. Again ahead of your time. You were an insightful mofo.
There’s an example of an article that was a) written quickly and b) still hasn’t been found by B&D readers. Released in Jan 2012 it only has 93 comments. I have seen that article plagiarized by people around the web to hundreds of thousands of hits. The information is out there, the source is unknown.
Thanks Vic.
Gonna buy the remaining vol 2 & 3 for myself for Christmas.
Vol 1. will be given to friends and family.
Victor I wish you good holidays and a merry Christmas like a Spartan!
“Ooooooooooooowl”
Victor you said everything I needed to know here about my blog.
“Focus wins.”
I’ve been blogging for about 5 years now and have yet to see more than a few hundred dollars a year in revenue.
This is because I am focused on running a different type of business. But I keep the blog alive and I love it.
Recently I have been tasked with writing every day as well. I don’t always publish. It’s been about 34 days so far and I will probably keep it going for 3-4 months or so.
Then I will compile the articles into a book and mail it to my dipshit friend who said he wanted to write a book and needed someone to help keep him accountable.
Well that someone is me and so far I haven’t missed a single day. He gave up weeks ago and then denied it like a bitch.
I very much look forward to transferring my income focus on my blog. Don’t know when it’s going to happen but it will happen.
Hats off to you and your kick ass work. You have been a solid source of inspiration all of these years.
Personal favorites:
- The Magic of Thinking Small
- How To Get Respect From All People
- Why You Shouldn’t Be Too Nice
- How To INSTANTLY Get Stronger
Incredible work.
Keep on killing it Vic.
Greatness!!!
This reminds me of the greatest and most prolific rapper, Tupac. All the people that worked with him said he was a fucking workhorse. He would go to the studio get a piece of paper and just write song after song. Then he would go into the booth and rap it. Then come out and write more songs. Then go back in and rap. He still has unreleased material to this day.
Victor make sure you release all your stuff, man:)
Yeah, as much of a degenerate Tupac appeared to be, I’m convinced it was all an act. That man knew EXACTLY what he was doing.
How to Start the Journey of a Thousand Miles was the best article of yours I’ve ever read. I will be purchasing your volumes soon!
“Big articles can take many days, even weeks to perfect.”
Before this challenge, you would have said that even 1.5k word articles can take weeks to edit.
“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.”
If you did a challenge to write a 4000 word article everyday, you would succeed.
https://boldanddeterminedarchive.com/language-of-magic/
This 2k word article is the most important. This article planted seeds in minds.
If you write every day and publish every day, it is the way to create masterpieces. Better to write 1825 articles in 5 years (1 a day) than to create 260 articles (1 a week).
How many more masterpieces will you create in the 1825 than the 260?
I don’t like editing my work, I feel like I lose honesty and sense that my work was created as a result of inspiration.
Currently re-reading the 30 articles in Mexico City. You were the man that motivated me to get out and see the world and gain real wisdom. I can’t thank you enough.
Everything is simpler than people
make it to be. Starting a business, ordering lunch, you name it.
It’s when people get bored that things become complicated and bloated.
Stay alive and in motion and things will be smooth as ever.
Great job with all 30 articles Victor.
“The first rule of writing challenge is to never write about writing challenge.”
(apologies in advance to Fight Club)
30 days of blogging could be your new ebook.
Victor,
This is a great accomplishment. I have known journalists who won’t write as much as you do.
Keep the good work. It’s inspiring. We are all together on this.
Stay strong!
-Horacio
The article should have labeled “How to do anything everyday”. You want to write everyday, just write every day. You want to work out, go to gym, build your business, spend more time with the family, play with the kids, read, study, whatever you want , you just do it. Don’t think about it. Unless you are in ill health, you can do it. I believe what Mr. Pride showed us these 30 days and with this post is how to do the work that needs to be done. Without overthinking, whining and talking about it. It’s like you wake up in the morning and you have a mission to accomplish. Another important thing i noticed is that he didn’t care about the result and didn’t think about it and that played a role in his productivity. He just wrote what it was in his mind. That was the goal. It was to do the work. Keep up giving us excellent work Mr. Pride.
Hey Vic,
Setting up an account with badnet. In the bonus add-ons (domain privacy, search engine jumpstart, sitelock security find and comodo positive ssl bundle) which would you say are required, recommended or unnecessary during the startup phase? (i.e the first year or so as you accrue readers). Money is tight right now, would love input from a pro before i get this train rolling.
Thanks.
Domain privacy is definitely recommended. If you do a whois lookup on any domain you can see the domain owner’s information. In the case of an individual this would be your own personal information. So if you have a personal email address or physical address you can expect spam bots to scrape that data and start sending you junk. I’d definitely recommend using domain privacy which acts as a proxy and hides your personal info.
The other stuff you can ignore but there is a push to move sites to https (SSL) so that should be on your priority list but you can pick up a Comodo Positive SSL certificate from somewhere like Namecheap for $9 a year.
Appreciate the info.
Awesome Vic, you’re thinking like China when they say they focus 500 years ahead of time compared to the competition.
Really loved the magic of thinking small, that was such a beneficial article
Great post, Victor! Love your insight, “The best art is not mindful, but mindless.” So true!
Perfect,
I’m doing this.
Awesome challenge! I enjoyed the challenge as well, it’s nice to see you active and posting on a daily basis. I really what you said about these articles being seeds for the future, super interesting way to look at it. Thanks so much.
I’d like to see an article about How to build a great product. How do you know it’s good for release?
Thanks for sharing your results, and especially the details.
This reminds me of the momentum you talk about in New World Ronin.
Thanks again for the content.
All the Best,
D
At first, you used the parkinson’s law, meaning that you put a deadline for every article you wrote in these 30 days and that’s why you succeeded and congratulations for this!
But you made a very small but serious mistake in that article: Macedonia is Greek!
Hi. I Just Want To Say: Thank You…
This Is Great Article.
Your image on this article deserves on front cover Vogue Magazine. I even kept it my desktop wallpaper. You look stud. Great inspiration from you to 17 year old man. One thing i wanna ask. How to got those killer ripped forearms ??
Thanks Nick. And the answer is hammer curls twice per week.
Today is my birthday. I turned 18. I took gym membership. Trainer adviced me not to focus on legs and told to start with push ups (20) for chest and bicep curls (5). Sure I will do hammer curls. I have seen closely you look more bold with Zeus looking deltoids. How you made it ?
Wow, thanks for your insights on this. I had a fairly successful website in a different niche years ago. Last December, I started a new blog about lifestyle design. I’ve been somewhat frustrated by how hard it has been to gain traction and traffic. This article helped me remember just how much time and effort to took to make that first project successful. Thanks for helping me keep my focus on the long term.
I read this article a minimum of once per week. So much motivation, insight and value in one article. A classic B&D production! Thanks for this Victor!
“The best articles mature like a fine wine and bring you traffic in time”
Patience + doing the work = success