How to Publish 30 Blog Posts a Month for Free Using AI and Make.com

Is Publishing 30 Blog Posts a Month Really Possible for Free?

A few years ago, publishing 30 blog posts a month meant either hiring a team of writers or spending every waking hour at a keyboard. Today, with the right free tools connected together through automation, one person can publish 30 well-structured, SEO-targeted articles per month without spending a single dollar — and without writing each one manually from scratch.

This is not about spamming the internet with thin content. Done properly, it is about building a consistent publishing cadence that signals authority to Google, covers a broad range of longtail keywords in your niche, and compounds into meaningful organic traffic over time. This guide shows you exactly how to build that system, what tools to use, and how to manage it sustainably.

The Tools That Make This Possible at Zero Cost

Every tool in this stack is genuinely free. No trials, no credit cards, no hidden limits that kick in after a week.

• Make.com — the automation platform that connects everything. The free tier gives you 1,000 operations per month and 2 active scenarios, which is more than enough for a 30-post monthly workflow
• Groq API — free AI inference using LLaMA 3.3 70B. Generates titles, meta descriptions, categories, and full 3,000-word articles at no cost
• Google Sheets — your content queue. You add URLs or topic ideas to a sheet and the automation picks them up automatically
• Unsplash Source API — free relevant featured images pulled automatically based on your blog title keywords, no API key required
• Google Blogger — free blog hosting with a custom domain, a built-in API that Make.com connects to natively, and no hosting costs

If you have not yet set up the core automation that ties all of these together, start with our full tutorial: How to Build a Free AI Blogging System with Make.com, Groq and Blogger. This article assumes that foundation is in place and builds on top of it.

The Math: How 30 Posts a Month Works Within Free Tier Limits

Before building anything, it helps to understand whether the free limits actually support this goal. Here is the operation count for one article published through the automation:

• Google Sheets trigger: 1 operation
• Groq — Blog Title: 1 operation
• Groq — Meta Description: 1 operation
• Groq — Categories and Tags: 1 operation
• Groq — Image Prompt: 1 operation
• Groq — Full Article Content: 1 operation
• Blogger — Publish Post: 1 operation

Total: 7 operations per article. At 30 articles per month, that is 210 operations — well within the free 1,000 limit. You could technically publish up to 142 articles per month before hitting the ceiling. Thirty is a very comfortable target.

On the Groq side, generating a 3,000-word article uses roughly 3,000 to 4,000 output tokens. With a daily limit of around 500,000 tokens on the free tier, you could generate over 100 articles per day if needed. Rate limits are not a concern at the 30-posts-per-month scale. For a full breakdown of Groq's limits, read our guide on Groq API free tier rate limits, best models, and how to never hit the cap.

Step 1: Build Your 30-Topic Content Queue

The most important part of a high-volume publishing strategy is not the automation — it is the topic selection. Publishing 30 pieces of low-quality, generic content will not move the needle. Publishing 30 targeted, longtail, pain-point-focused articles in a coherent niche will build real authority over time.

Here is how to generate 30 solid topics for any niche:

Start with your core topic clusters. If your blog covers affiliate marketing, AI tools, and blogging, split your 30 posts across those clusters — roughly 10 per cluster. This builds topical authority in each area rather than spreading thin across everything.

Use Google's autocomplete and People Also Ask. Type your main keyword into Google and note every autocomplete suggestion. Scroll to the People Also Ask section and capture every question. These are real searches from real people — exactly the longtail queries you want to target.

Target problems, not topics. "Affiliate marketing" is a topic. "Why my affiliate links are not converting despite traffic" is a problem. Problem-focused titles attract readers who are actively looking for a solution — and those readers convert better too.

Include comparison and versus articles. These consistently rank well because they target buyers who are close to making a decision. "Make.com vs Zapier", "Groq vs OpenAI", "Blogger vs WordPress" are all high-intent searches. We covered one of these in detail in our Make.com vs Zapier for bloggers comparison.

Fill your Google Sheet with the 30 URLs or topics. For the automation to work, each row in your sheet should contain a source URL (a relevant article you want your AI to use as context) or a clear topic description. The more specific the input, the better the output.

Step 2: Configure Your Automation for Consistent Daily Publishing

Publishing 30 articles per month works out to roughly one article per day. The simplest way to manage this is to schedule your Make.com scenario to run once per day and process one row from your Google Sheet each time it runs.

Here is how to set this up:

1. In your Make.com scenario, click the Google Sheets trigger module
2. Set it to watch for new rows — it will pick up one new URL each time it runs
3. Go to Scenario Settings and set the schedule to run once per day at a time of your choosing
4. Add your 30 URLs to the sheet one per row — the automation will work through them one at a time, one per day

This approach is more reliable than trying to process all 30 at once. It spreads your publishing evenly across the month, gives Google a consistent signal of fresh content, and keeps you well within both Make.com and Groq's free tier limits. For a full explanation of how Make.com's scheduling and operation limits work, see our guide on Make.com free tier limits explained.

Step 3: Write Prompts That Produce Publishable First Drafts

The quality of your 30 articles depends almost entirely on the quality of your prompts. A weak prompt produces generic, forgettable content. A strong prompt produces structured, specific, genuinely useful articles that readers share and Google rewards.

Here are the prompt principles that consistently produce better output from Groq:

Give it an identity. Start your prompt with a clear persona: "You are a professional content writer for a digital marketing blog targeting bloggers and affiliate marketers in Nigeria and Africa." This anchors the tone and vocabulary to your audience.

Be prescriptive about structure. Tell Groq exactly what the article should include: "Write a minimum of 2,500 words. Include at least 7 H2 headings, one real-world example, a case study, and a 5-question FAQ at the end."

Forbid what you do not want. AI models default to habits that hurt blog posts — padding phrases, markdown formatting, generic conclusions. Add explicit prohibitions: "Never use markdown. Never use asterisks. Never use phrases like 'In conclusion', 'It is worth noting', or 'As an AI language model'. Output pure HTML only."

Include the target keyword. Pass the blog title into the prompt as context so Groq knows what keyword to write around. Map the output of your title module into the content generation prompt so every article is written around its specific title.

Request internal linking hooks. You can even instruct Groq to leave placeholder text where you plan to add internal links: "Where relevant, add the phrase [INTERNAL LINK HERE] as a placeholder for related article links." Then you manually replace these with real links after publishing.

Step 4: Review and Edit Before Going Live

Publishing 30 AI-generated articles per month without any human review is a fast way to build a low-quality blog. The automation handles the heavy lifting — structure, length, formatting — but human editing is what makes content genuinely useful and trustworthy.

A practical editing workflow for high-volume publishing:

• Set all posts to Draft status in the Blogger module so they do not publish automatically
• Schedule 30 minutes each morning to review and approve the previous day's draft
• Check for factual accuracy — AI models occasionally state things confidently that are wrong
• Add one or two personal observations or examples that only you could write
• Add internal links to related articles on your blog — this is the most important SEO step you can take manually
• Change the status to Live once you are satisfied

This workflow keeps you in control of quality while still benefiting from the speed and consistency of automation. The AI gives you a solid 80% — your editing turns it into 100%.

Step 5: Promote Each Article After Publishing

Publishing consistently is only half the equation. Getting early traffic signals to Google — shares, clicks, time on page — helps new articles index and rank faster. For each of your 30 articles, a simple promotion routine makes a meaningful difference.

Share each post to relevant Facebook groups in your niche on the day it goes live. Post a short summary with the link on your Twitter or X profile. Submit the URL to Google Search Console immediately so it gets crawled quickly rather than waiting for Google to discover it organically.

For a deeper look at traffic promotion strategies that work for new blogs, our article on boosting new blog traffic with untapped social media strategies covers specific tactics you can start using today. Combine consistent publishing with consistent promotion and the compounding effect becomes visible within two to three months.

How to Monetise 30 Articles a Month

Consistent publishing at scale creates real monetisation opportunities. Here is how bloggers typically turn a high-volume content strategy into income.

Affiliate marketing is the most natural fit. Each article in your niche is an opportunity to recommend relevant tools, products, or services with affiliate links. At 30 articles per month, you are building a library of content that earns passively from every article that ranks. Our beginner's guide to affiliate marketing explains how to get started, and our guide on blogging for affiliate marketing covers how to structure content for maximum conversions.

Display advertising through Google AdSense or Ezoic becomes viable once your blog hits consistent traffic thresholds. The more content you publish, the more pages you have earning ad impressions, and the faster you reach those thresholds.

Digital products — ebooks, templates, courses — can be promoted across your growing content library. A single product promoted across 30 monthly articles reaches a much wider audience than promoting it on a static page.

Keeping Up With Search Evolution as You Scale

Publishing at volume is a strong strategy, but the way content gets discovered is changing. Google is integrating AI-generated answers directly into search results, and new AI-powered search engines are emerging that surface content differently from traditional keyword ranking.

Understanding these shifts matters for anyone building a long-term content strategy. Our guide on Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) for 2026 covers how to optimise your content not just for Google but for the AI-powered search landscape that is reshaping content discovery right now.

And if your content reaches readers in Europe or you use AI tools that process user data, compliance matters. Our article on GDPR compliant AI tools for Europe 2026 covers which tools in this stack meet the standard.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Will Google penalise me for publishing 30 AI-generated articles per month?
Google's official position is that it rewards helpful, original content regardless of how it was produced. The risk is not AI generation itself — it is thin, low-quality content that does not genuinely help the reader. If your prompts produce well-structured, specific, accurate articles and you add a human editing layer, there is no inherent penalty risk.

Q: How long before 30 articles per month produces noticeable traffic?
For a new or low-authority blog, expect 3 to 6 months before significant organic traffic appears. Longtail keywords in low-competition niches can rank faster — sometimes within weeks. The compounding effect becomes clear around the 90-article mark, when your blog has enough content for Google to recognise topical authority.

Q: Should all 30 articles be in the same niche?
Ideally yes, or at least within closely related topic clusters. Google rewards topical authority — a blog that deeply covers one subject area ranks individual articles better than a blog that covers everything loosely. If your blog spans multiple niches, organise your 30 articles into 2 to 3 tightly focused clusters rather than spreading across 10 different topics.

Q: Can I use this system on WordPress instead of Blogger?
Yes. Replace the Blogger module in Make.com with the WordPress module. Map the same fields — title, content, categories, tags, and excerpt (meta description). The rest of the automation stays identical.

Q: What if Groq returns poor quality content for some articles?
This happens occasionally, usually when the source URL or topic is too vague for Groq to work with. The fix is to make your input more specific — instead of a broad topic like "affiliate marketing tips", use a specific angle like "how to choose affiliate products when you have no audience yet". Specificity in the input consistently produces better output.

Final Thoughts

Publishing 30 blog posts per month for free is not a fantasy — it is a well-defined system that any blogger can build in a weekend. The tools exist, they are free, and the free tier limits are generous enough to support this publishing volume comfortably.

The bloggers who succeed with this approach are the ones who treat the automation as a first-draft engine, not a finished-content machine. Let Groq and Make.com do the heavy lifting on structure and volume. Spend your time on topic selection, quality editing, internal linking, and promotion. That division of labour is what turns a 30-article-per-month system into a blog that actually ranks, earns, and grows.

For the technical foundation of this entire system, revisit our step-by-step setup guide: How to Build a Free AI Blogging System with Make.com, Groq and Blogger. And for understanding how to use Make.com's HTTP modules to call any AI API beyond Groq, our guide on how to use HTTP modules in Make.com to call any free AI API is the next logical read.