Articles In A Series - Ensure You Make Each Article Submission Stand On Its Own

When you have a great idea for several related articles, it's so tempting to try to produce an article series. You might well do that and it really can be very helpful to your writing process, but please ensure that you are creating your series specifically with a view to article markeing.

This article contains some great tips for creating an article series in a way that works with free reprint articles.

You've seen the lines of people waiting to get in to see the latest Harry Potter movie. It's as though each new movie, the the number fans gets bigger and even more interest is generated.

Alas, it is simply not always when you are working with free reprint articles.

When you are producing articles as part of a series, it's important that you do not mention Part One, Part Two, Part Three, etc. Every article needs to be able to stand on its own and not mention the other articles.

In the article body, it is best not to try to connect the present article to any others by saying things like, "Last time I was telling you about..." or "This is the 3 part of a 6 part series..." or anything like that.

You need to assume that the reader will be looking at only one of your online article submissions and that she/he will not have your other articles to refer to.

What's the reason for not mentioning Part 1, Part 2, etc.?

Not mentioning any parts in your title or article body gives your article the greatest potential readership. You see, publishers can be discouraged from accepting articles that say Part 1, 2, or whatever.

It's not certain that the publisher would like to publish all the parts of your article series, but she/he may want to publish just a couple of your articles. Let's just say for example, that you have a series of six articles tied to each other. It is entirely possible that a publisher could look through the series and say, "Well I like parts 1 and 3, but I'm just not interested the others. But I can't publish just these two, because it would really confuse my readers. Oh well, I'll just not publish any of them."

Seeing a title that's a part of a series can be a turn off for a reader as well. The reader won't necessarily see every part of your series. Most likely They'll just be face to face with one of your articles. If he or she sees that it is Part 5, it can be discouraging because he may think that they have missed too much information to be able to understand this 5th part.

So, why would you produce an article series?

It's really important that you do not me wrong—writing a series can be extremely helpful to you as a writer.

Writing in a series really helps you to get your momentum going with your writing. It can also help you write content that more thoroughly covers your niche and generates ideas more easily.

The only thing to be sure of is that each article stands on its own and does not reference the other articles. That way you're happy because you've got your article series going (in secret--no one else knows about it!), and publishers and readers are happy because they are presented with articles that look complete in themselves.

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