Article Parts
An article rant: We are not “article parts friendly”. Never were. Frankly, this site is not the right type of site to submit articles in “parts” so please consider not sending in articles in parts…but rather, send in multiple short articles that can stand alone.
We have no mechanisms in place to help associate articles that are done in parts…and this is on purpose.
80% of our traffic lands directly on a specific article.
If your article is in parts and we have no mechanism to associate the parts, the viewer of your article is stuck with the problem of having to go find your other parts.
Can someone tell me what the reason or point is that you would even consider doing an article in parts rather than several separate stand alone short articles?… especially when engaging in article syndication wtih a site like ours?
It just never occured to me to write in parts for this type of site.
This blog post comes out of my thinking in terms of article sets rather than article parts.
Chris I can’t help but wonder if some people are thinking that sets and parts mean the same thing. While the distinction is clear to me, it may not be to others.
The key phrase here is “stand alone.”
One large 1,000 word article can be broken down into 3 or 4 parts, Part 1, Part 2 etc. but if Part 2 makes little or no sense without Part 1, it is of little use.
The same 1,000 word article can be edited down to be a smaller, and perhaps better article, OR broken down into 2, 3 or 4 separate articles that can “stand alone.” Then you have multiplied your efforts.
In my humble opinion,
Jeff
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