OpEdNews.com has recently added a new feature-- Series Creation-- that's great for writers-- that I think will dramatically readership of your articles, particularly older ones that are no longer on the front page.
The widget enables you to group articles with the same theme or topic together.
It's really easy to do. Just log in, then go to your article archive. There's an Assign Series button after the description of each article in your archive. Click on it, then assign the article to an existing series you've already created or create a new series, then add the article to it.
The series title and the title and links to the first ten articles in the series will be included at the end of each article in the series.
Here's an FAQ on it:
You can use the tool to pull together articles you've already posted, and you can use it for new articles. People are more likely to read shorter articles, so you may want to take new, longer articles and break them into parts that you combine in a series.
In a few days you will also be able to include polls, diaries and quicklinks in your Article Series.
This is worth investing the time it takes to go through all of your articles on the site.
I've put some time into working on my archives. Here's how I suggest you do it: Browse your articles, look for common themes, then create a series for each theme. It's fine to include an article in more than one series.
Who knows where this will take you. A number of members have taken a collection of their articles and turned them into books. Premium membership even makes it easy to download all your articles into one MS WORD file. We'll also soon make it possible, with a premium membership, to create MS WORD files for article series.
Give it a try and, if you have a premium membership, watch your page views rise.
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