Please Submit Stand-Alone Articles

I just wanted to quickly address an issue that has been popping up more frequently. Please do not submit articles that are parts of series. All submissions should act as stand-alone articles for these reasons:

Customers who purchase one article should not have to purchase another article in order to give their readers the whole picture.
If a customer does purchase only one article in your series, other customers who want the whole picture will be missing 500-800 words (or however long your articles are).
As per our guidelines, all articles should have introductions and conclusions.

You may still submit articles that are tied together, just as long as they can stand alone. For example, you might write 4 articles on the subject of container gardening and wish to tie them together as a "guide" to container gardening. You can do this without making the articles rely upon each other:

Link titles - Container Gardening: Soil; Container Gardening: Types of Plants; Container Gardening: Food and Water Schedule; Container Gardening: Seasonal Containers
Make sure each article has an introduction and conclusion that does not refer to another article in a series. These intros and conclusions should be original, but they may still be similar in order to maintain continuity between the pieces.
Make your keywords for each article similar for search purposes, but do limit them to the individual articles.

Hope this helps. Thanks!

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