question re: articles

[gatitosmommy]

I've been thinking about writing a series of articles on a topic, but am not sure where to post them.
priorities: getting the largest possible # of readers; not dealing with editors who want to change everything; and not having swarms of comments.

while I think AC/Y would be ideal, I already have a page there, and don't really want these particular articles to get "lost in the shuffle."

I know about Hubpages, Ezine, & Helium, but don't know if they'd meet my priorities.
starting my own blog probably wouldn't cut it, as I have no idea how to get people to go there.

anyone have suggestions?
thanks!

[skcandles]

Article sites still require you to drive traffic. So you may want to start a blog. you an get traffic by finding the correct keywords, submitting it to various directories, posting to social media, putting it in your signature where you can and many other places.

[jwinter]

As far as your priorities go the major self publishing sites such as Hubpages, Squidoo, etc have the same number of visitors in general. The key is not how many visitors the site itself has. It's about driving those people to your articles in particular. If a site gets 10k visitors a day that doesn't do you any good if none of them know about your article. So self marketing is a lot more important in that case.

None of them have editors per say. You won't have an editor asking you to change your work, reword your work or requesting rewrites. You may have less traffic and have to tweek your writing but no editors are there.

As far as comments I'm not sure why you don't want a lot of comments or if it is you do not want negative or random comments. Comments are part of what drives readers to your articles. Think of it like this. If you have a comment by someone and they like your article they might be the one that refers the article to their friends list of Facebook. Those friends refer other friends and so on. If you limit the comments you limit that free marketing interaction and in essence limit the readers/viewers of your articles. If you simply don't want certain comments or random comments you can (with most all self publish sites) set the comments to be on approval only or they have to be by registered members. This means you can have complete control over what comments are there. Just remember no comments means no free marketing.

Hope that helps.

[CJWrite]

WHat about puuting them together in an e-book?