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How do you get your Blog to Crash

If you host your site independently (or else have a service that's affected by visitor numbers) there's a good chance we will ruin your website.

Long-time internet users will recognize this as the Slashdot effect, in which a large site overwhelms a smaller one by a flood of traffic. Even Matticus who is able to handle a large amount of hits, has crashed this year due to WoW.com links, thus inspiring the name of this article in an in-channel discussion.

To quote Arnold Toynbee, we are an enormous, friendly dog in a small space. When we look over your posts and notice something we like (...that did not come out in the way I had hoped) we will are able to wag our tails and throw your server over. Before you ask for a link, ensure you have a realistic estimate of how much traffic you can handle. A spike that knocks your website offline will make it difficult for users to remember to return and click again. They'll encounter a site error, and often not remember to come back.

Sometimes, depending on the subject matter your traffic might not increase all that much. However, we apologize in advance for the possibility of being linked on a day Blizzard releases patch notes or anything else.
DATCHLEY IS BLOGGING

The easiest method to make us laugh is by jumping up and down, howling that you haven’t been connected.

Even if you have submitted an application, there are many reasons why we may not be able to link you.

Your words may not be relevant to the article we are working on.

Your article could be relevant to an article that was published recently or in the queue that has yet to be written.

Most often, we get overwhelmed and a writer who could've utilized your link didn't notice it.

Your site is riddled with spelling and grammatical mistakes and we're sure that your commenters will find it annoying.

Your website is full of sexual images, cussing, or other profane content and we have no desire to engage by you.

A note of personal interest: If you have ever been mean to another blogger and I discover it that you did, you will not receive an email from us.

There is an excellent chance that your blog post falls into one of these categories. Before you send us an email or comment be sure to look over your blog. Make sure there aren't any images of women in scanty clothing on your sidebars, and that your post doesn't cause an English teacher scream. If not, then #3 is very likely. Send us a different link, but please don't include a note that accuses us of being a hateful organization. We don't like people who feel entitled.

Because we get so many submissions that are simply a link, yours will stand out if include a short blurb on the subject of your post or if you think a particular columnist in your class could benefit from it. We want to share great posts! It shouldn't take too long to determine what your post is!

The second method to make us smile is to jump up and down howling that you did get linked.

We don't like being inundated because you don't want any attention to your post that is publicly accessible on a public blog or forum. You can't put anything on the internet that isn't private.

We link people because we think that they wrote something interesting or cool, not to get them in trouble. We're not clairvoyant and aren't able to tell if what you wrote is going to cause you to be in trouble. Many of the WoW.com team members are part of social media platforms that allow members to "lock down" posts to other members of a community. We consider locking a post by the poster to mean it's not available to linking. If the post isn't locked, it's still available to everyone who visits the community regardless of whether they are members. If you do not want something to be linked, but you're writing on a publicly or semi-public site, speak to your community members about what you post and what you don't want it to be made public. 99 percent of the time it was someone from the community who sent the information to us because they thought it was cool. We agreed.

The bottom line is don't put anything online that you wouldn't want your mother to read.

Don't be alarmed if your traffic is slowing.

The majority of websites eventually develop traffic patterns that reflect the actual public for their content. Because it's hard and time-consuming for bloggers to write effectively about multiple classes, they tend to only write about a specific aspect of a particular class. However, this limits the potential audience for your blog. If you're writing about, say, Holy Paladins, then Affliction Warlocks will not visit your blog via a Google hit, or be interested in the guides that you create. They're not your target audience and it's not your personal. Your traffic won't always look like a continuous rising line on graphs. If you produce good material that helps people understand and access quality information, and keep building an impressive archive, don't be concerned about your numbers. You're doing your job.

Be patient.

Rome wasn't built in one day. It's unlikely to see 50K pageviews every month or even two months. Keep going keep going, we're here to help you.

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