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There are always good times and bad times in article writing: the good times are when views roll in on your articles and the bad times coincide with a complete drought of viewers. Many writers get very annoyed and impatient when the mass drought happens. However, many writers, including myself, have noticed that there is currently a drought of viewership on Expertscolumn right now. Many writers are wondering "what happened to their views?" With research and help from other columnists, I came to a conclusion about the problem.
The problem was the server upgrades that the Expertscolumn staff was doing behind the scenes. The website was going down and coming back up in a manic way for a couple of weeks. I am not, in any way, blaming the staff of Expertscolumn as they are just trying to make our experiences in writing better with the new servers. We applaud the staff for their help! But the viewers do not see it that way.
Viewers are probably more impatient than the writers are. If a viewer clicks on a website that is going up and then going down again, they are not going to want to go back to that website to read anything. The viewer would not consider the website a well-put-together source and therefore, would make all attempts to avoid that website. I think that many viewers were turned off by the upgrade and the fact that most of our stories were not getting to them, so in retrospect, they stopped coming to read.
The views you are currently getting at this time are probably other Expertscolumn writers who know the situation. However, a random viewer would not understand this situation as they do not use the website regularly. I have noticed that many writers on Expertscolumn have given up and stopped posting, knowing their viewership will not be the same, but be patient. After every drought is a rainfall, and with the rainfall will come a flood of views. The best way to get our old viewers back is to keep posting and referring to the Expertscolumn website. It is the only way to regain our old mojo.
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I see this article was from a few months back, but I've just arrived here and have been getting lots of views. I hope it continues. :) Thanks for the nice article, it had a good sense of hope and positive attraction.
It has gotten much better at this point! At this time a few months, we were getting annoyed as heck. They were switching servers and we were losing mammoth-sized amounts of views.
You are right R. Turk. There have been server ups and downs since last few days and this certainly affects the reputation of a site. But such days are soon going to be over now with the addition of one more server to site. It's better to get spoiled for once instead of getting ruined again and again due to same cause.
I ensure you that today would be the last day for those ups/downs. From tomorrow onwards such lapses will not occur anymore as site would be powered by two servers instead of one now.
Regarding visitors, they will start building up again once the server becomes stable. Members are requested to continue with their efforts as usual and help us grow bigger now. The Bigger, The Better!
Thank you for the detailed response.
Thanks for explaining. I was wondering what was going on behind the scenes.
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