Blog stat views to deleted post?

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  seemaloni · Member · Nov 16, 2011 at 12:35 am

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  I have been searching the forums and can’t find an answer:

  In my blog stats, I keep getting lots views to an apparent deleted post: http://sparklingandsweet.com/?p=2147483647. I can’t figure out how to get rid of it completely (already emptied trash) and also the link on the deleted post doesn’t allow it to go back to the homepage.

  Help!?
  Blog url: http://sparklingandsweet.wordpress.com/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 16, 2011 at 12:45 am

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  Is it possible that your post is still linked to elsewhere?

  If so, that’s where the views are coming from. They should eventually die down.

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  seemaloni · Member · Nov 16, 2011 at 12:53 am

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  I tried looking and can’t find where it could be linked. Hoping it dies down!

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 16, 2011 at 12:56 am

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  It should die down, I’d give it a week.

  More than likely, it’s just subscribers trying to read it for the first time.

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  seemaloni · Member · Nov 16, 2011 at 1:31 am

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  Thanks- it has been like this for a couple of weeks..

  Anyway I can edit the 404 to actually redirect to my homepage with the “return to homepage” link? It doesn’t seem to be working

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 16, 2011 at 9:17 am

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  That could be the problem. If the page is redirecting, it’s not issuing a true 404 error to remove it from search engines and other such things.

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  seemaloni · Member · Nov 19, 2011 at 12:09 am

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  more views on the deleted post than on my regular ones :( desperate now to figure this out!

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 20, 2011 at 11:21 pm

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  Are you still have your error page redirect, or is it returning a true 404?

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  seemaloni · Member · Nov 21, 2011 at 12:51 am

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  it doesn’t redirect when you click on ‘return to the homepage’ it just stays on the not found page. http://sparklingandsweet.com/?p=2147483647

  Still getting tons of views :(

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 21, 2011 at 12:58 am

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  It’s going to take time for those to disappear from search engines. As long as it’s 404ing, the search engines should remove the listing eventually, and folks will stop finding them.

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  seemaloni · Member · Nov 21, 2011 at 10:51 pm

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  is it possible with the way my blog is set up, that it does that everytime clicks on a link to a specific post on the homepage?

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  designsimply · Member · Nov 22, 2011 at 1:40 pm

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  I’m looking into this problem to see if we can get it fixed. Could you please tell me if you have imported from Tumblr in the past at all?

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  seemaloni · Member · Nov 22, 2011 at 8:33 pm

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  yes, most posts prior to late October are tumblr

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  designsimply · Member · Nov 22, 2011 at 10:19 pm

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  Okay, the Tumblr import is causing a problem. It’s a known issue and we are working toward a fix. I will need to get some help to update your blog manually in the mean time. Hopefully we’ll be able to update it by the end of the week.

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  seemaloni · Member · Nov 22, 2011 at 10:25 pm

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  thank you! I appreciate it

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  designsimply · Member · Nov 22, 2011 at 10:33 pm

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  Thanks for your patience. :)

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  designsimply · Member · Dec 28, 2011 at 2:53 pm

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  Blog post IDs for http://sparklingandsweet.com/ have been fixed, and this should fix stats for the blog from this point forward. Thanks again for your patience!