Broken number of followers in the follow button

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  juliasimplethings · Member · May 26, 2015 at 4:15 pm

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  Greetings!

  I have a following problem. I have created my blog some months ago and left it be. Even then I had a problem with my Follow via Email button. It shows that I have 44 followers, which is not true, and removing this widget and installing it back doesn’t help. I had a follower to subscribe (before I removed my blog posts), the number of followers updated, but it is still too much. Sort of, it was, for instance, 43, now it’s 44. Is it possible to fix it please? Thank you in advance!

  Have a great day.
  Julia

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · May 26, 2015 at 4:28 pm

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  Are you referring to WordPress.COM blog followers which includes your Publicize (social network) followers found ay this link?
  https://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers

  Or are your referring to your email only followers found at this link?
  https://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers&type=email

  Additional information:
  Our followers control their own subscriptions and the frequency of receipt of our posts. We cannot subscribe or unsusbribe for them and have no control of frequency of post receipt by followers.

  Our stats are not real time stats and take time to update. There are frequent fluctuations that most do not notice because we aren’t watching the process. For details see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ and note the views and viewers take hours to update.

  Our stats are page view stats. But please do not assume that everyone who clicks a follow, like, share, reblog or comment link actually reads the post on your blog because odds are they may not.

  Follow, like, share, reblog or comment clicks are not page views. In fact, follows, likes, shares, comments and reblogs are completely misleading when you are talking about page view stats.

  Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com/Gravatar account who is logged into WordPress.com can “follow” your blog, “like”, “share” and “reblog” your posts and “comment” in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a single page view stat. Subscribers control how frequently they receive your posts (instantly, daily, weekly) and can comment without clicking into the blog.

  Logged in visitors using a mobile can read the full post without creating a page view stat. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpresscom-reader-show-full-text?replies=31#post-1373606

  You can control the length of the entry sent out on your RSS feed here Dashboard > Settings > Reading. Choose the “summary” setting for your RSS feed rather than to “full text”. That will compel followers who are not using mobiles to click into the blog to read the full post which will create a page view stat.

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  juliasimplethings · Member · May 26, 2015 at 5:03 pm

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  Thank you for a quick reply.

  I am reffering to email only followers. If you follow the link to my blog, you will see that under the “follow via email” button there is a number 44 which I insist is broken or something, because on my other blog it works correctly.