Can I trust my stats?
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I have been checking my stats, I have had 18 views yesterday and the same little box that tells me that is telling me I have 26 posts published, but I’ve only published 7. Does anyone know what is going on here?
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Are you looking at the bottom of your “Blog Stats” page on armchairbibler.wordpress.com? (Dashboard > Blog Stats)
This is what I am seeing:
Totals:
Posts: 8
Categories: 13
Tags: 63Everything looks ok.
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On my blog stats page, when I hover my mouse over the graph for the 19th September, it says that I have had 18 views and 26 posts published. I’ve only had I think 8 posts published, but I have been updating the text of some of my posts – does that account for the difference?
Please can you also tell me, if I do update a post after it has been published, does the updated version go out to email and rss subscribers?
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@armchairbibler
Your blog is new. It will take time and a of a lot more content before your published posts appear in the SERPs.
Your blog is indexed by Google (1 results).
Your blog is indexed by Bing (3 results).Have you consulted this support documentation entry so you understand how wordpress.com stats operate? http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ If you feel you need additional visitor tracking then these free non-javascript third-party stats programs are available that can be used on wordpress.com blogs
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/tag/visitor-tracking/Two classic mistakes newbie bloggers make are obsessing over stat,s and devoting energy to updating published posts rather than creating new content.
Chronic updating designed to game search engine positioning is NOT good practice. Don’t do it, unless you are prepared for sustain the wrath of Google. We update ONLY when we have fresh and relevent information to insert into a previously published post. Moreover, creating a new post and backlinking to an earlier one is better practice than updating is.
When we publish posts they automatically display under the categories and tags that we assign to each post on the wordpress.COM global tag pages. In response to those who insisted upon spamdexing and other despicable practices like editing date and time stamps and chronically updating but posting no new information to existing published posts wordpress.com software was re-programmed. A published post will ONLY display on the wordpress.com global tag pages in accord with the original date/time stamp on it.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/global-tags/Please can you also tell me, if I do update a post after it has been published, does the updated version go out to email and rss subscribers?
No it does not.
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I was looking at the wrong place on Stats, now I see what you mean. Thanks!
We will be looking into this issue further and let you know when we have more updates.Email notification is sent out when you publish a new post. Changes on existing posts will not generate any notification email. If you have co-author of the blog and want to make sure they know what you changed, you can use this new feature:
Email Post ChangesYour RSS feed will be updated when you make changes. How it is handled differs from one RSS reader to another, and it depends of the subscriber’s own settings; it’s not likely that the changes are notified in any special way.
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@timethief,
I posted mine before seeing yours. Thanks for adding some tips.@armchairbibler
Published posts tooltip on the stats chart is now fixed.
It’s now showing the sum of published blog posts and static pages from that day – it will say “X articles published” instead of “X posts”.Thank you for pointing this out!
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