Facebook Referrer

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  moderntromance · Member · Aug 2, 2017 at 8:39 pm

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  As my website is in the beginning stages, I have been very careful not to link it to Facebook. I am curious as to why one of my ‘referrers’ came from Facebook? Could this be a mistake?

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  kaitwaters · Member · Aug 2, 2017 at 8:46 pm

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  Hello,

  Can you please clarify where you are seeing the referral that states it is from Facebook?

  Off the top of my head, perhaps you are seeing a pingback that means someone found your site and shared one of your posts on Facebook?

  Please let me know and we will be happy to help.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 2, 2017 at 9:14 pm

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  I believe you may be referring to your stats https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#referrers

  WordPress.COM social network icons for sharing https://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/ you posts display the number of times people visited the actual post/page and clicked to share it. WordPress.COM does not have access to the share counts for shares made on the social networking sites themselves.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 2, 2017 at 9:14 pm

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  Note this support doc for auto sharing https://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/