Following v. liking v. stats
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Greetings. Your input would be greatly appreciated.
I have no traffic according to my stats. I’m ok with that really.
However, I get emails saying I have likes.
I get emails saying I have followers, and I do see that on my stats.
How do I get likes and followers and even 3 comments….if no one every visited my page? (The comment person actually did visit but it wasn’t reflected in stats.)
What is going on here?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
Our stats are not real time stats. For details see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ and note the views and viewers take hours to update. Provided you are logged in when visiting, your own views are not recorded on any public blog you registered. http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/Please do not assume that everyone who clicks a like button actually reads the post on your blog because odds are they may not.
Also note that those who follow your blog in the Reader or by email don’t have to click into the blog unless they wish to.
Likes and shares and comments and reblogs and follows are not page views. In fact, 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 in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a single page view stat.
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 > 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.
Our stats are not real time stats. For details see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ and note the views and viewers take hours to update.
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Thank you. I know it’s not impatience on my part as I am looking at the last week, not the last few minutes. But you have clarified many questions.
I assume people who click “like” do so just to drive traffic to their page?
Where are people actually seeing my page at all by the way? Search tags searches?
Thank you, Timetheif.
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I assume people who click “like” do so just to drive traffic to their page?
Yes there are some that do that but gravatars are not linked to blogs usernames are. Gravatar images are linked to gravatar profile pages http://en.gravatar.com/
Where are people actually seeing my page at all by the way? Search tags searches?
Yes. The Tags search page is in the Reader area of the Dashboard is at this link. http://wordpress.com/tags/
The WordPress.com search engine indexes post, pages, and comments content (body text). Unless entered as text in those contents, blog name, post titles, and post/comment author names are not indexed. http://en.support.wordpress.com/wordpresscom-search/
For Topics (Tags page) searches see http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/ This is the syntax http://en/wordpress.com/tags/canada
See here http://wordpress.com/#!/read/topics/For Google searches use this format and replace “keyword” with whatever word or keyword phrase you wish:
keyword site:wordpress.com/Example search string
Queen Victoria site:wordpress.com
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