How distinguishing my viewings from other's "real" hits???

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    waltspoetsphere · Member ·

    Hi, According to my stats I have had ever a thousand hits. But does that include my viewings of my site? How
    can I tell the difference between the me’s and the them’s?
    Thanks for your help! W. F.

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    waltspoetsphere · Member ·

    HEY, thanks for previous explanation.

    Now, my “Stats” report that I’ve had over 1,000 hits; yet I’ve got only a couple comments. Does that seem as unlikely to you as it does to me?
    Help!

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    waltspoetsphere · Member ·

    waltspoetsphere
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    Jul 27, 2014, 1:30 AM

    HEY, thanks for previous explanation.

    Now, my “Stats” report that I’ve had over 1,000 hits; yet I’ve got only a couple comments. Does that seem as unlikely to you as it does to me?
    Help!

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    shawnajroberts · Member ·

    Hi there!

    I just took a look at your stats here:

    https://wordpress.com/my-stats/?unit=1&blog=36969142

    It looks like you usually have somewhere between two and eight views and one or two visitors to your site each day. Over time, this has accumulated to over 1,000 views.

    Now, to clarify what those statistics can mean, I’ll explain a little bit of the difference between a view and a visitor. One visitor can view several pages of your site. If you look at the stats page I linked to above, you’ll see that most days have one visitor and several views. July 23rd has one visitor and two views while July 22nd has one visitor and 8 views.

    Because of this views to visitor ratio, it doesn’t seem unlikely that you would have over 1,000 views over the past two years, but not many comments.

    If you’re interested in increasing traffic to your site, here are some tips:

    Increase Your Site’s Traffic

    And if you’re interested in increasing the number of comments on your site, try to prompt your audience for feedback in your posts. A lot of people will write their post, and close with a quick question for their readers like “Have you experience this too? Let me know how you handled it in the comment!”

    Let me know if I can help further!

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    waltspoetsphere · Member ·

    Hi, Shawna!
    Thanks for the reply and links. I conclude from what you say that a “view” is something less than what is called a “hit.” Be that the case, it's still somewhat gratifying and surprising to me.
    Do you think my site name “waltspoetshere” too clumsy?. Might a better, shorter name draw more casual visits? Is that kind of change feasible?

    Lastly, what's an “outbound link”?

    Thanks again!

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    shawnajroberts · Member ·

    Do you think my site name “waltspoetshere” too clumsy?. Might a better, shorter name draw more casual visits? Is that kind of change feasible?

    You can definitely change your blog address. Here’s quick guide on doing that:

    http://en.support.wordpress.com/changing-blog-address/

    It’s likely that choosing a simpler name might make it easier for people to remember.

    I have another quick suggestion for driving up your “casual visits”. Here at WordPress.com, we make it really easy for users to search for content based on a particular topic. We do this by sorting posts based on Categories and Tags.

    For example, here’s the most recent posts with the tag or category of “Poetry”:

    https://wordpress.com/tag/poetry/

    You can start adding tags and categories to your own posts through the editor, you’ll find the modules on the right under the publish button. As an example, if you post a recipe for brownies on your blog, you’d probably want to use Categories like “Dessert” and “Baking” and Tags like “Chocolate,” “Brownies,” and “Walnuts.”

    Please note that if you have more than 15 tags and categories, we won’t show your post under the Reader tags. So its a good idea to keep your tags focused so that users can easily search for your content.

    Lastly, what’s an “outbound link”?

    Outbound links are links on your site that lead to somewhere outside of your domain space. For example, we’re on forums.wordpress.com here. If I added a link to google.com, that would be an outbound link because in order to visit it, you’d need to leave “my” site (forums.wordpress.com).

    Does that clarify things? Let me know if you have more questions! I’m happy to help!

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