How many people are following my blog thru email?
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Hello,
I am a bit confused as to how many people are truly following my blog (those that signed up with email). When I’m on my homepage it says 220 poeple are following my blog, but when I go to the link of my actual followers it only shows like 56? How is this possible? Thank you.
Carmen
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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All followers using the WordPress.COM Reader including Publicize followers are at this link https://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers
Those who follow by email only are at this link https://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers&type=email
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May I please inform you a bit further?
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.
Our stats are page view stats. 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. Those who follow your blog in the Reader or by email don’t have to click into the blog unless they wish to. And, they can even comment without clicking into the blog either.
Follows, likes, shares reblogs and comments 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 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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I understand that, but then why does my homepage say 220 are following?
I don’t know why that is and I tagged this thread for a Staff response. Please subscribe to it so you are notified when they respond.
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That was my question, not the one about stats.
Bu thank you for your help, how do I subscribe tot he new thread?
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Look under every comment box
_ Notify me of followup posts via e-mail
Look for the subscribe to topic link in the sidebar of this thread
Choose one or the other. :) -
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