How should I interpret your stats?

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  reggiebecker · Member · Oct 15, 2012 at 4:41 pm

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  Hello all:

  I have friends telling me they visited my blog. Yesterday, I got three likes on my latest post. Yet, for the past few days your stats read that I had zero readers. How are these people reading my blog without being detected/acknowledged by your visitor’s counter? Thank you for letting me know.
  Blog url: http://mylifeasasquirrel.wordpress.com/

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 16, 2012 at 1:13 am

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  If they came through the Blog Reader, they aren’t counted as a hit.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 16, 2012 at 2:26 am

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  Likes and shares are misleading when you are talking about page view stats. Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com blog who is logged into WordPress.com can “like” and “share” your posts in several locations such as the Reader without ever clicking into your blog and creating a page view stat.

  I choose to reduce my RSS Feed to “summary” here > Settings > Reading
  For each article in a feed, show
  Full text
  Summary
  Doing that compels followers to click in and read the full post on my blogs.

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  reggiebecker · Member · Oct 17, 2012 at 6:23 pm

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  Thank you for your reply and suggestion. I am somewhat new to this and I am always learning. Thank you again.