I thought our blog was private. Why do we have traffic? How to stop it?

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  mmixlaw · Member · Aug 29, 2011 at 11:08 am

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  I have a couple hits on my blog, but I thought our privacy settings made the page private. How do I double-check this? Is it possible for one or two posts to be public accidentally?
  Blog url: http://extremetorah.wordpress.com/

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  evarlese · Member · Aug 29, 2011 at 7:56 pm

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  Hi there,

  From what I can see, your site is correctly marked as private. The visits that you’re seeing are most likely your own.

  We recently rolled out some new features on our Site Stats page, including counting users’ visits to their blogs. We did this in part to make Stats more informative for users with private blogs:

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