Incorrect statistics?

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  sunflower070707 · Member · Apr 6, 2013 at 7:42 pm

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  I wonder if you could help clear up some confusion over my stats for me please? My blog is a fairly new one, I have had a number of days where the stats on my blog say there are only 1 or even 0 visitors to my blog yet I have lots of emails every day saying I have x number of like and x number of new followers. What am I missing?!

  Thank you :)

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  sunflower070707 · Member · Apr 6, 2013 at 7:56 pm

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  (Just to add, I’ve done a search already but it didn’t seem to give the answer to this, even the one with a link regarding how stats are collated – it didn’t seem to fit this question!)

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Apr 6, 2013 at 7:56 pm

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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 in email and the Reader without ever clicking into your blog and creating a page view stat.

  Consider this please: If you provide full posts in your feed then what incentive is there for any readers to click into the blog and create a page view stats?

  See here for what I do to compel readers to read posts on my site > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/07/09/wordpress-followers-likes-and-stats

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  sunflower070707 · Member · Apr 6, 2013 at 8:06 pm

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  Thank you, that all makes a huge amount of sense! I’ve changed the reader thing as suggested – will see what difference it makes! :)

  Thanks for the quick reply!

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Apr 6, 2013 at 8:08 pm

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  You’re welcome and do know that the Reader is just one of several locations that others can click the “like” button without even reading the full post on the blog.

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  sunflower070707 · Member · Apr 6, 2013 at 8:11 pm

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  Oh gosh, are there more places?! Mind you, what is the consequence to having low recorded stats? I’ve only been writing the blog for a couple of weeks so this is all a bit new to me! Is there a ranking system or other benefits to getting more recorded views?

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Apr 6, 2013 at 8:13 pm

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  Stats are relevant in the context of money making, but if you don’t blog to make money they are indicators of the how many bloggers appreciate what you publish.

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  sunflower070707 · Member · Apr 6, 2013 at 8:23 pm

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  Well I never knew you could make money from blogs, you learn something every day!