Is circulation increased when you start a blog?

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  wordzmith12 · Member · Feb 4, 2014 at 4:36 am

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  I’m curious about a dramatic drop-off in popularity of my new blog, http://www.travelingpoet.net. Either people all of a sudden don’t like my content, my header image, or… Is it possible that my numbers when I first started are padded? Does wordpress give new blogs more circulation in the first couple weeks? –Bill

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  eurello · Staff · Feb 4, 2014 at 9:42 pm

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  Hi Bill,

  No, we definitely don’t do that. Your stat fluctuations look entirely normal to me. We have some tips on how to build your traffic here that might be helpful:
  http://learn.wordpress.com/get-connected/

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  wordzmith12 · Member · Feb 4, 2014 at 10:00 pm

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  I’ve gone from 5 likes/post to one or two. May have happened when I switched header image

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  eurello · Staff · Feb 4, 2014 at 11:10 pm

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  Hi Bill,

  Your header image would have no effect on your site’s traffic. Getting a varying number of likes on each post is normal. :)

  I’d just keep going!

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  wordzmith12 · Member · Feb 4, 2014 at 11:28 pm

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  Thanks!!