is it possible the "Clicks" stats are off?
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Hello,
My posts are nothing if not just a bunch of links collected for users to click and view at external webpages so I’m curious if the “Click” stats are off/not working because according to the stats, folks view my posts but aren’t clicking on any of the links which are everywhere. This is something I’m noticing not just today but everyday.
Maybe it truly is the case that folks are just reading the text and not clicking on the links or just glancing on and off the page but I was just wondering if there’s a possibility that the Click stats are off.
Here’s my stats for today: http://justonemoreclick.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/stats-september-18-2012/?preview=true&preview_id=1895&preview_nonce=afb88c0b77
I know my stats are low but I’d like to make it work so that what little viewers I do get will get the most out of the posts they happen upon–the links.
Anybody notice this? Or am I just not understanding stuff?
Thanks…
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Well, having looked at your site a snippet of text followed by a ton of internal links is not tremendously tempting.
Links WITHIN the blog don’t count as clicks. Only outbound links count as clicks.
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Did you just looking at the Home, About or intro posts? Because most of the other posts are filled with external, outbound links, not internal.
Every page or post has all the internal links at the bottom for easy navigation but most of the posts–aside from the aforementioned–have external, outbound links.
Thanks for your response thus far…
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Web stats of any kind should never be considered as anything more than estimates.
Could yours be off? Possibly. Maybe even probably.
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I clicked into one of the posts and found the entire text was embedded with external links. Surely you don’t expect readers to click out on all of them, do you? I found the number of external links in the text to be such an annoyance that I can’t even recall what the text was attempting to communicate. I clicked out feeling thoroughly peeved of.
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@raincoaster,
if you wanna give it a shot, try (or any of the episode 04’s): http://justonemoreclick.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/04-6b-once-upon-a-time-in-youtubeepisode-6b/@timethief,
sorry i found a way to annoy you to the point of being thoroughly peeved off, but believe it or not, that’s good to know…@notawoodpecker,
dunno what to say except sadness. -
Yesterday and today I have gotten “likes” and follows on my blog but the views are not showing up. For example- 6 likes between yesterday and today for 1 specific post, but only 3 views. This makes no sense so there is an issue here. I would like to know what I have to do to fix this.
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No kidding! Thank you very much I didn’t realize. So it’s likely we are reaching more people than you can see from the official stats page. Is there some way to track this?
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Track what? You already know if someone ‘likes’ from the Reader. You can’t track what people are viewing from the Reader unless they click on it. The Reader is on infinite scroll and has hundreds and hundreds of posts.
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so i put up today’s stats page to question the “Clicks” stats again.
today, it shows one click to WordPress.com which is totally weird because i don’t have any links to WordPress.com.
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sorry, here’s the link:
http://justonemoreclick.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1912&action=edit&message=6 -
having a bad day.
here it is:
http://justonemoreclick.wordpress.com/2012/09/20/stats-september-20-2012/FINALLY!
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Really don’t get the issue here. Stats are irrelevant.
You seem to be spending a whole lot of time worrying about something that doesn’t matter.
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@notawoodpecker
Perhaps the preponderance of clicks are specifically designed to drive traffic to specific sites and the concern is focused on that not being successful.
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