Low stats?

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  tinyfiction1 · Member · Jun 24, 2012 at 2:51 pm

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  Hello. My stats always seem low. For instance, I get a few likes for some of my posts but no visits recorded. Surely for this to happen, someone has to at least look at my home page?

  Although I don’t get many hits, I’d like to know how this works / if I need to change a setting so I can see trends – whether I’m getting more hits as I post more!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Jun 24, 2012 at 2:55 pm

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  Followers can read your posts in many places and even click “like” buttons without ever entering the blog and creating a page view stat. Those who have username accounts only but no blog can become followers and click the “like” button.

  There are several different ways that readers can start following your blog.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/following/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/followers/

  Your blog followers is the sum of the following:

  • WordPress.com blog followers
  • Any followers from connected Publicize services (Facebook, Twitter, Messenger Connect, Yahoo!, or LinkedIn), which you can check in Settings -> Sharing

  Go to your site stats page and click Totals, Followers & Shares
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#totals-followers-shares

  Click the Blog link under the number and the Site Stats » My Followers page will open. Click the Email Followers link.

  As I said above a follower or anyone with a WordPress.com username account can click the “like” button without visiting your blog and creating a page view stat.

  • A follower can click the “like” button when viewing your posts in the Readomatic reader on the home page of WordPress.com
  • A follower can click the “like” button when viewing your posts on the Topics pages.
  • A follower can click the “like” button when viewing your posts when using an app.
  • An email subscriber can click the “like” button in the email they receive of your new posts without visiting your blog.

  P.S. To compel readers to click into my blog to read the full post I have set my RSS Feed to “summary” on this page > Settings > Reading