Need to be able to see number of views in WordPress Reader
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I did not download WordPress, but use the Online hosting of wordpress. I know you can change the settings to force someone to visit your blog to see the whole post, but I know not as many people would read a post if forced to visit a site.
There needs to be a way to record how many people are reading in WordPress Reader without visiting the site. I am able to see if someone likes a post in the Reader, so there must me a way to record the view.
Being a ‘Small Fish’ Blogger can be discouraging, but it is even more discouraging if they think no one is reading a post because it is being read in only the Reader. (They do not often know of the ability to switch to preview only in the reader.)
I think the Happiness Engineers at WordPress should put some thought into this. As they want to keep the small fish bloggers motivated. Unmotivated Bloggers just give up.
It can be hard to stay motivated through the beginning stages of Blogging. Happiness Engineers need to think of ways to keep the small fish just as much as the big fish. For motivated small fish make it through the tough patches to become big fish.
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I know you can change the settings to force someone to visit your blog to see the whole post, but I know not as many people would read a post if forced to visit a site.
Note that when a reader fails to read a full post in the Reader there is no stat created. In fact, the only people who will click through to read the full post are those who are actually interested in the content in the post. Consequently, you don’t get queered stats from those who are not interested in the content.
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I have blogged for 10 years and want to say this in as nice a way as I can muster. Staff are here to support us learning how to blog and to address our technical support issues only.
They are not psychologists and expecting them to act in any way to motivate us to blog sounds to me like the cry of a person who needs get their act together, commit to blogging regularly, become their own motivational coach, and learn how to motivate themselves.
I value each and every thoughtful comment and place very little value on like button clicks. Like button clicks have replaced thoughtful comments and the advent of social networks driving a flood of “traffic” ie. disinterested button clickers and selfie posters ro our sites has nor resulted in topically focused relationship building at all.
Here are some tips re: increasing organic traffic comprised of people who are interested in your subject matter and who are prepared to form relationships with others who are publishing similar content.
If you want to increase traffic then don’t listen to anyone who professes there are passive ways of doing that. Increasing traffic to a blog is hard work. If you want your blog to rank well in search engine results and secure a traffic flow from the SERPs (search engine page results) then that begins with creating and publishing original content posts (not pages) ie. unique content that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet. See How to Identify Your Blog’s Target Audience http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/how-to-identify-your-blogs-target-audience/
It is commenting on other blogs with similar content that encourages traffic to flow to your own blog. If you are a WordPress.com blogger there are onsite tools you can use to find blogs by subject matter that are hosted on this multiuser blogging platform http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/finding-blogs-with-similar-content/ However, do NOT stop there because the classic error new bloggers tend to make here is focusing only on gaining traffic from this site alone.
These 5 videos introduce how Google discovers, crawls, indexes your site’s pages, and how Google displays them in search results. It also touches lightly upon challenges webmasters and search engines face, such as duplicate content http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/5google-webmasters-video-tutorials/
If you are using a WordPress.com theme good SEO is a given.
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/seo-and-your-blog/
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/Whether you write informative, persuasive or controversial content learning how search engines work, and how to apply basic SEO to you content will benefit your blog as it will increase traffic from targeted readers. http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/two-seo-videos-for-bloggers/
6 Ways to Make Google Your Blog’s Best Friend > http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/6-ways-to-make-google-your-blogs-best-friend/
12 Tips for Improving Search Queries Ranking Position. If you want people to find your site through the use of keywords, then from the readers perspective, keep it natural and use key words or keyword phrases only if they are a natural “fit”. http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/12-tips-for-improving-search-queries-ranking-position/
7 Common Sense Social Networking Tips
http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2013/12/07/7-common-sense-social-networking-tips/Social Networking Blunders. Despite the ubiquitous statements to the opposite effect, auto posting to social networks, rather than manual posting results in fewer people reading your full posts on your site.
http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2014/09/10/social-networking-blunders/Are you looking for feedback on your blog? This could range from the design of the site to the actual content of a post. You can get feedback from our Community Pool:
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/category/community-pool/Also, if you just want to connect with other bloggers, get inspired, build your brand, and get inside tips from the folks who bring you WordPress.com, take a look at our Blogging University here:
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/blogging-university/Read also:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/
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