Perplexing new follower not showing up on my blog stats
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I recently received noticed on an email account of mine that is NOT linked to my wordpress.com blogs that I have a new follower. That was strange. Even more strange this new ‘follower’ does not show up on my blog stats page along with the other (few) followers that I have). Furthermore, I am unfamiliar with the address this follower uses which is @163.com
I’ve never heard of 163.com
What is going on?The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Similar question — is this a phishing tactic?
Is this phishing email? Claims to notify me of a new follower.
The person was invited to the blog and is not listed as a follower on the WordPress site.“(email visible only to moderators and staff) is now following …. Blog
…. just started following you at …. wordpress.com. They will receive an email every time you publish a post. Congratulations.” -
EDIT : The person was NOT invited to the blog and is not listed as a follower on the WordPress site.
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If a phishing tactic, what is the object of the tactic? Perhaps that I will send the individual a personalized email? (I will not). Just wondering.
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http://petalthoughtleaf.com/ is a public blog
http://hankroberts.wordpress.com/ is a public blog (abandoned in 2008).Anyone and everyone can choose to follow any public blog and we cannot accurately identify any follower by email address, unless they want us to. So let’s be clear about that. Many bloggers, like me, do not choose to provide their personal email addresses when following blogs. I keep my personal email address for use by friends and family only and use a throwaway email address for blogging.
Our stats are not real time stats and take time to update. There are frequent fluctuations that most do not notice because we aren’t watching the process. For details see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ and note the views and viewers take hours to update.
Our stats are page view stats. But please do not assume that everyone who clicks a follow, like, share, reblog or comment link actually reads the post on your blog because odds are they may not.
Follow, like, share, reblog or comment clicks are not page views. In fact, follows, likes, shares, comments and reblogs are completely misleading when you are talking about page view stats.
Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com/Gravatar account who is logged into WordPress.com can “follow” your blog, “like”, “share” and “reblog” your posts and “comment” in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a single page view stat. Subscribers control how frequently they receive your posts (instantly, daily, weekly) and can comment without clicking into the blog.
Logged in visitors using a mobile can read the full post without creating a page view stat. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpresscom-reader-show-full-text?replies=31#post-1373606
You can control the length of the entry sent out on your RSS feed here Dashboard > Settings > Reading. Choose the “summary” setting for your RSS feed rather than to “full text”. That will compel followers who are not using mobiles to click into the blog to read the full post which will create a page view stat.
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Helpful – but this person began following my blog, allegedly, on January 11, 2015. As of today, February 8, 2015, this person does not show up in my stats. I wonder why. I further wonder why the email was directed to email address of mine that is not linked to my wordpress account.
Julie Hollingsworth Hogg
“A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” —Benjamin Franklin -
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> http://hankroberts.wordpress.com/ is
> a public blog (abandoned in 2008).Say what? I set it up long, long ago, when I needed to have it in order to identify myself on other WordPress blogs. I’ve used it continuously.
Who are you? and what are you relying on to say that blog is either public or abandoned? I don’t find either of those as options in the settings.
I don’t intend it to be either public or abandoned — as intended, the Profile is visible, that’s all.
I have used the blog so people can identify my comments elsewhere, click a link and see a Profile with a Contact, and I don’t invite comments.
What do I have to change to avoid having “followers” — and what can be “followed” as set up now? and where do I change those settings?
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What do I have to change to avoid having “followers” — and what can be “followed” as set up now? and where do I change those settings?
You’d have to set the blog to Private to avoid having people following it.
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> set the blog to Private
A few more questions then:
Where?
How?
And will the Profile page remain visible?
And will I still use this ID to log into blogs I actually want to read?
And will I still be able to comment there with my name linked to the Profile?This used to work fine, I gather it’s been improved since I set it up.
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PS, my apology to 4minnieoaka
who started this thread and deserves staff attention.
I think my question about being followed is the same issue, but maybe not. -
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Who are you? and what are you relying on to say that blog is either public or abandoned? I don’t find either of those as options in the settings.
I am a Volunteer who has answered questions here for over 8 years and that’s longer than all but one Staff member have even been on Staff; Please click this link http://hankroberts.wordpress.com/
When you do that you will see what I see and that is:
Nobody
January 19, 2008 …
Click the Archives link in the sidebar and you will see what I see and that is:
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> Nobody
That’s the title of the poem, by Emily Dickinson, that’s posted on my Profile page. Did you read the text?
The link to the Profile page identifies who I am, so far as I want to be identified. I’m not a public person and prefer not inviting more attention than that necessary to comment on active blogs I do read.
> January 19, 2008
That’s when that Profile page was last revised. So? It’s as I want it.
Change is overrated.The Profile page is working as intended now — anyone who wants to reach me can use the Contact link (which I change from time to time as spammers start using an email address).
Now — if I mark it ‘Private’ as you suggested, will people still be able to click on my name (where I’ve commented on another WP blog) and see that Profile page?
I’m using that Profile for identification, as WP provided it back in, oh, 2007 or 2008 or thereabouts.
So, can I turn off this “Follow” thing while leaving the Profile readable and the contact link there working, for anyone curious? Because that’s how much I want to offer.
As the poet says, more than that and “they’d advertise …”
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Given that it is an email address that you do not have associated with a WordPress.com account, I’m going to guess that this is a glitch somewhere.
If you’d like to discuss it further, I can send you a private email where we can more easily talk about specific email and web addresses.
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