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hello – i’ve turned my blog from public to private yesterday. how come i still get visitors??? i’ve authorized no reader. the stats also indicate i got one “like” yesterday, but the “like” thing is turned off. thanks for answering.
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Hi there, I’ve tagged WordPress.com staff to help you with this issue. You’ll likely receive a response within a few hours from a staff member: https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-help-in-the-forums/#how-do-i-get-a-moderatorstaff-reply-for-my-question
Hope this gets resolved soon. :)
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Hi there,
There’s one viewer on your site and that’s probably the one you’re seeing in your stats. Here’s how to view them:
https://wordpress.com/people/viewers/
Also, I don’t see any recent likes showing up in your stats. Can you please let me know where exactly you’re seeing that like?
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okay, thank you.
that “like” is noted yesterday.
i know i’m counted as a viewer, but then again, i’m not the viewer from “new zealand” -
I’m also unable to see the “Like” you are referring to on the Stats page:
https://wordpress.com/stats/day/elliottsmithgallery.wordpress.com
I’ve clicked on each day through September and October and cannot see any likes or traffic from New Zealand. Can you make a screenshot of where you are seeing this information and upload it to your Media Library?
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i forgot to mention i’m talking about my secondary blog, which is that one:
https://soflawedanddrunkandperfectstill.wordpress.com/
again, today – one viewer from the united states.
i uploaded screenshots in the media library of that one blog, can you see it?
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@elliottsmithgallery October 13 will have some visits and other stats because you didn’t make the site private until that evening.
After that, only logged-in viewers can see the site, so I’m wondering if that was just staff trying to troubleshoot for you. Would you mind letting this sit for a few days to see if that helps?
You can also go ahead and remove site followers (people > followers). They will not receive new notifications, but they did receive ones prior to your privacy changes. They will not be able to click through to read your site. since it is private.
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uh, okay – i reckoned that october 13 would have some viewers before i changed the settings to private, thank you… : that at least, i was able to figure out myself.
why would staff look at specific posts, i wonder… unless they’re fans, that’s a bit odd.
today i get views from japan (again, reading specific posts). so it does appear that although setting the blog to private makes it “almost” airtight, what’s dumbfounding is how it means only that: “almost”.
no real answer or solution.
i’ll probably set it back to public, but it’s troubling to discover “private” doesn’t really mean “private” : thanks anyway… -
Can you please keep your site private for a few more days as @supernovia suggested, just to see if you’re still getting those views registered?
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so over the last few days, i kept getting occasional viewers from the Uk and the united states – i uploaded screenshots in the media library. i’m setting it back to public, but i’d still like to know why setting it to “private” never made it quite private?
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Hi there,
The two most likely explanations:
It’s possible some of your posts were still cached in the Reader after you set the site to private. If anyone viewed those posts in the Reader, that would have recorded views. The Reader feed for your site should have updated fairly quickly after setting the site to private, but the Reader itself can be cached in the browsers of visitors to your site, so they would still be able to access some posts from there.
After setting a site to private posts that have already been indexed by search engines can also still remain available in Google’s (and other search engines’) caches for weeks afterwards. If someone views a cached copy of your posts that will still count a view, as our stats tracking pixel will load as part of the cached post.
Setting your site to private does immediately prevent anyone from accessing it directly, but we have no control over content on your site that’s cached directly in people’s browsers, or with external services like search engines.
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