RSS feeds problem and phantom visitors

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    brucegows · Member ·

    I THINK the function was working fine, but now it appears from a comment that noone is able to start new ones to my blog. Further – I have visitors but they are NOT showing up on the stats? How?

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

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    timethief · Member ·

    This is your RSS Feed URL for posts http://bruces23.com/feed/
    It’s a valid feed that’s functioning properly.

    Our stats are not real time stats. For details see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ and note the views and viewers take hours to update. Provided you are logged in when visiting, your own views are not recorded on any public blog you registered.

    Our stats are page view stats. Please do not assume that everyone who clicks a like, follow, reblogsor share button actually reads the post on your blog because odds are they may not. In fact those who follow your blog in the Reader or by email don’t have to click into the blog unless they wish to. And, they can even comment without clicking into the blog either.

    Likes and shares, comments, reblogs and follows are not page views. In fact, 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 in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a single page view stat.

    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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