Shares increasing but not traffic
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According to my stats, the share count to social-networking sites has suddenly quadrupled in the last three days, but there has been no corresponding increase with site page views.
I’m not puzzled that my traffic is low–I only restarted my site recently–but I’m confused that the shares are increasing so dramatically, while at the same time significantly outnumbering the number of page views.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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WordPress.com defines a page view stat as:
a full post view in the Reader;
a view of any page/post/index-page/tag-page/homepage on a blog/site.Please do not assume that everyone who clicks a like button or a share button actually reads the post on your blog because odds are they may not. Also note that those who follow your blog in the Reader or by email don’t have to click into the blog unless they wish to.
Likes and shares and comments and 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 > 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.
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.
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