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  voicesintherain · Member · Mar 22, 2015 at 4:03 am

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  In my Stats I see exactly 3 views and 3 visitors in each Post I have posted. How am I getting 3 per Topic. I have a total 42 views and 42 viewers in 14 Posts tonight. I have disabled all my comments for the entire Blog. Are these some type of ping from attempted Spammers. I can not imagine such a precise number. At one time it was five per Post and at another it was four. I had received a few comments at one time when I had comments open so I have a few visitors, but I cannot understand what is going on.

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  voicesintherain · Member · Mar 22, 2015 at 4:08 am

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  But I have noticed primarily it involves posts in my video category. Usually I see no traffic in other topics. And if I do it shows up as a 1:1 ratio – they never seem to click any other topic or post.

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  voicesintherain · Member · Mar 22, 2015 at 4:09 am

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  I have five followers.

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  voicesintherain · Member · Mar 22, 2015 at 8:07 am

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  Even at 3:00 AM I get three immediate viewers and views. If it were spam you would think it would be one viewer and three views.

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  rachelmcr · Member · Mar 23, 2015 at 11:24 am

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  Hi there,

  I checked your site’s stats for March 21, and I noticed that the 3 views per post are syndicated views. Syndicated views are views that come from your blog’s RSS feed. If someone subscribes to your blog’s feed, they’ll get those posts in their feed reader right away after you publish the post and may be quickly reading through each new post that way.

  If you’d rather make it so readers have to visit your blog directly to read your posts (instead of reading the full post in a feed reader or email subscription) you can change your site’s reading settings under Settings > Reading in the WP Admin dashboard.

  Next to “For each article in a feed, show” you can choose “Summary.” That way, only an excerpt of each post is shown in the feed, and readers will have to click through to visit your blog to read the full post. That way, your stats will reflect the number of people who visit your blog directly to read the posts (and not readers who are just subscribed to your blog’s feed without visiting the blog itself).

  Please let me know if you have any questions about that. :)

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  voicesintherain · Member · Mar 23, 2015 at 8:58 pm

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  Thank you. I get about ten views a day that aren’t affected by this. I assume by what you have said that the others could be an auto response either by feed or Google+. Thank you.