stats & rss feed
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Hi. My stats don’t show me the number of followers using as RSS feed to follow my blog, even when I click the magnifying glass icon. I use Google Chrome for my email. Is there something I can do to get this data to show up? Thanks.
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Followers reading your blog via the RSS feed are not included in the stats. There’s no way to see those numbers. You will only get a pageview if they click through to your blog itself from the feed. See here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#additional-info
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@ellenhawley
May I please inform you a bit further on this?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 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. And, they can even comment without clicking into the blog either.
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 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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People probably reckon readers are too lazy to click through to read the whole post, so rather let them read it in the feed than not at all, but that’s why one needs a good introduction. A department I can still improve in. A lot ;-)
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I don’t think that many people pay much attention to the feed & summery settings. The bad thing about full Post in the email is that it junks up the inbox. Using summery gets a visitor to a blog and maybe they will also look around a bit and see other Posts they want to read.
So I use summery and work on a good lead – wrote a Great Post recently and messed up the lead real bad & killed the traffic to that Post. I was real bummed out on that one – I have reworked the lead – but the damage was already done
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Now if I can only find a website with study tips as effective as your blogging tips and I’d be a happy camper :-D
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@auxclass
Doing anything that discourages traffic to the blog, where readers can view the whole blogs, admire the appearance, and locate other content located deeper than on the front page is counterproductive. In fact, doing anything aimed at promotion that does not result in an actual visit to the blog does not make any sense at all.@kokkieh
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This is really useful. I’d set the blog up to send entire posts, working on the theory that at least they’d get read. I’m not inclined to click links myself, so that seemed to make sense. I’ll rethink that. And think long and hard about my opening sentences. I’m used to writing long–I write novels in my other life–and there’s pressure there to come up with a knock-out opening, but at least you get more than a handful of words to make your impact.
Thanks again. You’re both wonderful.
Ellen
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@ellenhawley
Both approaches have their merit. As you can obviously see timethief, auxclass and I prefer readers to read the full post on our blogs. Others prefer having it all in the feed. In the end you have to pick the one that you feel works. But if you’re looking for people to actually reach your blog itself, then excerpts in the feed will force them to go there :) -
I guess it’s a question of how much the stats matter to me. And I haven’t answered that question yet.
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It’s not just about stats. If people are on your blog they’re more likely to read multiple posts and pages, as timethief said above, and discover more of what you have to offer. If they can read the entire post in a feed they’re less likely to visit your blog at all. But if you’re okay with that, that’s okay too.
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At least for now, I think I’m okay with that. If I can get people reading, I’m happy. Maybe I’ll revisit it later.
Again, thanks. i really appreciate your generosity–both of you.
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