'Subscriber' questions (Christ Bound)
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Hoping to get some help as I am trying to better understand the wordpress platform, specifically regarding ‘Subscribers’. My specific questions are:
1) I currently have about 500 subscribers. I was getting about 8-12/ day for the past few months and then it simply stopped on October 9th. Today is November 1st. Any ideas as to why this might happen?
2) Am I correct in assuming that my ‘Subscribers’ will automatically receive my future posts automatically via their emails? If not, then what exactly is a subscriber?
Thanks in advance to anyone who is willing to help. I am sure these are elementary questions, but you have to start somewhere. :)The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Will you please do some checking for us?
Your wordpress.com subscribers are found here https://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers
You can also use: https://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=stats
*replace NAME_OF_BLOG in that URL with the actual name of your site.
Note that the title there includes Publicize followers from social networks. https://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/
Your email only subscribers are here https://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers&type=email
Additional information:
Our stats are page view stats. https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ If I visit your blog and click into 10 posts that will be recorded as 1 visitor and 10 page views. But please do not assume that everyone who clicks a follow, like, share, reblog or comment link actually reads the post on your blog because odds are they may not.
Follow, like, share, reblog or comment clicks are not page views. In fact, follows, likes, shares, comments and reblogs are completely misleading when you are talking about page view stats. That is because 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 and “comment” in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a single page view stat. Subscribers control how frequently they receive your posts (instantly, daily, weekly) and can comment without clicking into the blog.
Logged in wordpress.com members can read full posts in the wordpress.COM Reader now, so there is no incentive for them to click into your site.
WordPress.COM social networking sharing icons display the number of times people visited the actual post/page and clicked to share it. WordPress.COM does not have access to the share counts for shares made on the social networking sites themselves.
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2) Am I correct in assuming that my ‘Subscribers’ will automatically receive my future posts automatically via their emails?
Yes those who use the subscribe function on your site (follow blog widget) will automatically receive an email when you publish posts.
For more try using the support docs at https://en.support.wordpress.com/ specifically see this one https://en.support.wordpress.com/followers/
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