Subscribers not followers?

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  baldblogging · Member · Jan 11, 2017 at 2:05 pm

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  Hi, I have people who subscribe to my blog such as family members. They don’t write blogs so don’t have wordpress accounts so how can they become followers of my blog? I have lots of people who enjoy reading my blogs but can’t become followers and there must be a way?
  Thanks, Hannah

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jan 12, 2017 at 6:00 am

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  You could encourage them to subscribe to your site via email notifications:

  Add Email Subscriptions to Your Blog

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  baldblogging · Member · Jan 12, 2017 at 6:11 am

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  Hi, yes that’s what I’m doing at the moment but it’s just a shame that this doesn’t count as your official follower count?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jan 12, 2017 at 8:34 pm

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  Email followers should be counted in your follower count. For example, I can see that you have 42 email followers:

  https://baldblogging.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=stats&blog=104019051&blog_subscribers&type=email

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  baldblogging · Member · Jan 12, 2017 at 8:35 pm

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  They are counted separately though to WordPress followers..is that right?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jan 14, 2017 at 2:53 pm

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  Email followers, i.e. people following your site only via email and not a WordPress.com account, are listed separately from your WordPress.com followers, yes. Keep in mind that WordPress.com followers can also be subscribed to email notifications, but that does not list them under email followers. The distinction here is whether or not the follower has a WordPress.com account. But both calculate towards your total follower count.

  Looking at your stats, right now you have 77 followers. 30 of these are WordPress.com followers, and 47 email only followers.