Understanding referrer links and total of views
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I’m still trying to understand how WordPress works. If you have 20 views referred by links, how do you end up with 40 views of posts? I can’t seem to determine the various ways this can happen. How are the additional views generated and from where? Can someone break it down for me? Thanks!
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Thanks auxclass. Is that the only means of generating more views of posts than referred links?
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Not every referral shows up – for example if someone pastes a URL in their browser that will not be a referral – some email will be a referral, web based seem to show a referral but my email that is on my PC won’t be a referral
No stats system seems to be 100% on where things come from or for links to your site – I have some sites that link to mine but Google has no knowledge of those links.
Stats go up and stats go down – the important is the trend and the long term average
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But when determining the actual number of visitors to your blog, should we count the referrals or the number of views?
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Views – remember a visitor can have more than one view – you can add other stats packages that count unique visitors
If you add referrals and views you will be double counting things
Somewhere here there is a section of different counters if you want: http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/
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From my understanding (from reading the “help” section of wordpress and also the site that auxclass referred you to) the discrepancy between referrals and views is because referrals are only some of the ways that people get to your blog. Referrals show up when someone has linked to your blog by clicking on a link on another website or blog. But there are other ways for people to find your blog – particularly anyone who’s already read it once and liked it. If someone bookmarks your blog and clicks straight on it that wouldn’t show as a referral. Or if they knew the blog address and typed that straight into the browser page, that also wouldn’t show as a referral.
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For free non-Javascript third party visitor tracking programs that will work on WordrPress.com blogs see this page and scroll down to “visitor tracking”. > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/popular-posts/
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For wordpress.com referral stats see here:
Why doesn’t the number of referrers add up to the number of total views?
Not all visitors will land on your blog by clicking a link somewhere else. Visitors may type your URL directly into the web browser, click a link in an email, or click a link in another application which then loads the browser. Visitors that come from search engines will also not be counted as referrers because they’ll be listed in the search engine terms. http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#additional-info
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