Understanding your Stats…

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  bristolmary · Member · Sep 11, 2012 at 10:43 pm

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  Hi all

  I’ve just been looking at my stats for my blog and noticed that under my ‘Referrers’ tab I have search engines and under that mail.live.com

  Does that mean someone’s emailed someone a link to my blog? Or could they have had a link to the wordpress search engine emailed to them?

  Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

  M

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  timethief · Member · Sep 11, 2012 at 10:50 pm

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  It means someone clicked a link to your blog in an email.

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  bristolmary · Member · Sep 11, 2012 at 10:54 pm

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  Thanks Timethief…sorry daft question I know but I’m still learning from this all so just to make it clear….if they were sent a link to the wordpress search page it wouldnt show up, but if they were sent a link to a page on my blog it would show up as this. So basically someone has gone onto my blog…..highlighted the www address and emailed it to someone else?

  thanks
  M

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  timethief · Member · Sep 11, 2012 at 11:02 pm

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  I could type an email to a friend and type your URL into it and that would be that. http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#referrers

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  bristolmary · Member · Sep 11, 2012 at 11:12 pm

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  Great, thanks for your help………now i’m just wondering who it was!!

  M

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  bristolmary · Member · Sep 11, 2012 at 11:12 pm

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  Great, thanks for your help………now i’m just wondering who it was!!

  M

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  timethief · Member · Sep 11, 2012 at 11:13 pm

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  You’re welcome.