very worried if my site is being used to spread things allover the world
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People from Serbia, Spain, Brazil, India, Mauritius, Romania, Austria, Italy, Dominican Republic, United Kingdom, Malaysia are going on my website each day. They never explore any of the 5 options. The odds of people from country’s all over the world clicking on to my site and not looking around, there is no reasonable explanation. I’ve changed my password but foreign country’s still seem to dominant it.
I’m just worried that some how there using it to pass things on secretly to one another under the wire, and at the same time maybe unknowing infecting the very few people who legitimately visit my site.
Please, Please help meThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
Please note that this is very common and having viewers from all over the world would not be a means to secretly pass information to one another. All it is is that one viewer from that country ended up on your site. It may have been an accident or it may have been to view your blog. I’m won’t try and assume why these people did because I honestly have no clue.
Please rest assured that having viewers from other countries does not mean that your account in any way has been compromised and no other viewers are affected by this.
Cheers!
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Dear Grace thank you so much for responding. I’ve had over 3,000 hits on my site. 99% of the people in the past year have been from other countries. What doesn’t make sense to me is there are 5 different topics you can view which are: About Us, Making Dreams, Miraculous Opportunity, Providing Hope, True Story.
Not once do people from other countries look at these other choices. Just 2 days ago 3 people from Brazil, 1 from Romania, 1from Spain, 1 from United States. All just entered without viewing any choices. The adds of this day after day are curious to me. Please have tech support look at this if you can. My site is boring so I don’t see the international interest in in. Always in the past the only people who would go there are people I would direct to see it. Again I think your very sweet and thank you for responding. I wish there was a phone number that I could talk to a staff member in person.
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Hi there,
So, after looking at your stats the 3,000 views are over the course of 3 years. In recent days you’ve been averaging 0-5 views a day. The fact that they are coming from other countries is not uncommon at all. This happens to almost every public blog on WordPress.com. Just the fact that it’s public will mean that anyone can see it. I believe many times these views can be by mistake which is why they don’t click on the other pages of your blog.
If you don’t like this, what you can do is set your site to Private by going to Settings > Reading in your Dashboard. Then, only people you invite can visit your blog.
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Hi Grace ….I went to my site got on to dashboard and tried to find Private in the Settings but I couldn’t . Sorry I’m over 60 and this computer stuff is hard for me. If only I was your age again…….. No I take that back, Life is hard and I wouldn’t want to go through it all over again :)
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Hi there!
Oh I’m sorry. I should have been more clear! If you go to Settings > Reading in your Dashboard you will see Site Visibility. Set it to: I would like my site to be private, visible only to myself and users I choose. It will look like this:
Here is a direct link to your Settings > Reading page:
https://hopeintroubledtimes.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php
Cheers!
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