Viewed stats don't seem to reflect 'likes' I received – what is that?
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When I posted my last blog on Friday 6th December it was greeted by a number of ‘like’ notifications. However if I look at my Stats they say that no one viewed the site on Friday 6th – how can that be?
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WordPress.com subscribers, including all followers from social media sites if you use the Publicize app are found here
http://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribersEmail followers are found here http://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers&type=email
Be aware that our stats are not real time stats. For details see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ Note the views and viewers take hours to update.
Be aware that likes, follows, shares and reblogs are not page views. In fact, likes, shares and reblogs are completely misleading when you are talking about page view stats. Those with WordPress.com/Gravatar accounts who follow your blog in the Reader or by email don’t have to click into the blog unless they wish to. Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com/Gravatar blog account who is logged into WordPress.com can “like”, “share” and “reblog” your posts in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a single page view stat.
Visitors using a mobile can read the full post without creating a page view stat. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpresscom-reader-show-full-text?replies=31#post-1373606
You can control the length of the entry sent out on your RSS feed here > Settings > Reading. Choose the “summary” setting for your RSS feed rather than to “full text”. That will compel followers who are not using mobiles to click into the blog to read the full post which will create a page view stat.
Also note that you can disable “Sharing” on the same page:
Settings > Reading
Add to each article in your feed:
Categories
Tags
Comment count
Sharing
Changes may not appear until you create a new post or your news reader refreshes.Lastly, setting the RSS Feed to summary does not affect the length of the post displayed on the front page or main page for posts on the blog. To create excerpts there we can split content by inserting “the more tag” http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/
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Thanks for that comprehensive advice Timethief – very useful. I will consider changing setting as you explain. -TP
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