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  ahankwilliamsjournal · Member · Oct 6, 2012 at 8:01 pm

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  Unexplained unusual increase in visitors for one day only. Not covered in stats page.
  Blog url: http://ahankwilliamsjournal.wordpress.com/

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Oct 6, 2012 at 8:50 pm

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  Perhaps a visitor submitted a post to Reddit or stumbleupon or pinterest.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 6, 2012 at 8:53 pm

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  Or perhaps not …

  Not covered in stats page.

  Well, see here for what’s not recorded http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/

  Be aware that likes and shares numbers are misleading when you are talking about page view stats. Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com blog who is logged into WordPress.com can “like” and “share” your posts in several locations such as the Reader without ever clicking into your blog and creating a page view stat. Those who have username accounts only but no blog can become followers and click the “like” and/or “share” buttons. Those who do not have accounts cannot use the like button.
  http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/07/09/wordpress-followers-likes-and-stats/

  Note: To compel readers to click into my blog to read the full post thereby creating a page view stat, I have set my RSS Feed for posts to “summary” on this page > Settings > Reading

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  ahankwilliamsjournal · Member · Oct 10, 2012 at 1:46 pm

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  Thanks.
  I guess this explains the anomaly of those rare unexplained spikes.
  Not a computer glitch or some kind of spam attack.
  John