Where are my followers?

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  manifestphoto · Member · Feb 24, 2015 at 6:56 am

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  Hello,
  When I visit my blog, it tells me that I’m following the blog along with 921 other people. But when I go to my stats page, it says I have 43 WordPress.com followers and 5 email followers . . . so where is everyone else?? How did they subscribe if not through WordPress or email?

  Thanks!

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

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  timethief · Member · Feb 24, 2015 at 5:03 pm

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  When you use the Publicize app http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/ the total WordPress.com blog subscribers reported at the following link include your social media followers. https://manifestphoto.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=stats&blog=2598284&blog_subscribers

  Your email only followers are found at this link
  https://manifestphoto.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=stats&blog=2598284&blog_subscribers&type=email

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  bestsellingjen68 · Member · Feb 25, 2015 at 4:11 am

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  https://clumsychristian.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=stats&blog=2598284&blog_subscribers&type=email

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  manifestphoto · Member · Feb 25, 2015 at 6:02 pm

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  Ah, so I’m not as popular as I was led to believe. Bummer – but thanks for the answer!

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  timethief · Member · Feb 25, 2015 at 6:08 pm

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  @manifestphoto
  You’re welcome. See these for Staff tips on increasing traffic:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/
  http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/how-to-get-more-traffic/
  http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/traffic-dos-and-donts-a-checklist/
  http://dailypost.wordpress.com/postaday/ebook-grow-traffic/

  If you want to increase traffic then don’t listen to anyone who professes there are passive ways of doing that. Increasing traffic to a blog is hard work. If you want your blog to rank well in search engine results then that begins with creating and publishing original content posts (not pages) ie. unique content that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet.

  See How to Identify Your Blog’s Target Audience http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/09/01/how-to-identify-your-blogs-target-audience/

  These 5 videos introduce how Google discovers, crawls, indexes your site’s pages, and how Google displays them in search results. It also touches lightly upon challenges webmasters and search engines face, such as duplicate content http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/22/5google-webmasters-video-tutorials/

  If you are using a WordPress.com theme good SEO is a given. However, going beyond the theme what the blogger has done within that structure is worth evaluating. Whether you write informative, persuasive or controversial content learning how search engines work, and how to apply basic SEO to you content will benefit your blog as it will increase traffic from targeted readers. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/10/21/two-seo-videos-for-bloggers/

  6 Ways to Make Google Your Blog’s Best Friend > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/10/08/6-ways-to-make-google-your-blogs-best-friend/