Where can I find a widget that tracks followers?
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I’d like to allow people to follow my blog but I can’t find a widget in the WordPress dashboard that does this. Or maybe is just that I don’t know which of the widgets can do this. It could also be that there is no WordPress widget for followers, are there any outside resources I could use? Any help would be appreciated.
thank you
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We can’t give answers appropriate to your blog without a link to the blog, starting with http. It depends.
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Hi! my blog is http://peopleinaction.wordpress.com/
how can I let people to follow my blog. I cannot find any widget in the dashboard.
Please Help MeThank you for your attention
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Your headline about “a widget that tracks followers” and your message “how can I let people to follow my blog” seem to me to be two different questions. I’ll leave the widget question to someone else, but as for the second, I suppose you might like to know about Feedburner.com. This service (now run by Google) makes it possible for you to provide a link on your blog where a reader can click to sign up for automatic emails whenever you update your blog. I have used this for free on several very low readership blogs for a year or so, and am very pleased with it. If our church choir director puts a message (or more) on the choir blog during the day, once a night Feedburner copies that message (or messages) into an email to all the choir members who have confirmed that they wish to subscribe to the “feed”.
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Thank you so much edwinridout I shall look at it right away.
The main inquiry remains. I would like to add a widget in order to let people to follow my blog (something like the one blogspot gives).
Any idea? anybody?my blog : http://peopleinaction.wordpress.com/
Thanks everyone
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@ peopleinaction
There is no easy way for someone (who doesn’t use RSS reader) to follow your blog without going through a few steps to get themselves “subscribed” to your blog. Take a look at the “Subscribe Email Updates” button on http://shimworld.wordpress.com/ and you’ll see the Feedburner page it brings you to.
I currently have 100 email subscribers and 132 “followers” by RSS readers (also a Feedburner service—see bottom of sidebar). The Email subscription service works very well except there is one very annoying thing about Feedburner … it sends a confirmation email link to the subscriber which needs to be clicked before the service is activate. What I’ve found is that many a time, that email gets filtered as spam and I’m left with many “unverified” subscriber which I would ended up deleting.
Too bad WP.com does not provide a more user-friendly straight forward to subscribers to enter their email address directly on the widget and be done in one go.
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Hello everyone
I would like to know which widget can help me track my followers and my visitors. I am using Blog Stats but that will not tell me where my visitors are from.
my blog is: http://crylyn.wordpress.com
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Yeah im wanting to get followers myself also. So i guess i have to start a blog then do as some of the people above tell us to do? Help is always appreciated from me
thanks
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@ crylyn
You may want to take a look at http://whos.amung.us/ instead which provides real-time tracking of your visitors and the pages they are visiting on your blog. If you have very few or a lot of visitors and have a large enough computer monitor you can even maximize the whos.amung.us Dashboard entertain you :)
My visitors are sporadic and you can check out the live tracking of my blog http://whos.amung.us/stats/l3e3vx0m/
Hope this helps!
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You can also use Clustrmaps in a text widget in your sidebar and that will display an interesting graphic showing where your readers are from.
As for the rest of you, you’ll need to define “Followers” a little better. This isn’t Twitter. Do you mean blog readers, or blog subscribers? Or do you mean something else?
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Well, I’m new here but I assume what everyone is asking for is the same widget Blogger offers. Visitors can click to follow your Blogger blog, and I’m looking for a similar widget here. I assume, from reading the above posts, that WordPress doesn’t offer this feature. Is that correct?
My blog is: http://anyadavis.wordpress.com/
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That is correct, WordPress.com doesn’t offer that widget, because it doesn’t have that function in the first place. Tumblr was the original place that first invented it, btw.
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