Who is visiting my blog
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I wish to see who is visiting my blog. On the MyStats page I can see the number of visitors, but cannot find a place where it shows me who they are. Any way to see this info? I know where to find my followers. And that is another question. I have only 2 followers and I don’t know who they are. I’ve had this only 2 days– how did it get to the eyes of poeple who are not on my Facebook? It’s cool, but I don’t know how that happens.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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No there’s no way to personally identify who is reading your blog. That’s a privacy issue.
WordPress.com Followers (including social network followers when using the Publicize app to autopost) are here http://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers
Email-only Followers are 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.
Moreover, those who follow your blog in the Reader or by email don’t have to click into the blog unless they wish to. 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. Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com blog 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.
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.
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
Note that 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/
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
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Thank you, very thorough, very helpful. What is the difference between a “share” and a “re-post”?
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A share simply provides a link to your post. Reblogging provides an excerpt of text and media as well as the link. http://en.support.wordpress.com/reblogs/
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