Why didn't a visitor to my website show up on the Stats

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  merechristianthoughts · Member · Sep 15, 2012 at 3:08 pm

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  I received an email from someone who read my most recent post but when I went to the website it showed I had had no visitors! How is this possible?
  Blog url: http://merechristianthoughts.wordpress.com/

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

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  absurdoldbird · Member · Sep 15, 2012 at 10:05 pm

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  Via the reader. People who read your blog via that can view and Like (and also reblog) a post without ever visiting your blog.

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  merechristianthoughts · Member · Sep 15, 2012 at 10:11 pm

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  Thanks for your help….makes sense to me!

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  timethief · Member · Sep 15, 2012 at 10:39 pm

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  our 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.

  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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  merechristianthoughts · Member · Sep 16, 2012 at 4:22 am

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  Never knew that and thanks very much.