Y r ur stats always so inaccurate….they always contradicted with my emails from people liking some
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I think the wordpress stats are always inaccurate. I would get 0 likes or views, but would in my email have people who liked my post or who decided to follow me, and they did not show up in the stats.
The new systems of showing stats is so much worse, which is showing next to nothing of the likes or views I had this month compared to the emails I got, which promote me contacting on their blog those who liked my posts or decided to follow me.
Furthermore, how the freak can you have a like on a post without a view showing up. How on earth is possible to have more likes than views. It should be the other way around.
I have been thinking about what I need to do to draw more people to my site, but I don’t even think the few hits I get now are accurate. I want to get my own domain name, but it seems to me that something is really off here.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I think the wordpress stats are always inaccurate. I would get 0 likes or views, but would in my email have people who liked my post or who decided to follow me, and they did not show up in the stats.
The new systems of showing stats is so much worse, which is showing next to nothing of the likes or views I had this month compared to the emails I got, which promote me contacting on their blog those who liked my posts or decided to follow me.
Furthermore, how the freak can you have a like on a post without a view showing up. How on earth is possible to have more likes than views. It should be the other way around.
I have been thinking about what I need to do to draw more people to my site, but I don’t even think the few hits I get now are accurate. I want to get my own domain name, but it seems to me that something is really off here.
The blog I need help with is livingthecreative.wordpress.com.
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As you will find in the forum, you get many likes and no views because of what we call “like spammers”. There are people going through and liking everything from the reader, but never read anything. Nearly two and a half years ago, SP staff told people raising this issue that leaving the “like” option on the reader is an “oversight that we are now fixing”.
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-way-to-spam/page/4?replies=76
That was April 2013. Now, in August 2015, it’s still there.
Simply disable likes and turn off your email notifications for likes. It’s the only way to combat these spammers.
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No, I am not going to do that because I want to see who likes what and like the icons under likes that show who read it…..Furthermore, you are missing the boat a bit here…….If I have someone who I get from wordpress an email that the person has liked my post or decided to follow me it should show up under the likes for that post, and it often does not.
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Our stats are not real time stats and take time to update. There are frequent fluctuations that most do not notice because we aren’t watching the process. For details see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ and here https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#views-and-visitors and note the views and viewers take hours to update.
Our stats are page view stats. But please do not assume that everyone who clicks a follow, like, share, reblog or comment link actually reads the post on your blog because odds are they may not.
Follow, like, share, reblog or comment clicks are not page views. In fact, follows, likes, shares, comments and reblogs are completely misleading when you are talking about page view stats.
Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com/Gravatar account who is logged into WordPress.com can “follow” your blog, “like”, “share” and “reblog” your posts and “comment” in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a single page view stat.
Subscribers control how frequently they receive your posts (instantly, daily, weekly) and can comment without clicking into the blog.
Logged in 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
You can control the length of the entry sent out on your RSS feed here Dashboard > 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.
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