You will lose followers if you change Blog Web Address (URL)
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If it’s any comfort, it appears that people are still visiting your site, since your stats don’t appear to be significantly different from when your site was hosted here. You have lost a little traffic, likely due to no longer appearing in the WordPress.com Reader, but it’s not significant. Your number of likes may be reduced because of the Reader, though, as that’s a easy way for casual visitors to interact with your site.
However, to verify whether or not notifications are going out, I have just followed your blog via email. Please let me know the next time you publish a new post.
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Thanks. That would be good to check, but I am not having a problem with my e-mail subscriber notifications. They have never been the issue; it’s the WordPress.com subscriber notifications that are at issue. The people who subscribed via wordpress.com before 1/15/14 when I changed to wordpress.org.
I was not aware that they would no longer see my blog in their Readers, because I can see it in my Reader.
As for the traffic, without knowing what kind of traffic it is, it’s hard to know if anyone is reading. It could be all spam!!! My next post will be published Friday morning.
As for my question about contacting subscribers? Is that an OK thing to do? I was considering an e-mail advising them that they have to resubscribe in order to see my blog. That was the gist of the on-line article I read this morning. Any thoughts on that?
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Okay, that could be part of the issue. Because of the nature of how they subscribed, WordPress.com followers who opted to receive email updates will need to re-subscribe again on your new site through the Jetpack signup box, otherwise they’ll only see new posts in their Reader. Non-WordPress.com email subscribers will continue to get email updates.
Users who opt to see your site in their Reader will continue to do so, but your posts will not appear in the Reader for all users based on your tags and categories.
How you handle your subscribers is entirely up to you.
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Hi, again. You asked me to let you know when I have a new post. That would be today. It went out at 6 a.m. EST. Just a few more questions?
I am still not clear about the Reader issue. Sorry. :(
You said “your posts will not appear in the Reader for all users based on your tags and categories.” I’m wondering why not. Isn’t that the point of the tags and categories? Aren’t I set to be publicized?About my URLs: what are my current (wordpress.org) and previous (wordpress.com) URLs? Not including the temporary URL that I had before I officially moved over?
Finally, can you direct me to a link for information about how to publicize my website?
Once again, jackiedana, you’ve been so nice. Thank you.
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Oops. I forgot one thing: From our January 31 conversation, I still don’t understand what you meant by ” (I just have a different view that shows pending followers who have not confirmed on their end).” Thx.
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I received the post notification via email, but in the end that wasn’t really a helpful troubleshooting step since you were referring to WordPress.com followers, and I’ve explained that already.
As for the Reader: a feature currently available only for blogs on WordPress.com is the ability to have a blog’s posts automatically appear under the topics in the Reader based on categories and tags. Self-hosted blogs will not show up there.
There are other reasons to use categories and tags, which are a way to organize and display content via taxonomies rather than by date or author or other means. For example, a food blog could categorize posts by types of food (entrees, desserts, salads, etc.) and then display category pages for each one. There are other ways to use them, but that’s a common one.
Your websites are http://dishndat.me and http://dishndat.wordpress.com. The WordPress.com address resolves to the custom domain (and therefore forwards to it) because you have the domain set as your primary domain here: https://dishndat.wordpress.com/wp-admin/paid-upgrades.php?page=domains
We have a page that has a few tips for getting more traffic here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/It’s specific to WordPress.com so it won’t all apply equally to a blog hosted elsewhere, but it’s a start. You can google for more ideas.
Finally, about the view I referenced: my view as a staff member is slightly different than yours, that’s all.
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So, I guess we’ve gone about as far as we can go. Thanks for sticking with me. I still don’t really understand what you are seeing as Pending. And I don’t understand why I see my blog in Reader, but no one else can! Oh well. I guess I am just not going to. Thank you again.
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You can see your blog in your Reader because you are following it.
I see something different because I work for WordPress.com and can see the people who never confirmed their subscription to your blog when you hosted it at WordPress.com. That’s largely irrelevant now.
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