WordPress.com Forums » Tag: referrals - Recent Posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/referrals WordPress.com Forums » Tag: referrals - Recent Posts en Thu, 20 Jun 2013 13:33:15 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 auxclass on "Finding source of my Facebook referred traffic" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/finding-source-of-my-facebook-referred-traffic#post-1280836 Mon, 27 May 2013 03:09:29 +0000 auxclass 1280836@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Facebook does not provide tracking data - so no way to find out where the traffic is coming from

]]> boseafus on "Finding source of my Facebook referred traffic" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/finding-source-of-my-facebook-referred-traffic#post-1280819 Mon, 27 May 2013 02:07:06 +0000 boseafus 1280819@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ anyone have thoughts on this at all?

]]> boseafus on "Finding source of my Facebook referred traffic" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/finding-source-of-my-facebook-referred-traffic#post-1280596 Sun, 26 May 2013 18:26:46 +0000 boseafus 1280596@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I got a surge in traffic referred from FB yesterday, a big jump, when I hadn't even put my post on Facebook. I know someone must have put it on a personal or group page of some kind, and I'd like to find it, as it's a community I'd probably be interested in being part of or posting my links in the future, since there was such an interest.

Is there a way to find out exactly where it's coming from on Facebook? When I click the link on my stats page it just takes me to Facebook.com, not a specific page.

Any trick to this?

This is the post that got all the Facebook traffic, if it helps: http://intentionalgeek.com/2013/05/25/diy-game-terrain/

]]> pledgeback on "Facebook referrals are not showing on WordPress Stats page" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/facebook-referrals-are-not-showing-on-wordpress-stats-page#post-1257261 Mon, 06 May 2013 15:29:22 +0000 pledgeback 1257261@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Referrals from my facebook page http://www.facebook.com/PledgeBack to my wordpress blog are not showing on the stats page anymore. I tested it by clicking on WP links several times on my fb page and yet it doesn't update.

Referrals from Twitter appear to be working fine.

I saw another post with similar problems and theirs seems to have been resolved, but not mine.

Can you help?
Thank you so much.

]]> macmanx on "Stats not accurate" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stats-not-accurate-1#post-1167538 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:47:36 +0000 macmanx 1167538@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Ok, that's good. As long as you are absolutely sure they're visiting. Sorry I had to check, but it wouldn't be the first inaccurate stats claim we had where the folks claiming to visit never actually did.

It is entirely possible that their browsers are set as Do Not Track, are blocking cookies, blocking Javascript, or running ad blockers. Either would prevent us from tracking them.

]]> macromary on "Stats not accurate" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stats-not-accurate-1#post-1167533 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:38:36 +0000 macromary 1167533@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Because I've been on the phone with them talking them through it, and they're describing the screens they're progressing through as they click on the links.

I wanted to make sure they're actually reaching the blog itself.

]]> macmanx on "Stats not accurate" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stats-not-accurate-1#post-1167528 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:34:50 +0000 macmanx 1167528@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ How are you tracking the actual traffic? In other words, how are you sure that they're following through from Pinterest to your blog?

]]> macromary on "Stats not accurate" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stats-not-accurate-1#post-1167526 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:32:53 +0000 macromary 1167526@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Macmanx, thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately, based on the number of friends I have clicking through from their own Pinterest accounts from their own computers (where there is no chance of me being logged in) the stats are still off from what I know to be actual traffic.

I posted because I was interested to see if stat problems are a known issue.

]]> macmanx on "Stats not accurate" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stats-not-accurate-1#post-1166707 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:26:07 +0000 macmanx 1166707@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I see three referrers from Pinterest already today.

Please keep in mind that, if you're logged in, your visits to your own blog won't be recorded.

]]> depressionnation on "Purchased A New Domain (And Lost Gobs of WordPress Referrals)" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/purchased-a-new-domain-and-lost-gobs-of-wordpress-referrals-1#post-1166669 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:54:26 +0000 depressionnation 1166669@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ yeah. guess it's across the board, but it's most obvious in wordpress referrals as that's where most of my traffic used to come from. by this time today normally i'd have 20-30 wordpress referrals. i have 4 right now. thanks, raincoaster, auxclass. hopefully i get my traction back soon.

]]> raincoaster on "Purchased A New Domain (And Lost Gobs of WordPress Referrals)" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/purchased-a-new-domain-and-lost-gobs-of-wordpress-referrals-1#post-1166018 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 06:48:14 +0000 raincoaster 1166018@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ What happens is, the search engines think whatever.com is brand new. it has zero pagerank. The old site has the same pagerank technically, but all of a sudden it has no incoming links at all...so it starts to fall off a cliff.

]]> auxclass on "Purchased A New Domain (And Lost Gobs of WordPress Referrals)" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/purchased-a-new-domain-and-lost-gobs-of-wordpress-referrals-1#post-1165993 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 04:59:16 +0000 auxclass 1165993@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ All the old addresses will still work - the old bookmarks and such will always work - they will be translated when a visitor visits

]]> depressionnation on "Purchased A New Domain (And Lost Gobs of WordPress Referrals)" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/purchased-a-new-domain-and-lost-gobs-of-wordpress-referrals-1#post-1165978 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 04:28:15 +0000 depressionnation 1165978@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ thanks. somehow i thought i'd keep my old digital "footprint" that the wordpress.com address would keep publishing. ugh. really? ugh.

]]> raincoaster on "Purchased A New Domain (And Lost Gobs of WordPress Referrals)" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/purchased-a-new-domain-and-lost-gobs-of-wordpress-referrals-1#post-1165910 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:05:19 +0000 raincoaster 1165910@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Unfortunately, no. I know exactly what you're going through, because I was the first person on Wp.com to get a custom domain, and when I saw the change in hits I was outraged. Wait it out, though; within 4 months it'll come back, as search engines figure out what happened; right now, they're mistaking you for a whole new blog with no pagerank.

To facilitate the process, get some incoming links to your new URL. The more and the faster you can get them, the better.

]]> depressionnation on "Purchased A New Domain (And Lost Gobs of WordPress Referrals)" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/purchased-a-new-domain-and-lost-gobs-of-wordpress-referrals-1#post-1165783 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:28:51 +0000 depressionnation 1165783@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ i just updated my url (bought a domain) and my wordpress referrels have plummeted. i used to have depressiontimeblog.wordpress.com. thought i was improving my SEO when i changed primary to http://depression-time.com/. went from receiving like 30, 40, 50 wordpress referrels a day to 5, 10, 15.
could traffic drop be related to url change? (blog still shows in wordpress feeds and old forwards to the new.)
if so, is there some way to repair it?

]]> depressionnation on "Purchased A New Domain (And Lost Gobs of WordPress Referrals)" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/purchased-a-new-domain-and-lost-gobs-of-wordpress-referrals#post-1165781 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:28:23 +0000 depressionnation 1165781@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ i just updated my url (bought a domain) and my wordpress referrels have plummeted. i used to have depressiontimeblog.wordpress.com. thought i was improving my SEO when i changed primary to http://depression-time.com/. went from receiving like 30, 40, 50 wordpress referrels a day to 5, 10, 15.
could traffic drop be related to url change? (blog still shows in wordpress feeds and old forwards to the new.)
if so, is there some way to repair it?

]]> macromary on "Stats not accurate" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stats-not-accurate-1#post-1165721 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:25:30 +0000 macromary 1165721@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ http://mkhmarketing.wordpress.com

So I'm in the middle of a graduate student blog project, part of which is implementing a tactic for driving traffic to my blog.

I decided to post social media-themed images on Flickr and Pinterest linked to my blog and it's working great for Flickr. No joy on Pinterest though.

I've gone on other computers under other accounts and clicked the link through from Pinterest to my blog but the activity is not showing up in my blog stats and Pinterest is not listed as a referring site. I've verified my WP blog with Pinterest, so I'm not sure where the issue is.

Any ideas?

Here's my Pinterest profile: http://pinterest.com/mkhmarketing/

Any help greatly appreciated.

]]> kathrynwp on "Large Number of Spam Referrers" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/large-number-of-spam-referrers#post-1093211 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:45:45 +0000 kathrynwp 1093211@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for the reports, we're investigating the situation.

]]> lolabees on "Large Number of Spam Referrers" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/large-number-of-spam-referrers#post-1092572 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:22:31 +0000 lolabees 1092572@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Same thing happened to me yesterday and seems to be continuing to a lesser degree today.

]]> electricia1 on "Large Number of Spam Referrers" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/large-number-of-spam-referrers#post-1092540 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:43:54 +0000 electricia1 1092540@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I also reported this issue to WordPress yesterday after seeing an uncharacteristically large number of spam referrers. There were about 150 hits, including multiple referrals from individual urls with search extensions having to do with topics not found on my blog. So far today it is up to about 50 of these referrers.

]]> timethief on "Large Number of Spam Referrers" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/large-number-of-spam-referrers#post-1092532 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:37:21 +0000 timethief 1092532@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hello there,
I have tagged this thread for Staff assistance. Please subscribe to the thread so your are notified when they respond.

]]> damionmoyer on "Large Number of Spam Referrers" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/large-number-of-spam-referrers#post-1092519 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:27:32 +0000 damionmoyer 1092519@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I had a similar experience... my page view count was nearly triple my previous high count. Today is on track to hit a similar mark. Hope they fix it soon.

]]> thebakerbee on "Large Number of Spam Referrers" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/large-number-of-spam-referrers#post-1092328 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:22:28 +0000 thebakerbee 1092328@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yesterday I had 101 link referrals from over 80 different spam sites... which is quite a lot considering I only had 146 link referrals altogether. Today I'm already at 40 and it's only noon. Anyone having issues with this? I tried reporting some of the links to WordPress yesterday, but haven't heard anything back yet.

]]> kathrynwp on "Referral stats disappearing" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/referral-stats-disappearing#post-1062342 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:16:54 +0000 kathrynwp 1062342@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Could you please provide the URLs of the sites which are missing in your referral stats so we can investigate further? Thanks very much.

]]> timethief on "Referral stats disappearing" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/referral-stats-disappearing#post-1061672 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 23:39:44 +0000 timethief 1061672@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for your response. I have flagged this thread for Staff assistance.

]]> lightlycrunchy on "Referral stats disappearing" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/referral-stats-disappearing#post-1061670 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 23:38:27 +0000 lightlycrunchy 1061670@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I didn't have a google webmasters acct set up, so I did, but I see no referrers there at all.

The other two links had nothing to do with the problem. The website referral stats had been there until Tues, when they disappeared. There should be a few thousand referrals showing on the all time summary page, but it and others have disappeared.

]]> timethief on "Referral stats disappearing" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/referral-stats-disappearing#post-1060412 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 21:43:29 +0000 timethief 1060412@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Have you checked your Google Webmasters account?
Have you read these entries?
http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#referrers
http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#search-engine-terms

]]> lightlycrunchy on "Referral stats disappearing" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/referral-stats-disappearing#post-1060410 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 21:41:12 +0000 lightlycrunchy 1060410@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi - I'm still missing some referral stats. Any ideas?

]]> lightlycrunchy on "Referral stats disappearing" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/referral-stats-disappearing#post-1060058 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:16:39 +0000 lightlycrunchy 1060058@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Is anyone responding to these? The website that the referring stats are from is Frugally Sustainable. My overall stats count has remained the same, but Frugally Sustainable has dropped off the referring stats altogether - both daily and the summaries. Thanks in advance.

]]> lightlycrunchy on "Referral stats disappearing" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/referral-stats-disappearing#post-1059247 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 13:53:47 +0000 lightlycrunchy 1059247@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I've noticed that the stats have disappeared for referrals from a site that sends traffic to my site. They are even gone from the all time stats, as is another referrer. Any ideas why?

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