WordPress.com Forums » Tag: referrers - Recent Posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/referrers WordPress.com Forums » Tag: referrers - Recent Posts en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:07:53 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 fictionfanakaff on "Referrers stats not showing all views" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/referrers-stats-not-showing-all-views#post-1292169 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:49:44 +0000 fictionfanakaff 1292169@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks - I guess I'll just have to wait and see if it resolves itself - a pity, since as a stats nerd I enjoyed seeing what were the most successful ways of attracting people to the blog, and I'm certain they're not coming via google images or by typing in my blog address.

But in the global scheme of things, no biggie, I suppose... :)

]]> kardotim on "Referrers stats not showing all views" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/referrers-stats-not-showing-all-views#post-1291774 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:54:40 +0000 kardotim 1291774@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I don't see a big difference compared with the last 30 days stats. The only difference I see is that you don't have had any referrers from Google Images in the last 7 days. It might be caused by the recent change Google did to its Google Images search results page. Before, a click on an image found through Google Images resulted in a view. Now, after clicking on an image it doesn't automatically redirect you to the source anymore. Therefore you don't get a pageview.

]]> timethief on "Referrers stats not showing all views" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/referrers-stats-not-showing-all-views#post-1289640 Sun, 02 Jun 2013 19:05:56 +0000 timethief 1289640@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome.

]]> fictionfanakaff on "Referrers stats not showing all views" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/referrers-stats-not-showing-all-views#post-1289612 Sun, 02 Jun 2013 18:35:05 +0000 fictionfanakaff 1289612@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Will do - thank you.

]]> timethief on "Referrers stats not showing all views" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/referrers-stats-not-showing-all-views#post-1289607 Sun, 02 Jun 2013 18:32:11 +0000 timethief 1289607@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'll tag this thread for Staff to take a look at your stats. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.

]]> fictionfanakaff on "Referrers stats not showing all views" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/referrers-stats-not-showing-all-views#post-1289565 Sun, 02 Jun 2013 17:50:07 +0000 fictionfanakaff 1289565@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for that, but there's been a huge drop over the last couple of days. Mostly these figures are the same or near enough, but now my Referrers is less than a third of my views. I genuinely don't think that lots of visitors are suddenly typing in my URL - they'll be coming from the Reader or from links on Amazon, Goodreads etc as they have always done. The drop has been sudden not gradual.

]]> timethief on "Referrers stats not showing all views" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/referrers-stats-not-showing-all-views#post-1289559 Sun, 02 Jun 2013 17:44:55 +0000 timethief 1289559@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ See the Stats documentation:

Why doesn’t the number of referrers add up to the number of total views?
Not all visitors will land on your blog by clicking a link somewhere else. Visitors may type your URL directly into the web browser, click a link in an email, or click a link in another application which then loads the browser. http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#additional-info

]]> fictionfanakaff on "Referrers stats not showing all views" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/referrers-stats-not-showing-all-views#post-1289554 Sun, 02 Jun 2013 17:40:07 +0000 fictionfanakaff 1289554@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi

On the Stats page, the Referrers section is only showing a few of the total views for the day. Usually these figures match. This has been happening for the last two days.

Any help or advice will be appreciated.

]]> raincoaster on "Group "Google" Referrers" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/group-google-referrers#post-1139520 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:20:43 +0000 raincoaster 1139520@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Twitter isn't broken down like that, so it can't be split up or combined that way.

]]> jhwygirl on "Group "Google" Referrers" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/group-google-referrers#post-1139506 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 03:49:59 +0000 jhwygirl 1139506@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It would be awesome if they could do that for twitter, too. I'd like to know who's linking us.

]]> jongleason on "Group "Google" Referrers" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/group-google-referrers#post-1139270 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:25:58 +0000 jongleason 1139270@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I asked about all the different "Googles" showing up under referrers in a support question, and I understand what is going on now. It is logged-in hits from Google+ or some other Google service where Google isn't passing any information.

But it is still annoying, because my referrers list gets filled up with Google India and Google Philippines and Google Mexico and Google Canada, etc, etc, etc. I recognize that these may not be search engine hits, so I understand why you aren't listing them under search engines. Makes sense.

So, my idea was that you could group the "Googles" just like you do "Search Engines." Search engines are just one line on the referrers list, but expandable if I want to see which search engines. You could do the same with Googles -- a single line ("Google") but expandable, and then it would show all the different national Googles. It would make the referrers list a lot cleaner.

]]> jumpingpolarbear on "Google+ Refferer?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-refferer#post-1135189 Sun, 27 Jan 2013 03:27:40 +0000 jumpingpolarbear 1135189@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ In my stats page I have views from the normal Google Image Search and Google search. There is also one that is named just google. Is that just from Google+ or could it mean other Google related sites too?

]]> zandyring on "New Referrer "My Comments"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-referrer-my-comments#post-1117189 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:11:19 +0000 zandyring 1117189@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Works for me :)

Just let us know if you need anything else!

]]> jongleason on "New Referrer "My Comments"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-referrer-my-comments#post-1115866 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:59:40 +0000 jongleason 1115866@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks, I won't bother, I've marked the thread as resolved. You can go engineer happiness for someone else. :)

]]> zandyring on "New Referrer "My Comments"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-referrer-my-comments#post-1115861 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:55:40 +0000 zandyring 1115861@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ What Raincoaster says sounds really likely.

For your own reference Jon, you can actually just add the file to your media gallery and include the link here - but if you're satisfied at this point, you don't have to :)

Cheers!

]]> jongleason on "New Referrer "My Comments"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-referrer-my-comments#post-1115618 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:02:44 +0000 jongleason 1115618@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Interesting, raincoaster. That would make sense, because it has only happened once, and that theory sounds like something that wouldn't happen often.

Until I can figure out how to paste the screenshot here, it looks pretty much like this:
Search Engines 28
Facebook 2
My Comments 1
etc.

"My Comments" is in blue, but not underlined or a Hyperlink.

]]> raincoaster on "New Referrer "My Comments"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-referrer-my-comments#post-1115388 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:43:30 +0000 raincoaster 1115388@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It sounds to me like someone was checking out the comments on his own dashboard, on the My Comments page, and saw a link to your site in there somewhere and clicked on it. Maybe he linked to you in a comment, or maybe he replied to someone who did.

]]> jongleason on "New Referrer "My Comments"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-referrer-my-comments#post-1115357 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:46:59 +0000 jongleason 1115357@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I've got a screenshot of the Referrers box, but I'm not sure how to put it here. The classic ctrl-c / ctrl-v doesn't seem to be working for me....

]]> zandyring on "New Referrer "My Comments"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-referrer-my-comments#post-1115230 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:38:35 +0000 zandyring 1115230@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi Jon,

I think I get what you're saying - I haven't seen it before though!

Can you take a screenshot of it? I'd like to dig deeper, but I think I may need some visual support :)

Cheers!

]]> jongleason on "New Referrer "My Comments"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-referrer-my-comments#post-1111279 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:33:15 +0000 jongleason 1111279@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ ping :)

]]> timethief on "New Referrer "My Comments"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-referrer-my-comments#post-1109057 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:48:05 +0000 timethief 1109057@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome. :)

]]> jongleason on "New Referrer "My Comments"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-referrer-my-comments#post-1109050 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:44:11 +0000 jongleason 1109050@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, I'm subscribed. Thank you for your help, as always.

]]> timethief on "New Referrer "My Comments"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-referrer-my-comments#post-1109047 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:42:20 +0000 timethief 1109047@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Happy New Year to you too. I have tagged this thread for a Staff response. Please subscribe to it so you are notified when that happens.

]]> jongleason on "New Referrer "My Comments"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-referrer-my-comments#post-1109044 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:39:34 +0000 jongleason 1109044@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, I'm familiar with "Comments I've Made." At first, that is what I thought it was, but the "My Comments" in my referrers doesn't link to that. I've never seen this before, so thought it must be some new feature. (Of course, that leaves the developer's question unanswered, "Is this a bug or a feature?!")

Why don't you take a holiday and relax? Rarely do any of us need answers THAT quickly. Happy New Year to you, anyway! :)

]]> timethief on "New Referrer "My Comments"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-referrer-my-comments#post-1109020 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:20:45 +0000 timethief 1109020@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ If it is then Dashboard -> Comments I’ve Made page tracks comments you’ve made across WordPress.com so you can see when people reply to you. It will show your comment, one before yours, and replies after yours. The thread with the latest replies will be at top.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-comments/

If it isn't then I can't explain why you have "My Comments" as a referrer in your stats. http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#referrers

]]> timethief on "New Referrer "My Comments"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-referrer-my-comments#post-1109014 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:17:25 +0000 timethief 1109014@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Is this what you mean? http://mindrenewers.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=my-comments

]]> jongleason on "New Referrer "My Comments"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-referrer-my-comments#post-1109008 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:14:50 +0000 jongleason 1109008@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I just had "My Comments" show up on my list of referrers. It is in the same blue text as a hyperlink (like some other referrers), but it isn't a hyperlink.

Just wondered what this is. Is it coming from one of my comments on another blog? If so, I'd prefer to actually know which blog it was, rather than that it is from a comment I made.

]]> timethief on "why doesn't a link appear as a referrer on my stats?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-doesnt-a-link-appear-as-a-referrer-on-my-stats#post-1091609 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:23:05 +0000 timethief 1091609@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Does it appear in your Google webmaster's account?

]]> carlsnarl on "why doesn't a link appear as a referrer on my stats?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-doesnt-a-link-appear-as-a-referrer-on-my-stats#post-1091608 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:22:11 +0000 carlsnarl 1091608@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ this was not a search engine, but a direct link from a forum post. These referral did appear on my stats at first but now they are absent, even in the all time view.

]]> timethief on "why doesn't a link appear as a referrer on my stats?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-doesnt-a-link-appear-as-a-referrer-on-my-stats#post-1091585 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:04:13 +0000 timethief 1091585@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Please read these sections in the stats entry in support documentation:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#referrers
http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#search-engine-terms

Some search engines don’t reveal search terms for privacy reasons. That’s why we don’t always know which search terms were used by visitors who arrived at your site from a search engine. When we don’t know the search terms, we show them as “Unknown search terms”.

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