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cantueso on "Massive visit drop"

cantueso — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:42:11 +0000

To Mhasegawa

I don't know at all how a reader works. If they can do "like" because of a picture and without looking at your post, that would certainly be the explanation.

mhasegawa on "Massive visit drop"

mhasegawa — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:06:31 +0000

Is this because you can do "like" on reader without actually opening the entire post? I've noticed my views going down and likes going up.

cantueso on "Massive visit drop"

cantueso — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 07:43:41 +0000

Unless you can find out what Google's aims are, you cannot "find a solution".

Now, it seems to me that Google is still changing. In the last two searches that I made the enlarged picture was linked to the blog it came from. That would be good news.

I have never played any games, and so I cannot find out how the changes affect your interests.

matteomazzali on "Massive visit drop"

matteomazzali — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 09:10:16 +0000

This for me is a devastating issue. i run my blog from 2007 and it's all about game's art and renders in high resolution... We have to find a solution... somehow.

cantueso on "Massive visit drop"

cantueso — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 09:05:53 +0000

To "mfearing"

But you are at WordPress.org! At some risk, those people can interfere with Google's business. Go and look online about "the new pic search".

cantueso on "Massive visit drop"

cantueso — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:58:27 +0000

To "thistimethisspace"

It is the new image search at least in my case. The proof is in my Spanish blog, where the loss is rather more than 70% on workdays, because maybe some 80% of the visitors came to download model job applications and related papers.About 20 models were original content, and there was one model in public domain from Iberia Airlines.

There are many places that sell models of that kind. And these draw ads! They are of basic interest to Google.

So Google does exactly what we are not allowed to do: publish other people's content full size.

I understand this very well now, but there is still a riddle: hits/visitor stats have also fallen about 25%, just as suddenly.

mfearing on "Massive visit drop"

mfearing — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:58:32 +0000

There is definitely something new going on. ! I've seen numbers drop by more than half. And I can look at 3 years of blogging statistics. I think the image search changes makes the most sense. I always guessed my actual readers was fairly low, my blog is not my main job or purpose. But the drop in numbers was amazing. It fits with exactly what's being described. Where as people used to click on the image and be taken to the content, now they get the image served via Google. At least now I know! And my blog is 80% images.

thistimethisspace on "Massive visit drop"

thistimethisspace — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:47:42 +0000

It may or may not be a Google image search issue.
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/02/01/google-image-search-redesign-raises-ire/

Is all the content on your blog original? Or has either the text or the images been published elsewhere? Google's Panda algorithm can detect duplicate content. http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66359

cantueso on "Massive visit drop"

cantueso — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:53:53 +0000

People mention hotlinking, but that can be done only on your own domain. Most say Google's new policy is illegal, but they do not suggest that anyone can do anything about that. Some say they are going to put a watermark on their pictures, but that is busywork and probably counterproductive.

However, Google is still adapting. Today I went and looked up
"Michelangelo timeline", and of the first 4 photos offered one was right, one was off-topic, and two were identical ad collections not related to Michelangelo offered as "hacks". --- Yet I looked up "Madrid" amd the Google pic selection was excellent.

matteomazzali on "Massive visit drop"

matteomazzali — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:06:39 +0000

cantueso... i think you got it right...
And i suppose we are not suppose to do nothing about that.
thanks!

cantueso on "Massive visit drop"

cantueso — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:40:32 +0000

I have had a loss of between 50 and 75% on my two blogs, and I am almost sure it is due to the new Google image search. In the past, if somebody clicked on a picture, he came to your blog to see its enlarged version or its context. Now he sees the enlarged version there, on Google.

To give you an example, on my blog I had various models of job search papers. These got up to 2000 hits a day which allowed me to publish poetry and even religious things.

Now Google publishes 1 of my models at the top of the page. It is not the best, and it is not representative, but people see it full size and there is nothing to tell them that on my site there are more.

rbbasinger on "Massive visit drop"

rbbasinger — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:42:16 +0000

I also have experienced a drastic drop in visitors to my blog over the past two weeks. This happened after I transitioned from WordPress hosting to self-hosting. It may just be a coincidence, but I'm hoping there's a correlation and a fix to the drop. For one thing, my Facebook followers no longer show up as a category in my stats.

mikedariano on "Massive visit drop"

mikedariano — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 12:26:25 +0000

I've had similar experiences with creating content. For me I had someone with a lot of twitter followers tweet out a link which drove lots of traffic and those visitors stayed around for a few weeks before slowly dripping away. Make more great content and they'll return.

matteomazzali on "Massive visit drop"

matteomazzali — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:54:27 +0000

Good morning,
for about two weeks my blog has undergone a drastic drop in visits and I can not understand why. I have not changed any settings or methodology used so I would like someone to explain to me the situation if possible. Here is a screen

Thank you very much.

Matteo

changedbychange on "I would like to invite you to view my new site!"

changedbychange — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:27:00 +0000

Here are a few of my recommedations:

Serious Sillies in Sweatpants

A Perfect Gift

amidst the chaos

sometimes being a mom makes me say "baaaa"

changedbychange on "I would like to invite you to view my new site!"

changedbychange — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:16:45 +0000

I started my blog about two weeks ago now. I've been having a blast, writing like crazy. I have had a good amount of traffic from familiar people, but I would like to extend a welcome to the blogging community to come for a visit, have a look around, and let me know what you think. It's been great getting to know the blogging community, and the more the merrier!

If you decide to stop by, leave a comment, so I can return the favor and check out your blog as well!

Happy blogging. ChangedByChange AKA: Abigail

drestupor on "Two color site stats: home page vs. other visits"

drestupor — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 07:45:48 +0000

It would be so useful if bar graph has two different colors: one for home page direct visits, and other for other visits.
So it's easy to see how many visits are regular and how many are sporadic or intermittent. You can see what I mean in this example:

http://ciudadanosencrisis.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/twocolorgraph.jpg

Do you think is this desirable? I hope WordPress' users will appreciate this. Thank you!

airodyssey on "Visitng other WordPress Blogs"

airodyssey — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:12:29 +0000

Hi. There used to be that feature. It's no longer published but still available. To visit a random WordPress.com blog, add /next/ to your blog's URL. Example:
http://anchorageinn.wordpress.com/next/

Please note that this feature can produce unpredictable results, such as taking you to a closed or suspended blog...

This being said, global tags are a better say, in my humble opinion.
http://en.wordpress.com/tags/

anchorageinn on "Visitng other WordPress Blogs"

anchorageinn — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 07:49:39 +0000

Hello. Other blog sites I am familiar with have a feature where you can visit other blogs, often randomly. However, I cannot find a way to do this on WordPress. I'd like to check out some others. Is there a way to do this? (Googling does not do it.) Thank you.

raincoaster on "Stats gone through the roof - glitch?"

raincoaster — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:46:39 +0000

The spam referrals is a known issue; report them to staff and they'll delete them. But they generally don't make enough hits to show a real inflationary effect, since you usually get exactly one click from each.

talesofacrazypsychmajor on "Stats gone through the roof - glitch?"

talesofacrazypsychmajor — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:30:15 +0000

I'm having a similar issue. Not quite with as many hits as these folks, but I'm getting more hits than normal and my referals are showing a lot of sites that are clearly spammer blogs that don't appear to link to me anywhere.

kristianlyng on "Stats gone through the roof - glitch?"

kristianlyng — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:43:46 +0000

I am seeing similar weirdness now. I suddenly got 10k hits yesterday, most supposedly from a site I happen to have google analytics code - which told me that roughly 400-500 people visited the referring page... So I got 10k hits form a page with 500 hits... Clearly either the google analytics or the wp.com stats are wrong. Given the lack of increase in spam and comments, I'd assume it was wp.com doing something strange...

naokomc on "Stats gone through the roof - glitch?"

naokomc — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:40:12 +0000

The referrer or search keyword information didn't show any high number of traffic coming from external sources, so we are looking into this to figure out why it's happening. Thanks for the report!

tandava108 on "Stats gone through the roof - glitch?"

tandava108 — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:29:57 +0000

Look at where the hits are coming from. I had a crazy day like that when someone linked my site in a magazine article. The stats gradually reduced to my normal 100 a day over the next two weeks though.

raincoaster on "Stats gone through the roof - glitch?"

raincoaster — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:28:59 +0000

and I'll have what you're having!

rachelmarywrites on "Stats gone through the roof - glitch?"

rachelmarywrites — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:21:59 +0000

Thanks for the help guys - I filled in the support form as you suggested thesacredpath.

I guess it's just the sudden crazy rise that has me flummoxed, raincoaster. If the WordPress bods are unable to shed any light, I guess I'll just accept your explanation instead :)

raincoaster on "Stats gone through the roof - glitch?"

raincoaster — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:00:29 +0000

I always say, it's not a problem when stats go up. It's a problem when they go DOWN.

It's much more natural that some search engine not connected to Wp stats has discovered your site than to assume those hits are fake.

thesacredpath on "Stats gone through the roof - glitch?"

thesacredpath — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:45:49 +0000

I would contact staff directly to see what they have to say. The volunteers here in the forum don't have access to the backend, so we really cannot say. I'll tag this thread so that staff will hopefully see it, but I would contact them anyway.

http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

rachelmarywrites on "Stats gone through the roof - glitch?"

rachelmarywrites — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:52:40 +0000

My blog used to be ticking along, getting between 50-100 views a day. Yesterday, it suddenly went wild, with me apparently getting 733 yesterday and 1277 today so far! But the stats for site referrers and search engines are low single figure only and I don't see any incoming links on the dashboard.

I was wondering if this was a glitch or a spambot somewhere continually clicking refresh... has anyone got any ideas?

My site's URL is: http://rachttlg.wordpress.com/ if that helps. Thanks in advance!

ramymehelba on "New Posts ♥"

ramymehelba — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:51:36 +0000

I posted some new posts and I want some readers :P
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