WordPress.com Forums » Topic: I had 5 people like a post today and three pageviews. How is that possible? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-had-5-people-like-a-post-today-and-three-pageviews-how-is-that-possible WordPress.com Forums » Topic: I had 5 people like a post today and three pageviews. How is that possible? en Sun, 26 May 2013 00:35:23 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 timethief on "I had 5 people like a post today and three pageviews. How is that possible?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-had-5-people-like-a-post-today-and-three-pageviews-how-is-that-possible#post-909416 Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:04:05 +0000 timethief 909416@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome and best wishes with your blog.

]]> faroutmadman on "I had 5 people like a post today and three pageviews. How is that possible?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-had-5-people-like-a-post-today-and-three-pageviews-how-is-that-possible#post-909415 Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:02:30 +0000 faroutmadman 909415@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for the information. I should have figured it was something like that.

]]> timethief on "I had 5 people like a post today and three pageviews. How is that possible?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-had-5-people-like-a-post-today-and-three-pageviews-how-is-that-possible#post-908723 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:19:09 +0000 timethief 908723@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Well, I sure hope you don't get any more. (fingers crossed)

]]> waitingforthecall on "I had 5 people like a post today and three pageviews. How is that possible?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-had-5-people-like-a-post-today-and-three-pageviews-how-is-that-possible#post-908696 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 20:50:26 +0000 waitingforthecall 908696@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, those spammers are annoying. I had a few of those unfortunately.

]]> timethief on "I had 5 people like a post today and three pageviews. How is that possible?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-had-5-people-like-a-post-today-and-three-pageviews-how-is-that-possible#post-908692 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 20:48:45 +0000 timethief 908692@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @waitingforthecall
You're welcome. Be aware that there are "like" button spammers and sadly we cannot delete their likes. We cannot prevent their gravatars from displaying without disabling gravatar display for everyone.

]]> waitingforthecall on "I had 5 people like a post today and three pageviews. How is that possible?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-had-5-people-like-a-post-today-and-three-pageviews-how-is-that-possible#post-908653 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 20:16:10 +0000 waitingforthecall 908653@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for that tip, timehtief, I'd wondered how to that!

I'm also puzzled by the randomness of the "Likes" I get, sometimes within seconds of publishing a post. It did make me wonder if there's a way of Liking all posts published with certain tags.

]]> timethief on "I had 5 people like a post today and three pageviews. How is that possible?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-had-5-people-like-a-post-today-and-three-pageviews-how-is-that-possible#post-908438 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 15:21:08 +0000 timethief 908438@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ A follower can click the “like” button without visiting your blog and creating a page view stat.

  • A follower can click the “like” button when viewing your posts in the Readomatic reader on the home page of WordPress.com
  • A follower can click the “like” button when viewing your posts on the Topics pages.
  • A follower can click the “like” button when viewing your posts when using an app.
  • An email subscriber can click the “like” button in the email they receive of your new posts without visiting your blog.

P.S. To compel readers to click into my blog to read the full post I have set my RSS Feed to “summary” on this page > Settings > Reading

]]> faroutmadman on "I had 5 people like a post today and three pageviews. How is that possible?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-had-5-people-like-a-post-today-and-three-pageviews-how-is-that-possible#post-908218 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 04:56:50 +0000 faroutmadman 908218@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi,

This isn't a huge deal, I'm just curious. I made a new post today and it has 5 likes so far (so at least 5 people viewed the page and read it). However my stats say that I've had 3 pageviews. So if I've only had 3 pageviews how did the other 2 people like the post?

Just curious.

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