WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Why don't likes match stats? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-dont-likes-match-stats WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Why don't likes match stats? en Sat, 18 May 2013 23:53:58 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 timethief on "Why don't likes match stats?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-dont-likes-match-stats#post-1050499 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:22:10 +0000 timethief 1050499@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Likes and shares are misleading when you are talking about page view stats. Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com blog who is logged into WordPress.com can "like" and "share" your posts in several locations such as the Reader without ever clicking into your blog and creating a page view stat.
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/07/09/wordpress-followers-likes-and-stats/

I choose to reduce my RSS Feed to "summary" here > Settings > Reading
For each article in a feed, show
Full text
Summary
Doing that compels followers to click in and read the full post on my blogs.

]]> benoblate on "Why don't likes match stats?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-dont-likes-match-stats#post-1050492 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:18:32 +0000 benoblate 1050492@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Why do I have 10 "likes" for the blog I published today, and yet the stats show only three views for today?
Blog url: http://monicaspen.wordpress.com/

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