wordpress.com as referrer
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If “wordpress.com” is showing up as a referrer on my blog, what does that mean?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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It means another logged in member of WordPress.com clicked into your blog from their dashboard.
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What if this has happened just today, over a 1000 times. My traffic has gone nuts today and I can’t figure out why because the only referrer is wordpress.com and the posts/pages do not reflect the hit counts. It’s extremely strange.
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Also if you have another WordPress.com blog and have posted a link to it then the traffic could be coming in from that link.
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Same thing is happening to me – not as extreme, but 53 visits from wordpress.com in the last 1 hour. Strange.
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Nope. Not on fresh pressed, not from another blog I have, checked those states. I thought maybe some hotlink? Because, once again, it’s not showing up as clicks on posts or pages. So, I have no idea where traffic is landing. I even thought it was a featured theme blog, no go on that either. But it’s given me my best day ever just not like I would want it.
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In my case, I had a super-popular post 2 days ago, but that wouldn’t explain why everything’s coming from the wordpress.com home page specifically.
I sadly think mine must be a bug because I don’t use tags – just categories. And I don’t have that many wordpress users who read directly from their dashboard.
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Yeah, there is some mis-count bug here. My total page views is equal to my total views of posts plus referrals from wordpress.com. Total page views should equal total views of posts, since that now includes homepage landings.
I get the feeling it is counting my own navigation of my dashboard, as that has been up quite a bit as I have been trying to figure out where I could possibly be linked on wordpress.com to get such traffic.
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I’m sorry but we Volunteers don’t know why this is suddenly happening. I previously flagged this thread for Staff attention and can do not more than that.
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I’m reporting the same behavior. Ton of traffic from wordpress.com to my homepage, but I don’t see any particular story at the wordpress.com site.
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It’s happening to me too. I’ve got over 600 from WordPress.com, and no post has has even 100 today.
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It looks like this is a very new change. We’re starting to report email subscription and feed views in your stats as referred by WordPress.com, hence the sudden jump.
This feature is in its infancy, so we’ll be making adjusts to it over the next several days.
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Well. I thought referrers from WordPress.com, are actually from http://wordpress.com/following/. People who have subscribed to my blog, might be visiting back. Was I wrong?
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Yeah, they can be from there too, but we’re also counting email subscription and RSS feed page loads now.
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