Identifying viewers

  • oturner2135 · Member ·

    If someone were to view my blog…would I be able to identity who they are? Or would they just be another count to my total number of views/viewers?

    Is it impossible to learn any information about the people who are just viewing your profile? Not subscribing to it, but just casually viewing it?

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • lederer1 · Member ·

    I have the same question as the person posting above. Today someone based in Brazil viewed my blog 155 times! I would really like to be able to identify and contact that person(s) and not necessarily to market to them which can certainly be annoying.

    I understand the need on your part to guarantee privacy of viewers/readers but quite honestly, though the numbers are a nice illusion, this anonymity factor has been extremely frustrating since I began my blog here in 2009.

    Though some viewers do leave comments to which I have promptly responded, I suspect that those who do not may be shy about posting their questions or comments at the blog site for their own reasons. Still, I believe that they are obviously interested in my blog content and would perhaps welcome some feedback from me. Is the anonymity factor in place simply because your software is unable to track more than country of origin or there is some legalese that prohibits it?

  • timethief · Member ·

    There is no means of individually and personally identifying who visits a public blog. Why do you care who is viewing your profile?

  • lederer1 · Member ·

    Why? Maybe it doesn’t bother you, timethief, but as an artist, writer and naturally curious person, I have this very human need to know who cares enough to read my writings, view my images and spend considerable time perusing the many posts at my site. No apologies here; lurking is just plain creepy. If, after all this, identifying viewers is simply not possible, well then, so be it.

  • timethief · Member ·

    Well, our opinions differ. In my case, I don’t find lurking to be creepy at all. In fact, most people on the internet who do visit blogs do not comment and some do not click like buttons either. I put my stuff out there for all to read and I pay to keep ads off my site. I have no vested interest in harvesting email address and do not collect them at all. I find people who think they need to personally identify who is viewing their site to be odd, but as the saying goes different strokes for different folks.

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