Since I am not sure how to directly contact someone at WordPress (do they hide that information on purpose?) I thought I’d try to post something on the forum, but I’m not even sure if I’m doing that correctly.
First, I want to thank WP for providing me a forum and an outlet. Also, my articles are now sharing correctly on Facebook. For awhile there, every post was being treated as a photo in spite of my settings.
On the other hand, I believe the stats have been incorrect for several weeks. As an example I posted a piece earlier today (5-18-15) and have had at least eight notifications that this post has been “liked” but only two views appear in my stats.
I understand that some folks might just click “like” without having read the post, but several of these people don’t follow me. I’d have to think they’ve actually visited my blog and read the post in order to “like” it.
This phenomenon isn’t limited to today’s post, but it’s the first day I’ve kept track of the number of notifications.
I know my blog is small potatoes, but they’re my potatoes and I’d like them properly counted.
Thanks,
Leslie Noyes
Praying for Eyebrowz 
Good luck! I get likes but no views too. I know the people are viewing because someone will read 4 or 5 posts and like 3 or 4 of them, I can’t imagine they would be able to like several posts in a row without actually viewing them…..
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So it’s not just me! I feel relieved.
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I get this a lot. 3 visitors, 12 views, 32 likes, 2 comments. Some of these extra likes are because I write mostly short poems and you can read the whole thing on the reader and like it without having to actually go to my blog. Some are probably fishing for views likes and follows by liking other people’s work. I am convinced some are auto likes based on tags and such. For example: My post about the dead horse being eaten by wild dogs got several likes from people offering Beauty and Make up tips- I can only guess because I tagged Beauty among other keywords. I can’t help but laugh imagining their reaction if they actually read the poem after they auto liked it based on the beauty tag!
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That makes sense. It just looks odd.
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