Two posts have huge views

zeynel1 · Member · May 12, 2018 at 6:56 am
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Hello, I see in the stats that two of my posts are viewed a few times every day. While my other post have views in two digits these two posts are viewed close to 500 times. I don’t thing humans are reading it. What could have happened? Thanks.

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ahmadbaig1 · Staff · May 12, 2018 at 9:43 am
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Hi there,

It may be due to your posts being shared on social media and that they are getting their traffic from there? Have you shared those posts somewhere on facebook or twitter?
catkiinson · Staff · May 12, 2018 at 9:59 am
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Hi,

I hope you don’t mind me adding to this thread :)

In Stats on your Dashboard, you can see “Referrers”. This lets you know which sites have linked to your blog, and that’s what drives the number of views. You can read more here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#referrers

Hope this helps :)
zeynel1 · Member · May 12, 2018 at 4:03 pm
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ahmadbaig007: No. I don’t remember posting to social media. I share my new posts in twitter and I get just a few views and then it stops.

catkiinson: For referrers I see Google but I don’t see search terms.

Thanks.
ahmadbaig1 · Staff · May 12, 2018 at 10:53 pm
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Try to search for those posts on twitter then, it may be possible that somebody retweeted them, and it is getting traffic?

Also, as @catkiinson said, Referrers are a good way to know from which site the traffic is getting diverted to your site.

If you still feel the activity on your account is not normal, we can tag this post with ‘modlook’ to get the staff attention here.
zeynel1 · Member · May 14, 2018 at 6:33 am
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This is an old post and I did not share it in Twitter. The referrer only says Google and this doesn’t say much.

Yes, I still feel this activity does not feel normal to me. How can I tag this as ‘modlook’? I tried to add as a tag but it seems that it was not added.
zeynel1 · Member · May 14, 2018 at 6:33 am
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Ok. I see it now has the modlook tag.
fstat · Staff · May 14, 2018 at 7:37 am
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Hi there,

On which of your sites are you referring? I don’t see any posts on any of your sites having that many views.
zeynel1 · Member · May 14, 2018 at 7:51 am
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This is the post https://notlar11.wordpress.com/2016/07/06/meme-sayisi-ve-yavru-sayisi/. It has 443 views.

The other is this one https://notlar11.wordpress.com/2016/07/11/metrobuste-ingilizce-anonslar/ It has 770 views.

Thanks.
kokkieh · Staff · May 14, 2018 at 8:20 am
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Those numbers are the all-time views on those posts since they were first published in 2016 – it looks like you get around 15 – 20 views a week on average on those posts.

The fact that referrer stats mentions Google means those posts keep coming up in search results, leading people to your site. That’s what’s supposed to happen with a successful post, and there’s nothing wrong with the stats, nor are these visits from bots as we don’t count bot visits in stats.
zeynel1 · Member · May 14, 2018 at 8:51 am
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Ok, I understand. Thanks for your time.
kokkieh · Staff · May 14, 2018 at 2:57 pm
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Happy to help :)

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