In those new and improved two-tone bars on the stats page, WordPress shows you your views and your visitors. Can anybody tell me what that actually means? Are people viewing without visiting? How do they even do that? Obviously visiting shows a deeper level of interest. I mean, when people come to ‘visit’ me at my house, I like it a lot better than if they just stand outside and stare at me. But what exactly do those terms mean in the blogging world?
I would be ever so grateful if you could clear up this mystery for me.
Pouring My Art Out 
OK, so if I follow you on a regular basis, I don’t show up as a view on your stats page because I’m a visitor? The views are new people looking in?
I forgot already. Maybe you are a view but not a visitor? I would have to read the answers again. I ask good questions. I don’t remember good answers.
I’m so confused!
Join the club.
I prefer to stand on the door step and peer through the screen door; I can’t commit to coming inside.
Ha. You are shy… and just a tiny bit creepy… lol… man… you made me lol…
When I’m not serious, I am amusing.
Seriously amusing. Ha! Hey, I just got my paperback copy of the book in the mail, and you are the first person to hear that. I am so excited.
I am very HAPPY for you. I am pleased that you took the plunge and I’m excited to see how it all shakes out. I know others have suggested this so I will reiterate. It will be worth your time to select a chapter of the book that can stand on its own as a short story and send it to a print journal. I usually submit to the small presses, quarterlies, and college journals. You might also try periodicals that offer a fiction selection. I know how you are regarding marketing, implementation of plans, blah, blah,blah. I also know how desperately you want your work to be recognized and you can’t have one without the other. You can do it. I know you can.
I will start Googling how and where to do that. Thank you for caring enough to get me off my ass and thinking that the book is going to sell itself. I need to throw it into the wind.
You’re a talented writer and I know this is important to you. I’ll get you a few links to start you on your Quest. Off your ass and onto your feet outa the shade and into the heat!
Ha! See, I dream and create, but I don’t sell myself worth… Slug slime. The big alien ones, not the earthly ones.
http://www.newpages.com/book-publishers/
This is a good place to start. Be sure to send SASE if you submit through the mail some places will not accept emailed submissions.
You’ve done some terrific non-fiction posts- Driving Miss Crazy- that should be submitted as memoir. The Sun may be a good place for those pieces
http://thesunmagazine.org/
You go so far past the expected, so far above and beyond. I hope we meet in real life someday. Thanks, buddy.
I get your dream. I’d love to be able to make a living writing so why wouldn’t I help someone else who has the same aspirations. Follow through or I’ll be pissed.
I will not let you down. I wouldn’t dare.
Did you get my reply on this… it seemed to take forever to send.
Yes, but I was busy taking the damn survey!
Ha. And way to sneak around my last question, by the way.
I am clever. If you recall I was most complimentary when you got your hair cut a few months ago when you were at the Hotel Del.
We had lunch with my stepson and his girlfriend today. On the way home we talked about how quickly the time has gone. We used to be young and HOT. I’m catching what you’re throwing.
But I want to be old and hot, dang it.
Me too, very disillusioned.
Well I am pretending that I still am, so shut up.
You were a good looking kid but you look better now so pop a Geritol and rest those hips.
That was the backhanded compliment I think I ever got… sniff…
Hey, you can’t go on a fishing expedition like that and not expect to get a little crap.
Carp… carp is what you catch on a fishing expedition. Not crap. Maybe crappy, another kind of fish. Glad I could clear that up for you.
Outstanding response! Bravo!
I felt the nibble… I snapped the line… I reeled it in. Oh yeah.
Do we need to offer them a cuppa? Good Geek answered your questions and one I’ve been wondering about! Thanks for clearing this up!
Yay. I love asking the questions that nobody bothers to ask.
a view is just that, a page was viewed. the visitors, according to WordPress themselves, is a count of how many NEW people visited your site. note, New. So they have never been there before, so I should never show up as a visitor from my home computer or if I’m logged in to WordPress as I am here a lot.
I understood the visitors count shows “unique” visitors. One person could visit multiple pages and produce many “views” but be counted only once (in a day) as a unique visitor.
You is smart talking to a dumb listener…
Just in one way. If I was really smart, I’d have more site hits like you do.
I can’t explain my growing popularity. People like to watch me being a freak. And the fact that I don’t mind looking like an idiot. That I ask dumb questions and admit that I am a computer moron with no clue what I am doing. I guess having an interesting life doesn’t hurt. Gives me stuff to talk about. My struggle with being all-art-side-of-the-brain is more fun to watch than it is to do… sigh…
Admit it. You just write well, you writer, you.
If I do it is just nature compensating for the fact that I have no real life skillz.
That is said in a way that a computer moron can understand. Thanks.
Views = How many different webpages were loaded total by all of your visitors
Visitors = How many different people visited
That doesn’t help me at all… I still don’t get it.