Tag: Facebook problems

Puzzled by the unusually slow traffic on this blog today, this evening I discovered that my Facebook connection had become undone again. I have no idea why that happens. The 2 referrals from Facebook, instead of 20 or so, should’ve been a clue.

Anyway, I think I have restored the connection: followed the instructions, at any rate. It says it’s restored–but you know how computers lie. It also says I’ve still got only 2 referrals from Facebook.

I will know I’ve corrected the problem if more referrals come in. Unfortunately, I understand so little of this stuff, I don’t even know how to frame a question asking for help. If any of you are psychic, and able to get here via Facebook, please do so. If I see the number change, then I can rest easy about it. Otherwise, I’m all at sea.

 

Well, I waited all day, and still no Facebook referrals.

I would’ve bet good money that reconnecting my page to Facebook, once I discovered that the connection had been broken, would have done the trick. Like, what could be more basic? But no–it didn’t work.

So now I’ve lost a fair-sized portion of my traffic, I have no idea why, and I’ve come head-first up against a brick wall.

Any ideas, anybody?

My mother used to have a saying, “You know what Thought did. He only thought he did!”

I reckoned that restoring my Facebook connection, which had somehow gotten disconnected, would bring back Facebook referrals to this blog site. Stands to reason, right?

Except there are no referrals yet today.

All right, give it time, let’s see where we stand this evening. Meanwhile, I hope I’m not  being too tiresome with this. You know how it can be: sometimes when you’ve got a problem, you just have to keep gnawing on it until the knot comes loose.Well, I do, at any rate.

Wrestling with this difficulty all day, finally, this evening, I found the answer–I’m pretty sure it’s the answer–on a WordPress Help site, under “Sharing.”

What could be simpler? Somehow my blog’s connect to Facebook got accidentally disconnected. All I had to do was click a “Reconnect” button. Now let’s see if that has put me back in business. I think it will.

I thank you all for your patience.

An experiment performed just now by my wife and her friend Carol has demonstrated that there is no technical reason for this blog’s Facebook referrals suddenly drying up. The mechanism (whatever it is–don’t ask me!) is not at fault. For some reason unknown to me, people have just stopped clicking.

Well, now at least I have evidence that I have not been censored for refusing to believe in Man-Made Climate Change that can be reversed and controlled by the government taking away our refrigerators.