My Google landing page is very informative, bounce rate is about 50% - I guess it is extremely high - I heard normal rate is 10% or so. What I should do? I am thinking just making post shown half and make people have to click through... but bad user experience, I am afraid... Also my Adsense CTR is extremely low (0.2%), I know bigger above fold position is good, but I think visitors will have a very bad experience as well... So I put a 468x60 small one, and CPM is only about $1 (it is a job site) What is the best way to having a good visitor experience while making money?
Well written content with the maximum use of regular common words will entice the viewers to read the full article and thereby increasing the time spent on your site. Do also keep the layout clean to offer good visibility to viewers to be able to see your various offerings clearly. Regards, RightMan
Remember make sure to always create your website for your visitor when you begin designing it to make money your visitors will surley notice and bounce out. Now I have a high bounce rate, but they are clicking off to my blog or forum or twitter so I don't loose them. It is ok if they are bouncing as long as it is to somewhere that will increase your relationship with them.
You can read this post 7 Tips to Keep People on Your Blog Longer If you can keep your readers on your blogs/sites longer, page view will increase and bounce rate will decrease Good luck
Normally, your visitors, if they come from search engines, will go to your blog posts and not the front page, so that's where you should work to get them moving However, I do believe that a 50% bounce rate is not that bad, after all
I checked out that link, but it is super basic info that only would be useful if you've never had a website before. I'd like to hear other peoples thoughts on this subject though.
Quality content with related key words are best at all times. Increase adsense earnings by posting more adsense friendly keywords.
I can't imagine 10% Bounce rate being normal. That is a very low number. I think a 40% bounce rate is good.
That is about normal for generic google search results traffic. I dont know who told you 10%, anything less then around 30% - 40% is ok. Keep in mind, those are averages. When someone goes into their google webmaster tools and tells you they have a 20% bounce rate - that is an average of all of their referring sites. On my forum: Google - 48% bounce rate Youtube traffic - 18% bounce rate A portal for my forum - 8% bounce rate There is little that you can do to decrease the bounce rate of generic traffic - except to create quality content with descriptive titles. Besides that, spend your money or time on targeted advertising. Take a look at where you are advertising at, and take a look at the bounce. My opinion, anything less then a 20% bounce rate from the sites your advertising on would be ok.
Yup, it is basic but very important. I've checked out your 2 blogs (via sign links) and found that you even don't follow some of these basic steps "To know is one thing but to understand and to do correctly is something entirely different" -Michael
I'm also facing the same problem in one of my site. the avg. bounce rate is near about 50% and from referral sites it's about 75% , so how can I minimize it?
So 50% or lower bounce rate, ok? My avg PV is about 3 pages, including bounced visitors (according to GAnalytics), is that normal, my CTR is too low, .2%... But really I have concern putting big ads on the top.. that can really have a bad impact on user experience (Visitor think it cheap, spamming?).. How you think?
great content should be first with advertising using about 10% of your total site.....dont make it a billboard