Hey guys! http://blog.webdistortion.com/2009/09/05/hangin-with-my-home-boy-matt-cutts/ http://seoblackhat.com/2008/11/21/bounce-rate-seo/ http://www.scriptol.com/seo/bounce-factor.php http://www.huomah.com/Search-Engine...-using-bounce-rates-as-a-ranking-signal-.html Lets have it. Is bounce rate, high bounce rate a real factor in Googles search results. Example, www.network-example.com, this site only has links to all its forum owned networks - hardly any content - does this mean it wont rank well? In general I think bounce rate is a factor - spam wise. Even seen results in Google for listing expired domains with keyword optimised pages - the pages are just adfarms though!
From what I read, Google can somewhat determine based on a time stamp from your initial click-through from organic search engine listings. Now if you have Google analytics installed then you most certainly are giving Google full access to this information. If someone is referred from another site or direct type-in, it would take alot to convince me that Google can make any accurate detection of bounce rates. Only your hosting company has access to that type of info.
There is a lot of ways to get info about bounce rate.. Hint: Google Toolbar Also if user hits back he is taken back to the search results and google can detect that for sure..
It tells you excatly how long people visit your site for in your webmaster tools via google... Its hard to say..... The way I look at it is if they like you site they will visit more pages but.... That doesnt mean you site isnt quality. If I search for cures for headaches and I visit your site and get the information I need from one page, then I have no need to read anymore. For that reason I don't think google weighs bounce rate heavily. But I do think it plays a small role.
Yeah, bounce rate isn't really a factor. It would be stupid if it were. You have people visiting sites just to check if they've been updated. You have people opening several links in tabs - and closing the remaining tabs unread if they find what they're looking for. You have people clicking on ads or outbound links as soon as they get to the page.
Of course it's a factor. Google already tracks bounces in the analytics. It's a trivial thing for them to factor it into their algorithm.
Google could read the time off your wrist watch and whisper it in your ear right now if they wanted to the GBI is everywhere. In all seriousness, their toolbar easily lets them do this. If you use google analytics like most of us do, then we give them access to it.
i don't think that bounce rate is important factor in SEO, if any one is saying that bounce rate is important factor in seo then let me ask one question what about BLOGS /??? ,i think here all are aware from the fact that blogs have higher bounce rates but still they manage to sustain in top 10 serp in google.
Ok but if the site having more visitors but high bounce rate means the site's content quality is very poor.. and nobody stay long time on it.. So sure this will effect in ranking or reputation by manually and by robots
Google analytics records bounce rates. I don't think enough sites have it installed for them to use it as a major factor in the SERPs though.
I have a site that has very low bounce rate and I tink this is why it keept its PR2 while all my other sites dropped
The bounce rate is a very important factor for Google results. I discovered this factor 1-2 years ago. I have pages that have little to zero backlinks and they have gradually over taken sites that have thousands of backlinks. Why? Because of bounce rates. Once you learn to lower bounce rates, you'll see your website slowly move up in the search results. Bounce rate is a factor along with time spent on each website. Google can easily track the bounce rate and time spent on each website using Google toolbars but most of all by analyzing the returning visitors back to search pages.
My two cents is its not a factor - if it is, it's a very small one and not worth reading into. Having a high bounce rate isn't good either way, instead of worry about it - fix the potential problems (site usability etc..) to get your bounce rate lower. It's probably a better idea to focus on lowering your bounce rate rather than worrying about how Google views it. :-D
Bounce rate is a big factor. Google wants to deliver the most relevant results possible to their searchers so they will keep coming back, and if people are pressing the "back button" after viewing 1 page of your site it means they aren't happy, and you are going to get dropped fast.
Well the idea sounds good but I don't think its very realistic. Have you tested this out? I have several junk domains that I use for testing which have very high bounce rates because they are very limited on content and information and their rankings haven't changed in about 5 months. I am talking about a 95& bounce rate on each - not to mention the keywords are pretty competitive.
That is not true actually. I have a blog with bounce rate <50 and i am sure many owners will have blogs like that. Only good or tweak to look good can sustain in top 10 serp in google.
So I don't think enough sites have it installed for them to use it as a major factor in the SERPs Google !