If someone comes to your page and then closes the page or hits the back button, that's a bounce. However, if someone comes to your page and clicks on say an adsense ad and ends up on a new website, is that considered a bounce as well or does that count as a click on your site and hence not a bounce?
That's still a bounce. They have to click on another page on you OWN website for it not to be a bounce.
Technically it's when a second click is not initiated by a site visitor. This can occur when a tab/window is closed as well. This is dependent on your reporting software. Also you must make sure it's on all pages. Some only place it on a home page and some won't recognize certain actions.
That's to bad this is considered a bounce. The way I see it, they came to my site, found the information they wanted, even though it was on another domain and clicked a link.
Unless you're running some kind of directly, then surely you want to provide whatever information people need on your site rather than direct them somewhere else??
i blieve you are right, He knows that they wanted an info and found on other domain, but he is not doing any action to provide the same info on his own domain to get visits for a long time!
That's not quite true. It's a balance between ads and information. I can move the position of ads to make the site more user friendly. Page views go up but revenue goes down. If I put the ads in a more "in your face" location, then the opposite is true, revenue goes up but page views go down. I want to keep the bounce rate low and revenue up, that's why I asked the question thinking if someone clicks an add, does it affect bounce rate. If it didn't, I'd keep the ads in a more prominent position.
The term bounce rate refers to how quickly a visitor leaves a website by closing it hiting back button or by clicking on any ad so it will be a bounce sure.
If user click in just few seconds on that adsense add then it would be the page bounce otherwise it would be the traffic to your website.
I don't mean to take this to the next level. But, what percentage would you consider to be an acceptable bounce rate?
Clear your doubts about bounce rate by reading the post written by Avinash Kaushik, the Analytics Evangelist for Google: kaushik.net/avinash/2007/08/standard-metrics-revisited-3-bounce-rate.html
You can try to use adwords site optimization tool to reduce the bounce rate by switching different indexes .. that helps a lot
O nice suggestions i will follow them i also want to know what is bounce rate and now its cleared me surely Thanks a lot ....
Bounce is when a user leaves from your website pages.. for sure when a user clicks on any ad he is leaving your domain,,,,, its a bounce..