What is a good bounce rate for Panda

With the panda updates one thing I heard is to increase time spent on a page and lower bounce rate. Does anyone have any suggestions on waht a good bounce should be for Panda to like me and what a good time on page is.

Thanks

 

Mine hovers around 64%, obviously that's too high as I'm getting hit.

 

No matter whatever algorithm is rolled out, bounce rate means the same.

As you are saying that after Panda bounce rate is decreasing.... reason is very simple, now quality content is floating in top results. Due to this people are finding pages which are relevant to their queries and they are spending more time on your website.

 

I think less than 40% is excellent. You should target that as I am also having 70% and more but still not penalized

 

Bullshit!
I have seen parked domain ranking for some decent keywords and crap sites all the search results.
It was a random and a completely messed up update from Google.

To OP - Less than 50% is perfectly fine.

 

My site is sitting around 18.50% right now, but slowly decreasing. Was around 23% last month and 25% the month before that. I'm not sure if I can contribute the decline to Panda updates, though

 

i think panda policy call bounce rate under 50% and i think if you post hot content your bounce rate make more less than and google prefer your site good ranking

 

its still early to discuss about bounce rate, as nobody so far can confirm regarding bounce rate update via panda

 

Well, exceptions are always... And if few websites are ranking high for some bunch of keywords this does not mean whole algorithm is buggy....

There are loopholes in the algorithms, but the results of Panda are very big and good.

 

Guys, you do know that Google don;t have a clue about your website's bounce rate until you give it to them by using analytics, right? And if they don't know it, how could it possibly be a factor in determining your website's position in serps?

 

Right, but that can also be tracked by Ghost Cookies they use when people search from their search engine.

 

Yes i also agree with you. Google use some tracking cookies, for detect time on site. I have 44-60%

 

That can be tracked in 100 different ways. The point is: if it cannot be measured in 100% cases and for all websites by Google, it can't and won't be used as a ranking factor. It's not like presence or absence of meta tags.

For instance, let's say your website got 100 visits from Google's organic search one day. They (Google) were able to gather the data about your website bounce rate and time spent on your site from 77 out of 100 of these visitors. Please offer me one non-ridiculous way to use this data as a ranking factor. It would be like taking into account all emails sent to Google about your site and making it a ranking factor. In fact, that would probably be still less exploitable.

 

I've not found any specific percentage. But Panda prefers the low bounce rate.

 

Maybe sometimes people land on your page and find exactly what they are looking for, they read or watch then leave, this would give you a high bounce rate but could mean you have a good site because the visitor found exactly what he was looking for. I know I visit some sites find what I am looking from the page, I don't have to search any more of the pages, I then leave this would give them a high bounce but they may have a good site. Google has to face it one day a robot can never fully judge whether a website is good or not.

 

I think it depends upon the niche but still it should below somewhere between 20 to 25%.

 

less than 10% is good to beat panda

 

I wasn't talking about if it affects ranking or not. I said it can be tracked, even if you don't use Analytics.
How it can affect ranking in a positive or negative manner, is a different ball game all together.

 

less than 40% is excellent...I am also having 70% and more but still not penalized....

 

I think a fairly good time on the page is what would naturally be a viewer who reads the content to their entirety before leaving