100% Bounce Rate - Can this be?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by closeout-guy, Mar 13, 2008.

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    I had a Bloger blog with great succes and in my research decided to switch to wordpress with my own domain. I had someone through Elance configure everything and thought all was good. I was wrong.

    Prior to moving to wordpress and self hosting we had a fantastic average time on site of 8-12 munites.

    Now our blog is being found in google search however the bounce rate is really close to 100%. No one is spending time on the site which leads me to believe there is a huge technical/coding error.

    Can someone please try to shed some light as to what could be wrong? Our blog is http://thecloseoutindustry.com

    I would be very greatful as I am loosing my mind :confused:
     
    closeout-guy, Mar 13, 2008 IP
  2. ched

    ched Active Member

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    Site looks good and interesting to me. Dont know about the education keyword, I live in UK but education is normally a word associated with school, college, or university, not really a term we would use for gaining information or learning about a subject.

    It might be worth adding google analytics and seeing what the stats say.

    Overall I think the site looks great, might need a bit of work on title, and your Header tags, seems like you have loads of H2 tags, I cant see H1 or H3.

    Good luck.
     
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  3. closeout-guy

    closeout-guy Peon

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    Thank you very much for your time. I do have anyalytics intergrated and it shoes zero time on site by most if not all visitors. There was a question someone brought up about the anylytics code. we have it in the head section and another person told me it should be in the body?

    any ideas?

    I just cannot see why now no one spends time on the site becuase we do have lots of topic rich content
     
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  4. ~DaRk-EyE~

    ~DaRk-EyE~ Banned

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    Your Blog site is pretty good...
    But I suggest you to add some images related to your articles...
    I guess that would help your site look enticing combined with your effective contents...
     
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  5. Goramba

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    We generally recommend that you place the Google Analytics tracking code immediately before the closing </body> tag of your pages in order to avoid any issues with page loading delays for visitors with slow connection speeds.
     
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  6. redspace

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    you need to check on the bouncing rate stat of keyword phrases. Maybe your google visitor is not looking for your specific site.
     
    redspace, Mar 13, 2008 IP