I just saw someones post on bounce rate. I've had a site that was in the 80s, and now that its SEO'd better its in the high 50's It makes me nice money. But I have some other sites that I am still working on getting rankings. Likely they are getting long tail and random terms, so perhaps they are having higher bounce rates. But these sites are in the *90*'s How can I fix this? And, more importantly, how much does google bring this into the SEO factor?
I am not sure if there is a relationship between your Bounce rates and your rankings in the SERPs, although it is quite possible that site's with a higher Bounce rate to be seen as lower quality and therefore moved lower down in Google's index. A healthy bounce rate is anything from 0% - 40%. In order to get your bounce rates down you need to do new keyword research and correctly map your targeted keywords to the appropriate pages on your site, therefore you'll have the proper pages ranking for related keywords bringing your bounce rates down as users find the information they are looking for.
i thing bounce rate your website any visitor how may time come and go not any response and no any related content form site.
Bounce rate is nothing but to give a rate according the visitor spending. Even only one user visit one time and spend long time will get less bounce rate. According to me less Bounce rate is good only the site which having more traffic
There's nothing to fix. Long tail search = high bounce rates. The only thing you can do is prompt the user with additional related content. Even then it's no guarantee they'll stick around. These are "searchers" after all.
I have a site at #1 on Google with a bounce rate of 67% so it can't affect SEO too much. I would like it a little lower of course.
I don't believe you are saying that bounce rate effects SEO, but rather you added more relevant content to your pages, in turn delivering better information to your users, prompting a click-through rather than an exit. Better content, relative to the users' search will always yield a lower bounce rate. The fact that you say you SEO'd your site more and in turn got a lower bounce rate is just an added bonus to potentially higher rankings. Make sense?
As the article suggests, it is likely that search engines adjust your rankings based on your bounce rate relative to the bounce rate of other sites.
Bounce rate is and will become more and more important in rankings.... I am totally convinced about this! After all isn't it a very logical and fair way of determining if a site should rank for a certain set of keywords?
I agree. I think this is gonna be the next thing because google wants valuable content first, so why not make bounce rate a big factor.