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bounce rate (iframe effect) Not what you are thinking

Discussion in 'Google Analytics' started by omegaman66, Mar 13, 2011.

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    OK I have some pages that are getting visitors from google etc. But they have a high bounce rate which I obviously want to lower. I have placed an iframe on those page that contains links to other pages on my website that they might find interesting. This iframe is imbedded in the text like a picture would be... complete with border to highlight it and seperate it from the text.

    Question is how is this going to affect bounce rate. Page 1 is the page in question. suggest.htm is the page in the iframe. Page 2 is linked to from the suggest.htm page.

    Page 1 and 2 both have google analytics code on them, the suggest.htm page does not because it is only 3 lines of info that fits in a box... not really a page in the traditional sense.

    So if google sends a visitor to page 1 and they click on the link in suggest.htm and it via _top changes the page 1 to page 2. Will that lower the bounce rate for page 1.

    I hope that is clear.
     
    omegaman66, Mar 13, 2011 IP
  2. carleisenstein

    carleisenstein Peon

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    It will be as if the user went from page 1 to page 2 via a link from page 1's HTML. The fact that the link is fired from suggest.html in an iframe will not make a difference.

    However you might like to consider that search engines are likely to be fairly confused by this arrangement - can you not just pull out suggest.htm's content using a PHP include or similar? Do you have to use iFrames?
     
    carleisenstein, Mar 13, 2011 IP
  3. omegaman66

    omegaman66 Active Member

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    I would but it is on an html page and not a php page.
     
    omegaman66, Mar 13, 2011 IP