I am proud to finally publish this article about the Visitor Bounce Rate. Time spent on research and writing = 10 hours http://www.websitehomework.com/what-is-bounce-rate.html I hope someone can take things away from it.
I observed other resources, what questions people asked in comments of other blogs on the same subject as well as what I learned from my own experience, and organized everything in a (hopefully) logical way. For those who are interested... I have worked out a complete new tactic of how I write new content. I do research, which usually takes 2 hours—I write down notes. Then I organize the "skeleton" of the article in some common sense way. I then start my first draft. I usually have 2 pages of notes FULL, with notes written all over the page (I do this with a pen, nothing digital, because I find it better when I have physical sheet of paper to work with, it also feels great to dispose of it once the notes are not longer needed)... Then I start taking out each separate note on these sheets of paper one by one, copying them over to digital (I use EditPadPro, full registered version, it was only $40... I *hate* notepad and worpad and Word, eesh). I use yellow marker to highlight notes I already moved over to digital. This process usually takes 1 hour. Then finally, I start the most important part—the creative writing process. I try to make good points and dress up the article skeleton with interesting sentences. I am extremely dedicated to not write about anything that the page is not about. I am obsessive with putting DESCRIPTIVE text into the TITLE tag of the page, as well as meta keywords and meta description tags. All these little details matter a lot, because they add up to the general value of content (in terms of findability, and usability). Just sharing a few things on how I create content. It's a recent development, and I haven't seen any great results yet, but I'll keep on reporting to you guys... /G
Thanks Webwaster for spending time creating such useful info. I was just currious and wanted a simple answer but having read your info I know now absolutely everything.
I'm glad you guys like it. I didn't write this from top of my head, however. I think I really discovered the only way to make a popular website on the Internet... funny, but it is not longer my goal, neither is making a lot of money. And it seems the more I work hard to deliver to other people what they want to learn, the more people appreciate it / link to my sites. That's the key. It is extremely hard work, but i think it will pay off, if i keep on writing these articles in an intelligent way. Thanks again! Greg
10 hours for only one article about bounce rate. That is too long. Our writers can 7 write ezinearticles quality write up in 8 hours
Thanks everyone! I didn't know so many people responded. In my defense I will say this to you: 1) Your writers are likely not motivated by the same things I am motivated. I'm not motivated by making money or making more content. I am motivated by writing quality content that is... a) exactly to the point of what the visitor wants to learn b) useful to the visitor c) not obnoxiously obstructed by ads that tells a lot about the webmaster's intentions... d) likely to help people physically learn information e) My content is interesting to read f) My content is thorough 2) The words ezinearticles and quality should not be seen in the same sentence together. It neither has a) nor b) nor c) nor d) nor e) nor f) No disrespect, But if you believe this kind of thing, I write content to help people out of genuine consideration for them. Just because it is a website, and not a book, doesn't mean someone is there to profit from it or populate it with mindless ads. Quality of content is what builds traffic and makes information purposeful. And so yes, I spend more time on writing quality. I'd rather have 5 very good articles than 500 shallow ones on my website, because I know it's just not as powerful in the long run. So I am not worried about "optimizing" google adsense ads, it is sometimes can be synonymous with "cluttering" your webpage because of a single truth that people are attracted to strong visual images or colors. You can do that all you want, but if you content is not to the point, Google will have a lot of trouble trying to optimize the ads on their end. You know, they actually do that... the longer your site is online the more relevant the links are in Google Adsense blocks are. Let Google optimize the ads for you, if people really want to click they will, but don't try to trick them into it by putting more ads on the site. That's silly. Greg
nice article greg also props to the rant there, that too was to the point and interesting for the viewers xD. i think e-writer just wanted to feel better by saying his writers (not him personally) are bigger than you. compensation?
Well, here is a screen shot of Google Analytics over one of my long-lasting websites called Authentic Society. As you can see, by checking statistics and trying to improve the website I was able to lower bounce rate in a major way at least two times so far.
Yup, bounce is surely controllable. The key is to provide a well-done content management to get your visitor's first impression
Yup, I agree that's very important. People are attracted to information that is organized, that means they don't have to do the work trying to understand how your site works—and just use it.