From 40% to 14.5% my bounce rate has just collasped :D

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by willyboy104, Oct 2, 2008.

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    Its very strange, I was looking at my statistics in Google analytics about a month ago and I realised that my Bounce rate had dropped although I had started to heavily advertise my site on social media sites.

    I didn't think much of it but now a couple more weeks down the line the bounce rate is now at 14.5% when it used to be at around 40-60%.

    Not sure how this has happened but I cant complain, perhaps the social media visitors are more targeted than I first thought.

    Hows your bounce rates and what do you do to decrease yours?
     
    willyboy104, Oct 2, 2008 IP
  2. blendology

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    my site usually stays at 80-90% bounce rate :( mind share with us what are the style of writting that will attract visitors to stay longer?
     
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    I didn't even think that was possible, to get your bounce rate down to under 15%? Ours is around 65% and like blendology, I'd be curious to know your strategy. Which social networks do you use, and how do you harness them?
     
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    Maybe as you add more relevant content, it provides a reason for visitors to stay longer and browse to other page to find out more new stuff.
     
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    I never really had a strategy for decreasing my bounce rate I ve just been using normal techniques to increase traffic.

    Basically I used to never use social media sites to market my site and after doing a little research I learnt that a lot of these succesfull blogs have a large if not the largest amount of traffic coming through social media marketing. So I started to give it a try, researching into which social media sites to use.

    I use 3 social media sites mainly but also submit my pages to other sites automatically I will write a more in depth article about this now I think.

    Will.

    I ll post it here later. Or subscribe to my RSS at my site www.back-links.org
     
    willyboy104, Oct 2, 2008 IP