How to improve your website bounce rate

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by Sherlin, Aug 7, 2010.

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    What does Bounce Rate mean?
    How to improve your website bounce rate
     
    Sherlin, Aug 7, 2010 IP
  2. joshvelco

    joshvelco Peon

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    Bounce rate is the percentage of people who visit one of your pages, who leave without clicking on something.

    100% = someone visited and left without clicking
    0% = everyone clicked on something
     
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    Bounce rate can be defined as the time a person spends on the site, if some one comes to the website and closes the page straight away that means that the bounce rate is 100%
    if some one comes to the website and stays there for some time navigates the sites then bounce rate will depend on the time spend on each page,

    for example if some one comes to the home page and straight away moves to another page of the website and stays there for a while then the bounce rate of the home page will be 100% and for the other page it will be 0%

    To reduce on to the bounce rate only option is to get the targeted traffic to the website, and to get that place the links on to the relevant page,

    this will help you reduce the bounce rate
     
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  4. sousen

    sousen Active Member

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    Qualith relevetn content and link build to relevent site that measn you will get traffic those are only interested on your site topic so they will stay on your site
     
    sousen, Aug 7, 2010 IP
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    i think bounce rate can be decreased by making your site more informatics, more readable, and the design of the site should be very attractive
     
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    Hi,

    My blog shows a high bounce rate, although usually visitors pass some time reading it.
    I guess it's because of having several articles on the first page.
    I've never verified the bounce rate of subpages and usually I don't link them to the main page, since most internal links are referred to articles and not to the main page of my blog.

    José
     
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    Recently Google changed the meaning of "Bounce rate" from :
    100% = someone visited and left without clicking
    0% = everyone clicked on something
    to:
    100% = visitors enter and spent less time on your site
    0% = everyone spent a lot of time on your website
     
    maineexista, Aug 8, 2010 IP
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    lightless Notable Member

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounce_rate

    You can improve bounce rate by making your website, especially your homepage better. This could be done by simplifying navigation, having a professional looking design and so on.
     
    lightless, Aug 8, 2010 IP
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    If you are facing the high bounce rate problem then it means you are getting large amount of traffic in your site but your all visitors are not showing the interest on your site. The the solution of this problem is work out on your design, may it is not attractive and not able to attract to your customers. Secondly have a look your site content. Are your content is put only for getting the rankings? If yes then try to modify your content as visitors point of view.
     
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    I agree with 3glogic.
     
    raso4u, Aug 8, 2010 IP
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    Make sure your traffic is from relevant sources and you have enough content to interest the reader to click further.
     
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    a good and informative contents that will help the users will increase the bouncerate of a site
     
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    Bounce rate represents the percentage of initial visitors to a site who “bounce” away to a different site, rather than continue on to other pages within the same site. Bounce rates around 30-40% are pretty good. Once you get over 50%, you need to start figuring out why.

    Here is a partial list of why visitors go in then out of a website, a store, a room, a conversation, a blog, etc.

    -Not relevant.
    -Sloppy site.
    -Untrustworthy in appearance or content.
    -Lack of authority on topic.
    -Too many ads.
    -Too hard to find the right button to get what I want quickly.
    -Not simple and easy.
    -Not giving what was claimed on original link / referral.
    -Just browsing so bookmark (use Firefox 'readit later'
    -Not enough photos / graphs (too much text ratio)
    -Too hard to read (example white letters on dark background)
    -Pop up windows.
    -Obvious intention of fast transaction. (count down clocks, last 3 available)
    -Same old news from last week.
    -Fluff. (Pete would say all sizzle but no steak)
    -Automated site

    Here's are 10 ways to reduce your bounce rate. http://bit.ly/9WM0YT

    Kindly,

    Shelby : )

    Optimizing your website for conversion isn't expensive. Leaving money on the table is.
     
    sasanchez, Aug 8, 2010 IP
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    Getting users engaged with your content can result with a sale, subscription, bookmark and return visit. One of best ways to increase reader engagement is to make sure that your site architecture interlinks related content and displays them in a way which encourages the user to click around.
     
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    Make sure your site loads up quickly. A slow loading site will make most people leave it instantly.

    Outside of that, make sure the keywords that you are targeting are relevant to the site/page.
     
    seoemporium, Aug 17, 2010 IP