what is Bounce rate?

[Ruby Tyagi]

What is bounce rate and is it useful in increasing traffic?

[StarT]

Originally Posted by Ruby Tyagi

What is bounce rate and is it useful in increasing traffic?

This shows how many visits contain only one pageview. The less the bounce rate is the better it is to your sites ranking.

[Talen]

Originally Posted by StarT

This shows how many visits contain only one pageview. The less the bounce rate is the better it is to your sites ranking.

This is statistically untrue...Google has alluded to bounce rate being a small factor among many in ranking but the statistics don't prove this out.

I have quite a few pages on one informational site where people come and go without going to any other pages, all of those pages have a page rank of 5.

If you are giving the information to people that they are looking for you have done your job and Google does not penalize your rankings for that.

[EliteIM]

As said above, bounce rate is when someone visits any webpage in your website and then either hit the back button or close the window without navigating to any other page.

It is an indicator of low Page views, not necessarily low relevancy as I can get all the information I want from a single page without having to view any more.

[AlvinBasil]

It represents the percentage of visitors who enter the site and leave the site rather than continue viewing other pages within the same site.

[ashleysmith12]

hi
the rate of visitors who leave the website in few seconds without seeing the whole site, for rankings to be high bounce rate should be low.

[marianajones]

Can anyone please tell me how to reduce bounce rate from your site?

[elexmedia]

In simple sentence: percentage of how quickly visitors leave/ bounce from your site.

The faster your visitors leave your site, the higher your bounce rate will be...

How to reduce the bounce rate:
1. Provide relevant content
2. Have clear navigation
3. Update content periodically

[johnvictor]

The bounce rate measures the number of people who arrive at your site, then leave your site after viewing just one page (instead of going on to explore other pages on the site). Such a visit is called a bounce.

To calculate a website's bounce rate for a given period, you divide the number of bounces by the total number of site visits during the period, and multiply by 100. For example, say your site gets 1,000 visits in a 24-hour period, of which 300 are bounces. Your site's bounce rate is therefore (300 ÷ 1,000 × 100 ) = 30%.

You can also calculate bounce rate on a per-page basis. For example, if 1,000 visitors enter your site on a particular page and 300 of those visitors leave without viewing any other pages, then that page's bounce rate is 30%.

[bermuda]

When it comes to analyzing a phenomenon called bounce rate, the stuff appearing on pages of websites will be the biggest players. Actually websites which suffer from higher bounce rates are the ones which may not be liked that much by net audience, their ranks might or might not be great, but their on-page scores could be weak. Usually when people do not find websites structures appealing or simply are confused to find the materials, they would leave the sites fast.

Addition of valuable contents to the websites, building user-friendly navigation menus and using high quality graphics, could help reducing bounce rates of the sites, adding to their values, boosting the bookmarks rates of them too. Even hosting accounts and loading times could sometimes have roles to play because nobody would like to stay for a long time on a page to load, the reasons could be related to using heavy files or even problems and errors in the code lines used.

[BigNorm]

Originally Posted by marianajones

Can anyone please tell me how to reduce bounce rate from your site?

If your experiencing high bounce rate then an easy way to reduce your bounce rate is to cut your article in to two bits, main intro and content of your article and then the conclusion which resolves the persons interest or problem into a separate smaller on a different page.

[Daisy012]

Bounce rate is calculated by how many user just came and visited some other link or site i.e the user that came bymistake may be. On this basis this rate is calculated.

[Tom Albas]

(Bounce rates) statistics on those visitors who remain on a site for five seconds or less or those who visit only one page of a site.

[aygabtu]

Originally Posted by Talen

This is statistically untrue...Google has alluded to bounce rate being a small factor among many in ranking but the statistics don't prove this out.

I have quite a few pages on one informational site where people come and go without going to any other pages, all of those pages have a page rank of 5.

If you are giving the information to people that they are looking for you have done your job and Google does not penalize your rankings for that.

I agree. I have a site that has a bounce rate of 8% and it is a PR 0! I also can't seem to budge above #6 in the best key term. If bounce rate was a real factor, it wouldn't be sitting at a big ZERO.

[NYC SEO]

Agreed. Bounce rate has to do with time on site before leaving. Not multiple pages.

[Goath]

It's not required to lower your bounce rate. As a lot of others already explaiend, it's just the percentage of people who just visit one page on your website and then leave your website..

Why do they leave when they consulted just one page? Mostly, because that single page provides the information they searched for..

[Kris79]

In internet marketing world you should know about 2 types of bounce rate:

1. Bounce rate - as a metric in web analytics - percentage of visits on a webpage that returned to, for example, search results without entering other webpages on your website

2. Bounce rate - as a metric in email marketing - percentage of emails that has not been successfully delivered to recipient.

[warriorsaroj]

If a visitior come to your site and he returns to the source from where he come to your site, without doing anything on your site, that would be called bounce rate. Bounce rate should be very low for the sake of your website.

[virtualseoservice]

It's a percentage of how quickly visitors leave your page. Lower percentage shows your site's high popularity and high bounce rate shows low popularity.

[webpageworker]

very long discussion..thanks for clearing my concept about it..

[laurarussell49]

Bounce rate is an Internet marketing term used in web traffic analysis. It represents the percentage of visitors who enter the site and "bounce" (leave the site) rather than continue viewing other pages within the same site.