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what do you do to reduce bounce rate?

by devonm
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What can you do to reduce bounce rate on a WP blog?
#bounce #rate #reduce
  • Profile picture of the author Brendon Zahrndt
    Provide the absolute best content on the subject that there is to find, and send 100% relevant traffic to the site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Story
    I know of 1 simple method:

    Add in related posts at the end of your articles. This will lead them to read more of your articles, hence reducing bounce rate.
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  • Profile picture of the author JamesBorg
    Originally Posted by devonm View Post

    What can you do to reduce bounce rate on a WP blog?

    Add a second page.

    Increase the number of blog posts shown on the home page.

    Cunning use of excerpts perhaps?

    Use featured posts on the home page for your best material.

    WP Super Cache / W3 Total Cache.

    Good typography.

    No pop-ups.

    No information overload (i.e., not too "Wordpressy" with tag clouds, archives, categories, recent comments, recent posts, meta junk, and the kitchen sink). This is completely untested, but I have a hunch that typical Wordpress navigation layouts are the kind of thing that only Internet marketers and poorly socialized geeks appreciate.
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Originally Posted by JamesBorg View Post

      No information overload (i.e., not too "Wordpressy" with tag clouds, archives, categories, recent comments, recent posts, meta junk, and the kitchen sink). This is completely untested, but I have a hunch that typical Wordpress navigation layouts are the kind of thing that only Internet marketers and poorly socialized geeks appreciate.
      This, and have something worth reading so that visitors are motivated to continue the experience they started when they arrive on your blog. This applies to all of your posts/pages, since not everyone will start on the home page.
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  • Profile picture of the author ragnartm
    Work on your headlines. You can check out what kind of headlines work best for your top competitors by checking out which kinds get shared the most. Also you can reverse engineer their general design too if you feel that is necessary. Basically, take a look at your most successful competitors' sites and learn from them. Never copy though, maintain your own personality. Just seek out some general pointers.
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    Quality over quantity. Hire me to write highly shareable, user focused blog posts or articles.

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  • Profile picture of the author hustlinsmoke
    You clean your list of bounce's and spam traps before you email your list. This will take care of that. I usually set it for deleting the email to 2 hard bounces or 4 soft bounces.
    You shouldn't have any spam traps if you have a clean list already but it helps to clean them just to make sure.
    You can do this with software or pay a service on the web. I have a virtual employee that does this for me with my own software on a remote desktop vps. I won't give you the name of mine since it starts with spam lol. Yes it can be used to send spam also but I use it to clean lists with.
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