How to decrease Bounce rate on Blog?

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  • my site avg bounce rate is 23% is it ok.
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    • Great, its too good because as per my analysis most of great online website bounce rate lise between 30% to 50 %
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      Wow. Good.

      Some top bloggers have higher bounce rate like 65%.
  • 13% is actually very low bounce rate so you have done good job as far as quality of content is concerned.
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  • You have a low bounce rate, but the question is, what are they doing when they leave the entry page? Are they taking some type of action? Do you have repeat visitors?
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  • 13 % bounce rate is actually good! Also, you need to check if its on a specific page. Usually, there is high bounce rate on signup pages and if its the same case with you, try simplifying your website's registration process. Also have a check on page loading speed of your website.
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  • 13% bounce rate is actually pretty good. But if you'd like to make it even better, you might want to try using exit popups on your site! Here's a great article on how you can improve conversion rates with the help of them:
    7 Ways Exit-Intent Technology Can Improve Your Conversion Rates - CodeCondo
    Have a great day!
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  • Great tips to be considered for decreasing the bounce rate to a minimum figure. Being a blogger, I always keep looking out at stuffs on the internet that would extend help for making a good blog. And this thread is somewhat extremely inspiring to make out the things more practical and sensible.
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    These are the simple techniques to decrease bounce rate of a blog for a blogger.
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    • I'm under the impression that if your content is all accessible on the front page, your bounce rate could be high because your landing page is also the exit page. Could someone please confirm that a bounce is calculated that way?

      If that's the case, a user only needs to click once in order to be opted-out as a bounce?
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  • Hi I also start a new blog and i'm facing the same issues. I guess i am not able to target right audience that i why it happen. any idea to improve it

    my blog is chiragnayyar.com
  • Convert some of your interesting content into video and post it on your site.
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  • Another thing is to always make sure any outgoing links will open in a new window.
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  • Very good tips for decrease bounce rate. Many thanks man for your valuable share.
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    I saw many top bloggers have high bounce rate. But they have very high amount of traffic.

    If they try to decrease their bounce rate, they will be more successful.
  • ^ You may have a point there. Some people build blogs to make money, so the fact that people land on their blog and then leave by clicking on some link is normal. But, these same people could maybe recommend the blog to others if it's interesting enough. Just my 2 cents!
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    • Make your site mobile friendly, because 30 percent of total web visits now come from tablets or smart phones, and this share is gradually increasing.
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  • Great too good work
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  • Reducing bounce rate take a lot of effort on design and so many other thing. If you want to reduce you bounce rate then you content must be excellent first. information and wonderful articles
  • I'm in no way an expert, but I am a reader of many blogs. I would say forget all these tactics. Write thoughtful, high quality content and you can sell ice to an Eskimo (no offence if anyone is a Eskimo). I see blogs that are only a few days old and they already have affiliate marketing up and down the page and popups everywhere. I'm out of there in 1 second.

    I've been to blogs that only had 5 post in 5 years, but the information was timeless, resource rich and high quality content. The person has helped me so clicking on his affiliate links is my pleasure. Donating to his Paypal account is my pleasure. Buying his eBook is my pleasure. Stop focusing so much on bounce rates and start writing epic and unique content. All else will follow. This is just my opinion, but one post should take you a week at least. Stop writing crappy content and all else will follow.
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    • rywp is completely right. Your content is going to determine whether or not people stay on your blog or get bored and leave. Some blogs I visit can keep me engaged for hours at a time, literally soaking up every word in their articles, or watching each video with rapt attention.

      On the other hand, some blogs always leave me with the impression of, "Yep, he's trying to sell me something, and there's literally no reason why I should click his links. He hasn't helped me at all."
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    Content and the design of a site is very important to bounce rate. When a user comes from a google, he hopes what he searched on google from your site. If he can't find the solution, definitely he click the close button or go back to google SERPs.

    So satisfaction is the first thing.

    If the quality content of your site delight visitor, definitely he will share your post.

    Next thing is design. Easily readable, navigatable site have high retention time. Use mild colors to eyes.
  • The most important thing that OP and everyone here missed: bounce rate might not mean anything at all. If your site is doing the job as in getting conversion whatever that may be for you, trying to lower the bounce rate is not something you should stress about.

    For example, social media campaigns and such are something that often causes high bounce rate. Also, writing content that answers the questions as close to perfection as you can might lead to a bounce because the person viewing the page got the answer she was looking for.
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    In this post, neil patel explained a few techniques to decrease bounce rate and increase the conversions..

    13 Ways to Reduce Bounce Rate and Increase Your Conversions

    Harsh agarwal, founder of ShoutMeLoud shows his income reports and traffic reports in every months. He has high bounce rate about 79%. But he made about $11,000 per month.

    Lowering bounce rate is very important for conversion. but it is not the only reason to increase conversions.
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  • I've maintained a blogger namely Latest web design Trends and Mobile Apps Development Trends . I have created unique contents and better inter linking with quality images in my both the blogs. I knew that all the things that you have shared here. But I still facing bounce rate problem with over 75 % of bounce rate. Check my blogs and give me some useful suggestions.
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  • One of possible solutions how to decrease bounce rate is using content marketing solution with gamification elements!

    I am cofounder of startup www.ollybee.com and we are offering solution which we believe should reduce your blog or website bounce rate. If you are interested please signup for beta access. If you have any questions I would be happy to answer them here!

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  • I would imagine how-to blogs have a high bounce rate while at the same time providing helpful stuff to the viewer. If I am looking for an answer or how to do something, I bounce as soon as I have what I need. I rarely surf around a website. I'm there to get what I need and that is it.
  • Well, you can make your site mobile friendly, also add unique and engaging content in site, write irresistible headings to content, incorporate videos in your content.
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  • 13% is an amazing bounce rate. I am doubting your stats.

    But anyway, a good way to lower bounce rate is to provide compelling titles to your top navigation links.
  • Simple answer - give it more efforts. If your bounce rate is high, this might mean that you have catchy names of your texts that grabs the attention of your visitors, but when they start reading - they turn the page off, because they don't find anything useful. Try different talking manner, place more images in your texts and see where it takes you.
  • If you got 13% bounce rate, its a decent number...
    Down was great tips
  • absolutely right
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    • To reduce Bounce rate from your Blog you can use the Entry Popups and Exit Popups like www.Optimonk.com. It reduces the bounce back rate by 21% which is GREAT as a no. these days. I have seen Big Bloggers are using it very effectively to reduce their bounce RATES and Increase Conversions.
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  • submit good quality of content
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    • As it is said that "Content is the king", and make a searcher happy.
  • Very good advice. You can also ad some social sharing icons and related posts at the bottom of the article. There are also some nice popup plugins that can popup when visitors try to leave.
  • It’s always recommended to have a search box which is clearly visible. Visitors always prefer to search for articles. If you want to decrease your bounce rate, make sure that you link only relevant articles with each other. Irrelevant articles might irritate your visitors, and they will leave your blog if that is the case.
  • Just as another tip low bounce rate doesn't mean that sometimes everything is allright. First check if you have double Google Analytics code in your source code. Use Ctrl + F in your source code in your browser and search for your Google Analytics ID. If you have it duplicated you will get very low bounce rate but it will not be for real. In average 65% bounce rate for a blog that just posts very long articles 3 times a week is fine.
  • Attract the Right Visitors
    Enhance Usability
    Speed Up Page Load Time
    Provide Quality Content
    These are the most using things to decrease the bounce rate
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    • I have 67% bounce rate. My articles are still #1 on google and I get 15K daily visitors. Can't see a problem with it.
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  • HubSpot’s data suggests that the more useful blog posts we publish, the more traffic we’ll generate.

    I'm managing two WordPress blogs. One of them have more than 200 blog posts and I publish about 2-3 post in every week. It gets more search traffic than other blog.

    According to Google analytics, bounce rate of my blog is 6.77% and average session duration is 2.27.
  • Your bounce rate is good, you are not doing something bad, but doing something go. Give yourself a star.
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    Bounce rate is one of the critical metrics which decide the quality of a Blog. in Internet marketing terms a Blog with high bounce rate is taken as a Blog with least effectiveness on the readers. Here is a screenshot of my blog analytics from WordPress dashboard.