how can i reduce bounce rate?

sophiarivera07

11 years ago

I think you increase CTR & Customer session time.

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Meenawls

11 years ago

*Design your website mobile friendly.
*Create attractive web page.
*Increase your page speed.
*Create Proper navigation for internal links.
*Avoid pop-ups.

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nettiapina

11 years ago

If your news items end up on social media sites, and people come to read only one piece, high bounce rate is sort of unavoidable.

If you understand the nature of your traffic, the question on how to reduce your bounce rate is probably fairly easy for you to answer. But it might not even be the right question to ask. Why would you want to reduce it? Does it really help your business in some way?

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OmerFaruk 11 years ago

You maintain some instructions.

1/ You use responsive template.
2/ Don't use any pop-up window.
3/ When you suggest anywhere for your site link, then use your site related keywords. (I mean its main fact to your bounce rate)
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11 years ago

Originally Posted by nettiapina

If your news items end up on social media sites, and people come to read only one piece, high bounce rate is sort of unavoidable.

If you understand the nature of your traffic, the question on how to reduce your bounce rate is probably fairly easy for you to answer. But it might not even be the right question to ask. Why would you want to reduce it? Does it really help your business in some way?

May be he is thinking that if bounce rate is high people are not bothered to read the news articles his website is delivering.

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Hemanth Malli

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Mahender

I'm working on a NEWS website and the bounce rate is 70 right now. Please suggest me how can i reduce bounce rate.

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johnniewalk

Banned 11 years ago

To reduce your bounce first step is you need to reduce the loading time of your website provide some information which is useful for the users post attractive videos and images.

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AadhyaMehra

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by johnniewalk

To reduce your bounce first step is you need to reduce the loading time of your website provide some information which is useful for the users post attractive videos and images.

I too agree that mostly the speed of the website is responsible for the fluctuation of bounce rate.

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Yasin Rishad

11 years ago

Use an premium theme for your site to reduce bounce rate, You Should Probably Avoid Pop-ups. Speed up your website.Make your site responsive and keep proper information on your site.

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davidweb09

11 years ago

by posting high quality your niche content on regular basis on your website.

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IamJeez

11 years ago

Two things that seem to work for me is to focus on usability and experience. But that's very broad.

I am not sure if there is a one way ticket for a lower bounce rate. I think it depends very much on your specific audience and goal of your website.

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AAAWebstore

11 years ago

Follow some steps for reduce bounce rate.

1.Developed best and responsive website(Full fill Google guidelines)
2.Designing is more impact (Use Proper color physiology )
3.Hire Good internet marketer (Relevant Submission)
4.Loading speed (check your Site loading speed is working properly )
5.Don't use any pop-up on your site.which is embracing to online user.

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loladohertye

11 years ago

This is really big issue because 70% bounce rate i never see on the news website. You should reduce it as soon as possible. You can reduce your website bounce rate below mention points:

1. Design your website attractive & informative
2. Do the image optimization in proper way
3. Don't use heavy image size
4. Video also help to reduce website bounce rate
5. Use font proper

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nettiapina 11 years ago

Originally Posted by loladohertye

This is really big issue because 70% bounce rate i never see on the news website. You should reduce it as soon as possible.

What makes you say something like that? How about at least a hint of an argument to back that scaremongering?

Bounce rate might be an indication of some kind of issue, or not. I can't say without seeing the statistics, and neither can you. It's pretty nasty for you to post FUD for the original post to match the narrative you wanted.

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BLOCK SPAMMERS AND BOTS.

Why? Spammers may be some of your most loyal visitors who run up the "visited pages" stats. Depending on the goal a bot might crawl the whole site, not just a single page.

I agree that it's a good idea to filter these out from the stats if you can.
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jazbo

11 years ago

Everyone's missed an obvious one:

BLOCK SPAMMERS AND BOTS.

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Mahender 11 years ago

Originally Posted by jazbo

Everyone's missed an obvious one:

BLOCK SPAMMERS AND BOTS.

Are u Google Spider?
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Barry Unruh

11 years ago

And here I thought the most obvious answer was to improve the quality and depth of your content.

Give people a reason to stay on your site.

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nmwf 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Barry Unruh

And here I thought the most obvious answer was to improve the quality and depth of your content.

Give people a reason to stay on your site.

Yeah. I think the OP would like to know how to do that.
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Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Mahender

I'm working on a NEWS website and the bounce rate is 70 right now. Please suggest me how can i reduce bounce rate.

Why would you stay on the page or site?

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MikeFriedman

11 years ago

Post pictures of hot naked chicks with a link that says "more hot naked chicks" to the next page. Bounce rate will drop tremendously.

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PBScott 11 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

Post pictures of hot naked chicks with a link that says "more hot naked chicks" to the next page. Bounce rate will drop tremendously.

This is about the most accurate and true reply. You need to have something interesting for them to click on, therefore eliminating the bounce. Relevant articles with images are about the best way....or of course hot chicks.
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Mahender 11 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

Post pictures of hot naked chicks with a link that says "more hot naked chicks" to the next page. Bounce rate will drop tremendously.

keep your idea in your pocket..... and be straight to the answer
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stackman

11 years ago

My bounce rate is very high too but I know it's because most visitors arrive from an organic search which leads them to a specific page on my site that addresses their question or search request. They read the page and leave. Although I would prefer if they stick around (and many do), I realize they want a quick concise answer, which is what I give them. Only a small fraction of my visitors come through the home page.

My site is over 15 years old and has been redesigned and rewritten several times, and is now "responsive" to mobile users who are making up a greater percentage of my visitors as time goes on. Mobile users don't have the time or patience for reading long content articles, regardless of the "mobile friendliness" of the site. I think this contributes to my bounce rate. So, I'm planning a mobile version of my site that delivers content in more concise, quick to read format that may reduce my bounce rate and make it more suitable to the short attention span of mobile users, although I'm concerned about SEO. Will Google see the reduced content as a problem?

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freeson

11 years ago

+ Use Mobile-ready theme (Responsive)
+ Add Related Post
+ Less Ads

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11 years ago

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nettiapina 11 years ago

Originally Posted by JeniferScott

Following methods can help you in reducing your bounce rate.

1. Adjust the Bounce Rate of your website.

In order to do a thing you must do that thing. Thanks for that insight.

You have no idea what you posted, do you? Of course you don't, you're just another content thief.
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nettiapina 11 years ago

Originally Posted by john58975

Well, the bounce rate should not exceed 40%.

Nope. Where do you dig these statements that have no bearing on reality? Are you just watching one site?

Good sites often have bounce rates of 60%+, and if you understand where the traffic comes from it's possible that that kind of number is A-OK.
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andreajhon

11 years ago

To reduce bounce rate include unique and quality content on your news pages. Check and reduce the loading time of your page.

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oscargold

11 years ago

If you're talking about Google Analytics bounce rate, you need to check the implementation first. It's a horrible noisy signal anyway but the way GA measures it by default is often way off reality. Theres a ton of stuff you can read up on how to set up GA to better measure bounce rate, and there's lots of ways you can manipulate bounce rate (e.g event tracking).

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writeaway

11 years ago

I got my bounce rate down to 30% by doing one thing:

Breaking up posts into multiple pages

Of course, you have to make sure the headers get people emotionally worked up enough to click the next page link

Pictures and diagrams don't hurt either

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yukon Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by writeaway

I got my bounce rate down to 30% by doing one thing:

Breaking up posts into multiple pages

I preached series pages (silos) years ago on this forum & people acted like I was crazy.

I learned that technique (series pages) from howstuffworks.com, years ago (wayback) they ranked for the keyword hurricane. Today they rank #49 after they did a site/theme overhaul & butchered their on-page SEO.
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santosh s

11 years ago

bounce rate is the percentage of site visitors who leave the after visiting page. why would these users are leaving probably of an indication that your site isn't providing the information the user or site could be taking long time to load.

-keep your blog with the fresh and right content.
-Poor design
-write good meta descriptions for search users.
-set external links need to open in a new window

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NilimaSarasvati

Banned 11 years ago

Well, the bounce rate is too high, so it is very essential to get down as soon as possible.
It's time change few things in your website i.e, website content- provide high quality content with relevant information, Look and Feel wise- your site look good.

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nettiapina 11 years ago

Are you even real users? If you are, would it kill you to actually read the thread?

Originally Posted by santosh s

why would these users are leaving probably of an indication that your site isn't providing the information the user or site could be taking long time to load.

Or it could be that the user left satisfied, because the first page answered her question. This is not something you can declare without context.

Originally Posted by NilimaSarasvati

Well, the bounce rate is too high, so it is very essential to get down as soon as possible.

Bollocks. There's plenty of natural explanations for a high bounce rate. Most webmasters have more pressing tasks than to get their bounce rate lowered.
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11 years ago

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nettiapina 11 years ago

Originally Posted by SureshHiten

Here are some of the powerful factors which are really effective to reduce bounce rate:
1.) Adjust the Bounce Rate of your website

Dude, you posted the same bit of stolen and butchered content that's already linked above. What's wrong with you?

Ah, sig spam. The answer to everything on this forum.
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- M Thompson 11 years ago
  
  I am not sure many people understand that you can set the parameters for bounce rate yourself.. this is part of a post I made to some of my subscribers recently
  
  What is Bounce Rate??
  
  According to google Bounce rate is:
  
  Bounce Rate is the percentage of single-page sessions (i.e. sessions in which the person left your site from the entrance page without interacting with the page).
  
  IF THEY READ YOUR CONTENT AND THEN CLICKED BACK – NO GOOD
  
  IF THEY READ YOUR CONTENT AND WENT TO ANOTHER SITE FROM THAT PAGE (NEW URL OR EXTERNAL LINK) – NO GOOD
  
  IF THEY READ YOUR CONTENT AND THEN CLOSED THE TAB – NO GOOD
  
  IF THEY READ YOUR CONTENT AND FELL ASLEEP OR GOT ON A CALL – NO GOOD
  
  IF THEY DO NOT CLICK ANOTHER PAGE FOR 30 MINUTES
  
  The Good News is that we can play google at it’s own game and redefine what a bounce is.
  
  So John follows a link to your site decides after 5 seconds that it’s not for him.. that’s a bounce right?
  
  So Sarah then comes to your blog and reads the front page lets say she stays for 30 seconds she obviously has some level of engagement she may even save the link for later..
  
  That’s still a bounce right?
  
  Wrong.. if you do the following
  
  Take your google analytics code and add the following:
  
  Standard Code:
  
  setTimeout(“_gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ’15_seconds’, ‘read’])”,15000);
  
  If you use the Universal Code
  
  setTimeout(“ga(‘send’, ‘event’, ‘unbounce’, ’15_sec’)”, 15000);
  
  what this does is only count bounces for people who are on your site for less than the time specified Personally i think 30 seconds is more than enough so change the numbers in red to 30 and 30000
  
  Here is the Google Help guide to Adjusted Bounce rate http://analytics.blogspot.com.es/201...in-google.html
  
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alvinchua91

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Mahender

I'm working on a NEWS website and the bounce rate is 70 right now. Please suggest me how can i reduce bounce rate.

Here's a pretty good thread:

http://www.warriorforum.com/search-e...your-site.html

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mikhailblaze

11 years ago

I'm going to answer this from a content marketing perspective.

Basically, the easy answer to this question is to craft amazingly-written content that will hold your users' attention for a long time. I'd like to share this article tackling stats about content marketing.

However, that isn't enough to render them to check other pages. With that said, I recommend doing this:

It's a screenshot from a national news site in the Philippines, called Rappler. This is quite clever really, as it leads to the following:

Gives you internal links
Reduces the bounce rate by allowing users to view other pages
increases user engagement

Please let me know what you guys think.

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kevinmilan2014 11 years ago

Add latest and most popular news on your website related to every area like politics, studies, movies, interesting places and many more. It is more good if you add some photos related to that news. Design of your website should be good and responsive.
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unicodebd

11 years ago

write valuable news .... i think visitor not pleased with ur news

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kientrucae

11 years ago

Sorry for bad english, I think your problem is in the content, it has no value to your readers, you should invest your content more

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nettiapina 11 years ago

Originally Posted by kientrucae

Sorry for bad english, I think your problem is in the content, it has no value to your readers, you should invest your content more

Originally Posted by unicodebd

write valuable news .... i think visitor not pleased with ur news

How did you come to that conclusion? What if the bounce rate actually comes from popular articles being shared in social media? You know, people read the story, and get back to the previous site to comment it to their circle of friends. Or something.

Or in other words, if you don't know how something works, why post just some random BS?
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kopaldass

11 years ago

Focus on Some Points like :
1) Use responsive site template.
2) reduce site loading time.
3) use best , related and attractive Info-graphics
4) Make attractive news Headline.

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Soccerwidow

11 years ago

Make sure that you search title and description match the content of the post (meaning that people get what they expect after coming through a search)

Make sure that the very first paragraph is grabbing attention to encourage visitors to read more (remember that people only spend a few seconds to decide if they want to continue reading)

Structure you post in a way to make reading easy (headers, paragraphs, images)

Be brief, be clear, stick to the point. Have a point!

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AlexNeo2009

11 years ago

Two simple step
1. Split your article
2. Suggest Related article at the end of article

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thuybk

11 years ago

I think you should improve quality content web pages and structure your website.

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arindamroy

11 years ago

Bounce rate can be reduced by engaging your viewers with more interactive content like posting a video or a quiz/poll etc. Create the landing pages that your visitors would want to see and put content in there that would be read in quick time. Also, make your visitors stay on your website by creating a need like suggestions for interesting articles.

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Mahender 11 years ago

Thanks web masters your suggestions are appreciative.
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Ankit007

11 years ago

Make Post attractive and Check your website speed make sure your website takes less time to load. Another make your website mobile friendly.

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Ashwaniseo

11 years ago

You Should Probably Avoid Pop-ups

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Bestadvise4

11 years ago

write for user's not for google. Be genuine and techy.
If you write something different and catchy then users will definitely stop into your website and will found useful to full fill their needs.

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oliviadevin 11 years ago

Step for Reduce bounce rate:

Create attractive website
Fulfills all requirements of traffic
Improve website loading speed
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kmjyoti

11 years ago

Lower bounce rates are important because it indicates optimized and efficient marketing.
you can try it to lower bounce rate-
1.Develop a better web design.
2.Make sure your content is easy to read.
3.Use best, attractive, related, unique and quality content on your news pages.

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Laura Scheffner

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Mahender

I'm working on a NEWS website and the bounce rate is 70 right now. Please suggest me how can i reduce bounce rate.

Adjust it by calculating the time spent on a page with help of Google Analytics and Universal Analytics.

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tmnews24 11 years ago

How many percent is ok of bounce rate?
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Mathewsray

11 years ago

Bounce rate of a web page= total number of bounces on a page.For reducing the bounce rate you have to adjust the bounce rate of your : website, webpage in the profile index. Stop targeting marketing channels or keywords those who are sending low value traffic, create landing pages which satisfies visitor's querry.

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DrOmijindal

11 years ago

1. Design your website mobile friendly.
2. Create attractive web page.
3. Increase your page speed.
4. Create Proper navigation for internal links.
5. Internal Linking

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LJBlake189

Banned 11 years ago

This thread will help you..

http://www.warriorforum.com/growth-h...rate-blog.html

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Theertha giri

11 years ago

best way to reduce bounce rate is to post a quality content and use back links

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danielmav

11 years ago

Great if you are working on news website, try to put similar news or other popular news on that page that will help you reduce bounce rate. But most importantly your website has worth reading content and user friendly web design.

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pitgam

11 years ago

Your landing page needs to be fixed or you're targeting the wrong visitors

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sergey kolontay

11 years ago

Mahender, what is your main source of traffic?

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RyanLB

11 years ago

How to Decrease Your Website's Bounce Rate [Infographic]

This infographic has some solid basic information and concepts. Of course you can do some shadier things, but those ultimately disrupt the user experience.

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davidmiller840

11 years ago

In order to reduce the Bounce Rate just update unique & proper content on the page. Also post some attractive images & banners which has less size. Improve your page load time.

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sonalichoudhary25

11 years ago

The best way to reduce the bounce rate of a NEWS website would be by making its landing page more attractive and by reducing its loading time. By giving the visitors what they want in their first visit only can help your website to get huge ranking easily.

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Ryan2929 11 years ago

A high bounce rate is a symptom of one of two things:

1) Your content is not delivering on what the reader expected.

If this is the case, you need to do a better job of providing your readers with the content they're looking for.

Are you using bait and switch titling techniques where you use a sensational headline to get the reader into the content and then don't deliver? Stop.

Are you prioritizing content quantity to the detriment of content quality? Stop. This is especially important with a news site. People expect a certain level of professionalism.

2) Your website has a technical or functional issue that causing people to leave.

What's your pages loading time like? If you're slow to load, people will bail.

What's your navigation like? If your navigation isn't intuitive, people will not explore the rest of your site.

In the case of a news site, are you easily offering up related articles? Make sure to offer your readers an array of complementary articles they can click to once they've finished reading the one that brought them to the site.

Realistically, the only way to pinpoint the exact reasons for bounce rate is testing. You can look at timing to give you an initial idea of what the cause might be though.

For instance, are your users bouncing within seconds of arriving? That's probably a slow load issue.

Are they mostly sticking around for a while and then leaving? That's probably an issue with content quality or a poor selection of complementary content being made available to them.

In the end, if you want to reduce your bounce rate, pinpoint what you feel like the most likely culprit is, and then change that and only that. If you think it's a load time issue, reduce your load time, change nothing else, and then assess your results. If it didn't help, then move on to the next item and test that.
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- nettiapina 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Ryan2929
  
  A high bounce rate is a symptom of one of two things:
  
  Only if your other stats say that it is, and you can't say that without inspection.
  
  A high bounce rate is something that can occur because of ad campaigns or social media posting. You advertised the page of for a single thing, and people who clicked got what they expected. Great! Even if they left satisfied that can still lead to a bounce. This can be even more pronounced if the audience you're advertising to already knows you, because they know your site and may have no need to browse around.
  
  Of maybe the content you rank for just happens to answer the question that the search engine user had in mind. No need to browse any further.
  
  In both cases you can decrease the bounce rate, and perhaps it's even a very good idea depending on the goals of the site. Having the call to actions or related articles high and prominent enough might help.
  
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jessikaload

11 years ago

You have to improve your internal link structure.Try to include some attractive image links in home page for your important pages.

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kazim

11 years ago

I suggest you to read this article. It will help you to reduce your bounce rate.
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shastaarenburg

11 years ago

You should provide useful and valuable data. You should write that kind of articles that people really want to read. Choose the perfect niche first.

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Nabaleka

11 years ago

Make sure all external links including social media links open in new window - Will not help much but from experience, it does the trick for us

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sharplessons

11 years ago

Hi,

I guess you have missed the power of the internal linking, and relevent resources linking for your readers. The internal linking will hold your reader and it will automatically reduce the bounce rate.

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upw99

11 years ago

Probably most people not getting it in this thread, isn't it no 1 solution fix it all, agree?

Let me explain, along with 2 popular examples below.

Viral Sites
Connecting Site... - 25% bounce rate, 4 minutes time on site
Connecting Site... - 76% bounce rate, 1:47 minutes time on site

Comparing both sites who get over 50% of their traffic from social site mainly from facebook, we could see the whole content strategy is different.

Viral Nova focusing on posting other peoples videos, rewords the headline and content to attract visitors.

BoredPanda focusing mostly on images, though.

Isn't it a better strategy by NOT taking any exact solution, but go ahead and research what you Direct Competitors are doing?

Important Questions To Ask While Researching Your Niche Competitors

1.) How is their websites structure look and feel in the visitors eyes? Is it user friendly? Does visitors want something looks authoritive or the other way?

2.) What is their whole content marketing strategy? Did they have a consistent content strategy? How do their interact with their visitors? Do they just write what they want or focusing on what their visitors want?

3.) Where did they get most of their traffic from? And, how do they get their traffic?

Hope this help in brainstorm what is best for your own niche.

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SandraDLaurean

Banned 11 years ago

Bounce rate refers to how many visitors are coming to your website & stays that only rank your page in the search engine.To decrease the bounce rate you must mke your landing page more attractive so that it must be look attractive & interesting to your visitors. This only decrease your bounce rate.

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Nonsi

11 years ago

Check your site loading and Don't utilize any pop-up on your site.

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jessdsouza123

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Mahender

I'm working on a NEWS website and the bounce rate is 70 right now. Please suggest me how can i reduce bounce rate.

Your contents should be short & well written. Make sure that your website should display contents instead of ads when visitor visits on your website. Open external links in new window, offer related content on your post, make your website mobile friendly to reduce bounce rate.

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iclassifier

11 years ago

I've had luck for more than one client by not worrying about bad hits (not ignoring known issues) )but rather running tighter analytics and finding out where the good hits are coming from and going to that source.

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MichaelGuthrie

11 years ago

Bounce Rate is the number of website visitors who leave your website after visiting a single page. If you want to reduce your bounce rate of website then follow some tips below....

Bounce Rate is the number of website visitors who leave your website after visiting a single page.
1. Website loading speed
2. Website design information around priorities
3. Keep offer related content on your website

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gauri arora

11 years ago

few points need to be cover for reducing bounce rate of a website.
updating site with Fresh content
interlinking among webpages
making more presence with social media optimization

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DABK

11 years ago

Or perfect marketing.

If I want them to land on my page, become convinced they should call me, and they call me, without going to any other page, I'll have 100% bounce rate, but the page would be working to perfection and I'd be laughing all the way to the bank.

Originally Posted by kmjyoti

Lower bounce rates are important because it indicates optimized and efficient marketing.
you can try it to lower bounce rate-
1.Develop a better web design.
2.Make sure your content is easy to read.
3.Use best, attractive, related, unique and quality content on your news pages.

Actually, of 3 things. The third one is the one I described above. It works the same way too if you're in affiliate marketing or adsense... You want them to click on the link. If they land on your page, click on the link to whatever you're promoting or on an adsense link, you make money... There's no need for them to go through several of your pages. You make money when they leave your page to go the the sales page for the product you promote or when they click on an ad.

Why would you want a low bounce rate? So they get sidetracked and not click on one of your money-making links?

Originally Posted by Ryan2929

A high bounce rate is a symptom of one of two things:

1) Your content is not delivering on what the reader expected.

If this is the case, you need to do a better job of providing your readers with the content they're looking for.

Are you using bait and switch titling techniques where you use a sensational headline to get the reader into the content and then don't deliver? Stop.

Are you prioritizing content quantity to the detriment of content quality? Stop. This is especially important with a news site. People expect a certain level of professionalism.

2) Your website has a technical or functional issue that causing people to leave.

What's your pages loading time like? If you're slow to load, people will bail.

What's your navigation like? If your navigation isn't intuitive, people will not explore the rest of your site.

In the case of a news site, are you easily offering up related articles? Make sure to offer your readers an array of complementary articles they can click to once they've finished reading the one that brought them to the site.

Realistically, the only way to pinpoint the exact reasons for bounce rate is testing. You can look at timing to give you an initial idea of what the cause might be though.

For instance, are your users bouncing within seconds of arriving? That's probably a slow load issue.

Are they mostly sticking around for a while and then leaving? That's probably an issue with content quality or a poor selection of complementary content being made available to them.

In the end, if you want to reduce your bounce rate, pinpoint what you feel like the most likely culprit is, and then change that and only that. If you think it's a load time issue, reduce your load time, change nothing else, and then assess your results. If it didn't help, then move on to the next item and test that.

If the fresh content sucks?

Originally Posted by gauri arora

few points need to be cover for reducing bounce rate of a website.
updating site with Fresh content
interlinking among webpages
making more presence with social media optimization

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BAC

11 years ago

reduce number of ads on webpage and improve quality of content.

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TotalWebsiteControl

11 years ago

bounce rate actually has an effect on seo. if you have a high bounce rate your website could suffer

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nettiapina 11 years ago

Originally Posted by TotalWebsiteControl

bounce rate actually has an effect on seo. if you have a high bounce rate your website could suffer

No, it does not. There's a ton of examples that go against what you say. I'd bet that nearly every seasoned webmaster and SEO has seen websites with bounce rates way above 60% that do just fine.

If your high bounce rate is for the visitors that come from search and bounce back to search, that's a worrying sign. You might be ranking for something not relevant, or your content might suck, or maybe there's some other reason. This kind of bounce rate could also be something that Google monitors.
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Ztyling

11 years ago

Reduce Popup's
Increasing Page Speed.

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Jolly Serath

11 years ago

Responsive Theme + Content + Internal Link + Interesting Staff..CAN..REDUCE BOUNCE RATE

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ShawnSwail

11 years ago

First you need to check your visitors by Google analytic tools if your visitors drop your website from home page then you need to redesign website make more attractive home page and also need to check content of the website. You need to put original and quality content on the website to attract more visitors on the website. When your content and design are very attractive then automatically stay visitor on your website and reduce your bounce rate.

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seema singh

11 years ago

Hi

I suggest You Some Points Like You :

1.Create Attractive Design and Informative
2.Increase Page Speed
3.Make Responsive and Mobile Friendly Site
4.Update Blog with Unique Content
5.Social Media

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jessdsouza123

11 years ago

The ideal bounce rate should be 40%. To reduce high bounce rate you have to split long post into small content because user not able to read long post, open external links in new window, also make your website mobile friendly.

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DABK

11 years ago

Really? Ideal? What makes 40% ideal?

Wouldn't 0% be ideal? I mean you're talking about reducing bounce rate and the lowest you can go is 0%.

Let me rephrase: you don't know what you're talking about. I have websites where I'd be making more money if the bounce rate were 100% (adsense and sites where I want them to make a call instantly). I have websites where, ideally, it would be 0% (I want them t fill out a form).

Originally Posted by jessdsouza123

The ideal bounce rate should be 40%. To reduce high bounce rate you have to split long post into small content because user not able to read long post, open external links in new window, also make your website mobile friendly.

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11 years ago

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nettiapina 11 years ago

To royaloptimizer and tosakp: I can't speak for everyone here, but I for one hate scum who rip content and post it without proper attribution. This is internet - link to a piece if you just have to share it.

Originally Posted by DABK

Really? Ideal? What makes 40% ideal?

That makes him/her feel good. It's probably aligned with the stars, matches with his/her furniture, and is good for feng shui.

Originally Posted by adiltaj

Give Some Coupons And Some Free Stufs

The question was about reducing bounce rate, but you posted a recipe to increase it.
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gsminds

11 years ago

To reduce bounce rate, the most effective way is engaging and relevancy. Send the visitor that interested on certain topic to your website and make sure the contents is what the visitor expect.

Besides, use related article to engage visitor to stay longer at your website is an effective way if your article or contents is quality and reader friendly.

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11 years ago

am think Thé problem in Pop-up and structure your website.

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Thaniya

11 years ago

First and foremost is to have a check on website page loading time and how responsive your website is.

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LiftMyRank

11 years ago

I've been able to reduce bounce rate by using big colorful buttons down the bottom of each page linking to the next page....you've got to make it easy for your visitors to click through...don't make them think too much

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