About Bounce rate....will affect your site also adsense ?

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just wonder?

because I check some site which have high traffic ..their bounce rate is quite high...

around 70++ to 80++
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  • Profile picture of the author time4vps
    Bounce rate can affect your SEO rankings. It's been long known that Google looks at hundreds of factors when deciding where your website should rank. Several of those factors are what are called “user signals”… which are things that the actual website visitor does based on the quality of your website.
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    • Profile picture of the author Devilfish168
      Originally Posted by time4vps View Post

      Bounce rate can affect your SEO rankings. It's been long known that Google looks at hundreds of factors when deciding where your website should rank. Several of those factors are what are called "user signals"... which are things that the actual website visitor does based on the quality of your website.
      what you mean by " user signals "

      aka ? like lots of FB likes on your post?
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      • Profile picture of the author DABK
        Doesn't matter what they mean by it; they don't know what they're talking about.

        Bounce rate is affected by many things, things Google cannot track, so how are they going to use the info?

        You have an adsense site. I land on your page, click on your ad. I don't go anywhere else on your site. I've done what you wanted.

        In a perfect world, everybody who lands on a page of yours clicks, immediately, on an ad. That would get you a bounce rate of 100%. In this case a bounce rate of 100% is awesome.

        You have a site that sells things and people land on a page but don't go to your shopping cart... high bounce rate is bad.

        I land on a page on your site... spend a couple of minutes on that page... then I get diarrhea and rush to the bathroom and never visit another page on your site. Clearly your content is bad, right?

        See what I mean?

        Worry about bounce rate only if it's caused by your site loading too slowly...
        Originally Posted by Devilfish168 View Post

        what you mean by " user signals "

        aka ? like lots of FB likes on your post?
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        • Profile picture of the author Devilfish168
          Originally Posted by DABK View Post

          Doesn't matter what they mean by it; they don't know what they're talking about.

          Bounce rate is affected by many things, things Google cannot track, so how are they going to use the info?

          You have an adsense site. I land on your page, click on your ad. I don't go anywhere else on your site. I've done what you wanted.

          In a perfect world, everybody who lands on a page of yours clicks, immediately, on an ad. That would get you a bounce rate of 100%. In this case a bounce rate of 100% is awesome.

          You have a site that sells things and people land on a page but don't go to your shopping cart... high bounce rate is bad.

          I land on a page on your site... spend a couple of minutes on that page... then I get diarrhea and rush to the bathroom and never visit another page on your site. Clearly your content is bad, right?

          See what I mean?

          Worry about bounce rate only if it's caused by your site loading too slowly...

          Thanks you got the point too.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Google cannot track bounce rate on the majority of websites that are in existence, so it would make little sense for them to use it.
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  • Profile picture of the author BAC
    BOUNCE RATE has nothing to do with adsense. if visitor stands at one page for 30 seconds or more then it will be counted as one pageview in adsense dashboard.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by Devilfish168 View Post

    just wonder?

    because I check some site which have high traffic ..their bounce rate is quite high...

    around 70++ to 80++

    You couldn't know what the bounce rate is unless you have access to the domain/s .
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  • Profile picture of the author Mairaj
    Everyone is crying for traffic that how they increase their traffic but forget the most significant element that how they convince their visitors to have a nice stay at their blog. This is actually bounce rate of your blog. It means your blog’s per page sessions. In simple it can be explain as the number of visitors who visit on your page but left your blog without going on other pages because they can’t find what they are searching for.

    So, it is important that we should make such websites or blogs which engage the users and fulfill their demands. You can check it with the help of a tool known as Google Analytics it will show you the actual bounce rate of every page.

    Now the question raises that how we engage our users on our blog and have great conversions which will surely decrease it. Below are few methods through which you can reduce bounce rate of your blog effectively.

    1. Keep content fresh to reduce your blog’s bounce rate

    2. Reduce high bounce rate with excellent design of your website as well as the loading speed of your website.

    3. Your blog or website should be Mobile Responsive.

    4. Internal linking Is surely helpful in average bounce rate.

    5. Decrease your website bounce rate by related posts.

    6. Avoid using popups.

    7. Always use tab browsing.

    8. Avoid wrong marketing strategies.

    9. International traffic.

    10. Adding videos in your posts are also helpful for decreasing bounce rate.

    Google loves the websites which has less Bounce rate. The best Bounce rate is below 40% , normal or average is up to 70 % and over 70 % is dangerous for your blog. So, always try to reduce bounce rate of your blog with these simple steps which i mentioned above.
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    • Profile picture of the author dgeramemo
      Originally Posted by Mairaj View Post

      Everyone is crying for traffic that how they increase their traffic but forget the most significant element that how they convince their visitors to have a nice stay at their blog. This is actually bounce rate of your blog. It means your blog's per page sessions. In simple it can be explain as the number of visitors who visit on your page but left your blog without going on other pages because they can't find what they are searching for.

      So, it is important that we should make such websites or blogs which engage the users and fulfill their demands. You can check it with the help of a tool known as Google Analytics it will show you the actual bounce rate of every page.

      Now the question raises that how we engage our users on our blog and have great conversions which will surely decrease it. Below are few methods through which you can reduce bounce rate of your blog effectively.

      1. Keep content fresh to reduce your blog's bounce rate

      2. Reduce high bounce rate with excellent design of your website as well as the loading speed of your website.

      3. Your blog or website should be Mobile Responsive.

      4. Internal linking Is surely helpful in average bounce rate.

      5. Decrease your website bounce rate by related posts.

      6. Avoid using popups.

      7. Always use tab browsing.

      8. Avoid wrong marketing strategies.

      9. International traffic.

      10. Adding videos in your posts are also helpful for decreasing bounce rate.

      Google loves the websites which has less Bounce rate. The best Bounce rate is below 40% , normal or average is up to 70 % and over 70 % is dangerous for your blog. So, always try to reduce bounce rate of your blog with these simple steps which i mentioned above.
      Excellent information @Mairaj, There are high chances that a site with less posts will have higher bounce rate. Site with good number of posts and those posts should be interlinked enough so that visitor can get relevant link on every page. This make your bounce rate low.
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        Originally Posted by dgeramemo View Post

        Excellent information @Mairaj, There are high chances that a site with less posts will have higher bounce rate. Site with good number of posts and those posts should be interlinked enough so that visitor can get relevant link on every page. This make your bounce rate low.
        Actually, it was a load of nonsense.

        Bounce rate is a useless stat for what people are talking about. Like that
        boatload of garbage.

        The question is about adsense. If people surf in, and are there long enough for an adsense ad to load, and tons of people do that without a click, there is a problem. It's called mindless traffic and is bad for adsense.

        None of that has to do with the nonsense list above, which as I said, is complete BS.

        There is another instance that "bounce" rate matters. Bounce rate is in quotes on purpose. That instance is adwords. If people surf in and surf back to google, then your QS will go down for that search phrase. And that's not good.

        I have no idea what me doing tab browsing, international traffic, or other such garbage has to do with my bounce rate. Again, complete list of nonsense.

        Tab browsing, however, is a perfect example how bounce rate would be a meaningless stat for ranking. Someone forgets they have another window open, especially in mobile...then YIPPEEEEE! My bounce rate is stellar!

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        • Profile picture of the author irawr
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          Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

          I have no idea what me doing tab browsing, international traffic, or other such garbage has to do with my bounce rate. Again, complete list of nonsense.

          Paul
          It's not complete 100% nonsense. First of all, the only way google can measure bounce rate is by counting the number of clicks to one site in the SERP, and then comparing that to the number of sites that were clicked by the same user after they clicked that site. So they would have to click on site A, hit the back button, then click site B-Z. Does this really matter in the SERPS, well yes and no. If your site is complete garbage (compared to the query), then yes absolutely. If your site compares reasonably well to the other sites in the SERP, then it doesn't really matter all that much (they will most likely be encountering the same issue to an extent.) This is the case for most people who are aware of SEO at a basic level. They understand they are trying to please the user and provide a good user experience within reason.

          Bounce rate matters quite a bit when the site is in non common languages, or is not related to the general user intent who types in that search term. Bounce rate is actually quite a big part of google's algorythm, but it doesn't effect SEOs much on competitive keywords much.

          If you are ranked on keywords you should be ranked on, then your bounce rate becomes as important as issues like http vs https (or other "ranking factors".) There's almost no difference what so ever and the most important factor becomes the total quality of inbound links.
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          • Profile picture of the author Devilfish168
            Guess back to the " origin " of the traffic?

            High bounce rate , yet their traffic is high perhaps due to huge social signals , they got?
            Their main traffic are largely from social medias?

            whereas Low bounce rate , their traffic is high perhaps mostly from search engine like google , yahoo, etc ..?
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          • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
            Originally Posted by irawr View Post

            It's not complete 100% nonsense. First of all, the only way google can measure bounce rate is by counting the number of clicks to one site in the SERP, and then comparing that to the number of sites that were clicked by the same user after they clicked that site.
            That's the one case where bounce rate actually matters. If people are coming from the Google Search it'd make sense for Google to track it, and adjust the results accordingly. Not all SEOs agree on this, but in my opinion you're right.

            If we're speaking about bounce rate in general it's not that important from SEO perspective. Also, you can't interpret bounce rate without context. For example, social media campaigns and shares very typically increase bounce rate because some people come for that one piece of content, and instantly leave no matter what you try.
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    • Profile picture of the author counter2015
      I thought exit pop ups were okay a bit annoying to user but it helped bounce rate, I read tabbed browsing was a big no no
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  • Profile picture of the author webdevpro
    Bounce rate could be significantly affected based on how you implement your tracking code. The basic google analytics code is not supposed to track single visits (as non-bounced even if your visitors stay for long time on that page) unless you add the time based event tracker to handle such situation. So it makes not much significance what the bounce rate is.
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  • Profile picture of the author FreedomBlogger
    I would say that the Bounce rate can affect your SEO rankings, which then will affect your organic traffic, which then will lower your daily traffic flow, which then will result in lower adsense clicks and earnings.

    Got it?!! .. lol

    But maybe the site is getting a lot of traffic from other sources, and not just search engines - if their main traffic source is not the search engines - then the bounce rate is alright. A good amount of people will be clicking on the adsense ads anyways
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  • Profile picture of the author RichaDubey
    I don't believe that bounce rate affects site on AdSense.I have also seen that a site that have good traffic also have high bounce rate too. It is not necessary that all traffic that is coming towards a website is relative. So that high bounce rate is obvious.
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  • Profile picture of the author zerobulb
    Bounce Rate may affect your SERP. As if bounce rate is 100% it states that the website's content is not so good for the visitor to flow via the website.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by zerobulb View Post

      Bounce Rate may affect your SERP. As if bounce rate is 100% it states that the website's content is not so good for the visitor to flow via the website.
      How would Google know your bounce rate is 100%?

      There are not going to incorporate data they do not have.
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  • Profile picture of the author Augustinus
    Sure bounce rate is one of a factor what can affect your site in search engines google, yahoo, yandex, therefore the lower bounce rate the better . But it is only one of the many factors.
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    • Profile picture of the author Devilfish168
      Originally Posted by Augustinus View Post

      Sure bounce rate is one of a factor what can affect your site in search engines google, yahoo, yandex, therefore the lower bounce rate the better . But it is only one of the many factors.
      irony we also using social medias to promote..
      as mention let's say some of your contents go viral on social medias or a lot of your followers go to your site , they use FB to go click your site under your FB page as they want to follow you

      on the other hand your organic traffic from google ..is low...

      in return isn't your bounce rate increase?

      irony affect your site on google?
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by Devilfish168 View Post

        irony we also using social medias to promote..
        as mention let's say some of your contents go viral on social medias or a lot of your followers go to your site , they use FB to go click your site under your FB page as they want to follow you

        on the other hand your organic traffic from google ..is low...

        in return isn't your bounce rate increase?

        irony affect your site on google?
        No. You know why? BECAUSE BOUNCE RATE DOES NOT EFFECT RANKINGS!
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    • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
      Originally Posted by Madeleinedixon View Post

      Bounce rate definitely affect the site, when some improvement are not taken immediately.
      This is a bunch of total horse manure. Bounce rate can be a sign of a problem, or it can mean absolutely nothing. Often it's the result of how you run the site and campaigns around it. Bounce rate itself doesn't affect anything.
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      • Profile picture of the author michalatherton
        The bounce rate is the percentage of people who arrive on your page and leave without navigating to other pages of your website. While it is virtually impossible to eliminate it, there are ways to reduce bounce rate significantly. When it comes to increasing the ad revenue, focusing on lowering your bounce rate is extremely important. Many would argue that a good strategy to lower the bounce rate is even more important than good SEO because no matter how many people click on your link from the search engine results page, if they immediately browse away, you'll never make a dime. Moreover, As you can see from #76 of the 200 factors which google considers when ranking websites, site usability i.e. higher average time spent, lower bounce rate and higher page views per visitor, actually help your Search Engine rankings too.
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