Google Bounce Rate - How Does It Work?

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I seem to be getting mixed answers on this question so I'd like to hear what you all think about this.

How is a bounce counted?

Dose Google ONLY count a bounce if someone arrives at your site through Google search & then leaves your site to return to the search engines?

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Is a bounce counted when someone arrives at your site through Google search engine but leaves through a link on your site, like an Adsense or affiliate link?

Also what if someone comes to your site but NOT from Google search but from say an article, will Google still take a bounce rate from someone leaving who has came from a source other than the search engine?
Thanks
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  • Well any user coming from any source and spending time on your website contributes to the bounce rate.. bounce rate increase when any user some at your website and then shuts it out down without navigating or spending time on your website!
  • The best way to describe bounce rate is to say it is the number of visitors that only look at one page on your site as a proportion of the total number of visitors to your site.

    It doesn't matter where they come from as bounce rate is a calculation made by your analytics package. It could be argued that a high bounce rate could indicate that the visitor is satisfied with what they have seen and therefore don't need to visit anywhere else on your site. For this to be true though you would expect to see that they spent more than a minute on your page. If you see a high bounce rate coupled with a small amount of time spent on that page then you can be sure that the page is not what the visitor was looking for.
  • The problem I'm having is people clicking through to Amazon from my affiliate link after being on my site for a few seconds.

    I have 1000+ word product review, images & videos but I also have a strong call to action which is sending people off my site quite quickly.

    I've had a thought - what if I set my affiliate links to "open in a new window" so that way they would not be taken off my site unless they closed the browser.

    Do you think this would help?
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