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Bounce Bounce Bounce Dat Rate

by GGpaul
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Hey everyone. So I'm focusing on my bounce rate, figuring out ways to decrease it.

Will my pages get affected negatively (they're already in the top positions), if I edit it by hyperlinking a couple words in the content that links to an inner page? Should I add a no follow?

Thanks.
#bounce #dat #rate
  • Profile picture of the author Nelapsi
    Everything I read and this is coming from Matt himself, it makes no sense or difference to add nofollow to internal links. When I started adding links I experienced no drop in ranks what so ever.
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    • Profile picture of the author GGpaul
      Originally Posted by Nelapsi View Post

      Everything I read and this is coming from Matt himself, it makes no sense or difference to add nofollow to internal links. When I started adding links I experienced no drop in ranks what so ever.
      This is after your content hit the rankings, and you edited them afterwards to add the hyperlinks right?
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      • Profile picture of the author Nelapsi
        Originally Posted by GGpaul View Post

        This is after your content hit the rankings, and you edited them afterwards to add the hyperlinks right?
        Some pages were still moving up the ranks and such, after all we are talking about sites with a combined article count well over 1000 at that point in time. I am fairly dedicated though at checking keywords every morning for pages I am observing or/and working on. Of which I noticed nothing even blinking during all the work.

        To be honest, I am always changing pages. Fixing something, working on better wording, links to new articles and rounding out articles as new keywords show up in logs. It never seems to hurt things editing internally. Also note, I do not have a ton of backlinks created by me on general content so they survive and move up based on quality and quantity. I wrote all my own articles.
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  • Profile picture of the author GGpaul
    Okay - time to inner link a bunch of stuff. If I lose my rankings eff it. Got to take a chance. 70 percent bounce rate is too high for me.
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    • Profile picture of the author Nelapsi
      Originally Posted by GGpaul View Post

      Okay - time to inner link a bunch of stuff. If I lose my rankings eff it. Got to take a chance. 70 percent bounce rate is too high for me.
      Yep, 70% you know you can do better
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  • Profile picture of the author Chucky
    Something really useful I found was Peter Garety's Bounce Rate Eliminator plugin. Used it on one site and worked like a charm.

    Yup, I wouldn't nofollow them either!
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    • Profile picture of the author GGpaul
      Originally Posted by Chucky View Post

      Something really useful I found was Peter Garety's Bounce Rate Eliminator plugin. Used it on one site and worked like a charm.

      Yup, I wouldn't nofollow them either!
      Nice plugin, but that wouldn't benefit my site at all.
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      • Profile picture of the author milliondream
        What is the niche of your site? You can add some videos which people can watch or add some links but links will be directing to other page/post of your sites.

        Cheer.
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  • Profile picture of the author GGpaul
    I'll add links. I should make a video. I ain't skurred.
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  • Profile picture of the author brettb
    Work on your title menu headings - this is the best way to improve bounce rate.

    If you have a health cure site then the first menu item needs to be "CURE YOUR XXX".
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  • Profile picture of the author Jacob Sterbenk
    70% bounce rate is quite high, but you have to look at it from different perspectives. If your website has a high search visibility, often for long tail keywords (which aren't related to the topic many times), 70% bounce rate can be normal. 70% bounce rate is also normal if your visitors get what they want on your website - they don't leave because they don't like your site, they just got what they wanted and don't have reasons to stay anymore.

    You can, however, decrease this bounce with internal links (or related post plugin, if you use Wordpress), which means that you give readers what you believe they might also like.

    I've managed to decrease my bounce rate with this technique, but don't expect miracles. It did, however, highly increase average time on site (20+%).
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    • Profile picture of the author d0de
      Originally Posted by Jacob Sterbenk View Post

      70% bounce rate is quite high, but you have to look at it from different perspectives. If your website has a high search visibility, often for long tail keywords (which aren't related to the topic many times), 70% bounce rate can be normal. 70% bounce rate is also normal if your visitors get what they want on your website - they don't leave because they don't like your site, they just got what they wanted and don't have reasons to stay anymore.
      I had this exactly this problem with my first niche site. I added 20-30 articles all closely on-topic and related to the main keyword, added loads of internal links, but my bounce rate remained over 85%.

      People were happy with the site: the time spent on page was good, the social signals were good (lots of people liking on fb and sharing on twitter).

      The problem was simply that I gave the visitors precisely what they were looking for all on the main page. The main page was about 1200 words (broken up into sections and with images, lists etc for easy reading) and comprehensively answered the question visitors came to my site for.
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