Hi Guys,

I've been SEOing two sites for just over 6 months, making very little headway in the process. All the tactics I have employed work on the many other sites that we do SEO work for.

I have written pages of rich, useful content, metas, built links from various sources, re-built both sites on a better platform, alt tags are optimised etc etc.

This seems to have brought me some success but nothing to write home about.

The only major difference I can see between these two sites and my others is bounce rate. The SEO pages I have produced have a fairly healthy bounce rate (20-30%) which isn't a problem, but, both sites have blogs which draw (a lot of) visitors from various social networks and the bounce rate is through the roof (80-90%) obviously increasing the average for the whole site.

Now, I know there has been various discussions around this with no real outcome but I cannot see what else it can be.

Am I missing something?

I should add that both sites are in competitive sectors but not that competitive to stop me seeing at least top 100 results....