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Does filling in a form, clicking SUBMIT and then leaving, count as a bounce?

by jimcroisdale
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Hiya,

If someone comes to a page on my site, fills in a form, clicks submit and then leaves, does that count as a bounce?

I don't think the URL will change, and they're not actually going to a different page.

Cheers,

Jim
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  • Profile picture of the author chrisv24
    I think it does. As this page https://support.google.com/analytics...09409?hl=en-GB defines a bounce rate as the percentage of visits that go only one page before exiting a site.

    To be safe, just make it so that when I user clicks submit on your form it redirects them to a page that says 'thanks for your message'
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    It probably counts as a bounce, but I don't think that is the kind of bounce rate that Google is really tracking when it comes to rankings. 90% of the webpages out there they have no way to track that kind of analytical data on.
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  • Profile picture of the author dcary13
    Well, bounce is simple to understand:

    It means that someone going to your site found what he looked for or not.
    If not, he is looking for a "better site".

    For a search engine and google it means this: Someone doing a search and then he
    is clicking on a result. That will open a tab to that website.

    If he closes that tab somewhat fast and is going the the next site in the search and stays there for some minutes... Then the first site did not gave him what the second seems to serve, right?

    That is called bounce = bounce back to search page and going on.

    The problem is: How to track that? And how to decide its a bounce?

    Google DID NOT USE YOUR ANALYTICS DATA for that. And your analytics bounces are not really what google defines as bounce as the shown page rank is not really what google use internal.

    Google is calculating the bounce rate mainly with their search pages, which makes sense. Which else tools they use they never told us.

    So, bounce = only looking on one page of your site and leaving = *bullshit*.

    Bounce is defined by the time your customers stay on your site AND the fact they will looking for more results.

    AND its for sure related to the niche.

    There are niches out there where people are used to "jump" to more as one page. As there are niches out where people stay heavily on one site.

    So, a high bounce rate in a niche and keyword where all site have a high bounce will do nothing to your ranking.

    And if you think that a "thank you" page will change anything then you believe in aliens too.
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    • Profile picture of the author jimcroisdale
      Originally Posted by dcary13 View Post

      And if you think that a "thank you" page will change anything then you believe in aliens too.
      Well, we had a similar problem on our site with a price calculator page. People came to the page (often directly as we optimised for that one page), got a price and then clicked off. The bounce rate was very high.

      When we installed a landing page that they had to click through to get to the calculator the bounce rate dropped significantly, and the rankings actually improved as well.
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