What's your bounce rate? - Page 19

deepsand · Share | #**361** (**permalink**) 04-28-2011, 10:17 PM

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Originally Posted by gingerlyspicy

yeah i got ur point deepsand...i shudnt be worrying more abt bounce rate because it means people are clicking ads (gud for me).i shud only be worrying abt serps

infact the themes built for highest ctr (mfa themes) have the highest bounce rate coz it leaves people with no option but just to click ads

A perfect example of why bounce rate viewed out of context is meaningless.

Bounce rate is simply the answer to the question "what percentage of visitors clicked on an on-page internal link within a given amount of time."

And, like all questions, what constitutes a desirable or undesirable answer depends on what consequences attach to the answer.

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Brazzell Marketing · #**362** (**permalink**) 04-30-2011, 09:57 AM

My bounce rate was around 50%, and since John Scott said that was a cause for concern, I started studying it. Looks like my bounce rate is much lower for the search terms I was winning on purpose. But Google has started to like certain pages for other search terms that I'm winning by accident. People with those accidentally won search terms are not my core target audience, but could be worthwhile customers for certain types of projects. So I'm planning to redesign the pages with the highest bounce rates to appeal to both my core audience and the new audience that Google is sending to some of my top level pages.

deepsand · #**363** (**permalink**) 04-30-2011, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Brazzell Marketing

My bounce rate was around 50%, and since John Scott said that was a cause for concern, I started studying it. Looks like my bounce rate is much lower for the search terms I was winning on purpose. But Google has started to like certain pages for other search terms that I'm winning by accident. People with those accidentally won search terms are not my core target audience, but could be worthwhile customers for certain types of projects. So I'm planning to redesign the pages with the highest bounce rates to appeal to both my core audience and the new audience that Google is sending to some of my top level pages.

Yet another example of why bounce rate viewed out of context is meaningless.

This instance serves to demonstrate that bounce rate can be query string dependent.

And, by extension, that whether or not said rate should be of concern depends on the degree to which one is interested in those query strings which exhibit the higher bounce rate.

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watchon · #**364** (**permalink**) 04-30-2011, 09:06 PM

I have 35 to 40% on my website,
what are you think?

deepsand · #**365** (**permalink**) 04-30-2011, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by watchon

I have 35 to 40% on my website,
what are you think?

There is no simple answer.

As a reading of this thread will show, bounce rate can only be evaluated within the particular context of your unique case.

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ScottyB · #**366** (**permalink**) 05-19-2011, 02:46 PM

How do I find out what my bounce rate is? I'm a noob...

deepsand · #**367** (**permalink**) 05-19-2011, 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by ScottyB

How do I find out what my bounce rate is?

You'll need some sort of web analytics application.

As a starting place, see web analytics.

Your web site host may provide some basic log file analysis, which should include bounce rate, at no charge.

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jack jastin · #**368** (**permalink**) 05-20-2011, 04:45 AM

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Originally Posted by John Scott

Quoted from here.

I have to disagree.

For example, that page. I visited that page, and no others. That would be considered a bounce. But the reason I didn't visit any other pages is because I got the information I was looking for on that page.

Most of my visits to Wikipedia are single page visits. Wikipedia could have a high bounce rate, but that doesn't mean there is anything worrying about the site.

Who told, If the visitor visits your single page and not roaming on the other web pages within your web site then this would be treated as bounce! Many times I noticed people talking this definition and mind it, With Very much over confidence; No, Its not like that!

If the visitor visits your site and returned back from there within the 30 sec then it would be Counted as bounce rate. And the data provided by the Google analytic for Bounce rate in a percentage basis is the average statistics for a particular day.

deepsand · #**369** (**permalink**) 05-20-2011, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by jack jastin

Who told, If the visitor visits your single page and not roaming on the other web pages within your web site then this would be treated as bounce! Many times I noticed people talking this definition and mind it, With Very much over confidence; No, Its not like that!

If the visitor visits your site and returned back from there within the 30 sec then it would be Counted as bounce rate.

Sorry, but that's not the case.

Why the visitor did not visit another another on-site page, or how he left the landing page is irrelevant to the fact that he came to the site and went no further within it

And, that is the reason why bounce rate viewed in a vacuum is a useless metric.

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richardvan1 · #**370** (**permalink**) 05-20-2011, 10:41 PM

LOL i was going to say something really stupid , like it depends on the angle that i hit the pool or something.. then i read Johns post..

Hes totally right, We all kinda worry when we see that number. but then again in the that type of circumstance wouldn't it make you all warm and fuzzy inside knowing that you got your msg out there on the first page?

BTW I have a 38% BBBounce rate

sweetdani · #**371** (**permalink**) 05-20-2011, 11:48 PM

1st of all kindly can any one tell me how we check bounce rate for our website? i check google webmaster tool but i did not any thing from this tool where i check bounce rate?

deepsand · #**372** (**permalink**) 05-20-2011, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by richardvan1

LOL i was going to say something really stupid , like it depends on the angle that i hit the pool or something.. then i read Johns post..

Hes totally right, We all kinda worry when we see that number. but then again in the that type of circumstance wouldn't it make you all warm and fuzzy inside knowing that you got your msg out there on the first page?

BTW I have a 38% BBBounce rate

Yep.

When I'm running a PPC campaign, and the landing page has a call-to-action that leads to a 3rd-party shopping platform, I want to see a 100% bounce rate!

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deepsand · #**373** (**permalink**) 05-21-2011, 12:07 AM

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Originally Posted by sweetdani

1st of all kindly can any one tell me how we check bounce rate for our website? i check google webmaster tool but i did not any thing from this tool where i check bounce rate?

See post no. 372 above.

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Ydeveloper · #**374** (**permalink**) 05-26-2011, 02:11 AM

It can be classified as the time that the user spend in your website more than the minimum time. Less the users/visits bounces from your site, it good for website owner.

anil.singh · #**375** (**permalink**) 05-26-2011, 02:34 AM

What is Bounce Rate???????

Mjoseph83 · #**376** (**permalink**) 05-26-2011, 05:48 AM

My bounce rate is approximate 70%.

**snakeair** · #**377** (**permalink**) 05-26-2011, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by anil.singh

What is Bounce Rate???????

Did you read any of the replies in this thread? This has been explained a few times already and also you could search google.

singhmanish251 · #**378** (**permalink**) 05-27-2011, 10:32 PM

I just started a blog whih has become popular and its bounce rate is 30%

jaigaitonde · #**379** (**permalink**) 05-27-2011, 11:33 PM

What are the steps to be taken to improve bounce rates?

deepsand · #**380** (**permalink**) 05-27-2011, 11:55 PM

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Originally Posted by jaigaitonde

What are the steps to be taken to improve bounce rates?

A reading of this thread will show that bounce rate viewed out of the context of the landing page and the goal(s) of the site owner operator is useless, that there is not standard against which such can be measured, that a high bounce rate may actually be a signal of success, and that there are no universal steps that will alter it.

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