What's your bounce rate?

[deepsand]

Did you miss the part about Search and Referral traffic being conflated?

In re. Chrome users, making any assumptions re. their behavior is unwarranted.

In any case, if you are so enamored of bounce rate, at least use the best available data, which are not those provided by any web tag analytics.

• Use server log analytics;
• Filter out bots; and,
• Filter out your own IP Address(es.)

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[Donnie]

Originally Posted by deepsand

Did you miss the part about Search and Referral traffic being conflated?

In re. Chrome users, making any assumptions re. their behavior is unwarranted.

In any case, if you are so enamored of bounce rate, at least use the best available data, which are not those provided by any web tag analytics.

• Use server log analytics;
• Filter out bots; and,
• Filter out your own IP Address(es.)

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Very interesting,

I have a few questions, as far as bounce rate and google analytics. Would it be a better decision to not use Google analytics on a site? Even if a bounce rate is inaccurate or would it not be best to still have Google analytics on your site for crawling? Perhaps it can help a site get on Googles good side?

How can we filter out bots. Which bots? How to filter out own IP Address? is there a tool for this?

[Northern Leasing]

Bounce rate is % of time that visitor spend on a site if bounce rate is so high then it is harmful for Ranking, so try to reduce bounce rate by quality content, quality seo and select related tag for your site.

[snakeair]

Originally Posted by Northern Leasing

Bounce rate is % of time that visitor spend on a site if bounce rate is so high then it is harmful for Ranking, so try to reduce bounce rate by quality content, quality seo and select related tag for your site.

Are you going to answer the thread creators question or did you read the title and respond?

[Ord Allenbea]

Donnie did you read my blog post ? It would be best to focus on the visitors that are on your site vs wasting time with a so called bounce rate.

Originally Posted by Donnie

Very interesting,

I have a few questions, as far as bounce rate and google analytics. Would it be a better decision to not use Google analytics on a site? Even if a bounce rate is inaccurate or would it not be best to still have Google analytics on your site for crawling? Perhaps it can help a site get on Googles good side?

How can we filter out bots. Which bots? How to filter out own IP Address? is there a tool for this?

[deepsand]

Originally Posted by Donnie

I have a few questions, as far as bounce rate and google analytics. Would it be a better decision to not use Google analytics on a site? Even if a bounce rate is inaccurate or would it not be best to still have Google analytics on your site for crawling? Perhaps it can help a site get on Googles good side?

Google's interest is not in the real bounce rate, but rather the degree to which users ping-pong back and forth between viewing SERPs and clicking on their links, for which they've no need of your assistance.

Originally Posted by Donnie

How can we filter out bots. Which bots? How to filter out own IP Address? is there a tool for this?

Filter out all bots, identified by User-Agent string and/or IP Address. There are any number of lists of the User-Agent names of known bots available on-line. A Google search for crawler bot spider user-agent list yields approx. 491K hits.

The means for such will be provided by a decent log file analyzer. Absent that, you'll need to build your own exclusion list, and pre-process the log file(s) to remove the appropriate records before analyzing it(them).

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[holidaygermany]

I have travel blogs and 60 to 70% bounce rate but i feel that its ok because i don't have a website which provides services like website design etc. Websites that provides specific types of services should have bounce rate under 30%.

[deepsand]

Originally Posted by holidaygermany

Websites that provides specific types of services should have bounce rate under 30%.

And, you arrived at that conclusion how?

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[Marksns]

The secrete to getting a good bounce rate is simple. Put good relevant content on your site. If the content is engaging and relevant to the search they will want to read on.

By doing this results in the customer clicking more pages and helps to improve your bounce rate.

[deepsand]

Originally Posted by Marksns

The secrete to getting a good bounce rate is simple. Put good relevant content on your site. If the content is engaging and relevant to the search they will want to read on.

I suspect that, had you read this thread, you might have avoided such a simplistic assessment.

Originally Posted by Marksns

By doing this results in the customer clicking more pages and helps to improve your bounce rate.

Toward what end? Is a low bounce rate your reward?

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[Donnie]

Originally Posted by deepsand

Google's interest is not in the real bounce rate, but rather the degree to which users ping-pong back and forth between viewing SERPs and clicking on their links, for which they've no need of your assistance.
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What do they use to measure ping-ponging? other then chrome searches and personalized google searches, do they have any other signals they go by? How do they rank sites?

Originally Posted by deepsand

Filter out all bots, identified by User-Agent string and/or IP Address. There are any number of lists of the User-Agent names of known bots available on-line. A Google search for crawler bot spider user-agent list yields approx. 491K hits.

The means for such will be provided by a decent log file analyzer. Absent that, you'll need to build your own exclusion list, and pre-process the log file(s) to remove the appropriate records before analyzing it(them).

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This would would make a great tool, and a good case study.

[Ord Allenbea]

simply amazing! All the information is posted right there for some to learn but instead of reading they prefer to read post #1 and then reply.

[deepsand]

Originally Posted by Donnie

What do they use to measure ping-ponging? other then chrome searches and personalized google searches, do they have any other signals they go by?

Each organic link points to an interstitial page in the SE's Domain, whereby it captures the user's click activity, which then re-directs to the desired target page.

That alone is sufficient for observing ping-ponging.

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[deepsand]

Originally Posted by Ord Allenbea

simply amazing! All the information is posted right there for some to learn but instead of reading they prefer to read post #1 and then reply.

Typical user behavior, particularly on lengthy threads.

Awhile back, Cricket ran a test, creating a thread purporting to be a poll re. one preference for Coke or Pepsi; but, with the body of the OP clearly stating that it was not intended as a real poll, but rather a test to see how many failed to read the OP.

While the results were most discouraging, we had a lot a fun with that one.

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[SpiderZq]

how can i check exact bounce rate of my site?

[deepsand]

Originally Posted by SpiderZq

how can i check exact bounce rate of my site?

See post #702.

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[Ord Allenbea]

Well I have built 6 complete websites (not wordpress, that is not a website) since I last posted in this thread and increased my income by $1,000 a month.

I wonder what all these posters are doing besides sitting there wondering about bounce rate.

Oh I did this all without any concern of any bounce rate.

Originally Posted by deepsand

Typical user behavior, particularly on lengthy threads.

Awhile back, Cricket ran a test, creating a thread purporting to be a poll re. one preference for Coke or Pepsi; but, with the body of the OP clearly stating that it was not intended as a real poll, but rather a test to see how many failed to read the OP.

While the results were most discouraging, we had a lot a fun with that one.

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[ChapStickUser]

My bounce rate is about 52% which I'm ok with, but according to my alexa statistic summary, it says that visitors, on average, visit about 20 pages per visit and spend 30 minutes and 33 seconds on each page view. Not too shabby.

[deepsand]

Originally Posted by ChapStickUser

My bounce rate is about 52% which I'm ok with, but according to my alexa statistic summary, it says that visitors, on average, visit about 20 pages per visit and spend 30 minutes and 33 seconds on each page view. Not too shabby.

20 pages/visit x 30.55 minutes/page = 10 hours 11 minutes per visit.

What are they, really, really slow readers?

You just might want to recheck your figures.

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[nocent_dvil]

Well, its 60+ for my site, though, I'm wondering about it how to increase it. For most times, one of my friend suggesting me to add heavy contents to it so that readers probably take longer time as they skimming in actual.