What's your bounce rate?

[kikz]

50% to 75% normally

[dude91]

I have a bounce rate of 40 % on my site , it was around 20 % normally but my site was down for a day and it went up to 40 % its around 38 now !

[Mahi007]

this information is really helpful to me...
thanks guys

[nik123]

Originally Posted by YellowSEO

50% to 55% normally and 70% 80% when getting attacked


An interesting thing I have noticed about bounce rates and serps

I have a large corporate site with several high and medium keywords with allinanchor, allintitle, allintext,allinurl all #1. But I have noticed movement in serps when bounce rate on unique ips is higher then 70% on 2 of the pages at first I thought it was because the content isn't a good match for keyword so they get pushed to 6,7 in serps where the rest of the page maintain serps only to move if inanchor changes on competitors. Which would be normal and bounce rates based on match and content should be related.

But after more investigating and content tweaks I noticed most visitors come visit 4 to 7 pages and have 20-30% bounce rate.

But when ever we pass Major Corporation X in the serps we get 70%-80% bounce rate from very Simular ips for one very competitive terms come and visit and bounce on the search terms then with in hours the competitor is back to the top. Coming from very specific regions and countries of that competitor till they are back at top spot.

This only happens with two keywords that major x goes after, over 100 others are un affected

In order to fight this I needed to Block repeat ips the do search and bounce daily or repetitive in you analytics.

With these keywords and serps the reason bounce rates can effect it is many due to there being under 300 visits day for search with low amounts of visits the bounce rate can be affected fast in either direction.



Note: I am not taking about SEO site in my nick which Has never been updated.

Do you have google analytics installed? How would they know your bounce rate?

[tikijj]

Two of my blogs have bounce rate of 60%, one with %40, and another one of 55%.

[warnesey333]

I am currently at around 60% on my blog and personal site. It's currently a new site awaiting a page rank update

[hixsonvol]

Our main corporate sire runs around 33%. The blog runs around 60%. I've gotta improve the content on the blog!

[joelchrist]

I am having bounce rate of 20-30%. I m in process of reducing my bounce rate by improving my content. Yes. content can do this.

[Mosaic]

Hi All,

Every site have some amount of bounce rate, i just want to know that what amount of bounce rate is ok..?? The avg bounce rate of my site in last 3 months is 40%.

[wishlist]

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.

I was told that bounce rate is always a questions or irrelevant visitors, or poor content!

But I have to admit that u have a good example here to say Wikipedia.

But, Wikipedia is a info site and it is high authority. So IMO, we can't jsut say certain percent of bounce rate is good or bad. U have the most say on your own site's problem!

[Sovereign]

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.

I agree with John. I used to get riled up because of bounce. Now I much prefer the "time on page" stat.

[larryatv7]

I agree with OP. My sudoku site has a high bounce rate. But my visitors do not need to go anywhere but my homepage to play the game. So I have no worry at all for a high bounce rate.

[Squeenix]

My bounce rate is 100%
lol, my site is entirely ajax based

[ben_huebner]

i´ve someting about 40% in the moment, but I get some traffic from unreleated keywords, don´t now why?

[wmw]

Around 40-50% :s

[ByMariam]

Thank you for bringing up this topic. I didn't know how the bounce rate worked and now I have a much better idea!

[anistock]

good discussion, remember reality is vast majority of visitors to any site just click and go. They skim information and might return, I always get higher bounce in organic but cpc is quite low. We tried about 10 split tests to improve bounce rates, made a small 10% improvement but still trying to figure it out

[js112]

i have a bounce rate for almost 60%. i am worrying about it,..........hmmmmmm.... maybe i should make my content better...

[edosauyi]

i have a bounce rate of about 40%, i think this is okay.

[dinhquanghuy]

I have bounce rate around 40% -60% . I tried to decrease bounce rate but the lowest I got is 37%