Thursday 27 October 2011

Bounce Rate Explained

If you want to run a successful blog or a website,then you should aware of an important metrics that webmaster tool provides is bounce rate.

Bounce rate is the percentage of single visits in which a reader left your site from landing (entrance) page.
In simpler words,a reader any how lands on your homepage for instance and take a look at your homepage and leaves your blog without viewing the contents on the other pages of your site

.Bounce rate is used to determine the performance of your entry page.Bounce rate is one of the important factor every blogger should look to improve.You can check your bounce rate in google analytics.

Is Bounce rate that much Important?

Yes, Of course bounce rate is very very important for your blog that needs to be taken care of.Lets consider this situation,you run a book shop where customers any how land at your shops doorway and scans the shop without going around.So he/she didn't take a look at every section rather stands at the billing counter.Whats the use?No transaction is made out.

Apply this situation for your blog.A reader visits your blogs homepage by clicking on your link from somewhere and take a quick look and closes your blog without viewing other pages on your blog.Whats the reason?Because he/she is not interested in your content,navigation problems,annoying ads,unwanted widgets.This stops the readers to proceed further.

The average bounce rate for your blog should fall between 40 to 70%.But if your bounce rate is more than 70% then your blog is in serious trouble.Take some time to analysis your bounce rate and rectify them to get more conversion and traffic.

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Thanks for Reading,
Happy Blogging.


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