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Bounce Rate?
How do you reduce High Bounce Rate without rebuilding your site? Or, in other words, how do you get people to visit multiple pages on your site? It’s easy-get rid of the junk.
That is a simple answer but of course people love to see the more detailed ways of reducing bounce rate.
Here is a quick list:
- Get highly targeted website visitors.
- Create great content.
- Insert internal linking to lead the visitor to more valuable information.
- Make your website easy to use and attractive to the human.
- Give them a really good reason to stay.
Now lets get into the out of the ordinary ways to get rid of a High Bounce Rate rate:
Reduce Bounce Rate By Deleting Pages
If you look at the Website Bounce Rate for your site as a whole, you’ll notice that some pages perform better than others. That means you can immediately reduce bounce rate problems by deleting unnecessary pages.
But wait-do you really want to delete pages? Absolutely-if the pages don’t perform well, and you can’t quickly improve them, then your site is better off without them. Bad pages on your site likely draw people away from the good pages, so get rid of the bad pages to improve the overall performance of your site. All they are doing is distracting your visitors from your real goals.
Reduce Bounce Rate By Deleting Content
You probably read that long-form sales pages tend to perform better than shorter sales pages, so one afternoon you ordered a pizza a spent the next several hours writing several thousand words about
Unfortunately, that incredible labor is now wasted as 99% or more of the people who see your sales letter leave without buying your product.
I have good news for you: you can reduce bounce rate problems on that page by going back and performing the step you skipped-intensive editing.
I typically delete 50% or more of the material I write for sales pages because anything which doesn’t move the customer closer to buying is irrelevant on a sales page. (To compensate for this reduction in sales page length, I also overwrite my sales pages.)
Take a moment and create a backup copy of your sales page. Then go through and delete unnecessary words, sentences, paragraphs, bullet points, benefits, and anything else which isn’t absolutely compelling. Try to cut the total length in half and then test it against your previous unedited sales page to verify that it performs better.
I have done this with content pages as well because low quality content just brings your sites rankings down and it’s always better to have a Good Bounce Rate.
Streamline Pages To Reduce Bounce Rate
Your website layout stinks. I say that generically because many websites use bad layouts, although I admit it is not always the case.
Take a moment to compare your website against the most successful website in your niche or a related niche. You’ll probably discover that the successful website uses a much more streamlined layout-that’s because a streamlined layout works.
A streamlined layout can reduce bounce rate problems by keeping your visitors focused on your copy. A non-streamlined layout distracts readers with advertisements and navigation menus on the side, but a streamlined layout puts everything in front of the reader exactly when you think they need it-advertisements in the middle of a good article; navigation at the end of the article so they can find another interesting article on your site; etc.
In short, if you manage your visitors attention well, you’ll immediately reduce bounce rate problems.
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Hi Mitz !
Thank you sharing great tips and it will be more helpful to optimize my blogs. we know that it is common mistake and my blogger ignore this one. i really appreciate your ideas.
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Thanks for this information it is helpful for my website. My website bounce rate is 60 or above. i am going to applied your suggestion on my website i hope my website bounce rate is reduce.
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Hi Mitz,
Thanks for your post! I think this should be an on-going exercise – it is vital we should always reassess our websites to reduce bounce rates and increase user engagement. These are ever green tips.
Thanks again and Cheers.
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Yes this should be part of the ongoing website maintenance list! We must keep on this.
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Yes it’s a great way to reduce bounce rate to engage with your audience. And if we are delivering quality content then it will automatically reduced.
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wow!!! i have written something like this before in my blog post. you have added new new stuff which is great. i love the way you do it and it will definately reduce bounce rate. thanks
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Yes there are just so many factors that influence bounce rate!! We need to be aware of them all and keep an eye out for problems.
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hello Mitz Pantic
that strategy very beneficial for increment the website page ranking.so if the user open the website after that closed the site.suddenly then bounce rate increment. so different website visit then bounce rate less.
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Google Analytics is of course your best friend when going through with a fine comb and finding out which pages have under-performed.
Bounce rates can still have a scary impact on your rankings today.
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Thanks you so much for this kind of informative post. I will try this for my blog and hope it will work.
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This is a great start, but it’s pretty repetitive . My website isn’t getting any constant, loyal visitors. My bounce rate is well over 80%, help me?
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Nice post mitz !
Reducing bounce rate is something that I have been working on for the last few months. I completely agree with deleting pages that are not performing well as there is just no need for them to be taking up space on your server.
I found that using a popular pages widget in my sidebar works well on my blog to reduce bounce rate.
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Yes popular posts widget works well as people just want to see the best content.
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I totally agree Mitz with your point of streamlining the pages. Sites with widgets all over the page leaves a visitor confused on where to go to find what they are looking for and they eventually leave.
Sending under-performing pages to the trash is a great tip. A site might have a dynamite headline that gets visitors, but if the content attached to the headline is under-par, your visitor is most likely to bounce rather than visit the site’s other pages.
Great post!
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Yes under-performing pages just bring your site down but I can see that many webmasters are attached to every piece of their content. These are the hard decisions we have to make as with any real business.
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Thanks You Mitz,
My Blog is Recieving too Much Bounce Rate which is Very Bad for Blog, What should be the Maximum Bounce Rate for the Blog that it should not face any consequences from Google?
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Not sure on googles exact rules but for a huge site I like near 70%.. But if your site is really good then it should be less. This is very important for the websites success as it means people are getting what they want and they like it because they are staying around. This is a great sign.
My Lets build websites blog has the lowest bounce rate I have ever seen..No one leaves!
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The bounce rate on my new blog is pretty high unfortunately, not sure if it’s just the content or layout. I may have to do some experimenting to try and get it a bit lower.
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It is easier to work on bounce rate when you have more traffic. A new blog takes a while to settle in and see some patterns.
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Great post, some good points mentioned also. Our bounce rate is low but there’s always ways of improving on everything!
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Thanks for all these important points. I was in real need of one such article. Had a great reading. Thanks for sharing!
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Boy Mitz, I find deleting content a hard pill to swallow. I’ve never done it … but perhaps I should analyze my metrics more carefully and consider it.
One way I improve bounce rate is including videos on my site. Tutorials and demos are especially effective. This increases time on site while providing quality.
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I had to do it once as one of my sites got hit by the very first panda… It was sad but the results were amazing! If your content is not top stuff then it is increasing your bounce rate and wasting your time. It might be doing more hurt than good!
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When i started blogging i tried giving users a link to some great post at the END of each post and believe me, it work wonder.
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I definitely need to control my bounce rate better. I think adding relevant content via video’s and posts as well as tutorial’s could really help. Wow, I don’t know if I could necessarily delete pages, but definitely something to think about and hear more about!
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Seems the common theme here is reduce… question when “google” and other searches are looking for original content, how do you reduce but yet get good and unique content
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I agree that it is nice to increase the bounce rate, but I would not delete pages on which I worked a lot. If they do not gain a good result, I would prefer to modify them.
The idea to compare design with the most successful website is a good idea, I will try that. Maybe I will be able to steal some ideas that work.
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Well here is the truth.. I worked on some pages on my computer tips site (tips4pc.com) and I had to delete them because they had an awful bounce rate, earned almost nothing, and bought me junk traffic. This was not good for my conversion rates. You will learn that some content is good and you work on it really hard but it does not belong on your site.
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Great article.
I found a lot of useful information and I will use some of your tips.
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Good one Mitz,
This is the one metric the link building idiots won’t tell you about.
Google algo’s now consider pages with high bounce rates less relevant.
That means less seo traffic.
Have you tried videos to decrease bounce rates?
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Yes I have loads of videos and have tried this with bounce rate.. yes it works, but again it is part of a big package.. for starters the video has to be good enough to keep them watching…then you need content around the video for the search engines etc.. to get the visitors in the first place.
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Great article Mitz. I recently started a blog and have about 25 posts. Is it too soon to tell? My bounce rate is at about 55%. Sometimes the page layout could distract visitors to what you really want for them to see.
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Hopefully your bounce rate does not increase when you add more pages. I have a site with about 1000 pages at 70% which is normal.
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Those are my hopes Mitz. I love reading your articles. They are very informative with valuable information. My aspirations are to eventually have consistent traffic. But that will require some consistent effort on my part to get better at it.
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Some good information Mitz! I must admit I leave a website or blog instantly if i cant easily find the information “Google promised me” in the search results, too often people like to “bait and switch”their titles so when you actually arrive at the website or blog the contents is not at all what you expected.
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Same here! I leave if I don’t see what I was promised.
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Hi there, i just wanted to share my personal experience. I have been working on my bounce rate for my WordPress website and have got it down to 39% to 44% avg just by making sure I have content relevant…for the search that a visitor wants and it improves page rank at the same time..thanks good post.
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Good on you Evan. That bounce rate sound great!
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hi mitz – Good article. Bounce Rate is not necessarily a bad thing. If the user finds the answer for his question within 5 seconds and then goes away, his desire and experience was totally fulfilled. Is therefore likely he will return again for such type of queries.
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Yes and this is deceiving. I had pages like this and it annoyed me that they would get the answer and leave. SO.. I played a trick and removed the answer from the page and made them click a link to get to the answer, therefore visiting another page. The bounce rate reduced and I was happy. This made my page rank better and more people got their answers.
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Hey Mitz, I found this page while searching for reduce bounce rate. I re-write all of content of one of my website and did html minifying and it worked ! Thanks you
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Hi,This is one painful thing i go across month after month your article sounds great for me to try..Thank you i will surely check out my options of deleting the under performing webpages soon
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thank for nice aritcle . i will try and reduce website bounce rate immediately by using your tips thank for it.
thanks for the advice, i will try in my blog. hope it can reduce my blog bounce rate
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I am getting 75-80% bounce rate on my one website. it has very high traffic directly from the search engines. Can you tell me is that high bounce rate will affect my site anyway?
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The more content you have the harder it is to control bounce rate.. That seems normal for your type of site as I have one around that too. The thing I try to do to combat this is increase returning visitors. Give them something to come back for and that will always make your site look good.
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I got hundreds of old pages doesn`t performing well in Ads earning but some of them were linked form other page so I do not want to delete them. Do you delete this kind of pages?
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These are very good tips especially for bloggers! great post!
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There isn’t that much bounce rate on my website, but I guess I should delete some of my pages and improve on my content. My content is great but I guess I can add something more eye catching.
I guess one of the most important think are internal links, you have to remember about them
I’d suggest against removing content. Bounce rate isn’t inherently bad on its own, but removing indexed page is. Deleting indexed pages that are receiving organic traffic just lowers the overall authority of your site. If you really break it down, would you rather have a slightly higher bounce rate, or take the chance on the lost conversions from removing pages that people are using to find your site?
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If you have the wrong content you should definitely get rid of it and stick to the content that your audience likes and engages with. Otherwise what is the point? I thought we were here to supply what the visitors want?
I like to try all avenues and if nothing works then the content is gone. That is the harsh reality and it has to be faced. You only need to remove the urls in google webmaster tools.
Having great content is exactly what makes an authority site so why keep the content that brings the site down and doesn’t belong?? What kind of traffic do you expect from a page like that?
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Its a good idea to delete the non-performing pages and write something which really the visitors are looking for. I have about 50 topics out of which only 15 pages receive good response and other once in a while. In terms of quality language there is the concept of 80:20 analysis (Pareto analysis). Do it on your website and you will realize only 20% of the pages are doing well.
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Yes the good old 80 20 rule.. I hate that rule but I can see how it can work here. You are right! If you look at the stats of your website you will see that only a small percentage of pages actually get any traffic.
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Bounce rate will be automatically reduced when you will not produce good quality content and not bhave good with your community
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Yes it is that easy to get a high bounce rate…just publish junk content and your audience will bounce!
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I Have tried controlling bounce rate by deleting unnecessary contents but that doesn’t help. May be i did not do it well, will try other tips mentioned here
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I have found same problem with my site so I have deleted some posts but the bounce rate is still 78%. Any other solutions
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Write great unique and killer articles…often called “Pillar Articles”. This is the only thing which matters the most.
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Thanks very much, this will solve my problem about high bounce rate
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whoops! my bounce rate got better , came down to 55 from 70
thank you
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Not sure I agree with this at all. First a high bounce rate means very little by itself, it could be that the page gave the visitor what they were looking for so they had no need to look any further. It could also mean that the page title/description is misleading and not attracting the right traffic or the page took too long to load, your page uses annoying pop ups or your site just looks low quality… the list goes on. Before you start deleting your content you should take a moment to look at the page objectively AND the search terms used by visitors landing on your page.
I think I might need to guest post a rebuttal!
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The article says “if the pages don’t perform well, and you can’t quickly improve them, then your site is better off without them” …so if you can’t improve them, delete them… or if you have tried to improve them, then delete them.. .. Do you agree with this or do you think they should be kept?
That could mean the page title is wrong and all the other things you said but” if the pages don’t perform well, and you can’t quickly improve them, then your site is better off without them”
Have you ever tried deleting content that did not belong on a site?
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Yes but my point is that you’re taking bounce rate as a signal of a poorly performing page when it could be an indicator of the exact opposite. The page may have given the reader exactly what they were looking for in which case they would have no need to browse any further. Again it comes down to understanding the visitors intent when they landed on the page. Deleting pages purely based on bounce rate could mean that you delete some of your most useful content.
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Good point.
Only the website owner can be the judge of what a poorly performing page as we no one else can see the outcome or know the purpose of the page. That is not for me to define. As you can see in the article I do not say the a high bounce rate = a poorly performing page, I say that if a page has a high bounce AND IS a poor performer then after trying to fix it, or if you have no time, delete it. I see no problem here and when you are in business you need to make harsh decisions.
A poor bounce rate can mean that the visitor quickly gets what they want and leaves. That is great to have this content but what then??? How is this content valuable with a 100% bounce rate. Traffic that does not go anywhere or do anything? This is not targeted traffic, not buying traffic, just leaving and taking up your bandwidth. If they are clicking on advertising while leaving and then the page WOULD NOT be classed as poorly performing.
There are millions of different possibilities here???
If a page is serving a purpose and is useful then I am guessing that it would not be classed as poorly performing?
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And what about any inbound links that were pointing to that page? Do you 301 them?
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Thanks again Mitz. The part that spoke to me most is removing irrelevant content and most importantly site navigation panels. Will definitely do these.
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The one thing that plays biggest role in increasing the bounce rate is by targeting your content for the wrong keywords.
I used to do the same thing when I first started blogging, and no doubt many new bloggers are prone to make the same mistake. It takes a while for one to learn what are the ‘right keywords’. And once we’re through with it, everything works great!
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I agree that the wrong keywords can definitely play a part in this problem. good point!
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Thanks for some great tips! We often tend to forget about deleting pages or content that are not serving our websites well, holding visitor attention is the key!
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That is right Andrew. We are creating sites to engage and please our visitors and that is the only reslut we should strive for. We should not be holding onto content that serves no purpose and cannot be fixed.
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A very provocative & interesting article! I’ll go back & take a look @ my pages, tho I’ve tried to keep them to a minimum. My blog is new & my bounce rate varies from 40-85% usually based on the length of the post. People usually spend an average of 3 minutes on my blog, with many posts getting 5 min or more, so I haven’t gotten too worried about bounce rate. You’ve given me some ideas to think about. Thanks!
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That sounds like you are on the right track with your blog.
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Thanks a lot for tips, i hope this well help me to reduce bounce rate..
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Hi Mitz,
I suffered so much from this when I got started but I read some similar materials on how to reduce bounce rate. I put them to practice and there is a tremendous improvement. I use plugins for related posts and most popular posts. These 2 are greats ways to take your visitors to other pages on your blog.
Thanks for sharing such a useful piece of information
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I appreciate the tips, Mitz. While deleting poorly performing pages sounds like a solution to reduce bounce rate, what will the effect be in my blog in terms of SERP rankings in general? Will this affect SERP at all?
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Well hopefully you do not have to delete too many pages. I suggest you try and repair them if you can, try setting up split testing, then delete if nothing works. What this does is make your blog more focused and you will find that people stick around longer liking your content. People do not want to see one good post and 3 rubbish ones. They expect them all to be good. After seeing one rubbish post they are usually out of there immediately and do not even get to the good stuff.
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Another great post Mitz, you seem to be a great contributor here. My bounce rate is now quite low after just deleting certain pages and a little restructure. You’d be surprised how much impact moving a sidebar from the left to the right would make.
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Yes streamlining your content is amazing but never thought that moving the sidebar would change the bounce rate…Thanks for that tip!
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Good article. Bounce Rate is not necessarily a bad thing. If the user finds the answer for his question within 5 seconds and then goes away, his desire and experience was totally fulfilled. Is therefore likely he will return again for such type of queries.
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Yes maybe he will return but for what purpose? To get another quick answer and leave? If you can find a way to grab their attention then that is great but if you cannot then this is not always the traffic you really need. If they leave through an ad on your site then this content might be ok for you but if they just press the back arrow and get out then I would rethink my strategy.
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Great post Mitz.
While I rarely delete pages I do test and test again.
Google Analytics is a great tool for the job, and the ability to analyse your site on a page by page basis makes it very easy to improve content and reduce bounce rate.
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I have a few pages I am not using. No reason to keep holding on to them based on your recommendation. Good idea to simply delete. I save the content in an external file in-case I decide to add them back later. Thanks!
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These are very good tips for bloggers! Nice post!
Thanks for tips, i hope this will help me to decrease my bounce rate…
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great post but however there are some more technique to reduce Bounce Rate to starting from you can write some lengthy but informative post which helps to reduce bounce rate.
Anyway Nice post.
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I really dont think one should put effort on reducing Bounce Rate. if you produce good contents and have already several posts in your blog I bet noone can show your bounce rate down !
Such grate tips. I special like the tip about get highly targeted website visitors. It not only reduce website bounce rate immediately but also increase the conversion rate to any offer on the blog/site.
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Thanks for such awesome post,i totally agree with you.The main thing is to ENGAGE YOUR READERS BY PROVIDING THEM QUALITY AND INFORMATIVE CONTENT.
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yes you are right…Everything is about engaging your visitors!
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don’t forget site’s speed it’s one of most important thing to reduce bounce rate. i see some great design and well inbound and outbound links but they load too slow, it turns people to click the x signs on their browser or just stop loading and go back to google to find others sites they like.
Good article. I found that once I started adding related article links at the end of my articles, my bounce rate improved.
Great tips on how to reduce high bounce rate on a site but i would be very careful when i comes to deleting pages that are not doing well. The page may have a high bounce rate but its that same page that is rank high in the search engines. My solution would be to change up the content on that page a bit and make it more engaging or add a video to it.
Thanks For sharing such kind of stuff. I am also facing the increase Bounce Rate problem for my website. but now your tips will help me to reduce bounce rate. Thanks a lot..
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Your third point is very important I think. If a site visitor stumbles onto a bit of your content, that page should give them direct access to other pieces of content as well. You should never leave it up to a site visitor to navigate through your site to gain access to your content, you should always give them clear, easily followable links to other content on your site.
Hi Mitz,
I appreciate the tips. While deleting poorly performing pages sounds like a solution to reduce bounce rate. The page may have a high bounce rate but its that same page that is rank high in the search engines. My solution would be to change up the content on that page a bit and make it more engaging or add a video to it.
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Interesting topic mizt. Overall I agree with your suggest. High bounce rate is very disconvenience and make the blog look so bad
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Nice article.You have included almost all important points but i still believe that you have missed few of them like increasing the loading speed of time,using related posts plugins,reducing the number of plugins etc..what do you think??
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My bounce rate went from the seventies to the 20′s. Don’t know what I dd but it surely dipped. The last thing I remember doing though is adding CL, and SEO Pressor.
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Great information Mitz,
I’d be interested to hear your take on the idea of using YouTube videos to keep people on the page longer.
If they stay on a single page for 5 minutes and then move on does this still count as a ‘bounce’?
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I have one website that had a bounce rate of around 50 or so (months ago). I had stopped putting fresh new content due to several reasons (one being lazy), and noticed that my b rate started to change dramatically. So, I guess having fresh new content helps the b rate better!
I believe one the best way to reduce bounce rate is to have a great website design. People normally leave your website if is cluttered and have lot of links to external sources. One must remember that content is the king. A reader comes to your blog to get some information on desired topic. If he sees less content and more clutter, he is bound to leave your blog within few seconds.
Well i am also having pretty high bounce rate. One thin that i would like to ask is, whether or not a high bounce rate effects SEO ?
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Deleting the low performing pages? Amazing and so simple. I love it and yet it never even crossed my mind til you put in in writing. Nice tip!
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Hi Mitz,
Yes good tips , but if I delete from my content is good from SEO point of view?? Someone i the comment section above ask if a person stays on your site 5 min after that go is bounce?? No I said it is not bounce… I believe it is bounce when leave after seconds…
Very nice information, Mitz.
I think two more important things to reduce bounce rate is web design and ease of navigation. With a good design, visitor will stay longer in our website. And they will take more pageviews when oue website has a easy navigation.
Thank you.
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I believe that by having good text and articles, along with nice and attractive photos, it will give you a better bounce rate. If a website is ugly (just my opinion), I tend to click the mouse and move on to another site. It’s like seeing an unattractive guy/gal, do you spend your time trying to figure them out? No, I didn’t think so.
So, to reduce a bounce rate, one must look at the context, and the design aspects, and everything else will fall into place.
Hey Mitz,
Thanks for sharing these great tips, as I want to decrease bounce rate of my blog but I have no idea of what to do but after reading this post finally I got some idea to reduce Bounce rate and I really like the first point.
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O yeah, my blog have high bounce rate too. I heard, bounce rate can be monetize . If I delete my post, I will make the new one. So I lost my time. Better if I improve my contents with high bounce rate. Hi, nice to meet you, by the way
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I have always believed that providing users with proper navigation around articles is always important to reduce bounce rate. Always try to use popular posts in the sidebar. The posts could be according to number of views or number of comments. Also, you could separate popular posts by Day, Week, Month or Year, which gives greater visibility to your articles and also adds a bit of trust amongst the readers!
Also, at the end of each article never use some related articles. The related articles should be of the same category!
Now-a-days many also use random articles in their sidebar to offer something more.
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Hey Mitz,
there’s one part I agree with you and that is having a good web page layout. Great tips, I will re-edit my first post in my blog so that it can have quality content.
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Yes that is important! It is not always the content that is the problem.
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Definitely some good info in here! A lot of people probably have a hard time deleting pages that don’t perform well, or even editing their content appropriately. After writing 1,000 words it’s hard to go back and delete things that you put time into, but if it’s too long people will give up anyway! Thanks again for the good advice!
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Yes I know deleting content is hard but it is all part of learning. I could not tell you some of the things I had to do get where I am today. I have deleted entire websites, moved website domains, killed good websites with experiments, and more.
I did not know that people would be so stuck on the deleting content aspect of this article. But if they are so worried you could re-purpose the content and submit it as an article somewhere for backlinks.??? It is not the end of hard work, just the beginning.
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I have tried all these tactics to reduce the bounce rate. Actually when we use Paid traffic, i.e PPC its only generate bounce rate.
Last week i had spend enough money on PPC via Facebook Ads campaign but unfortunately just got bounce rate. Visitors click on ads and guided to the website and without even crawling inner pages leave.
only 1% visitors converted to the customers.
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Thanks for the article. I don’t hear about this topic often and it’s one I don’t understand much about. I can understand how people might have trouble deleting content when it takes so long to create it. But if it isn’t working there’s no point in it anyway. We can all cut something out.
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i see this in my google analytics , always…i try to remove the posts, but it will damage the health of site and make it prone to errors…
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This is a great start, but it’s pretty repetitive . Thanks For share this.
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Really awesome tips for reducing bounce rate
my bounce rate got high upto 70+% today :/
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Bounce rate is a measure of short visits to one page only on your website. Many of the websites have this and so in order to get rid of this issue you must have a consistent website optimization and of course quality content.
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Thanks for the post. I was always worried about this rate and nothing of the things i’ve tested have reasonable results… i guess i’m going to try this and see what i can do.
What are the “normal bounce rate for a company website”??
Thanks and keep up the good work
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Hey, great post. I am currently trying to build a steady stream of return visitors! So, needless to say this post was pretty informative!
Thanks for sharing – Josh
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Hi Mitz!
My bounce rate about 75%! I never imagine about deleting my pages and contents. I just repair my contents when I’m in a good mode and have free time.
Thanks for sharing. I hope I can implement it soon.
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Hello,
My site bounce rate is around 85%. Read this article and now it feels bad. Things have to change. Planning on following your advice and removing a few redundant pages from my site. Cheers! Thanks for sharing.
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Videos always help – I’ve been creating video tutorials for my software website and posted on landing pages. The bounce rate went from around 80% to 60%. Still quite a lot =/
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I just happened to start blogging recently and one of the things that made people stay on my site is definitely the quality of things that I write. So basically, the more content and the more information I provide, the better it is really.
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Hi,
these tips of reducing bonus rate really much needed and useful for me. Thanks for share with me this post!!
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Hi Mitz
Nice Tips you listed here. I believe the Related Posts with Thumbnails Do help alot.
However one thing tht also helps reduce bounce rate is catchy article title. Infact that should be every bloggers first step in reducing bounce rate.
Btw Nice Article
Thanks
Good advice, bounce rate is something that I don’t see talked about all that much and with the increased emphasis from Google on sites with a lower bounce rate, I’m glad to see your post. It is definitely something I need to pay more attention to as well. Thanks for the post!
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Thank you for this informative post. My bounce rate of my website is quite high too at one point. I know it has to go down otherwise it will hurt the ranking.
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But Deleting Posts Increases 404 Errors And Decreases Page Rank, Am I Correct
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Very nice tips, I want to add one, you could link to your previous post inside article (It should look like it is part of article, doesn’t look like marketing) people will click on these link and hopefully go to other content. Site design also matter.
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Once again, you are right.
1 month ago, i decided to look into each of my websites and see if i can delete pages.
All of us have off topic pages.
And we have sometimes duplicates.
We have also complimentary pages. In this case, it is possible to merge two pages by keeping the one that rank the best. Then, a 301 redirect should be done from the old page to the master page.
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This article again proves a point. I was myself thinking about renovating my blog. Has been some years now and as time changes so does the resolutions and hardware around the world. My main issue with my blog is to make it more readable.
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As always great tips Mitz! In my experience having a closely related topic reduces bounce rate. Also try to have more interesting articles posted at the side bar. So that your readers can easily see what topics should they next read.
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ohh god.. i’m panic.
my bounce rates is 80-85%.. i add more relevant links to the articles but does not help.
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Bounce rate is a great headache for me , the more the bounce the less stable user base. So I’m trying to just stick to a single niche . I’ll also try your tips to make the bounce rate lower. Thanks a lot.
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It’s easier to be said than done…We can’t just go around deleting pages from the website because they have high bounce rate. You can’t do that if you don’t have hundreds or thousand of pages indexed…But you’re right with get rid of the junk. We can try and improve the page if deleting it it’s not an option, but how many times can you read the same page over and over?
It’s tricky…
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Having a genuine site with informative content and relevantly linking is the key to keep a user engaged. The tips provided by you are easy but ignored by most of the site owners.
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Thanks for good advice, I know nothing about bounce rate. This make me sense about this.
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Thanks for the beautiful post, i think it is the best way to decrease bounce rate of your blog.I going to implement it and think for the best result.
Could somebody tell me if bounce rate actually directly affects your rankings in any way? Great post.
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Hi ,
That are some great tips you have mentioned here ,inter link in our own articles of our blog is very important i believe .
Thank you
Shorya Bist
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i dont get it , how deleting page decrease the bounce rate
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Content is king. It is also advisable to devise some type of lead capture page, lovingly called a “squeeze” page to create a sales funnel. Even though the goal is to keep the reader interested, it is a website owner’s responsibility to “lead” readers through the site with a focused strategy. Thanks. Good info, as bounce rate is important, and I’m not sure most people know what it is.
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Awesome post here! I think many people don’t realize the importance of keeping your viewers on your site for longer than 1 minute. I’ve done this to my blog as well it seems to be helping with the bounce rate. Very informative and helpful!
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Thanks for your great post. It is really helpful to manage my website and reduce the bounce rate. Thanks again.
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Managing my blog’s bounce rate has always been very important to me because i totally understand its effect on SERP. Thanks for giving me more knowledge about this.
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The problem most people have with bounce rates is that if they put up lousy content to begin with, there’s little to no chance that they’ll realize its lousy six months down the road. I wouldn’t recommend amateurs just deleting pages because the analytics say that they don’t take a lot of hits either; I’d suggest moving the slow pages off the main directory and re-writing the content completely instead. After all, two pages are ALWAYS better than one and you have the choice of which to link to from the homepage.
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Yes, Keith, I agree with you. Your comment was totally very rich and with quality info. Regards.
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Informative Post! Now, am checking my Googel Analytics in a monthly basis, I saw some pages with 40+% bounce rate and I am happy about it, but there are bounce rates like 70% and higher and I feel bad about it. That’s why I realized that traffic is not enough. Building traffic is about reducing bound rate and getting only high targeted ones.
1. I just update my theme to make more readable, I have increased font size!
2. Instead of a justified text, I use left align and I found it more readable!
3. I always try to write engaging contents!
4. I am emailing my email list!
5. I ask people to read and comment to one of my posts!
6. I always write good contents!
Regards,
Prime
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perfect tips for a blogger like me thanks fort the share keep going
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Nice article! With my own website, I’ve had the best luck with reducing bounce rate by adding a nice big call to action on the index page (high majority of most visitors start on my index) directing them to my portfolio. Although it is still something I struggle with.
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Hey Mitz, I personally believe that deleting your old content can lead to 404 errors on your blog with the links pointing to nowhere.This in the long term can hamper your seo and your rankings in the search engines.
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i had deleted several pages and there is errors in webmaster tools because of deleting pages. How can i fix this. My Pages are displaying in search results but not exist. my bounce rate didn’t reduced also.
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hello mitz great article i must say
but i have a qyery, you said that we should delete the low performing pages…but i guess it will result in not found errors and penalty. am i right?
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hello mitz
nice post.. reducing bounce rate is essential as it tells google that we have some quality content and its helpful in SEO
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Great tips Mitz! Regarding the tip about deleting pages, I would add that you need to consider whether your site and/or visitor benefit from doing a 301 redirect to a relevant page or even the homepage instead of leaving it to show a 404 page not found.
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Hello Mitz,
One of my blog has bounce rate issue, after reading your post i compeletely understand how i can reduce it. Good post.
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This is a great post but the problem i have is i have a new site…my bounce rate is high but i will kill my content count by deleting pages.
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It’s exactly what I think, thank you for a great post. I was check through out the post to see any weak articles, then I copy it and I create a new post with a new title. Voila..It works as I expected
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Hi Mitz.. Thanks for this awesome post. these are very useful tips to decrease bounce rate. My site had around 50 – 60% bounce rate. But now i think it has improved.
Regards.
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I don’t know whether I am seeing these scripts embedding in the article or this is just happening with comluv.., if there is an error with comluv then Andy has to do something in this regard.., because these scripts are deteriorating the whole article..
first sentence is appearing like this to me..
“How do you reduce High Bounce Rate without rebuilding your site? Or, in other words, how do you get people to visit multiple pages on your site? It’s easy—get rid of the junk.”
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Mitz, I have a page that gets tons of traffic. It is 1400 words but the bounce rate is high – 80%. It’s a top 7 type topic, so I can’t make them click elsewhere for the answer. I’ve tried adding links to relevant content and did reduce it 5%. I’ve noticed also that the page has gone down in the rankings by one or two spots in the past month or two. I think I need to add a video or something to make them stay longer. Thanks for all your great info
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Awesome tips Mitz , I have reduce 10% by following your tips.
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Hello Mitz,
I have read this post and I want to say the following:
The advice is good. I like the “internal linking” and “easy to use and attractive to the human” parts.
About creating great content. I have a question that may seem strange to you. How can you really create great content when everything you say was already said somewhere else?
Probably what you need to do is give a personal touch on your site or blog, let your personality shine. However, is this enough to have great content?
Silviu
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Really good article. I am having high bouncing rate ,so going to implement these tricks on my blog.
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I find it useful. My bounce rate is 75% and its too high. I hope your tips will benefit me! Thank you for putting effort in writing this article.
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Though I have a bounce rate of about 55% , I ll try these tips for sure to make it even low. Thanks
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very useful article, usually bounce rate of e-commerce website more higher than blog. So to reduce our bounce rate at e-commerce website just make blog or article related to our product.
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I like the idea of linking to our blog posts every here and there. That is sure to help reduce our bounce rate.
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i heard it that bounce rate should be under 50% at least to get rid of google panda. My personal opinion is that widget also plays a role in reducing bounce rate because they engage the user for longer time on the website along with strong internal link embedding also reduces bounce rate.your tips will help me more to engages user for more time on my website to reduce the bounce rate.thanks you very much for those tips these will help me a lot.
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Hey Mitz Pantic !!!
Thanks for sharing these important tips for reducing bounce rate. I want to share one thing with you that The bounce rate of my blog is almost 17% . Is this is good or bad???
Regards
Chetan Gupta
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This is awesome stuff.I was unaware of bounce rate and its significane,this post really helped me to find what is bounce rate and methods to reduce the bounce rate.Thanks again for sharing this awesome information.
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