Great-quotes.com's bounce rate has gone up since a site redesign. Overall, the redesign, and backend redesign has been geared toward the benefit of the user.
So, we have our reasons for keeping it the way it is, and are trying to pinpoint what users aren't liking.
A snapshot of the original: http://www.great-quotes.com/index9-27-10.jpg vs the new http://great-quotes.com The web site is rich and interesting.A high bounce rate can take its origin on many factors.
I would recommend you take a look at your site analytics to find out what are the keywords people are using in search engines to come to your site and also what are the topics of the other websites sending traffic to your website. If the bounce rate has increase significantly, it can be because the way your template and analytics interact. We move our analytics to the top of the template, and our bounce rate jumped from 20% to 40% because, so it appears, it started tracking things better.
If, though, it is only a slight increase, then there are a couple of things to look at. The first is the search keywords - are people easily finding the information they are searching for.
The second is layout. Are you using contrast well enough to draw people's attention to the information they are looking for? bring back the old navigation bar and also the old version had different colors...the new website is bland and boring....why change it if things were going well? What may have happened is that your website is taking longer for your users to load. This can be a reason for people bouncing away! Instead of focusing on the bounce rate too much, you should primarily be looking at the number of people who don't bounce (in absolute rather than percentage terms). I'd rather have a bounce rate of 50% on 100,000 visits than a bounce rate of 1% on 1,000 visits. Quote: Originally Posted by iAdvertise4You What may have happened is that your website is taking longer for your users to load. This can be a reason for people bouncing away! You were right, to much time of loading a page can be a reason for a user to leave and never come back to the site. Loading time must be observed. I think the best way to tackle the problem bounce is to use the video content of your heart to watch videos instead of showing the contents of plain text. It works every time for me, but is much less effect on the conversion rate. High bounce rate should not be ignored or overlooked. It's an indicator of either a poor landing page or lack of relevance of your target keywords to your web site. It generally recommended to keep the bounce rate below 50%/. Somewhere around 30% is normal. Find out the list of keywords and landing page based on the bounce rate from the analytics and do appropriate change on landing page and reduce bounce rate. Yeah, try to use keyword analysis tools to know what keyword are use by your visitors. It shows, how good you critical thinking is. You need to study and analyze things. A user friendly and attractive design reduces the bounce rate. I am agree You can interlink your internal pages inside the posts so that visitors will visit those links too and it will help to improve the bounce rate.. If you are using Google Analytics then I think you must try getclicky.com
which is better to show your bounce rate than GA. Here is a good blog post to read on bounce rate. My help someone out.
Quote: With the explosion of social media sharing and help from smart search engine optimization, many web users are bypassing businesses?home pages and landing directly on product pages and blog posts. Thus, businesses need to optimize their
So, we have our reasons for keeping it the way it is, and are trying to pinpoint what users aren't liking.
A snapshot of the original: http://www.great-quotes.com/index9-27-10.jpg vs the new http://great-quotes.com The web site is rich and interesting.A high bounce rate can take its origin on many factors.
I would recommend you take a look at your site analytics to find out what are the keywords people are using in search engines to come to your site and also what are the topics of the other websites sending traffic to your website. If the bounce rate has increase significantly, it can be because the way your template and analytics interact. We move our analytics to the top of the template, and our bounce rate jumped from 20% to 40% because, so it appears, it started tracking things better.
If, though, it is only a slight increase, then there are a couple of things to look at. The first is the search keywords - are people easily finding the information they are searching for.
The second is layout. Are you using contrast well enough to draw people's attention to the information they are looking for? bring back the old navigation bar and also the old version had different colors...the new website is bland and boring....why change it if things were going well? What may have happened is that your website is taking longer for your users to load. This can be a reason for people bouncing away! Instead of focusing on the bounce rate too much, you should primarily be looking at the number of people who don't bounce (in absolute rather than percentage terms). I'd rather have a bounce rate of 50% on 100,000 visits than a bounce rate of 1% on 1,000 visits. Quote: Originally Posted by iAdvertise4You What may have happened is that your website is taking longer for your users to load. This can be a reason for people bouncing away! You were right, to much time of loading a page can be a reason for a user to leave and never come back to the site. Loading time must be observed. I think the best way to tackle the problem bounce is to use the video content of your heart to watch videos instead of showing the contents of plain text. It works every time for me, but is much less effect on the conversion rate. High bounce rate should not be ignored or overlooked. It's an indicator of either a poor landing page or lack of relevance of your target keywords to your web site. It generally recommended to keep the bounce rate below 50%/. Somewhere around 30% is normal. Find out the list of keywords and landing page based on the bounce rate from the analytics and do appropriate change on landing page and reduce bounce rate. Yeah, try to use keyword analysis tools to know what keyword are use by your visitors. It shows, how good you critical thinking is. You need to study and analyze things. A user friendly and attractive design reduces the bounce rate. I am agree You can interlink your internal pages inside the posts so that visitors will visit those links too and it will help to improve the bounce rate.. If you are using Google Analytics then I think you must try getclicky.com
which is better to show your bounce rate than GA. Here is a good blog post to read on bounce rate. My help someone out.
Quote: With the explosion of social media sharing and help from smart search engine optimization, many web users are bypassing businesses?home pages and landing directly on product pages and blog posts. Thus, businesses need to optimize their