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Bounce Rate is the rate (usually in percentage) at which visitors come and leave your site. When a visitor comes to your blog and leaves immediately, there’s always a reason for it.
When you get lots of bounce rate, you should look for a way to reduce it and that’s exactly what am going to share with you.
Normally visitors are suppose to arrive at your blog, check other posts you’ve written and to sum it up, stay longer on your blog.
As a rule of thumb, a bounce rate in the range of 26 to 40 percent is excellent, 41 to 55 percent is roughly average, 56 to 70 percent is
higher than average, but may not a cause for alarm depending on the website. Anything over 70 percent is disappointing for everything outside of blog tutorials, news, events, etc.
According to Teejah James who happens to be my mentor; There are many reasons as to why visitors may come to your blog and instead of spending
much time, they hit the back button and before you know it they are gone, and could be gone for Life.
When a visitor comes to your blog and leaves immediately; he not only leaves but takes note of your url.
If you are lucky enough to prevent what keeps him from leaving the first time; he may decide to check again but if you happen not to notice, you might end up loosing that visitor to your competitors
for good.
The same applies to every other visitor visiting your blog for the first time; when this keeps on repeating itself you would notice a reduction in the Amount of traffic you’ve been having on your blog.
This is when you begin to ask; "where am I going wrong" until you discover this Post. Well, a high bounce rate will result in the following…
A Low Rankings SEO.
You may be asking “how does this affect my rankings (SEO)?”
Usually when a Visitor comes to your My Wap Tutors and
leaves within seconds after entering, it passes a signal to Google that My Blog does not provide what they are actually looking for.
Ex: You wrote a post on “ building backlinks” and a Google searcher searches using your keyword “building backlinks”. You happen to
be in the first position because of your search engine optimization.
He clicks on your result because you have not only optimized your post for SEO but also worked on your meta description to attract him or her to your own post.
Guess what Finally;
He lands on your post but unfortunately leaves immediately due to one reason or the other which would be talked about further on this Post.
This sends a strong signal to Google that your post is not worthy to be on the first page position, because Searchers are actually leaving your blog as they arrive.
And Viola, Google deems you not fit for that keyword you were ranking for and takes the extra step to drop you to the third Position.
The annoying Part;
You still did not notice this; Google searchers still searched for the same keyword, “building
backlinks” your meta description still managed to help you get more clicks from google but the searchers still left your blog in few minutes.
Google receives the same signal and push you to second page and finally you are no where to be found for that keyword anymore. So sad right?
All I can say so far; you are in the right place. Just keep reading…
What are the Causes of High?
When you get lots of bounce rate, you should look for a way to reduce it and that’s exactly what am going to share with you.
Normally visitors are suppose to arrive at your blog, check other posts you’ve written and to sum it up, stay longer on your blog.
As a rule of thumb, a bounce rate in the range of 26 to 40 percent is excellent, 41 to 55 percent is roughly average, 56 to 70 percent is
higher than average, but may not a cause for alarm depending on the website. Anything over 70 percent is disappointing for everything outside of blog tutorials, news, events, etc.
According to Teejah James who happens to be my mentor; There are many reasons as to why visitors may come to your blog and instead of spending
much time, they hit the back button and before you know it they are gone, and could be gone for Life.
What does a high bounce rate mean for your blog?
Having high bounce rate could kill up your blog traffic suddenly and i'm going to explain how this happens.When a visitor comes to your blog and leaves immediately; he not only leaves but takes note of your url.
If you are lucky enough to prevent what keeps him from leaving the first time; he may decide to check again but if you happen not to notice, you might end up loosing that visitor to your competitors
for good.
The same applies to every other visitor visiting your blog for the first time; when this keeps on repeating itself you would notice a reduction in the Amount of traffic you’ve been having on your blog.
This is when you begin to ask; "where am I going wrong" until you discover this Post. Well, a high bounce rate will result in the following…
A Low Rankings SEO.
You may be asking “how does this affect my rankings (SEO)?”
Usually when a Visitor comes to your My Wap Tutors and
leaves within seconds after entering, it passes a signal to Google that My Blog does not provide what they are actually looking for.
Ex: You wrote a post on “ building backlinks” and a Google searcher searches using your keyword “building backlinks”. You happen to
be in the first position because of your search engine optimization.
He clicks on your result because you have not only optimized your post for SEO but also worked on your meta description to attract him or her to your own post.
Guess what Finally;
He lands on your post but unfortunately leaves immediately due to one reason or the other which would be talked about further on this Post.
This sends a strong signal to Google that your post is not worthy to be on the first page position, because Searchers are actually leaving your blog as they arrive.
And Viola, Google deems you not fit for that keyword you were ranking for and takes the extra step to drop you to the third Position.
The annoying Part;
You still did not notice this; Google searchers still searched for the same keyword, “building
backlinks” your meta description still managed to help you get more clicks from google but the searchers still left your blog in few minutes.
Google receives the same signal and push you to second page and finally you are no where to be found for that keyword anymore. So sad right?
All I can say so far; you are in the right place. Just keep reading…