Comments on: How to Reduce Bounce Rate

By: Jobs in Singapore

Jobs in Singapore — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:52:59 +0000

It’s not a very recent article, but stays up to date. Everybody wants bounce rate to be 0% anyway

By: Service Apartments in Bangalore

Service Apartments in Bangalore — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:45:51 +0000

Got to implement these techniques.

thanks for the valuable information.

By: Jack SEO consultant

Jack SEO consultant — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:10:24 +0000

Thanks for pointing out. Bounce rate definition has been veri vague topic long time. The is general understanding, that its “short term visit”, as there is lot’s of 1-page microsites out there.

Jack

By: Dilip Shaw

Dilip Shaw — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:53:10 +0000

Actually this is a topic of debate – whether a bounce rate is a single page visit or a short visit. But since most webmasters follow Google, I am no different.

According to Google (I quote):

Bounce rate is the percentage of single-page visits (i.e. visits in which the person left your site from the entrance page). Bounce rate is a measure of visit quality and a high bounce rate generally indicates that site entrance (landing) pages aren’t relevant to your visitors.

It can be found here:

http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=60127

And what exactly is a short visit? Is it 1 second or 30 seconds or 1 minute or 30 minutes? You cannot define “short” visit. So I think Google has defined bounce rate as a single page visit, essentially also because if a visitor navigates to another page it is assumed that he/she is interested to know more about the product, so its NOT a bounce.

Thanks for your views anyways!

By: Jack SEO consultant

Jack SEO consultant — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:26:39 +0000

is it single page visit or certain duration visit. I believe, that bounce more likely “short” visit, not only 1 page visit.

jack