How to Minimize a Blog's Bounce Rate

by Aditya on February 12, 2009

If you get a large share of your blog’s traffic from search engines and the ‘Bounce Rate’ is high, you need to do something very seriously about this. Bounce rate is the percentage of single-page visits or visits in which the person left your site from the entrance (landing) page. This metric is used to measure visit quality. A high bounce rate generally indicates that site entrance pages aren’t relevant to your visitors.

An easy way to minimize bounce rate is to show your visitors what they are searching for. Often, people leave a blog and move to another because they are not able to find the relevant material. And also, often it happens that you have same thing which the blog visitor is looking for but it is posted differently or presented in a different style. This situation can be curbed by the use of a new wordpress plugin.

The plugin description explains -

The widget aim is trying to reduce the bounce rate of your blog and provide the visitor a better navigation experience.

When a visitor lands on your site from a search engine result page, he is in need of a certain information / service your page might satisfy. It often happens the visitor go away just after reading that page, for various reasons. Why not to try suggesting him more posts on the topic he is interested in at that moment, so that he might visit more pages?

So, if you need a less of bounce rates and more fruitful search engine traffic, I would recommend you to use this plugin called “Search Engine query in WordPress“. You can download the new plugin by clicking here.

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Rajiv February 13, 2009 at 5:47 am

Thanks for the information. It was really useful. I was ignoring the bouns rate. It was too high for my blog. Maybe because of Traffic Exchange programs. Will you please update some information about Traffic Exchange. Are they good or not and how someone can use them for benefits?

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James June 21, 2009 at 2:56 pm

Nice blog thanks for the valuable info. I had no idea what a bonce rate was until now.

Well done

Cheers

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Talking Ava March 25, 2010 at 10:23 am

This is going to help my blog site so much! I’ve been meaning to find ways to minimize my bounce rate, and these are awesome tips! Thanks again!

Anant Shrivastava April 14, 2010 at 1:51 pm

Hey buddy in case bounce rate also indicated the visitor leaving the site from landing page does this means if i recieve the visit in my post and then he finds his answer and leaves the page does that constitute of Bounce rate.

if yes then i don’t have to worry about it.

Hal Brown April 14, 2010 at 4:37 pm

Thanks for the tip Aditya. I’ll be checking into this. I didn’t catch it the first time.

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