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What is a Bounce Rate and How to Improve it

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One important part of taking your blog to the next level is understanding your analytics. You need to be able to understand how many people are coming to your site every month, what they are reading and how long they are staying on your site. We often think that page views and unique visitors is the most important factor but your bounce rate is also important.

What is a bounce rate? Your bounce rate is the number of people that visit your site and then leave. The goal is to have your bounce rate as low as possible. The lower your bounce rate the more engaged your readers is. Wondering how you can improve your bounce rate? This post has tips on how to do just that!

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Tips on Improving Your Bounce Rate

All bloggers want to create engaging content that makes people want to stick around on their blog rather than clicking away after just a few seconds. But how do you do that? Bounce rate refers to the percentage of your visitors who leave your blog without clicking over to check out another page, and this post explains how to reduce this percentage.

Read the Full Post Here: How to Reduce Your Bounce Rate

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  2. Stephanie says

    I’ve been working on reducing mine for all the one page views I was getting from Pinterest. I found the related articles at the bottom of the post and having featured/popular posts on the sidebar of the website really did help to reduce my bounce rate.

  4. Cia says

    I’ve recently just improved my mobile bounce rate, which was around 57%!!! I learned my child theme that was “mobile responsive” was a hot mess and impossible to navigate. I installed a plugin for a mobile site, and it was down to 52% in less than a month.

  7. Christine says

    Great tips here, thanks! I am doing a lot of them, but it’s great to read something that sets it out clearly and reminds me to be a little more focused on my stats! 🙂

  8. Jessica says

    This is very interesting, I hope when people visit they like to stick around but some days are better than others.

  9. Carol Paxman says

    Help!! Someone visited my blog from my “tribe” today but I haven’t received anything and I have no idea whats going on or who is in my “tribe”

  11. Renee says

    I have a problem with this site….every thread on the discussion…or any of them for that matter, does not allow me to comment. they all say commenting closed. I’m trying to connect with my ‘tribe’ and cannot say anything …I have personally commented on everyones’ personal blog today but trying to use SITS girls forum doesn’t work for me..any suggestions? thanks

    • Renee says

      Actually it says ‘commenting not allowed”…..what is this? I don’t see a place to add a comment or to start a thread or anything…..help.please…thanks

    • Erin M says

      I am with you! Trying to find my tribe. So if you find a work around for the “commenting not allowed” I would love to know.

  16. Hata Trbonja says

    My head has been spinning with so many things that I need to do for my blog. How to make money? Increasing this and decreasing that? This article made it very easy and simple. Thanks for posting this!
    Hata

  24. Mike Howg says

    Bounce rate is something every blogger needs to keep an eye on. You definitely want them to stick around on your blog and increase your page views. I think that interlinking on your blog posts is the best way to reduce your bounce rate and keep people reading your blog.