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Re: How Is Bounce Rate Calculated in Google Analytics?

Paul — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 10:11:05 -0000

The trend towards dealing with bounces must include a strategy to decrease bounces by increasing relevant information based on specific keywords on your site.
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Re: How Is Bounce Rate Calculated in Google Analytics?

rifatminhas — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:04:45 -0000

Hello,
Really impressive results shown here – I think we will be seeing and hearing much more about real time email marketing in 2011 as it looks set to become a latest trend. Thanks for the post.
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Re: How Is Bounce Rate Calculated in Google Analytics?

Goal Setting — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 07:37:17 -0000

The metric detailing that one page view with 20+ minutes spent counts as a bounce is riduclous.

Google's goal is for visitors to click on a page and end their search. I would say the search has ended when a page is looked at for that long.

Re: How Is Bounce Rate Calculated in Google Analytics?

Übersetzer russisch — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:03:36 -0000

Well, so the lower the better. Still, curious about what can be considered the average (and also benchmarketing for various types of web sites). Thanks for the great explanation

Re: How Is Bounce Rate Calculated in Google Analytics?

Akhil1594 — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 05:06:11 -0000

Great post about bounce rate ....very informative!

Re: How Is Bounce Rate Calculated in Google Analytics?

online marketing assistant — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 23:37:21 -0000

I used to think how bounce rate is computed. I thought it's already okay once a person opens a site and leaves it open for a number of minutes. Now I understand that it's also important that a user navigate on other pages. I will improve my design more to make the visitors stay on my site and visit other pages... ^_^

Re: How Is Bounce Rate Calculated in Google Analytics?

Computers Directory — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:15:39 -0000

Nice post, Its also some use the time spent on the site data and some use the single page visit data.

Re: How Is Bounce Rate Calculated in Google Analytics?

ccent — Wed, 26 May 2010 02:23:55 -0000

Bounce rate is not actually time based. "Bounce rate is the percentage of single-page visits or visits in which the person left your site from the entrance (landing) page."

if you web page was a single page then your bounce rate would be effectively 100%

it could be that your entrance page has the indor the they stay on the site to look at, but do not feel the need to look at secondary pages.

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Re: How Is Bounce Rate Calculated in Google Analytics?

Logaholic — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:18:04 -0000

I like your explanation of bounce rates.
The bounce rate really depends on the content of the site. For instance, when there is a site where the home page contains links to external pages ( e.g a university site with the different faculty pages) the bounce rate for this page would be 100% most of the time but this doesn't reflect the actualy performance of the site. If you have a blog you will have a high bounce rate because your visitors are coming, quickly reading a post and reading. (actually here a bounce rate will be an indicator of success!). But if you sell CD's you might be worried if your bounce rate gets above 50%. This means that depending on your content, you would have a different KPI and you'll be looking for different trends in your traffic: for blogs a high bounce rate doesn't mean anything, but return visitors are crucial. However, for an e-commerce site bounce rate is important but you still need to do some segmentation since bounce rate in top viewed pages is also irrelevant. (since this is usually the landing page from a Google Adwords campaign).

Re: How Is Bounce Rate Calculated in Google Analytics?

Social Media Marketing Package — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:46:05 -0000

It all be measured in Google Analytics.
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Re: How Is Bounce Rate Calculated in Google Analytics?

Fresno Property Management — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:05:23 -0000

Great educational article on Google's Bounce Rate. This is precisely why you can't just use landing pages that are a sales pitch and then an email sign up form. People usually are looking for free information over the Internet and when they get to your landing page, they'll click away quickly. Google records this in your Bounce Rate as just one metric in the overall quality of your web page.

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MMA Pound For Pound — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:20:44 -0000

Really helpful for me. Now I understand.

Re: How Is Bounce Rate Calculated in Google Analytics?

sandiegomenuprinting — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:06:48 -0000

I really like this informative post, thanks for sharing. My website bounce rate is 42.23% I am also try to find the solution that how can i reduced this rate?

Re: How Is Bounce Rate Calculated in Google Analytics?

Kevin Dawson — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:18:54 -0000

Very good points. FWIW - We've been working on SEO for the past month and, ironically, there almost seems to be a stronger correlation between bounce % than website optimization. More than likely, everything is taken into consideration by Google... and frankly, if they did NOT consider bounce %, they would be doing a disservice to searchers.

Re: How Is Bounce Rate Calculated in Google Analytics?

language Master — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:59:19 -0000

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Re: How Is Bounce Rate Calculated in Google Analytics?

PageCovery — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:08:34 -0000

It really depends on the method used in pinging GA upon a click towards an outbound link. I don't think it will be penalized by Google by pinging GA before forwarding users towards the outbound page. Many reputable blogs and sites use this trick too.

Re: How Is Bounce Rate Calculated in Google Analytics?

Adam Cox — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:52:20 -0000

Thanks for the information. I was wondering if the user clicks on an external link upon entry, then they will be considered a bounce.

How can you "ping" the server again for an external link without being penalized? I think linking to another page on the server (thus generating the client-side analytics code) and then forwarding them would not be a good idea. I'm sure Google's bots would look at that as shady.

Re: How Is Bounce Rate Calculated in Google Analytics?

fanneth — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:01:06 -0000

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