Be it a new starter in the World of blogging or an SEO every one loves their audiences if they stay in your website for quite a long time, right? So let’s check out some tips about bouncing rate and ways to reduce the same. Have you ever heard of Tigger? No, then tigger is basically the springy tailed, lovable faced and a bright striped face which sometimes makes an annoying voice, so let’s take an inspiration from this and proceed.
- Don’t clutter with unwanted Stuff
Be it a welcome tune, a densely colored theme or even the boring videos tight at the upfront of your site’s welcome page might be very annoying and this may cause increase in the bounce rate as user may never return to the website based on the observations about theme, boring videos and also the welcome song snippets should never be there as some may like it while some may hate the same. All this constitutes the theme tune. So keep in mind before setting up the above preferences. - Increase web page rendering speed
Most of the users use slow internet connections, so always try to keep the content in the website accordingly so that the web page loads pretty quickly and the user can find his related articles very speedily and easily. If your website is light on system and loads quickly it leaves an impression that the consumption of data is very less and is also complemented with the relevant information then he will return back to your website again and again. - Provide instant queries to the questions
Once any user leaves a comment or asks you out for help then try to be responsive rather than leaving it for some time to comment back on the query. This phenomenon will attract users as it leaves an impression that the query is being solved almost instantaneously. So, next time when a user or a reader needs an urgent answer then he will land up on your website for solving his query. - Plan your layout
The layout of the website is the primary and the most important criteria for the attraction of readers so as to avoid the bounce rate. Try to set a layout which is simpler and lighter so that user finds the information which he wants it very easily. Don’t use dense themes, cluttered interface and hard to use options and also make sure that you have a search box right there on the top most part of your website because if he doesn’t find the information which he is searching for then he will make use of search box to dig the information out easily as sometimes important topics or queries of the readers gets pushed back in the list of articles. - Keep them interested
Its very important to tickle the content so that the content is appropriate for the end users, so always choose a character for your website which is lovable to all which is an important aspect to keep the audience with you. More importantly always choose the right set of simple keywords so that your article comes up in search engines when users key in their problems or issues which I think is the main motive of almost every website.
So, with just simple five techniques which is mentioned above you can keep up the traffic and also can ensure that bounce rate is reduced effectively.
Nihar says
Thanks for sharing these tips.
Harneet Singh says
Great Tipd.
Keep it up 🙂
Sekav says
These tips will be very helpful to me for maintaining the bounce rate of my site. I had been searching for ways to lower the bounce rate and I hope that these points that you have mentioned will help me a lot.
Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Ankit Saini says
It is great article and I definitely follow your tips.
Thanks
Learn SEO says
I would like to add some more –
Check you analytics, find out the pages which are getting the highest bounce rate, go to those pages, find out the key words and check if proper information (content) is provided about those keywords. Try to think from visitor’s perspective as to what info you would like to see with a particular keyword.
Improve on content, people come to site to know about things, as the quality of content improves you will find bounce rate going down.
Setting site search –Google analytics allows you to see what visitors are typing in your search box putted on the website, this will help in better understanding of visitors needs.
You need to check the loading time of your website, visitors hate waiting. If loading time is more you need to work on it.
Is your website design user friendly? It’s been found that visitors avoid such websites which are not user friendly.
Sujith says
If most of your traffic is from Search Engines, then the bounce rate will be high. Building a good community around the blog is the best way to reduce the bounce rate. Blogs with general stuffs have high bounce rate.
Amit says
nice tips !! thanx for this…
Engineering Wave says
Very useful tips. Now I am following your tips and my site looking good now.
Thanks Amit.
DJ Trinity says
Bloody good post. Since taking control of the PPC campaign where I work I’ve quadrupled the time on site and lowered the bounce rate 20%, but cut the number of visitors 75%. I guess that means I’m wasting less money, but it’s sort of frustrating too!
Mani Viswanathan says
Nice tips. The point regarding quick reply to comments is refreshing 🙂
Krish says
whats the ideal bounce rate for a blog… 10 – 20 % ?
i have a blog which currently has around 40 – 50 % Bounce rate, please help to know if that an alarm for me ?