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Reducing Your Bounce Rate

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These days, the landing page of your website might as well be your store front window. What makes people come in and look around, and what makes others look, and then continue walking by. Here are a few things to consider when you are faced with a high bounce rate on your website…

To begin, the easiest way to get information regarding your website’s bounce rate is by using Google Analytics. Here, you can determine:

  • Which devices and browsers your visitors are using
  • Which landing page they arrived with
  • Demographic and Geographic information
  • Which days and times receive the highest bounce rates
  • The source of that visitor (Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Email)
  • The medium that visitor used (Newsletter, Advertisement, Banner)
  • Tag words that visitor used to reach your website

To count as a bounce, a visitor had only one interaction with your website, and then left. If they reached your landing page, looked at it for 10 minutes, and then left, it counts as a bounce. Bounced visits also carry no duration. Unless the visitor interacts with more than one page on your website, their time spent on the website is zero.

To know which pages are killing your website interactions, you can head to the Behaviour section of your Google Analytics, and then click on Site Content. There you can see which landing pages most users arrived to your website with, and which Exit pages they left on. If the two are often the same page, then that page might need some tweaking.

Causes of High Bounce Rates…

1. Poor experience – Your landing page might be confusing, unattractive, lacks a clear call-to-action, or features something that irritates the viewer enough to leave without exploring your website further.

2. Wrong expectations – Perhaps your advertisement claimed that visitors would be granted a free t-shirt, and then they arrived to your site to see that you charge for them. Make sure that the messages in your advertisements match the message in your landing page.

3. Not your target audience – Advertisements and social media initiatives might not be reaching your target audience. Casting a wide net in your advertising campaigns may render more clicks, but many might be casual visitors that are not interested in buying your product.

4. It’s a Blog – If you run a blog, you can expect a pretty high bounce rate. Generally, visitors will click on a link to your blog post, read that post, and leave. Despite reading your blog post, their visit counts as a bounce. Less visitors will take the time to explore many other posts on your blog.

5. Slow loading times – Many new visitors will not have the patience for a slow-loading website, and will leave before their journey ever began. To make sure that your website is up to speed, check out the loading times of your different pageshere.

6. Poor mobile display, or problems in a certain browser – If you’re noticing much higher bounce rates for your mobile visitors, or those connecting with a certain browser, you may need to refine your website to display well for those visitors.

In order to obtain leads and convert them into customers, it all begins with your website and landing pages. Be sure to let us know if these tips helped you on your journey to business success!

Categories: Business Tips & Tricks, Sales & MarketingBy Suzanne LouisDecember 11, 20143 Comments
Tags: bounce ratesgoogle analyticswebsite optimization

Author: Suzanne Louis

Suzanne is an independent marketing consultant, in charge of product marketing at 1CRM Corp. Her responsibilities include web design and content, videos, social media, analytics, public relations, advertising, and the 1CRM Blog.

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3 Comments

  1. Carolyn says:
    January 14, 2015 at 1:05 am

    Keep on writing, great job!

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  2. Saif Ullah says:
    January 21, 2015 at 9:40 am

    hi Suzzane…I think a 40-50 % bounce rate is acceptably a good bounce rate for a site. Have below 40 % and that’s excellent! and even the 60-70 % interval is, although not good, it’s not “the end of the World”, but above 75 %, above 80 % is terrible.Anything above 80-85 % leaves a terribly negative footprint and is a bad signal in the SERPs.

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  3. Mathew Scott says:
    January 25, 2015 at 5:48 pm

    Really good site, thank you so much for your effort in writing this post.

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