Many online users and bloggers know that lower bounce rate is a sign of a good site or blog. Beside this, some questions arise that how bounce rate affects to our blog, why we should care about it and what can we do to make it as less as possible.
Firstly, let us understand what is meant by the word “Bounce Rate”.
Bounce Rate
A bounce rate is basically a method to measure the quality of the traffic that comes to your site or blog. It is the number of visitors that opens your website and leaves it without viewing any other page. Through bounce rate, you can know the exact value of your blog or site. As an example, bounce rate 30% is much better than 75%. An ideal bounce rate is always less than 50%.
Following are the six effective ways to reduce the bounce rate of your blog or site to get the targeted traffic:
Use Relevant Keywords for your web page
Choosing relevant keywords play an important role for targeting the relevant traffic. Using relevant keywords, tags and content, and posting them to the relevant pages by selecting right categories to attract the right traffic to your site, as a result to reduce bounce rate.
Improve Your Web Page Loading Time
Users like those websites which opens instantly without taking much time to get open. Although the internet speed in present time is very fast due to advanced technologies but still sometimes the websites become so heavy that no user is interested to wait the site to get open. They just like to close it and move to the other site. As a result, your bounce rate increases. So you should improve your website’s loading time. Sometimes while using internet via mobile devices affects its speed due to temporary network congestion or high traffic levels. And the use of multimedia, slideshows, scripts, etc also increases the page load time, ultimately increases your website’s bounce rate.
Put the Quality Content to your site
Most of the users get attracted by the good and relevant content of your site. It adds extra flavor to your site to stick the readers and also helps to build users trust on your site. Quality Content is the best way to attract huge amount of users to your site. But if your site has not the good quality content then obviously the users will move to the next site and hence, poor traffic with high bounce rate.
Use Navigation Structure Properly
Properly placed navigation on your site also affects the bounce rate of your website. Properly categorized menu on your sites leads to the appropriate sections of your website help the users to navigate your site easily to the desired page. Hence, reduce the bounce rate of your site.
Proper and Effective Internal Linking
Except navigation structure, internal linking of the web pages also an effective way to reduce bounce rate. You can hyperlink your internal pages with the content of the landing page. This is called as cross reference internal linking. This is also an effective way to promote your content-rich pages to increase the user’s readership and generate trust. Moreover, you can use the feature “Related Content” to achieve this.
Use of right tools and features
You can use many tools and features on your site to reduce the bounce rate of your site. These tools and features encourage the users to visit the other interested pages of your site and hence reduces your bounce rate. Following are some of those features:
- Featured Content
- Top Stories
- Related Content
- Popular Content
- Comments
- Feedback
