Tips to Reduce Your Blog Bounce Rate
Honestly, I couldn’t have written a more thorough and better post than the one found on Hellbound Bloggers where the author lists 30 tips to reduce your blogs bounce rate. I will encourage all of my readers to go visit Hellbound Bloggers and read the article as there are many items that will help you tune your blog and blogging style so you can keep visitors on your site as long as possible.
Some of my favorites on the list are:
The YARPP WordPress plug-in which lists related posts in your site at the bottom of your articles. This does a better match than the default WordPress functionality.
Internal Linking, this can be done with plug-ins and I did try it that way once, but had to turn it off since it was indiscriminate on which posts it applied the link building keywords (can’t do it for paid articles). I now do it manually but do not do internal link building nearly as often as I should. Extreme John is probably one of the best I have seen at building internal links and every one of his articles has a ton of links that point to other articles in his site. They stand out cleanly as well, I imagine he must have a really low bounce rate.
Write content that is at least 200 words in length, if you just write 25-50 word posts they can be read in under a minute and if you don’t have enough to “grab” your readers attention to focus them elsewhere, they will likely bounce from your site.
Also note that advertising networks like Entrecard, Adgitize and CMF Ads (yes I use both CMF Ads and Entrecard) contribute to a high bounce rate, this is because people “drop” to get the credit and the cents (spikes) and move on to the next site. If you want to improve your bounce rate it is recommended you don’t use these services, as they definitely cause your bounce rate to skyrocket.
I actually have a pretty high bounce rate on DragonBlogger.com and it was in the 90% when I first started blogging and relied heavily on Entrecard for my traffic, now that 73% of my visits are from search engines my bounce rate is a little lower, but still has a very high average. I need to implement more polls and engaging questions and solicit more feedback from readers. (Also didn’t help that I put CMF Ads on recently)
For the rest of the list I encourage you to visit the article on Hellbound Bloggers and pay attention to the “clean layout” and other suggestions.
-Dragon Blogger
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