What is Considered a Bounce?

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70 commentsSunday, January 4, 2009

Google Answers Bounce Rate Questions

What is Considered a Bounce?

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By vivek (WPN reader) - Thu, 10/29/2009 - 02:35

need answer.....please suggest

ya its really good answer but if visitor visit only 1 page for time(8 SEC) then will this show as bounce rate in google analytic. what is the exact time frame to stay above that time will not consider as bounce in GA on single page visit?

By Vivek (WPN reader) - Thu, 10/29/2009 - 02:40

please suggest if you know

http://www.no-refresh.com having many pages with 1 visit on this page only but no bounce rate shows

By web analytics (WPN reader) - Thu, 02/05/2009 - 22:28

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Great coverage on the subject. I am still learning and thank you for this.

By CBSE (WPN reader) - Sun, 02/01/2009 - 05:17

Thanks....great article

By wholesale china (WPN reader) - Fri, 05/22/2009 - 02:32

Really glad I followed my

Really glad I followed my intuition and have been building systems to generate "engagement items" on my client's sites for most of this year. very nice.

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By Aris at blog.webdirectory (WPN reader) - Sun, 01/11/2009 - 04:59

Google Analytics Bounce

Interesting...

And I'm still not using google analytics. Perhaps now is the time I start using it. Will see if it really helps...

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By partner search (WPN reader) - Tue, 01/06/2009 - 11:50

Good article

This is very great article
i will now cheke in the analytics about my bounce rate

By STRAIGHTALK (WPN reader) - Tue, 01/06/2009 - 09:03

Man this was refreshing

and really good to know stuff have just feed it to my viewers.. thanks !

By Daniel Wells (WPN reader) - Mon, 01/05/2009 - 22:08

I changed my site because of this article

Thank you! I changed my site from a one page download to a two step process to reduce my bouncerate for ComboFix

By Brian Kaldenberg (WPN reader) - Mon, 01/05/2009 - 16:44

Useful Bounce Info

Avinash is really knowledgeable. It is information like this that helps you wow clients on sales presentations.

By Securities Fraud Attorney (WPN reader) - Mon, 01/05/2009 - 14:28

He contradicts himself...

Ok well if bounce rate isn't time related then why his own blog does he say that it's one of the two factors.

" * The percentage of website visitors who see just one page on your site.
* The percentage of website visitors who stay on the site for a small amount of time (usually five seconds or less).
"

Clarification please Google. Also if Google is going to define Bounce rates in a manner that is to benefit the actual site operator, they may want to let the analytics user determine whether time or pages visited determines a bounce. For example if I use landing pages for different types of cases (security fraud, personal injury, etc) then my users wouldn't have the NEED to click on additional links...especially considering most contact us by phone so they may never click the contact form.

I think Google has started changing their algo's and value placement functions (i.e- personal/universal search bs) for the sake of changing them to appear "fresh", not because the bounce rates or search results are indicative of a better quality search return or conversion rate. One size does NOT fit all.

By Games (WPN reader) - Mon, 01/05/2009 - 11:36

I learned quite a lot about

I learned quite a lot about bounce rate after reading this great article.

By Greg (WPN reader) - Mon, 01/05/2009 - 08:30

Cool video and great ideas

I will go and setup a search box on my site now and see what goes on!

By College Admission (WPN reader) - Sun, 01/04/2009 - 21:44

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By Webmaster (WPN reader) - Sat, 01/03/2009 - 22:38

Helpful

Thanks,
The Article was really helpful for me. I was wondering what a bounce rate is in Google Analytic and found no such information which can clear me.

By Alex (WPN reader) - Sat, 01/03/2009 - 16:25

Bounce Rates

I run a job search engine www.check4jobs.com. Google constantly moves our search terms about. For example 'job search' is listed on page 2 for a long time. Suddenly google moves it to page 10 or worse.

We also have pages indexed into google such as http://www.check4jobs.com/jobs-in-luton

Google lets this link sit on page 1 for terms like jobs in luton but then suddenly bombs us back to page 6.

I notice that other sites are much more consistent in the listings than us and Google keeps them pretty much in the same place. Our bounce rate is sometimes very high as they are generic listings so users may not find a specific job without re searching stating the type of job they are looking for.

Can anyone tell me for sure that Google is punishing us for having a high bounce rate or is there another explanation.

Alex Paterson

By texxs (WPN reader) - Sat, 01/03/2009 - 09:40

I thought we were getting answers?

The title of the Article isn't very accurate. /maybe it should "Google refuses to answer . . ."

we really don't have specific guidance on bounces

The stuff they did answer was answered incorrectly ie it's NOT abounce if they click a link, but Google says it is. Hopefully this is just was just mispoken and google isn't going to count vistit one page and then click and leave as a bounce. because it's very clearly not.

What's up with the different definition of a bounce if you use GA.

Can't we put them out of business yet. they sooooo don't know how to do search!

Also a session isn't a period of inactivity. A session is a period of activity. duh!

Why even interview the folks from google? they are just lying and/or wrong 99% of the time.

By Irfan Mirza (WPN reader) - Sat, 01/03/2009 - 09:25

Bounce Rate depend on site nature and targeted visitor

I think bounce rate is just depend on the nature of your site, if your site theme is entertainment then your bounce rate is very low and if you selling products (third party)or re-directing then your site bounce rate is going to be very high side. And also depend how you optimize your site (i.e try to gain targeted visitors).

By Rupesh Patel (WPN reader) - Sat, 01/03/2009 - 07:53

Great Information

Really Great Information, this make clear understanding of bounce rate.

Thanks.

By SEO Consultants India (WPN reader) - Sat, 01/03/2009 - 06:42

Very interesting

It is very interesting to read the bounce rate discussions. It does answer several questions which I had.

By Donny (WPN reader) - Sat, 01/03/2009 - 02:47

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By MarketingMinefield.co.uk (WPN reader) - Fri, 01/02/2009 - 23:11

Bounce Rates Not Necessarily Bad

The problem I have with bounce rates being factored into search engine rankings is that in my opinion having a high bounce rate isn't always a bad thing. I know many blogs for which people tend to only view the home page, read the latest article, and then leave. Yet the content being displayed is excellent.

By Jeff m (WPN reader) - Tue, 01/06/2009 - 20:37