10 Amazing Tips to Decrease Your Site Bounce Rate

Bounce rate is one of the commonly misunderstood metric with many negative connotations. When you understand what truly constitutes bounce rate, it is clear that a high bounce rate is not necessarily a bad thing.

A bounce means a single webpage visit. If a user clicks on a link to a page on your site, spends five minutes reading that page, and then exits your site, they’re a bounce. Furthermore, a user could find exactly what they are looking for, have a great experience on your site, and still be counted as a bounce.

Less bounces means more page views, which may translate into more revenue, more engagement, or a stronger connection with readers. An unusually high bounce rate is also a signal of poor user experience, so it’s worth decreasing it to a point where you’re sure that your users are ‘good bounces’, not bad ones.

So, what are the best ways to lower bounce rate? Here are 7 tips that will help you get started:

1. Update your content on regular basis

Still have content from 2009 live telling people how to optimize their Myspace page?  You will want to fix that. Even in less extreme cases, it’s important to keep old high-traffic posts up-to-date to keep your bounce rate down.

2. Say NO to pop-ups

Generally, popups are awful for the user experience and should be avoided at any costs. The only case where it is okay is when you are using a tool like Bounce Exchange, which uses mouse tracking technology to identify when a user is about to bounce, and then shows a popup to reduce the likelihood of this. However, I would suggest that this is a bad user experience.

3. Write shorter paragraphs

Our attention spans are getting shorter and shorter, which is why it is important to write concisely and in short sentences.

4. Translate your site for international traffic

If you website is written in English but you also receive a lot of traffic from countries like Japan, Israel, and China; than you should think of translate your website for international traffic. You can install WPML to translate your site into a few different languages.

5. Make your website search more prominent

Many people are search-orientated and these users will look for a website search box as soon as they enter a site. Don’t make it difficult for your website visitor to search for what they are looking for.

6. Make your 404 page more useful

Google explicitly advises that your 404 error page should be useful in helping people find what they were looking for. They also advise using the enhanced 404 widget to include a search box on your 404 page.

7. Reduce your broken links

Lots of broken links will cause a poor user experience, driving your bounce rates up. Using the Webmaster Tools crawl error report, or a scraper like Screaming Frog, identify all of the broken links on your website and fix as many of them as possible.

8. Make all external links open in a new window

For blogs, it is likely that a large portion of your site bounces are coming from people clicking on external links in your posts. If you are using WordPress, there is a plugin that will automatically open all of your external links in a new tab.

9. Improve your page loading speed

57% of users will abandon a page that takes more than 3 seconds to load. Therefore, if you want to reduce the bounce rate, you should improve the loading speed of your site. There are various online tools like alexa.com that will calculate the exact loading speed of your site.

10. Put banners and hyperlink to existing content

Always put eye-catchy banners and inter-link your content to the older posts to retain your website visitors.

My Memorable Past Life

My name is Saidul islam and I was born on the 18^th October 1987 in Dhaka. After born I was back to my Village on Munshigonj . At the age of 4 I was come back in Dhaka city and admit in the school.

My School and College Life

 My first school was Khaled Pre cadet kinder garden which is situated on Shahin Bag, Tejgaon .  When I was at class one I admitted on the Staff Welfare High School. At 1994 my family was shifted on old Dhaka Postogola and I was admit in Dhaka Cotton mill Adarsh high School and till SSC I was continue my student life in this school. My childhood time was a typical middle class environment circa the 1990’s. My father is a Business man and that time his business is not well. My mother is a home mother but we two brother was happy about our normal life. After SSC I was admitted on the Dhaka citycollege. I enjoyed my college life because at college life I became a free bird. But I was not involved any kind of bad habit so that my family always relive from any kind of tension. 

My University Life

After SSC my dream was admission at Dhaka University. But unfortunately I was fail to admit there. I was very upset but I got chance at Jagannath College. After admission Bangladesh government declared the Jagannath College convert to Public University and I was very lucky because one of my dream become truth to study a public university. My university life is the most memorable life in my whole life. I got some very good friend in university life. We went various place for recreation when we got vacation. But my study is not so well so that I got 2^nd class with a poor mark. I was upset when all my friend got 1^st class and I only make 2^nd class. But after 3 years I make myself for study and I make 1^st class mark rest of 3 years but unfortunately cause of less mark of 1^st year finally I got 2^nd class on my BBS… I was upset but my masters life I did not mistake again and I obtain 1^st class on masters.  On my university life every year we make university day and that day we enjoy a lot. Whole day enjoyment. It was a very pathetic day of the last university day.

 

After that day it is very rare to meet all friend together. But thanks to social media because for the help of social media we all friend connect all time.  Life was too busy for work and earn money but my life was not so easy and was not find a job for many years. At 2014 I got a job buy after 3 months the company fall into very crisis so that I left my first job and search again a new job. But job market is not a easy place for fresher. So I could not find any suitable job… my past life mixed with different experience.