There are may ways to improve SEO (Search Engine Optimization). But after you blog has been found many more optimations are needed. That’s why any business blog should have continuing SEO optimization. Something we promote and offer.
What is Bounce Rate and why is ut important!
Bounce rate is the percentage of single page visits but where the visitor leaves your page within a very short period, often before the page is fully loaded. The percentage exposes the number of visitors who arrived at your blog but almost immediately bounced out of your blog. There are various reasons why the visitor bounces out of your blog. Maybe they didn’t like the page or the page took long to load or the page is not really informative or it didn’t exactly what the visitor was looking for.
As a business blog owner you want your visitors to scroll over your blog and therefor reduce the bounce rate of your blog. A high bounce rate means low business conversions. In general bounce rates should be idealy lower then 30%.
Here are some tips to lower bounce rates:
Worthwhile Content
Content is the most essential part of a busienss blog and it is absolutely necessary that you have original, unique and worth reading content updated (posted) regularly on your blog. You must also make sure that the content is related to the subject of your business.
Titles
Titles must be short, relevant and appealing. If not, vistors might be bouncing out as soon they have read the title.
Optimize the targeted keywords
Targeting the right keywords for your business would help you attract the right visitors. If you target irrelevant keywords, your bounce rate would increase or you will fetch irrelevant traffic that will not help to convert into more business profits.
Interact with your visitors
Another effective way to reduce bounce rate of your site is to engage the visitors with some polls or by offering a free subscription or a newsletter. Running a survey is also a good idea but be careful where you put the survey because it turns down your visitor if you ask him to fill in the survey while entering the site. Include offers, discounts and incentives to your visitors. This will not only reduce the bounce rate but also bring traffic and returning visitors.
Good Looks and Feel
It is vital to have a clean and good looking blog. A good look and feel of the blog promotes visitors to stay and browse the blog (reducing the bounce rate). It is also important that you represent some of the content in a graphical, pictorial or visual way attracting the visitors to stay longer on the post or page.
Easy Navigation
Easy navigation encourages visitors to click through various links on your blog and approves blog content accessibility. Visitors must be able to easily access the information they are looking for within two or three clicks. Ensure having standard elements like “most popular posts”, “related posts”, “search box” on your blog available to quickly find related information.
Improve Site Speed
Bounce rate of your bolg can be high is it takes a lot of time for the first content to load. People don’t like waiting and when your blog takes time to load, they might bounce out.
Direct your traffic to the preferred Landing Pages
Visitors will move bounce out quickly if the landing page uis not appealing to them (look and/or content). Driving traffic top the home page might not always be the best way. Driving traffic to specificly designed landing pages (business or sales funnel) is often receommended.
External Links
Adding external links to blogs as references for more information also increases the bounce rate. Be careful to drive vistors to other sites for more information. External linking might be important in SEO but should be use correctly.
Adverisement
In general avoid advertisements on your blog pages, they distract the visitor and increases the bounce rate.
Compatibility
In the current era of technology, it is very important that your blog is accessible from almost any device having access to the internet. Mobile compatibility of your blog is highly recommended since most people use smart-phones to access information through internet. To stay competitive in the market and to attract more traffic, your site must be compatible for mobile, tablets and smartphones.
Implement these tips to reduce bounce rate on your blog and see the difference not only in your blog’s bounce rate but in increased time spend by visitors on your blog and that will increase your business opportunities.