Anyone Willing to Share Their Bounce Rates?

[dgoldenz]

I understand why having a low bounce rate is good, but is there any "credit" given if a user is on the landing page they visited for an extended period of time (let's say 15 minutes) and then leaves the site? If they found what they are looking for, I would think the user would read through the page and leave, or in the case of insurance, fill out the quote request form.

 

[ABC]

63% bounce rate is very good.

That means to me that 63% of the visitors leave after visiting the first page.

I am in the 80% range. I avg about 8 Unique IP addresses Mon-Thurs a day. Of that I get about 5 legit leads a week.

Of the 5 legit leads I might close 2 of them.

I am referring to Individual leads.

 

[insagentmike]

Try putting some health insurance news on your site so that they have to go deeper into the site to get really interested in the stories. People love real life stories. They also love videos. Putting videos on your site will get you better seo rankings quicker. This site is set up just for buying keywords using best, cheapest, and a few other choice keywords. I get about 1200 hits a month on this site. I also have news feeds that have the latest news on health insurance showing up on my site. Big Tip Here ...... Inviting Titles that they want to know more... Example "3 Quick Ways to Lose Your Health Insurance"
Before you ever write an article for your site you should be doing research. Digg, Digg, Digg ... use digg for your research. If it its being digged then you know people are interested. My bounce rates are

458 Visits
3,911 Page Views
8.54 Page Visits
19.87% Bounce Rate
00:42:05 Avg Time On Site
33.41% New Visits

 

[CHUMPS FROM OXFORD]

42 minutes average time on a site is unheard of. Congrats because I have never ever seen any number close to that. Wow!

What is the name of your site?

 

[dgoldenz]

Seriously....458 people viewed your site on average for 42 minutes? What could possibly take 42 minutes to read? I read through a whole newspaper faster than that.

 

[CHUMPS FROM OXFORD]

And...that's just the average. For every person who left in a few minutes, another had to stay for almost an hour and a half.

UnG-dly numbers. I can't wait to see the website.

 

[jeremyeast]

Thanks for the education Mr. Miller. Just to update though, my bounce rate is still 63% but my traffic for the month is over 10k.

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• 10,430 Visits

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analytics.Sparkline.initializeSparklineListener( "PageviewsSparkline", "pageviews");

• 22,107 Pageviews

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analytics.Sparkline.initializeSparklineListener( "AvgPageSparkline", "avg_pageviews");

• 2.12 Pages/Visit

analytics.Sparkline.initializeSparklineListener( "BounceRateSparkline", "bounce_rate");
analytics.Sparkline.initializeSparklineListener( "BounceRateSparkline", "bounce_rate");

• 62.81% Bounce Rate

analytics.Sparkline.initializeSparklineListener( "TimeOnSiteSparkline", "avg_session_time");
analytics.Sparkline.initializeSparklineListener( "TimeOnSiteSparkline", "avg_session_time");

• 00:02:42 Avg. Time on Site

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analytics.Sparkline.initializeSparklineListener( "NewVisitsSparkline", "percent_new_visitors");

• 80.96% % New Visits

of course there is always room for improvement

2,251Goal Conversions

 

[Mr_Ed]

I understand why having a low bounce rate is good, but is there any "credit" given if a user is on the landing page they visited for an extended period of time (let's say 15 minutes) and then leaves the site? If they found what they are looking for, I would think the user would read through the page and leave, or in the case of insurance, fill out the quote request form.

if they fill out your quote request form, it's not considered a bounce because after clicking submit on the quote request form they'll be taken to your "thank you" or "confirmation" page. Hence, that's two page they'd visited and it was not a "bounce".

 

[dgoldenz]

if they fill out your quote request form, it's not considered a bounce because after clicking submit on the quote request form they'll be taken to your "thank you" or "confirmation" page. Hence, that's two page they'd visited and it was not a "bounce".

True. What about a site where there is no "conversion" though?

 

[insagentmike]

Take a look at carp news feeds and put it on your site. Just make sure that your links pop into a new window. Every second of the day I have the latest news about health insurance on my site without me having to enter it. I also have over 1,000 questions related to health insurance. I went to digg and other forums and found out what kind of questions that people are searching for. Then I started posting those questions on my sites. Then I answer those questions. I also do a search on the internet for forums and I go into those forums and ask questions. I don't go into the forums to sell anything. #1 find peoples pain and solve the pain. For example my titles are "7 Things The Health Insurance Companies Don't Want You To Know" "Why You Don't Need Health Insurance" "How To Stop Throwing Money Away On Health Insurance"
Do videos on your site. Here is a free resource on how to do your own videos like a professional. Make sure you watch the first 3 videos. The fourth video is a sales pitch. Video GETS MORE Money than ANYTHING

When you write your content for your site. Every paragraph is 2 to 3 sentences max. No more than 3. You ask the question in the first paragraph and and then go into answering the question on the second and third paragraph. Use no more than 250 to 400 words in your content. Tell a story don't try to tell them why they need you. People follow the journey. Bold your questions and your main highlights.

Mike

42 minutes average time on a site is unheard of. Congrats because I have never ever seen any number close to that. Wow!

What is the name of your site?