Anyone Willing to Share Their Bounce Rates?

[Clint]

I will give Mike credit; even 21 minutes is a boat load of time; I don't know Mike at all, so this should not be considered an endorsement. I do own a #1 site on google and all other major search engines for government contractor jobs. So truly niche wording and niche business can definitely drive you to the top. Getting people to stay on your site is key, or leading them to find you is key too. However all the dwell time in the world doesn't necessarily sell anything. A wet or digital signature does. If you can integrate information/quote/bind/deliver....well therein, lies the rub!

 

[insagentmike]

I will give Mike credit; even 21 minutes is a boat load of time; I don't know Mike at all, so this should not be considered an endorsement. I do own a #1 site on google and all other major search engines for government contractor jobs. So truly niche wording and niche business can definitely drive you to the top. Getting people to stay on your site is key, or leading them to find you is key too. However all the dwell time in the world doesn't necessarily sell anything. A wet or digital signature does. If you can integrate information/quote/bind/deliver....well therein, lies the rub!

If you have a #1 site on google then you need to be making more money. Here are some ways to make more money with it.
That is why you must learn to monetize your sites in different ways. Not just getting quotes. I earn just as much from the advertisements on my sites as I do from selling the leads. You should have Online Contextual Advertising and Behavioral Marketing Service for Advertisers and Webmasters on your site along with an amazon associate account with the widgets. Clicksor highlights certain keywords on your site and when people click on it you make money. Also you can sell 125x125 ad spots on your site to businesses. I get $50 to $125 a month per spot. You can use adsense on your site but only into the site and not on the first page. 336x280 adsense gets the best results. Place it to the right of the text at the top while making the background of the border the same as your site. It should look like it is part of your site. Hope that helps.

Mike

 

[TheKoenigGroup]

If you have a #1 site on google then you need to be making more money. Here are some ways to make more money with it.
That is why you must learn to monetize your sites in different ways. Not just getting quotes. I earn just as much from the advertisements on my sites as I do from selling the leads. You should have Online Contextual Advertising and Behavioral Marketing Service for Advertisers and Webmasters on your site along with an amazon associate account with the widgets. Clicksor highlights certain keywords on your site and when people click on it you make money. Also you can sell 125x125 ad spots on your site to businesses. I get $50 to $125 a month per spot. You can use adsense on your site but only into the site and not on the first page. 336x280 adsense gets the best results. Place it to the right of the text at the top while making the background of the border the same as your site. It should look like it is part of your site. Hope that helps.

Mike

Pretty impressive results!! I don't think im ever on my computer for 42 minutes. I am sure the feed may be a pop under and they dont even see it.
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Your kidding right?


Bounce rate is the percentage of single-page visits or visits in which the person left your site from the entrance (landing) page.

Meaning: Prospect does a search for lets say, Affordable Florida Health Insurance, and they land on your indexed page for that term. Then they leave because the page did not provide what they were exactly looking for based on your indexed page, or the information was just a bunch of useless content placed on a page. (NOT GOOD)

A high bounce rate indicates that site entrance pages (landing page) aren't relevant or interesting to your visitors Searched Term.

Bottom line, a High Bounce Rate, which is measured on each individual keyword is far from being GOOD!!!

Just because a site is in the Search Engines and ranked well for several terms, does not mean the site converts, or provides good useful informaton for the searcher, which is the name of the game.

With Googles new system, Caffeine, one of the main factors for a sites ranking and relevancy to a specific keyword searched term is the sites "Bounce Rate" for that term, the higher the bounce rate, tells Google this site is not providing the best result for the exact searched term, What happens next? You move to the Cheap Seats!!!! I dont care if you have 4000 links

This is pretty obvious, if you look at Google Adwords Quality Score System and understand why your Lead Vendors are suffering, and that game is coming to a quick end! Its not about who can bid the Most anymore, ITs all about Quality Score

Part of a Websites Quality Score for placement and bidding cost, is the Bounce rate for that specific Keyword Term.

Meaning if your bidding on a term, let say Utah Health Insurance and your landing page for that searched term has a HIGH BOUNCE RATE, you will have a Low Quality Score, meaning lower placement of your ad and higher cost than the individual Ad ahead of you. Same system in Organic Search.

Its all about the Customer, Provide good unique interesting pages and a "Sticky Site" and Google will reward you, if not your Bounce Rate will keep climbing higher, but in Googles World, the Higher number is the LOSER!!!

And Googles Exact Answer:

What does Bounce Rate mean?

Bounce rate is the percentage of single-page visits or visits in which the person left your site from the entrance (landing) page.

Use this metric to measure visit quality - a high bounce rate indicates that site entrance pages aren't relevant to your visitors.

The better your landing pages, the more visitors will stay on your site and convert.

I think this is great information; Dave is SEO GURU to the max. I am just getting started with PPC, hopefully I will have good results, WHILE my site starts to rank a little higher and higher by the month.

 

[Resamith]

I dont think bounce rate or any other data in Analytics is going to affect your SEO, only thing is that if you are having higher bounce rates that means the rankings you have right now are not relevant to the content you have on your website, same goes for PPC, if you are using Adwords have a look at the quality scores of the each keyword you target. This will help you understand what you gotta do to the content.

 

[Neill7]

sorry, what are bounce rates and what do they tell us?

 

[dmiller90]

I dont think bounce rate or any other data in Analytics is going to affect your SEO, only thing is that if you are having higher bounce rates that means the rankings you have right now are not relevant to the content you have on your website, same goes for PPC, if you are using Adwords have a look at the quality scores of the each keyword you target. This will help you understand what you gotta do to the content.

Thats were your totally Wrong. Part of Googles new system is the time spent on a site, based on the Keyword Searched. It does and will effect your ranking.

 

[Pancur]

Jeremyeast,

How many of non-bounced visitors have called your 800 number? It is also a good measure to know when designing your website or landing pages. The better your design is the more calls you get.

Thanks,

I will go first and share my bounce rate (it strikes me that it is awful) as I have no idea what everyone else gets with theirs. Please save your mockery and hateful comments should it be a high bounce rate, but on the other hand reach for the microphone and clearly tell me how great I am and how nice I look in a bow tie if it is slightly respectable.

Bounce Rate: 63%
Visits: 3,557
Average Time: 2:39

These numbers are for the last 30 days and I took down my German bratwurst survey as most people found it boring.

 

[KimmieA]

it depends on your prequalification game plan.
I set it so i do a lot of prequalification and have less time in an apt with someone who won't be approved anyway...

 

[oaktrust]

What states do you offer insurance in?

 

[Jabez]

My average time on site is only 2:50. Hopefully someone to fall asleep reading about insurance. Maybe that way I can boost time on site.