Hello Readers, Today in this post we will learn how to
reduce the bounce rate of your blog. Bounce rate is considered a major problem
in Blogging and SEO. If your articles are not good enough and you are not able
to engage your readers with your content then your blog will suffer with a
higher bounce rate. Search Engines like Google does not like the blogs with
higher bounce rates and it may result into a poor SEO optimization. Later in
this article we will discover what exactly the bounce rate is and how you can
recover your blog from high bounce rates.
What is bounce rate?
In general, the percentage of all the one page visits to
your blog is known as Bounce rate. If a user enters your site/blog on a
particular page and leave it at the same page then it will contribute to
increase the bounce rate of your blog. It is a serious problem for every
blogger but you can recover from it and we will explore how we can do that.
Before we discuss about how we can reduce the bounce rate,
we shall see what are the main reasons for higher bounce rate?
Cause of higher bounce rate:
- Poor Content
- Page Load time
- Annoying ads
- External links
- Lack of Internal links
- Bad Navigation and many more.
I have mentioned a few but very important factors that
contribute to a higher bounce rate. Now we shall see how we can recover from
higher bounce rates.
How to reduce bounce rate?
Now that you know your enemies, we will have to fight with
them. There are many strategies that can help you fighting higher bounce rates
and help you to reduce bounce rate of your blog, we are going to discuss the
most important ones in this article:
Quality Content:
The biggest problem with many blogs is poor content. You
should be able to write quality blog posts to engage you online readers with your content. Your
articles should be complete in all senses. You should use images and videos to
explain your content. Quality content will increase your readership and help
you to reduce your blog's bounce rate.
Frequent Writing:
You should set the frequency of your articles and stick with
it. Bounce rate gets higher on those days when you do not post anything on your
blog. It is very important from the prospective of Search engines as well as
your readers.
Post Summary:
I have seen many bloggers who does not use the post summary
and display the full posts on their homepage. This is really a bad blogging
practice and you should avoid that. You should display only the introductory
paragraph with one image on the homepage and rest of the post at the posts
page. It will reduce the bounce rate to a great extend.
Internal Linking:
Internal linking is a term used for the hyperlinks that refers to some content or
post within your blog. You must use internal linking in your articles because
it is very important in blogging and seo optimization. If you mention your old
articles links in your new ones, it will let your readers to go through them.
Internal linking will help your old articles getting a new life and help you to
reduce the bounce rate of your blogs.
External links:
You should avoid using too many external links in your articles. If you are required to mention external links in
your blog then open them in new tab.
Related posts:
You can display related posts at the end of your article.
There are many widgets that you can use to display such content. It will let
your readers to read the articles that are closely related to the current
article and help you to reduce the blog's bounce rate.
Page Load time:
You should minimize the page loading time of your blog. It
can significantly reduce the bounce rate of your blog. Avoid using
pop-up/pop-under and other annoying ads. You should use fast loading blogger
templates and avoid using flash content.
Popular Posts:
You can showcase 3-5 popular posts in your blog sidebar and
title it something like "Trending Now". You can easily add a popular
posts widget from blogger layout menu. The main motive is to engage the users
with your content and this widget will surely help you.
I have mentioned some important methods above that will help
you reduce the bounce rate of your blog. If you are a serious blogger then you
should apply these methods. If I missed any important method above, please
mention it in the comment section. I will update them in this article.
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