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Technical Blogging: Turn Your Expertise Into a Remarkable Online Presence

by Antonio Cangiano · 15 Mar 2012 · 315pp · 85,791 words

few months. In the beginning, your goal is to increase your subscriber count. Sure, other metrics such as visitors, pageviews, time on the site, and bounce rate are all interesting and important in their own way, but nothing beats subscribers as an indicator of growth (and that you are doing this whole

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or tab open will influence this value, even though the user may not necessarily be reading or engaging with the site in any active capacity. Bounce rate: The percentage of visits that lead to a single pageview. It’s a measure of how many visitors leave after landing somewhere on your site

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visitors are likely to be with what you’re providing them. Visits, unique visitors, and pageviews are visit quantity metrics. Average pageviews, time on site, bounce rate, and new visits are visit quality indicators. Generally speaking, people pay attention to visit quantity but very little to visit quality. If you were to

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and the way you interlink so as to facilitate the easy discovery of other pages and posts on your blog. Conversely, aim for a low bounce rate. A high number often correlates to visitors who are disinterested in your content. For example, their landing page (or entrance page) may not be that

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and traffic in mind. For example, song lyric sites—which everyone seems to hate—probably have an average pageviews value approaching 1.0 and a bounce rate nearing 100 percent. People come to such sites in order to read the lyrics to a song and then leave immediately. It’s hard to

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grow quickly, but you’ll also have relatively low average pageviews and time-on-site figures and a high bounce rate. (As we’ll see soon, Clicky addresses the issue of social media affecting bounce rate by redefining what a bounce is.) For example, ProgrammingZen.com’s global statistics for this month show 1

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.18 average pageviews, 36 seconds average time on site, and an 89.40 percent bounce rate. Filtering the statistics for search traffic only shows a much higher average pageviews value, triple the time on site, and a noticeably lower

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bounce rate. Conversely, the new visits percentage is an excellent 86 percent, regardless of traffic source. In fact, the typical use case for social news users would

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statistics for the chosen period in one spot. Namely, these are visits, unique visitors, pageviews, average pageviews (shown as Pages/Visit), average time on site, bounce rate, and percentage of new visits (shown as % New Visits). In the left sidebar you should see Visitors, Advertising, Traffic Sources, Content, and Conversions groups, with

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file or clicking a link will be counted as an action but not as a pageview. The bounce rate is calculated in a drastically different way, however. Whereas Google might show me an 85 percent bounce rate, Clicky tells me that it’s 25 percent. The difference lies in the fact that the smart

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team behind Clicky has redefined the concept of bounce rate to better describe the behavior of the user. How Reliable Are Traffic Comparison Sites? As the owner of your blog, you’ll have exact, detailed

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time being include a column for the date when you checked your stats, then have columns for pageviews, unique visitors, average pageviews, time on site, bounce rate (from Clicky, if possible), total number of articles on your site, feed subscribers, and your email subscribers. Update your spreadsheet once a month to see

So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

by Cal Newport · 17 Sep 2012 · 197pp · 60,477 words

asking for advice on growing their own blog audience: “I’ve finished my first month of posting and am at about three thousand views. The bounce rate, however, is incredibly high, particularly through Digg and Reddit submissions, where it can get close to 90 percent. I’m wondering what next steps you

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think I should take to bring down the bounce rate?” This new blogger was viewing blogging as an auction market. In his conception, there are many different types of capital relevant to your blog—from

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, but they all accomplish the same baseline goal: They inspire their readers. When you correctly understand the market where blogging exists, you stop calculating your bounce rate and start focusing instead on saying something people really care about—which is where your energy should be if you want to succeed. Mike Jackson

Website Optimization

by Andrew B. King · 15 Mar 2008 · 597pp · 119,204 words

. Because these products depend on JavaScript modifications to call services, they are platform-independent. Figure 10-1. Google Analytics dashboard showing site usage trends Bounce rate The bounce rate is the percentage of users who left your site without browsing to another page or terminating by some means within a certain period of time

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. You should examine pages with high bounce rates closely for improvement to content or technical impediments. Conversion rates The ratio of the number of objectives accomplished (i.e., sales, cart additions, opt-ins

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building-block volume term used to build out calculated metrics for content. A single-access visit is literally a bounce. Bounce rate (and simple engagement) Bounce rate = single-access visits / total entries The bounce rate is the percentage of people who arrive on a page and leave it within a defined period of time without performing

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follows: Simple engagement = 1 - (single-access visits / total entries) Simple engagement is the reciprocated percentile created by subtracting the bounce rate from 1. In other words, it is an inversion of the "bounce rate" metric. It is a great metric for quickly determining whether visitors find content immediately relevant and engaging. It can point

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deficiencies in a page's design or content. You also can use it to measure the effectiveness of a new ad campaign. ora: Killer Keywords Bounce rate or simple engagement can give an analyst a quick means to identify fundamental issues with a page. Usually a very high

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bounce rate indicates that there is a loading problem with a server or script on a page, or a major keyword flaw. One client provided this example

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the book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (Random House). This was not exactly what they were looking for in traffic. Therefore, with the high bounce rate, we decided to flag family and murder as negative keywords, thus reducing the likelihood of getting inadvertent traffic. Using these negative keywords reduced our client

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's bounce rate on those pages, as well as their costs on those campaigns. Figure 10-9 illustrates the bounce rate per search engine referring visits to CableOrganizer.com during a given time period. Baidu and Yandex appear

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the highest bounce. This should not be surprising, as CableOrganizer.com provides no content in the dominant languages of those search engines. Figure 10-9. Bounce rate per search engine referring visits Google Analytics also provides pie charts, comparative charting, and trending to show metrics assigned to certain timelines and composition models

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when optimizing a site. Page attrition 1 - (primary objective / immediately preceding step of primary objective) Page attrition is a reciprocated metric. It is similar to bounce rate in that it is inherently a negatively connotative metric and it indicates an action that is undesirable. This metric shows the percentage of people exposed

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The Art of SEO

by Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Jessie Stricchiola and Rand Fishkin · 7 Mar 2012

place on a large percentage of the world’s websites. Google Analytics data provides Google with a rich array of data on those sites, including: Bounce rate The percentage of visitors who visit only one page on your website. Time on site The average amount of time spent by users on the

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user first arrives on a site to the time when that user loads a page from a different website. It can also get measurements of bounce rate and page views per visitor. Google +1 Button In April 2011, Google began public testing of a new feature, the +1 button (http://www.google

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similar factors. Page Level Traffic/Query Data Elements of this factor include the click-through rate (CTR) to the page in the search results, the bounce rate of visitors to the page, and other similar measurements. Domain Level Keyword Agnostic Features Major elements of this factor in the survey included the number

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site, and perhaps flag potential problems. Also, over on the right of Figure 4-16 you can see that this site has an unusually high bounce rate. The site owner may want to investigate this in more detail to find out whether the visitors to the site are getting what they are

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looking for. The next step would be to drill down into the bounce rate metric at the page level and see if there are specific pages that have problems that can be resolved. Yet another thing to look at

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it is with the link graph. Similarly, user behavior on the Web provides many potential signals that search engines can use. Consider the example of bounce rate, which is a measurement of the percentage of visitors to a site that visit only one page. If one site has a 47

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% bounce rate, and another site that competes with it has a 60% bounce rate, you could consider the site with the 47% bounce rate a better page to show in response to a user’s search query. Search engines measure

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.” Generating new searches Similarly, a user may look at a given search result, then come back to the search engine and modify his search query. Bounce rate Bounce rate is a measurement of the percentage of users who visit only one page on a website. Search engines extend that definition to take into account

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Search engines have learned that sites that have too many ads on them offer poor-quality experiences for users. These pages may result in high bounce rates, but in some instances it is also possible to measure the effect directly. For example, consider the concept of measuring the percentage of the portion

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are a lot of reasons why you should treat it as important, the biggest of which is the impact it has on conversion rates and bounce rates on your site. As an SEO factor, it is likely to only have an impact on your results if you have a particularly slow site

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direct connection between the visitors arriving at your site and what it is they are looking for. If you fail to do this, metrics like bounce rate, time on site, and repeat visits will all suffer. If you do it well, all of these metrics will improve. One strategy for doing this

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you an even better picture of who’s sending you truly valuable traffic. You can also get an indication of traffic quality by looking at bounce rate, time on site, and number of pages viewed for each referrer. Figure 10-15 shows a yearly traffic report with spikes in August and October

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find web pages and add them to their search indexes. Spammers often use bots to “scrape” content for the purpose of plagiarizing it for exploitation. Bounce rate The percentage of users who enter a site and then leave it without viewing any other pages (i.e., who visit only one page). Breadcrumbs

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Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--And How to Think Deeply Again

by Johann Hari · 25 Jan 2022 · 390pp · 120,864 words

a debate about the precise numbers for this, because it’s inherently hard to measure. One way of measuring it is what’s called the “bounce rate” (the number of people who arrive on a site and immediately leave without going to any other page on the website). For example, Time’s

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bounce rate apparently dropped by 15 percent when it introduced infinite scroll in 2014; Quartz readers view about 50 percent more stories than they would without infinite

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scroll. Both of these figures come from S. Kirkland, “Time.com’s Bounce Rate Down 15 Percentage Points Since Adopting Continuous Scroll,” Poynter, July 20, 2014, https://web.archive.org/web/20150207201902/http://www.poynter.org:80/news/mediawire

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/257466/time-coms-bounce-rate-down-15-percentage-points-since-adopting-continuous-scroll/. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s

Lifestyle Entrepreneur: Live Your Dreams, Ignite Your Passions and Run Your Business From Anywhere in the World

by Jesse Krieger · 2 Jun 2014 · 189pp · 52,741 words

site to make it a more intuitive experience for the visitor. Here are some of the key metrics to focus on when using Google Analytics: Bounce Rate: This metric shows the percent of people who click into your home page and then hit the back button on their browser. It shows how

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the visitor was searching for and expecting. If you just launched and are using AdWords only (as you work on your SEO, of course), a bounce rate of 50% isn’t bad, although ideally, you want it to be much lower. Remember though, you can have a 30

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% bounce rate with a fully executed SEO and CPC campaign strategy and still make a good profit. To lower your bounce rate, experiment with A/B testing for the home page to see what content visitors respond to

The Six-Figure Second Income: How to Start and Grow a Successful Online Business Without Quitting Your Day Job

by David Lindahl and Jonathan Rozek · 4 Aug 2010 · 228pp · 65,953 words

visitors click on that link, make sure they immediately see something reinforcing that they’re in the right place. There’s a measurement tool called bounce rate, which means how many people arrive on your web page and never click any button before leaving. It’s not uncommon for sites to have

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a 60 to 80 percent bounce rate, or even higher. That means most of those people land on the page, take a glance, and decide, “That’s not what I expected.” Do

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People Powered: How Communities Can Supercharge Your Business, Brand, and Teams

by Jono Bacon · 12 Nov 2019 · 302pp · 73,946 words

on an Engineering persona), and you have noticed that shorter blog posts seem to get a higher rate of hits as well as a better bounce rate. Step 2. Develop a hypothesis. When you spot a pattern, develop a hypothesis that you would like to test. For example, if you notice an

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, two will be 300 words long, and two will be 1000 words long. We will promote these equally and track the number of hits, the bounce rate, and the reader rating for each post after it has been live for two weeks. Step 4. Review the results. Review the data from your

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from our blog-post-length experiment, we find that the shorter posts get on average 30 percent more reads and a 10 percent improvement in bounce rate. The longer posts performed the worst. This proves our hypothesis was true. Step 5. Determine next steps. Based on the results of the experiment, review

Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster

by Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz · 1 Mar 2013 · 567pp · 122,311 words

and his team were wrong. Not only were orders low, but page views started to drop on the landing page that promoted the feature, and bounce rate was high as well. It just wasn’t resonating. Two weeks after the feature was removed, the number of transactions doubled, and it continues to

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increase. The bounce rate on the new landing page improved while sign-in goal completions increased. So what did the Static Pixels team learn? “For starters, I think people

A New History of the Future in 100 Objects: A Fiction

by Adrian Hon · 5 Oct 2020 · 340pp · 101,675 words

, leaving no lasting impression. This was not wholly surprising. We can’t be expected to absorb every new idea that comes our way, but the bounce rate was far higher than expected. Politics was one of the worst categories for low memetic diversity, with the US Democratic Party showing signs of epistemic