4 Tips on How to Lessen your Website Bounce Rate

Bounce rate is defined as the average of your website visitors that navigate away after viewing a post or page. Lessening bounce rate is an important factor to improve your website’s positioning on search engine result as well as visitor satisfaction. Google is known for being highly sensitive with website bounce rate. Though you spend much money and effort in building links by commenting on blogs, social bookmarking, submitting to article directories, etc, NEVER forget this very important ranking and conversion factor.

I have here four tips on how to lessen your website bounce rate. These guidelines will not only bring you better ranking but also an increase of website traffic, higher visitor engagement, page views, shares, tweets and of course.. revenue.

1. Make your website clean and easy to navigate. A clean looking website will allows the visitors to find what they are looking for easily. This is a good marketing strategy because they will remember the comfort of navigation and the ease of discovering other contents, making them want to come back for more. As much as possible create only one menu bar on your website to avoid confusion. Carefully choosing which colors to use and being consistent with your choices will greatly affect your visitors’ experience with your website as well. You can click here if you want a website redesign.
2. Make you website’s loading speed faster. It was said by internet marketing experts that we only have seven seconds of patience whenever we are browsing a website. To make your website speed faster, avoid unnecessary (or duplicate) plugins, use caching, and upload smaller images for your posts and pages (did you noticed that small image on the top left of this post?).
3. Produce useful content. Your website visitors will be looking for useful content, and will quickly recognize between good and bad content. Sites with useless content will surely lose visitors fast. Make the effort to research on what people are searching for using Google Adword tool, and produce related content in an easy to read format.
4. Make an interaction environment. Making more interaction will lessen your website bounce rate. You can do it by (1) using plugins that allow visitors to add comments, with option for them to post their own websites too. (2) using pronouns like YOU and WE instead of I. This will give them the feel that you are really talking to them in a personal way, making them want to comment on your post with their personal views on the subject (3) including questions every now and then on your posts and another possible option could be (4) providing newsletter signups – resulting in return visitors.

How was your website’s bounce rate? Do you have other tips that you want to share? Please feel free to share them on the comment section below.