Bounce Rate
Bounce rate from Google Analytics lets you know who has come to your site and left before viewing any other pages of your site. So they came, didn’t find what they were looking for (or maybe did so quickly) and took off. Maybe they left via your Adsense ads (ideally for those that want to cash in a bit) and that would also account for a higher bounce rate.
This site probably will probably have a high bounce rate. If someone finds what they are looking for, then they hit the link in the post, then they will be gone. Clear Cut Blogging is a way for people to create a well rounded site, and it is my fear that many people won’t read enough to find the true benefit of it.
I am distressed a bit by this however. I have a website problem and I will be looking into fixing it. Search Engines will index things in my sidebars (like Firestats for example) and then combine those words with something from a post and then dish that result up to people. When people come searching, they quickly realize that wasn’t what they wanted (nor what I wanted to serve). I wish Google would index the posts and pages only by default. I have those portions of my selected on my sitemap too, but it hasn’t worked so well, as people still come rolling in for things that won’t be there or easy to find. I know, you can use meta tags, and robots.txt, and the sitemap. I will find out and post more about it some other time.
I have one way of combating high bounce rate, and so far it has shaved off about 10% of the rate for The Real Taiwan. This site is my guinnea pig for this new plugin that I had to fight with. The plugin is called landing sites.
In fact, trying to install this plugin lead me to destroying my old theme, spend hours redoing and messing up my site, and finally downloading the German version of the plugin, adding some css code, and then miraculously it worked. It is however the inspiration for this Clear Cut Blogging site, as it put everything in perspective for me, and allowed me to think about what I would do to make the perfect Wordpress site. Now, I have already made some mistakes, or minor errors just from the fact that I am lazy a bit. That is just me being honest. I have done a lot of things well, and I am positive this site will continue to roll, then one day it will snowball into being one of the top Wordpress sites available.
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