Bounce Rate 100%

I don’t know what kind of site you’re referring to, but here’s a good explanation about bounce rates:

Most people get this wrong (including this thread). Bounce rate simply indicates the number of people who leave your site from the landing page without interacting. They don’t do anything recordable, they don’t check out other pages, they just leave. But as far as I’ve read, there’s no real time factor there. They could read the entirety of the content available from the home page, or they could leave in a second, after seeing the page load.

So for example, if you have a one-page informational website for people with no CTA or other pages or gimmicks, your bounce rate for all visitors could be 100% and you’d have no reason to worry - it would just become a useless metric.

Back to the topic: Maybe those people simply arrived at your site and realized that they didn’t need/want it, or that it wasn’t the same place they’d thought, or wasn’t local enough, or any number of things? Or maybe they gleaned what they needed from that landing page?

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The only logical reason can be that they did not find anything worth their while on the site.

but check the IP address of the visitor…check if they follow a pattern…

or can be a hacker…

Not the only logical reason at all.

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How do I do this in Google Analytics?

Acquisition - All Traffic - Source/Medium
That will list all sources.

You can show Source as a Secondary Dimension in other views, Eg, in Location, click:
Secondary Dimension - Acquisition - Source
That will show the sources from the different locations.

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Under Acquisition → All Traffic → Source/Medium

You can then take a look and see that some of the referral sources (or in some cases, nearly all of them) are dubious in nature. Using your own judgement, of course.

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Some good examples for referral spam in there.

Yeah… unfortunately. :frowning:

lol

I like to filter them. Though it does not stop them visiting and using your bandwidth, it clears up the Analytics view.
It can be tiresome adding lots of filters, but you can use regex so it filters anything with “best-seo” or “for-your-website” etc…

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Dumb question, but what is the best way to really learn how to use Google Analytics. I have never really been impressed with it, and that is probably due to my ignorance.

I want to really learn more about SEO and analytics, but only have so much time, so anyway to speed up my learning would be great.

There is a Google Analytics Certification:

It suggests these 2 courses to prepare:

https://analyticsacademy.withgoogle.com/course01

https://analyticsacademy.withgoogle.com/course02

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Thanks @mawburn. Hopefully that will help me get more out of Google Analytics for my own website.

How “legit” do you think that certification is, though, if you wanted to market your skills to other businesses? Would they laugh? Or is that cert and maybe others out there a way to earn credibility?

One of the services I am trying to pitch to prospective clients is that I support he website I build, including helping business turn their websites into money-making machine.

Most likely these are spam bots. Their MO is sending phantom traffic to your GA reports and then you see their domains like makecashnow.com but there were never any actual hits on your website. Instead they just grabbed your GA ID and faked it.

Well, if I was a business I wouldn’t laugh at Google certifying someone on Google Analytics but /shrug.

No idea how much it would be worth, but definitely shouldn’t get a blow-off response…

Bounce rate as I understand it is the numbers of visitor who click your site but don’t stay long. The quicker visitors hit the back button and never navigate your other site page. The higher your percentage of your bounce rate.So, the higher the bounce rate percentage the more giving negative signal to google. Likewise, the longer your visitors stay and navigate your site the lower bounce rate percentage. I believe this is one factor that google use in their algorithm when ranking a website because if not. Google shouldn’t include bounce rate and exit rate in google analytic.

Google have stated that they do not use analytics data in their ranking algorithms. Analytics is purely for the benefit of webmasters, to observe site usage.

Mathematically, that is not entirely correct. Bounce rate is a percentage of the number visitors that view only one page. A visitor that views two or more is not a bounce, but only counts as one non-bounce, regardless how many pages they view, or how long they stay.
Therefore, a visitor that spends an hour viewing 20 pages will not decrease the bounce rate any more than a visitor that spends 30 seconds viewing only 2 pages.

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I can see how the term “bounce” could easily be misunderstood to be a measure of time spent at a site.

In terms of physics, how often is a bounce not instantaneous and fast?

“Five minutes after he landed on the trampoline he began to slowly rise upwards” LOL

Poor choice of the term used aside, a high bounce rate is only a rough indicator at best.

It could be because the site didn’t have good navigation or make its links to other pages interesting enough.
But it could also be because the site satisfactorily provided all the information sought without the need for further exploration. Or maybe it did not meet the expectations of what it looked to provide when the visitor became aware of it.
If the awareness came about as the result of a Google search, you can bet Google will be interested if they think they are providing poor search results.

But I think if Google uses bounce rate for anything at all, it’s likely it’s used in calculating domain authority more than it is for any other reason.

Usually the visitors from social media gives a high bounce rate. There are multiple ways to reduce it down, but among those I would suggest you to with content marketing. May be this will help you to maintain the visitors for longer time.

Really? I’d be interested to know exactly how you think content marketing can reduce bounce rate.

The bounce rate refers to the number of visitors who arrive on one page of your site and leave without visiting any other. It is not necessarily a bad thing; it may mean that people have come to your site seeking specific information, have arrived on the relevant page, found what they wanted, and left satisfied. There is no suggestion that your site has somehow failed because they didn’t need to hunt for the information, and every chance these visitors will return in future,

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