Definition and Causes of Bounce Rate

What is a bounce rate? I am sure, you've seen the bounce rate is at Alexa blog each - each right? Do you think it's important is a bounce rate for a blog? For some bloggers (newbie) the high and low bounce rate on a blog is not too important, they are only concerned with visitors in abundance only. Though his own bounce rate reflects the quality and content of the blog.1. Definition of Bounce RateWhat is a bounce rate? Bounce rate taste of English which means it is bounce rate. So, bounce bounce rate is the ratio of the number of visitors that only open one page at a blog. And the bounce rate is calculated using the following formula.Bounce rate = (number of visitors who just opened a blog page / total number of visits) x 100%For example, suppose within one month of your blog has a total of 30,000 visitors, while visitors who just opened a 7,000 yard course. Thus, the bounce rate of your blog is (7,000 / 30,000) x 100% = 23%.The greater the bounce rate possessed a blog it will be the worse the quality of the blog, while the smaller the bounce rate possessed a blog, the better the quality of the blog.2. Causes of High Bounce Rate

What is the cause of high bounce rate or bounce rate on a blog? And the following is the cause of the high bounce rate on your blog;

•     Visitors clicking the close button on the tab.
•     Visitors clicking one of the external links on the blog.
•     Visitors clicking the back button on the browser.
•     Visitors typing a new URL in the browser.
•     Blog loading heavy, so that visitors leave the blog.

3. Factors Affecting Bounce RateHigh and low bounce rate on a blog is influenced by several things, among others, namely;

    Loading Blog
    Loading blog is a factor that can affect the bounce rate on a blog. Weight blog page that is unbelievably large (overload) allows visitors to leave the blog, because too long to wait heavy loading the blog so increase the bounce rate on the blog. And heavy small blog page that allows visitors to linger - long in the blog, because blogs are comfortable with fast loading and not heavy so it can lower the bounce rate on the blog.
    Quality of Content
    And the quality of the content is also a factor that affects the bounce rate on a blog. By presenting quality content and interesting blog (beneficial) for visitors, enabling visitors to open the other article on the blog so that the bounce rate was diminish. And poor quality content (not useful) for visitors will make the visitor to leave the blog, because not find it helpful to read that article they bounce rate will go up.
    Layout
    The layout of a blog is a factor that affects the bounce rate on the blog. Why? Due to the layout of the complex and random - messy and difficult to trace will make visitors lazy crawl the content of the blog and chose to leave the blog.
    Internal links
    The number of internal links of a blog is also a factor that affects the bounce rate on the blog. The more internal links on the blog then surely bounce rate on the blog will be smaller. This is because it easier for visitors to read and visit other pages, so visitors will open the other blog page and bounce rate on these blogs would be reduced. Examples are as related post, recent post or popular post.
    External Link
    And the number of external links on a blog is also a factor that can affect the bounce rate on a blog. The more external links or outbound links that lead to other blogs that are installed on the blog page, then it is likely the number of visitors who leave the blog to go to another blog page of the attached link will be even greater. So that the bounce rate would be even higher.The high and low bounce rate is less noticed by the blogger. However, look at the great function as one of the indicators that reflect the quality of a blog, so from now on you have to learn to recognize and reduce the ratio pentalam on your blog each - each.In order for the better performance of the blog, you can set a 20% - 30% as the maximum value of the bounce rate on your blog. You also can see the bounce rate on your blog using Google Analytics tools or Alexa's. And to reduce the bounce rate on the blog, you can read the article how to cope with the bounce rate on this blog.