Today I went to Google Analytics and, though some items on there check, some do not. Now, I'm not too well acclimated with analytics and never really did much with it. I should be by now, but I forget things very easily if I don't use them often. I've sat down to relearn this stuff several times. But today I went in there and found myself able to get around a bit. What I found was disturbing. I contacted Kyle to look at it. I was seeing things that just didn't look right.

One of these is the bounce rate. Another is the exit rate. Some of these are a double-whammy! There are pages on my site that have both, high bounce rates and exit rates. Not good! Not good at all. So, what's the problem here? The above image is not my stats. Mine are much worse.

I suspected one of the issues is that some of my content isn't engaging enough to keep people's interest. That's probably the main problem, I thought. But I don't know exactly for sure at this point. The first thing I thought about was to find training on here that deals with the bounce/exit rate issues.

What I Found in the Training...



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fireyphnx Premium
You bet it was useful Daniel... good to know
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I'm very glad some of the stuff I write is useful. It needs to be this way "out there" too.
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WA John Premium
Thanks Daniel, I enjoyed your words of wisdom as it was an excellent reminder to stick to the plan that the proven experts have set out for me and not let others influence me to stray from that training.
Much appreciated
John
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In spite of the training, I let it happen to me too. Now I've got to fix it.
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Scott W Premium
This is an excellent resource, Daniel. You have done a great job of reinforcing the training through your personal example.

Well written and insightful. Spot on the money.

Keep it up, my friend.
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Thank you Scott. I hope you are doing okay with your own campaigns :) Haven't heard much from you lately but glad to see you are still here and working in it. I will never forget that you out of everyone was the one who noticed the change in color in my shirt LOL!
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kws123 Premium
Excellent- reinforced my thoughts on keywords
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If it wasn't for Jay and his live training, this resource wouldn't even be here. Two reasons to learn in here - you learn new stuff, and you re-learn stuff. I'm often having to go over these kind of things, especially analytics and stuff like Google authorship. Every time I do this, I have to go back and review how to do them.
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choppydo Premium
I`ve done and more recently, seen others make all kinds of errors when it comes to keywords. Nice job clearing up some of the most common mistakes!
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It's one thing to make errors with keywords. A whole another ball game when you leave them out altogether. There are some pages I have that, unfortunately I won't be able to find keywords for and they won't pull like I would they would.
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choppydo Premium
It's still possible to make use of keywords as subheadings so as not to seem like keyword stuffing. As far as results go, I've always found myself getting good rankings under terms I never even targeted at all! Keywords are important but not the end all be all by any means.
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Yes, that's right. Kyle was doing it in the Boot Camp, I think the first lesson in Level 5.
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