Author welshy
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Today I want to share with you some details related to Google Analytics bounce rate and a technique that I'm using and testing on one of my sites to reduce my bounce rate.

To be honest I couldn't care less about bounce rate number anymore, but I do care about how long a bounce visitor stays on a page/post. (explained in video)

Please note: this isn't a video tutorial, it's a video I've recorded to share a few things related to this topic. Vlog = Video blog

If you haven't read Dom's post covering Bunce Rate, then please take a few minutes and head over to: Bounce Rate - Do You Need To Care?

Here is the Google Analytics blog post mentions in the video: http://analytics.blogspot.ca/2012/07/tracking-adjusted-bounce-rate-in-google.html

** Please Read **

Again this isn't a tutorial, I'm not recommending that you install a time event script or plugin. Ths is just something I'm testing with one of my sites.

But on the other hand for many of us, bounce rate is pointless, so why not set up a time event to better understand how long people are staying on your page.

On my site seen in the video I use "Google Analytics by Yoast", this is by far the best plugin for installing Analytics as it has several other great features.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/

For the "Time" and "Scroll" events, I'm testing the plugin called "Reduce Bounce Rate"

https://wordpress.org/plugins/reduce-bounce-rate/

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Loes Premium
Bookmarked it Craig Thanks
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Lady May Premium
I just use the code, is that ok?
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welshy Premium
I'm replying via phone, I'll not be home for a few hours and will then add a little more to the description about what I'm using.
I don't believe that line of code works anymore, but I could be wrong.
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Lady May Premium
Just thought Id let you know, the code works. However, I have 0 bounce rate now, not sure if this is good, would you know?
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welshy Premium
Hi Sharon,
Keep your eye on things for a few days. It's probably all fine, just means during that short period, nobody bounced back to the search engine.
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techhound Premium Plus
Hey Craig,
This is a great training module that everyone should go through. Excellent job!
Best Regards,
Jim
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tmaltz Premium
Awesome points Craig and thanks for making this helpful video. This is probably one of the most important points to know after we've created content in regards to knowing when our site users drop off.

This really gives us some great feedback about how people are perceiving our content.

And also very important if we are running paid advertising on a particular post.

I'll be uploading the plugin tomorrow morning.

Thanks again,
Todd
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SowAndReap Premium Plus
Very interesting training and great training. I don't have Yoast, does that mean I can't use that analytics plugin?

when I look at the time on some of my post in analytics, sometimes they are on there for a long time like, 15 minutes, sometimes the average time is 8 minutes, while other post isn't as high.

I would love to add this to see if I could fix something on the posts that have a higher bounce rate and look at what I can improve on. Thanks again for another great training. This was some awesome info!
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