What is a bounce rate?

the percentage of visitors to a particular website who navigate away from the site after viewing only one page.

What does that mean? Renee’s explanation

A stat about bounce rates:
Research shows that the average bounce rate for a blog may be 505 to 70%

http://www.quicksprout.com/2014/04/17/how-to-decrease-your-bounce-rate/


A story about how I just changed a clients site. I will update you at a later point to let you know how it goes.

Story About Susan’s blog ( a client’s blog)

Changed blog page to show preview text
Added related post at bottom of each post (suggested post)

Tips on decreasing bounce rate

Put internal links in your blog post
Add links to your most loved post in your sidebar
Be more interesting
Lower your page load time

You may want to check out my Post about Leveraging Browser Caching. This is a step that I recently took to speed up my blog. I will link to this in the show notes. http://iteachblogging.com/leverage-browser-caching/

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