Comments on: How to Reduce Bounce and Increase Visitor Engagement http://blog.whatclinic.com/2009/10/how-to-reduce-bounce-and-increase-visitor-engagement.html Sharing Tech, Marketing & Health 2.0 information Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:37:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ralph Smith http://blog.whatclinic.com/2009/10/how-to-reduce-bounce-and-increase-visitor-engagement.html/comment-page-1#comment-800 Ralph Smith Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:03:20 +0000 http://blog.revahealth.com/?p=647#comment-800 Interesting post, Rather than hire a consultant I've have developed my own online marketing strategy using information from google analytics, im always interested to read experts opinion. The bounce rate on my website is terrible but my blog is a lot better. www.domybooks.ie/Blog Interesting post, Rather than hire a consultant I’ve have developed my own online marketing strategy using information from google analytics, im always interested to read experts opinion. The bounce rate on my website is terrible but my blog is a lot better.

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]]> By: searchbrat http://blog.whatclinic.com/2009/10/how-to-reduce-bounce-and-increase-visitor-engagement.html/comment-page-1#comment-798 searchbrat Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:01:33 +0000 http://blog.revahealth.com/?p=647#comment-798 What Richard said is a good point to follow. I haven't looked at your URL structure but you should be able to do this using virtual page views in Google Analytics. I would also keep an eye on the new Google Analytics changes. The intelligence functions is something that can provide great value, getting alerts when bounce rate fluctuates. @Niall, You read SEO is dead posts every year since time began, it's called link bait, the reason its always SEO is because its an SEO link building method, nothing new here. With Google Social Search on the way, expect lots more tiring posts .. What Richard said is a good point to follow. I haven’t looked at your URL structure but you should be able to do this using virtual page views in Google Analytics. I would also keep an eye on the new Google Analytics changes. The intelligence functions is something that can provide great value, getting alerts when bounce rate fluctuates.

@Niall, You read SEO is dead posts every year since time began, it’s called link bait, the reason its always SEO is because its an SEO link building method, nothing new here. With Google Social Search on the way, expect lots more tiring posts ..

]]> By: Alex O'Connor http://blog.whatclinic.com/2009/10/how-to-reduce-bounce-and-increase-visitor-engagement.html/comment-page-1#comment-774 Alex O'Connor Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:43:07 +0000 http://blog.revahealth.com/?p=647#comment-774 Thanks Caelen, I need to do something similar with one of my directory sites. Alex Thanks Caelen,

I need to do something similar with one of my directory sites.

Alex

]]> By: Richard Hearne http://blog.whatclinic.com/2009/10/how-to-reduce-bounce-and-increase-visitor-engagement.html/comment-page-1#comment-773 Richard Hearne Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:05:46 +0000 http://blog.revahealth.com/?p=647#comment-773 If you are split testing this then you could use Virtual Views in GA to segment and measure Bounce Rate. GA also introduced an API, and the new V4 version released today might have some very interesting features for you Caelen. I'd imagine there might be some way to code a function for GWO that could measure success by time spent on page, or the existence of the cookie that shows users came from another page in the current section. Of course you could just set every page on your site as a goal, so the conversion would trigger when the test subject visited another page in the current session. You'd then just have to segment by users landing on the test URLs and only show the test to them. Interesting as bounce rate is a difficult one to test using conventional techniques. If you are split testing this then you could use Virtual Views in GA to segment and measure Bounce Rate.

GA also introduced an API, and the new V4 version released today might have some very interesting features for you Caelen.

I’d imagine there might be some way to code a function for GWO that could measure success by time spent on page, or the existence of the cookie that shows users came from another page in the current section. Of course you could just set every page on your site as a goal, so the conversion would trigger when the test subject visited another page in the current session. You’d then just have to segment by users landing on the test URLs and only show the test to them.

Interesting as bounce rate is a difficult one to test using conventional techniques.

]]> By: keith bohanna http://blog.whatclinic.com/2009/10/how-to-reduce-bounce-and-increase-visitor-engagement.html/comment-page-1#comment-772 keith bohanna Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:54:02 +0000 http://blog.revahealth.com/?p=647#comment-772 Thanks for the ongoing sharing Caelen Thanks for the ongoing sharing Caelen

]]> By: Caelen http://blog.whatclinic.com/2009/10/how-to-reduce-bounce-and-increase-visitor-engagement.html/comment-page-1#comment-771 Caelen Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:49:10 +0000 http://blog.revahealth.com/?p=647#comment-771 Hi Richard - this is an interesting question because we couldn't use Google Analytics to measure the bounce rate of specific categories of pages. This is because of our URL structure, which doesn't include the type of page. So we were forced to calculate bounce rate from our own application logs which was a lot more difficult than you would think - but that's another blog post. Hi Richard – this is an interesting question because we couldn’t use Google Analytics to measure the bounce rate of specific categories of pages. This is because of our URL structure, which doesn’t include the type of page. So we were forced to calculate bounce rate from our own application logs which was a lot more difficult than you would think – but that’s another blog post.

]]> By: Niall Harbison http://blog.whatclinic.com/2009/10/how-to-reduce-bounce-and-increase-visitor-engagement.html/comment-page-1#comment-770 Niall Harbison Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:47:45 +0000 http://blog.revahealth.com/?p=647#comment-770 Lovely example. Reading so many SEO is dead posts recently but it is crucial for stuff like this. Defo be interested to see how you tested it broken down into more detail. Lovely example. Reading so many SEO is dead posts recently but it is crucial for stuff like this. Defo be interested to see how you tested it broken down into more detail.

]]> By: Richard Hearne http://blog.whatclinic.com/2009/10/how-to-reduce-bounce-and-increase-visitor-engagement.html/comment-page-1#comment-769 Richard Hearne Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:24:52 +0000 http://blog.revahealth.com/?p=647#comment-769 Very interesting, and a great share. How did you test this Caelen? Very interesting, and a great share.
How did you test this Caelen?

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