Website Traffic Problems

Traffic problems for a knowledge based website

[azamsharp1]

Hi,

I run <snip> and I have been running it for 2 years now. I get around 100K page views a month. I have over 700 articles published on that website.

For some reason the bounce rate is 82%. I cannot seem to figure out why such a high bounce rate.

I post original, quality material and still I get no views. I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

PS: Moderators apologies if I am posting it on the wrong forum.

[edited by: engine at 3:52 pm (utc) on Apr 14, 2010]

[bill]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld azamsharp1.

Have you ever done any independent reviews of your site to confirm that it is 'quality' material?

[lammert]

Hi azamsharp1, a high bounce rate is not necessarily a sign of a bad website. On a community site I would worry with a bounce rate of 82%, but on a site with for example tutorials to solve specific technical problems, it may actually indicate that users directly found what they were looking for, were satisfied and left.

If 100K page views per month is high or low depends on the niche you are targeting. It may be the maximum you can get without broadening the scope of the site.

[dickbaker]

If you're using Google Analytics to measure bounce rate, you can adjust the code so that you set a time limit on a page before it's considered a bounce. The code below is set so that a page view lasting longer than ten seconds is not considered a bounce. You can adjust the time as you think is appropriate.

I had a bounce rate of about 49% on my site, which I questioned. After I implemented this script the rate dropped to about 17%.

<script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
try {
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("your_tracker_number");
pageTracker._trackPageview();
setTimeout('pageTracker._trackEvent(\'NoBounce\', \'NoBounce\', \'Over 10 seconds\')',10000);
} catch(err) {}</script>

[azamsharp1]

Thank you very much!