Posts Tagged ‘Geek’
Bounce Rates
Lately I’ve been learning more about bounce rates in my Google Analytics. Here’s a bit of a summary on what they are:
“Bounce rate is the percentage of single-page visits or visits in which the person left your site from the entrance (landing) page. Use this metric to measure visit quality – a high bounce rate generally indicates that site entrance pages aren’t relevant to your visitors. The more compelling your landing pages, the more visitors will stay on your site and convert. You can minimize bounce rates by tailoring landing pages to each keyword and ad that you run. Landing pages should provide the information and services that were promised in the ad copy.”
If you have Google Analytics you can view your bouce rate by going Visitors > Visitor Trending > Bounce Rate.
Basically the SMALLER your bouce rate is, the better, becaues that means that people ‘stick around’ when they get to your site. I like to imagine it like this:
Your website/blog is a big bed. People run into your room and they jump on your bed. Sometimes the bed is not what the person wants and as soon as they jump on the bed, they jump off again. You want to make your bed super comfy so that when people jump onto your bed they fall into it and go to sleep, dreaming about lovely things they see on your website!
Bouce rates are measured as percentages. The percentage that’s good for your site will depend on who your target audience is, and what their typical behaviour is. My bounce rate usually sits at about 65%, what’s yours?
My bounce rate from the last week
You can read more about bounce rates over at wikipedia.
Some tips for improving your bouce rate.
Tags: analytics, bouncerate, Geek, google, Tech
Girl Geek Blogger…
So I’ve been featured as a Girl Geek Blogger over at Spy Journal!
Thought I would also take the opportunity to tell you that I’ve been blogging over our work blog: http://elearningaustralia.net.au/blog
It’s be great if you could leave a comment for the students to read!
I see blogging for eLA as one of the ways I can achieve my number 4 New Years Resolution Goal. Another way I’ve been participating more online, is by being part of the twitter365 on Flickr. It’s where you take a picture of yourself each day of the year, and upload it to the group. I’ve done it religiously, except for the days we were overseas. I could have easily gone through and added a photo of me from each day, but have decided to just blank out all those days. I am therefore only really up to day 30-something, even though we’re half way through March…
I would love to know how YOU connect with people online! Let me know in the comments.
Here’s a slideshow of everyone’s photos, and below, a slideshow of just mine.
All:
Me:
