I am using Google analytics and it gives me daily 49-50% bounce rate. I have tried everything to reduce bounce rate. I removed all the pictures from my blog. I even changed my blog template. But still i am getting 49 or 50% bounce rate daily. Pls tell me the way to reduce bounce rate.

Thanks In Advance.....

You could try making the Adsense ad on the top a little more subtle or simply removing it.

For which site? One in your sig I assume?

There are three in his signature, and they're all crap.

Bounce rate is a misleading statistic. Sometimes bounce rates will be higher from page to page simply because your users found what they wanted the first time. One of my most popular pages on my blog has a bounce rate of 90%, but it's distributed all over the place so I know people are reading and understanding it.

In your case, though, I think the bounce rate is a subset of poor design...not aesthetically, but functionally. For example, I clicked on the MBA colleges in India blog, and the first thing I saw was a post dated November 11, 2008. The last time I checked, we were still in March.

Secondly, you've got issues with copy. It doesn't read smoothly and in a manner that people would be interested in.

Third, your blog topic is "colleges in India". Why aren't you focusing on India exclusively? You've got the USA, England, and about a dozen other places.

Simply put, you're focusing on the wrong end of the equation..."you" vs. "them".

Ok here's my 2 cents.

If I landed on your page and was looking to persue an MBA in India, then I would click immediately off your page to the colleges with the URLs in the list, hence I need only this page of information, it supplies me with what I need to continue my research, and I then bounce to the college of choice for more research.

A 50% bounce rate in this case is not bad: 1 in 2 , lets look at the glass being half full and not half empty.

Your page design however, is clearly setup to obtain cash through a Google Adsense campaign, and will therefore increase your bounce rate and put coin into your pocket, which is what I think you have originally set the page to do. i.e. make you money for little information.

Lastly, it is clear your site is written as English as a second language, and I could quote Adam here but the first line of his post says it all.

Bottom line, I do not know how many visitors you attract on a daily basis but consider yourself lucky that people even stay to view more than one page.

Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

For which site? One in your sig I assume?

LOL......I am getting so much bounce rate for my SMS Jokes Blog.

Originally Posted by yankees51

Ok here's my 2 cents.

If I landed on your page and was looking to persue an MBA in India, then I would click immediately off your page to the colleges with the URLs in the list, hence I need only this page of information, it supplies me with what I need to continue my research, and I then bounce to the college of choice for more research.

A 50% bounce rate in this case is not bad: 1 in 2 , lets look at the glass being half full and not half empty.

Your page design however, is clearly setup to obtain cash through a Google Adsense campaign, and will therefore increase your bounce rate and put coin into your pocket, which is what I think you have originally set the page to do. i.e. make you money for little information.

Lastly, it is clear your site is written as English as a second language, and I could quote Adam here but the first line of his post says it all.

Bottom line, I do not know how many visitors you attract on a daily basis but consider yourself lucky that people even stay to view more than one page.

Thanks LOL........for your valuable info.