Effects of Bounce Rate For an SEO Ranking

by Radhika Pawar creative content writer

SEO experts keep on debating the relevance of Google Analytics bounce rate to search engine ranking. Despite this, there are several misconceptions surrounding this all-important topic. The result is many website owners optimizing for lower bouncer rates in the hope of improving their ranking, while lower bounce rates don’t simply translate into higher rankings.

 

For those who might not know, bounce rate is the percentage of single-engagement visits to your website. That is the number of visitors who come to your page and leave without viewing any other page on your website or engaging with your page in any meaningful way. Having said that, let’s examine the effects of bounce rate for an SEO ranking.

 

Reasons Google Doesn’t Use Bounce Rate as a Metric

It is worth mentioning that bounce rate is not a reliable measurement of quality. That’s because it can’t accurately determine user engagement since it does not factor in time spent on page. Blogs tend to have bounce rate of 70-90%, content websites about 40-60%, and service sites only 10-30%.

 

It doesn’t make sense for Google to punish certain types of websites based on their Google Analytics’ bounce rate if the purpose of the web page is not to lead the user through the rest of the website.

 

Even though we see Google Analytics data as vital to any sort of testing or analysis, Google isn’t likely to see things the same way. People who believe Google has reason to stalk Google Analytics data cite one of two reasons, each of which can be deconstructed.

 

As we conclude, it is essential to know that Google analytics can be easily manipulated. The amount of posts published on how to detect and filter out bot behavior in Google Analytics should be a powerful indicator on its own of Google Analytics’ inherently unreliable nature. In the event that Google Analytics isn’t powerful enough to automatically filter out manipulative behavior, there is no reason for Google to employ this ‘flawed’ data in its ranking system.

 

The Bottom Line

At the end of the day, what is important isn’t whether Google is tracking bounce rate through Google Analytics and changing your webpage ranking based on it. After all, direct implications are easy to track. What matters the most is how bounce rate indirectly affects the SEO factor’s Google does care about.

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