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Tips To Reduce Bounce Rate of Your blog – Part 2

We all now know what bounce rate is and how it affects our blog. Some days back you might have seen an article with the same topic on how to reduce bounce rate of your blog. At that moment, when I was writing that post I missed out on some points that are also important in reducing your blog’s bounce rate. If you haven’t yet read it, I advice you to first read our first post.

The points I am going to write about are suggested by the readers via comments. Not everyone reads every comment so I thought of converting it into a post and discuss it in detail. I hope you will like it. So here goes Tips to Reduce Bounce Rate :D

Page Load Time

What you do when you open a website and it takes much time to load ?? You close it at once. Right ? So what do you expect from your readers. Will they wait for your blog to open if it is taking much time ? Of course, the answer is no. This is the biggest thing that directly affects your blog’s bounce rate. If your blog’s load time is very much then don’t expect a low bounce rate. You can reduce the load time by many methods. Just Google it and you would get people ready to help you with it. Once your blog’s page load time is less, then you can expect a to Reduce Bounce Rate.

Interlinking your posts

Do you know what interlinking means ?? Hell, yes. You know what interlinking of posts is and you have seen it on many blogs. You can see an example in this very post itself. By interlinking your old posts at appropriate words, you will compel your readers to click on the link and navigate to the other post. Now what else do you want ?? Imagine if you interlink all the posts then the probability of your readers staying glued to your blog for a long time. This is a very good news as your blog’s you will see that you had Reduce Bounce Rate.

Creating videos

This point I wasn’t knowing but found it useful after doing some search. How is it useful in decreasing the bounce rate ? Some of our readers (including me) love to learn something through a video presentation rather that reading a post. You can provide a video in some post to convey your message with more influence. You can easily create videos and upload them on Youtube. Isn’t that easy? Try it, it will work wonders for your blog to Reduce Bounce Rate.

Proper navigation in your blog

Provide proper menu in your blog with links that point to different categories. Try to be clean with whichever method you use on your blog. The ‘Categories’ widget will also help. Don’t avoid such things considering it small because such ‘small’ things will make a big difference in the bounce rate.

Summary

I hope that by following and applying the above points to your blog you will see a great difference in your blog’s bounce rate. If still I am missing out on some point then please comment below and let us know about it. Happy Blogging :D

Arbaz Khan is a passionate blogger who loves to write about technology updates, social media, blogging and computers on his own blog TechBreach.net

How To Reduce Bounce Rate Of Your Blog ?

By Arbaz Khan / Blogging, Blogging Tips, How To

The bloggers who are well aware of the do’s and don’ts of blogging will never face any problem in their blogging career. They are well aware of their reader’s taste and they know how to get visitors turning back to their blog. This is one thing. Even a newbie blogger can do the above things by promoting his/her blog on social networks or through any other medium. He can bring in more and more readers to his blog. But the main question that arises here is that the people who are visiting your blog are reading your articles or just closing the tab ??? This is one tough question to answer. This thing is termed as the “Bounce Rate” in the blogosphere.

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What is Bounce Rate ??

Bounce rate is a term, a percentage to be precise that tells you if your visitors are staying on your blog for sometime or are just opening and closing it. If your bounce rate percentage is higher than you have to worry about it. But if it is low then you are on the right track. To track the bounce rate of your blog/website, you can use Google Analytics. If your bounce rate is more than you will not get any benefit from blogging in spite of carrying out a hardcore promotional campaign.

How to reduce bounce rate ??

There are some factors you should take into consideration while doing this. If you know that your bounce rate is high, then its time to rethink your blogging strategy. Below I am listing some things that you should concentrate more in order to reduce bounce rate.

Design of your blog :-

The first thing you have to improve is your blog’s design. Choose such a template that has an eye-pleasing color scheme. The logo and the header of your blog is the first thing your visitor will see. So design your logo in such a way that it reflects your blog’s topic. Provide proper links to different topics on your blog so that your visitor don’t have to search for it.

Catchy titles :-

Use titles that immediately catch your readers’ attention. Once your reader finds the title interesting he will surely read your article and thus will spend more time on your blog. Get choosy with the titles, include keywords. Sometimes creating a controversy will also be helpful.

Content :-

The thing that plays a major part in your blog’s success is the content of your blog. The more engaging the content, the more will it compels your visitors to turn into readers. So always try to create content that will appeal to the readers.

Use of Ads on your blog :-

Don’t fill your blog with unnecessary ads by thinking that you will earn more money by doing such things. Your earnings will decrease instead of increasing. Place ads at relevant positions only. In sidebars, headers etc. Don’t go for many ad units and confuse your readers with your ads and content. In a bid to earn more, you will lose your regular readers and thus your steady income.

Provide proper widgets :-

This can also prove useful in decreasing the bounce rate. Using widgets such as ‘Popular Posts’, ‘Recent Posts’ can also help you in engaging your reader for a long time. You can play around with different titles of your widgets like ‘This week’s hot posts’, ‘All-time popular posts’ etc. Even include a ‘Related post’ widget after your every post and the ‘Recommended Slide’.

Final Words :-

I hope that the above post will prove helpful to you in reduce bounce rate of your blog. This has helped me and can even prove beneficial to you too. If you think I missed out on some important point about reduce bounce rate then please let me know. I will be more than happy. Peace pals ! and Happy Blogging :)

Arbaz Khan is a passionate blogger who loves to write about technology updates, social media, blogging and computers on his own blog TechBreach.net

Top 10 Best Ways To Build Up Mailing List

By Rajkumar Jonnala / Blogging Tips, Free Traffic, How To

E-Mail technology is going viral than older days national postal service and it has just because of the quick action using the technology. It is also used to let the end users know about the products in the market by internet marketers. Internet marketers use the list of mail ids to market the product . The only easy way to get the e-mail list built in huge size, gaining a subscribers frequently. Here I sorted out the top 10 ways to build up mailing list by gaining large amount of subscriber to do viral marketing of any blog/website/product.

1. E-Mail Subscription Box

This is the foremost and easy to get subscribers and their e-mail ids. Just create a killer content and make your visitors enjoyable on your content and convert the visitors to subscribers by placing a e-mail subscription feed box wherever it has the potential place to receive as much subscribers as possible.

2. Giveaways

To attract the new visitors and make them as a subscribers, just announce a giveaway of any worthy product for free and put the subscription option as mandatory field to enter the giveaway.

3. Discount Incentives

Offer some coupon codes for the products that you know lately and to keep them updated, put a subscription box under the coupon code or else make the subscription option as required field to view the coupon code.

4. Pop-up Plugin

There are some of free and premium plugins and codes available to prompt the dialog box to ask the visitors to provide their e-mail id for the latest updates and newsletter subscription. This will gradually increase your subscribers and size of e-mail list can be hiked.

5. Encouraging Visitors To Comment

At the end of each and every post, ask your visitors to comment their opinions and suggestions, also ask them to share their doubts without any hesitation. Here already e-mail field is mandatory and it can be used to increase the mailing list.

6. E-Book Publication

Do publicize an electronic book (e-book) on the field of expertise and ask subscribers to download by providing their e-mails and keep an eye on tracking those e-mails lists and build it up.

7. Forums

Forum is the yet another good way to build huge e-mail lists in very short duration of time. Mostly all of you know about the process of getting in to forums by signing up with e-mail verification. This is a viral and mass way of building up mail list.

8. E-Mail export from social networks

Mailing list can also be increased by exporting your friends e-mail id from the social network sites into CSV files for transferring friends to another social network. It is most probably available on all social networks.

9. Subscribe prior to download

Any of your content has a download link or are you making up of it, just integrate this option (subscription box) to retrieve the download link and add their ids in your mailing list.

10. Surveys

Last, but not least. This way is very useful in building mail list and getting feedback from them as well. Open a survey to fill them up about your work and put the e-mail id field as mandatory to get into feedback and increase your mailing list size.

Author Bio: Rajkumar Jonnala is a full time SEO Blogger and has number of blogs related to health, technology, education, travel in which one of the best is PHP Training In Hyderabadand PHP Training.

Should You Copy Content From Other Blogs Without Giving Credit ?

By Arbaz Khan / Blogging, Blogging Tips, How To

Blogging is not that easy as it looks from outside. Once you explore it yourself you will come to know that it is one of the most difficult jobs in the world. But if you blog with a proper approach then you won’t face much problems. But if you start a blog just by reading some fancy story of “How I made $10k from blogging”, your blog and even you will reach nowhere. This has become like a trend today. Thousands of blogs are being created on a daily basis of which only 2-3 blogs are worth reading. And in this madness of ‘earning $10k per month’ they are left short of ideas. This is the point where all this copy content from other blogs take place. Today I will tell you about some unseen aspects of this very topic.

Why a Blogger Copies ? What Happens After That ??

Some dumb people, just for the sake of posting on their blogs, copy full articles from others blogs. They don’t think that the owner of the host blog might have done some serious work to just create that post. Such people think that copying the most popular article from the successful blogs will give them high traffic and some search engine ranking. But they don’t know that search engines are much more smarter than such copy-cats. Search engines are able to differentiate between what’s original and what’s duplicate. Even if a blog gets some high amount of traffic, then also he won’t be able to earn a good amount of money. All the biggest monetizing programs demand quality content and don’t accept blogs not fitting in this criteria. Thus the dream of making “$10k per month” is shattered.

A different Perspective of Plagiarism (Copying From other Blogs)

Now let’s see upon it in a different way. A blogger, no matter how successful he is, at last he is a human. And we all know humans are not perfect. Our brains cannot produce new ideas everytime. And if you are the only author of your blog, this will be the greatest hurdle between you and your success. At this time, impatient people are bound to make mistakes like copying from other blogs. If a blogger wants to embrace the success than he should not produce content that is already posted somewhere else. So what he should do at such crucial time?? Simple, give the due credits. If you have liked some post on other blogs and want to share it then you should give the credits to its original author. Any author would never object to this thing. Make this as a habit. It will never harm you, it has never harmed anyone.

I will tell you something. A few days back, I was reading an article on Problogger and I saw that Darren Rowse has used a quote from a post on other blog. He even gave credits of a simple quote to its original author. And I am telling you to give the credits of a post. See around the biggest blogs, you will always find the credit links in the posts, maybe in the beginning or at the end. Some great bloggers are also providing credit links to even the images used. This is not possible if you are using Google images as you won’t know which one is original. Even I use Google for images as it is easy. But I emphasize on using Flickr or anything similar for images.

Final Words

Always give the credits to the original author. You will take a few minutes to copy the article which might have been produced after some serious researching and hard work. So never copy. If you like the idea of the post, write it on your blog in your own words and don’t forget to provide the credit link. I hope that this might have proved helpful to you guys. Happy Blogging :D

Arbaz Khan is a passionate blogger who loves to write about technology updates, social media, blogging and computers on his own blog TechBreach.net

5 Reasons Why Your Blog Sucks

By Kimberly / Blogging Tips

Guest post contributed for Name.com by Kimberly Myers. Kimberly is a freelance writer and contributes to a number of blogging communities. She also buys and sells domains and websites.

Everyone can have a blog, but not everyone is good at blogging. Let’s face it – a lot of blogs suck.

What makes a blog suck? Some of the factors depend on your niche. However, there are five common reasons many blogs of all categories are subpar. If they describe your blog, it might suck, but only for now! Luckily, they are easy to fix.

Lacking a common theme

It can be challenging for an unfocused blog to gain readers. That is not to say every post should be exactly the same, but it’s often good for them to have something in common. That way, readers have an idea what to expect, and they can look forward to your posts.

If you feel like your blog is getting scattered, think back to the past. Most people were moved to start blogging because they wanted to communicate something to people outside of their current limits, be it geographical or social. Perhaps they had a strong interest in a subject, so they wanted to share what they knew, or what they had taken the time to discover. Reflect on why you started blogging in the first place and consider returning to that general idea, or something you’re equally passionate about now.

Neglecting your content

Most people visit a blog for content that adds value to their lives. They don’t want to feel duped into selecting a page with nothing more than poor content propped up by search engine optimization tricks. The tricks may have got readers there, but it won’t make them stay, and it certainly won’t compel them to return. Be sure your content is solid. As soon as you neglect content, your blog begins to suck.

Not updating regularly

You should always be offering readers new material. Once your updates drop to less than once a week, you’re probably not updating frequently enough. After you have established a workable time frame for updates, stick to it. Your readers will begin to expect posts at certain intervals, and if you skip out on posts often, it will likely turn people off. If you know that your updates will suffer in the days ahead because of scheduling conflicts, complete posts early. Then, schedule them to be posted around the date most readers would expect it.

Failing to hold conversations with your readers and fellow bloggers

Blogs are not one-way lectures – they’re dialogues. Just as they allow you to broadcast your ideas rapidly, they are designed for quick reader responses, too. The best blogs have space for comments. Sometimes, they even have questions in the posts to get the conversation going in the comment section. Bloggers can then hop in the conversation and keep the discussions going.

Not only should you communicate with your readers, but you should reach out to other bloggers, especially those who write on topics similar to yours. These conversations can help enrich your segment of the blogosphere, leading to better blogs all around. They could also possibly direct traffic to your site.

Being afraid to take risks

You shouldn’t forget that, when it comes to social media, little is set in stone. Blogs are a great way to show creativity and ingenuity, and sometimes you have to break a few rules to stay true to those traits. If you have faith in a blogging project, don’t let fear stop you from trying it out.

Even if your blog sucks now, it has the potential to be great, especially if you’re dedicated to improving it. A few changes can really turn your blog around.