How to reduce bounce rate? This is one of the most frequently questions asked by bloggers. In today’s blogging tips I would like to tell you 5 ways to reduce bounce rate percentage of your blog.

What is bounce rate?

Basically, when you write article on your blog, you attract attention of people who are looking for information. If someone comes to your blog and then leave immediately then it’s called “bounce rate” by Google. The more you get people staying in your blog and interacting with your blog’s the better your blog quality in the eyes of search engines. If people come to your blog and feel that they don’t get what they are looking for then it will be counted as well and it’s not good for your blog.

Now if you find that your blog has a high bounce rate, then here are 5 things you can do to reduce it:

Avoid adding a lot of ads

There is nothing worse than arriving in a blog that you will only see a series of ads Google Adsense everywhere before you can even read any contents. Reduce advertising and giving people a chance to read the content that you write.

Write interesting blog content

Keep your readers attention by writing lots of content that you think they want to read and share to their frinds. Your content is the reason they clicked your blog address on search engine search result so make sure your content is relevant to what they want. After that you should concentrate in your content quality. Your blog should be informative and this is the most important part: it should be interesting. You should be creative in writing and it takes lots of practice.

Use certain keywords in your blog

To make sure that your readers get what they want in your blog, then you must provide them relevant content. But sometimes it’s just not enough. Therea are times when search engine get your article indexed in keywords that are not the main point of your article. To avoid this, you need to use certain keywords in your article. You can do this by make the keywords in bold, underline or italic. For example: blogging tips for beginners. And don’t forget to add the keywords in tags section.

By doing this, you tell search engines what is your article about.

Keep the theme of your blog easy to navigate

WordPress theme is quite popular that makes more people make theme everyday, there are so many choices that it is difficult to know what should come first. Keep your theme as simple as you can and go for a basic theme to make sure that people find the information they want on your blog. Content is the king.

Use related post wordpress plugin

This is a nice plugin and I recommend it a lot. The plugin will show your readers another articles that may related to the one they have just read. I always use this plugin. You can see the example here below my Shared buttons. The one tittled with ‘Related Posts’.

Okay I hope these tips could help you keep your blog from high bounce rate. As a blogger you really need to be aware of your bounce rate and keep it below 75% if you can. The best way to control this is by installing Google Analytics on your blog. Thanks for reading. Good luck, guys.