When I go to Google Analytics it tell how many hits we have had, how long of a time frame are we talking. I must be missing it somewhere. I don't know if it is for a week or month or day. Hope this is not a stupid question.
sandynn
sandynn
Keyword meta tags are out of date now..search engines don't even use them. In my mind, bounce rate has to do with the appeal of the page. This is what Google Says:Will some who understands this stuff better than me please go to my home page and tell me why my bounce rate is consistently about 50%?
I've tweaked and tweaked my meta tags, content, layout etc., but still no improvement.
http://www.oakcreekbnb.com.
Will some who understands this stuff better than me please go to my home page and tell me why my bounce rate is consistently about 50%?
I've tweaked and tweaked my meta tags, content, layout etc., but still no improvement.
http://www.oakcreekbnb.com.
What would help you make that determination is to know what keywords are being used to find your home page. Maybe there is a keyword on your home page that is attracting the wrong viewer. Wrong in that they are interested in, say, fishing, vs staying at your place. So, they arrive expecting a fishing website and find a B&B website instead.Proud Texan said:Will some who understands this stuff better than me please go to my home page and tell me why my bounce rate is consistently about 50%?
I've tweaked and tweaked my meta tags, content, layout etc., but still no improvement.
http://www.oakcreekbnb.com
A high bounce rate for a site is not as big a concern as a high bounce rate for a home pageWill some who understands this stuff better than me please go to my home page and tell me why my bounce rate is consistently about 50%?
I've tweaked and tweaked my meta tags, content, layout etc., but still no improvement.
http://www.oakcreekbnb.com.
Hi, Texas...Will some who understands this stuff better than me please go to my home page and tell me why my bounce rate is consistently about 50%?
I've tweaked and tweaked my meta tags, content, layout etc., but still no improvement.
http://www.oakcreekbnb.com.
Good advise all! I'll try another tweak and see if there is any improvement. Thanks.Hi, Texas...Will some who understands this stuff better than me please go to my home page and tell me why my bounce rate is consistently about 50%?
I've tweaked and tweaked my meta tags, content, layout etc., but still no improvement.
http://www.oakcreekbnb.com.
When you quote a single bounce rate (i.e., 50%) for your website, you are talking about an average. This means some referrers will be above that, some below. Who are the really bad referrers? If the bad referrers are search engines, what keywords are they bouncing on?
I suspect this is more misunderstanding than a business or technology problem, because your website is well done.
If your referrals from BB.com or your B&B keyword referrals from google are bouncing at 50%, then you have a problem.
The misunderstanding would be that low quality traffic is not a problem. It's better than having that traffic disappear. We have lots of low quality traffic.
If you want more high-quality traffic why not get the cheap BBonline.com listing?
One could nitpick about your SEO, but it may do you a disservice because it may put your attention in the wrong place, but since you ask:
Why all the SEO weight on:
and little or no SEO weight on these location and lodging keywords:
- "Athens,Texas accommodations"
- "A Little Slice of Heaven in the Country"
"Accommodations" is a lame lodging keyword that travellers rarely query. One final note: having the lodging keyword isolated in the body is not enough for your PRIMARY keyword targets. The text needs to be connected to location (e.g., "East Texas Cabins") and emphasized by placement in the title, meta description, and header tags.
- Bed and Breakfast
- Cabins
- Cottage
- East Texas Post Oak Savannah
- Lodging
Based on your homepage, I would think you would optimize for "Athens Texas Bed and Breakfast" and nowhere is that string to be found. (Google does not look at the keywords meta tag.)
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I shouldn't be getting hits from "Post Oak Savannah" or "Little Slice of Heaven" as these are both .gif files. (apologies to Swirt)You shouldn't be seeing HITS from GA...they don't show that. It has no meaning..
I shouldn't be getting hits from "Post Oak Savannah" or "Little Slice of Heaven" as these are both .gif files. (apologies to Swirt)You shouldn't be seeing HITS from GA...they don't show that. It has no meaning..
I get most of my hits from Google and slightly less from BedandBreakfast.com.
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So, what keywords on Google get you the most bounces? Which ones get you the most 'good' traffic? I used to get tons of traffic from people looking for renovation information when I put up a new page about a renovation here. 90% bounce rate. They looked at the pictures, read the text and then moved on to what they really wanted, which was a renovation directions page, not a B&B.Proud Texan said:I shouldn't be getting hits from "Post Oak Savannah" or "Little Slice of Heaven" as these are both .gif files. (apologies to Swirt)
I get most of my hits from Google and slightly less from BedandBreakfast.com.
Sorry for my impertinence..but why do you refer to HITS...hits are not anything... As per SWIRT: "Hits: is a worthless term that has many meanings but is often a count of every time a file (page, image, graphic, sound...) is sent out by your server, so viewing one page could count for lots of hits due to all the other items that go with the page. Thankfully, Google Analytics does not look at hits. If your tracker reports hits, make sure you know what it is actually counting."I shouldn't be getting hits from "Post Oak Savannah" or "Little Slice of Heaven" as these are both .gif files. (apologies to Swirt)You shouldn't be seeing HITS from GA...they don't show that. It has no meaning..
I get most of my hits from Google and slightly less from BedandBreakfast.com.
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I stand corrected.Right. You can have thousands of hits that do not actuate into bookings. Most are from China or overseas..
The "Little Slice of Heaven" is text in a Corsiva font. It is not an image.I shouldn't be getting hits from "Post Oak Savannah" or "Little Slice of Heaven" as these are both .gif files. (apologies to Swirt)You shouldn't be seeing HITS from GA...they don't show that. It has no meaning..
I get most of my hits from Google and slightly less from BedandBreakfast.com.
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I shouldn't be getting hits from "Post Oak Savannah" or "Little Slice of Heaven" as these are both .gif files. (apologies to Swirt)You shouldn't be seeing HITS from GA...they don't show that. It has no meaning..
I get most of my hits from Google and slightly less from BedandBreakfast.com.
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No apologies to me needed. You may show up for searches for these terms because you have the phrase used in an alt attibute attached to the image of those words. This is as it should be if you have images of text, they should have decent alt attributes.Proud Texan said:I shouldn't be getting hits from "Post Oak Savannah" or "Little Slice of Heaven" as these are both .gif files. (apologies to Swirt)
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