Reduce your site’s bounce rate with SimpleReach Slide

Your site’s bounce rate is an indication of how long people spend on your site. A high bounce rate means that people bounce off your site easily. A high bounce rate is definitely not good for your site.  If you visitors stay longer, read more posts your bounce rate will definitely be reduced and not just bounce off once they arrive at your site. So today I want to share with you how you can reduce your site’s bounce rate using the SimpleReach Slide plugin.

What is Bounce Rate?

Bounce rate is the percentage of single page visits on your site. Simply saying bounce rate is the percentage of visitors that leaves your site from the landing page. So bounce rate has to do with the number of visitors that leaves your site from the same page they came in from without being drawn to read other posts.

Bounce rate = {Total Number of Site’s visitors that viewed just one page/Total Number of visits }

How does Bounce Rate affect a site?

According to my definition of bounce rate earlier, it is obvious that any web page with a high bounce rate is not relevant to the visitors and this will surely affect the ranking of such web pages. So if you site generally has a high bounce rate Google will simply interpret it that your site is not relevant to its visitors and will lower your ranking.

Now one may be wondering if Google actually considers bounce rate as a ranking factor, the answer is YES! Google considers bounce rate as a ranking factor. So for you to appear high on Google ranking you have to lower your bounce rate. A site with low bounce rate will receive more visitors from search engines as it will be ranked high.

What causes high bounce rate?

There are several reasons why your site may have a high bounce rate. These factors may include the following…

1. Quality of content
2. Site design
3. Load time of pages (visitors tend to leave if a site is not loading fast)
4. External links
5. Site Navigation structure
6. Errors
7. Irrelevant keywords selection etc

How do I reduce my site’s bounce rate with SimpleReach Slide?

As much as there are so many things you can do like optimizing your site’s design and layout, writing quality content with relevant keywords, using LinkWithin plugin and internal page linking etc to reduce your site’s bounce rate, I want to teach you how you can reduce your site’s bounce rate with SimpleReach Slide plugin.

SimpleReach Slide plugin is a free WordPress plugin that recommends related posts from within one’s site on a widget that slides out at the bottom of a page or elsewhere as the case may be depending on the settings. Scroll down this page and you will notice a slide out at the bottom right corner of the browser recommending more blog posts from within my site to you. What this plugin does is to suggest to a visitor related posts to the one he just read and if the heading strikes an interest what do you think the visitor will do? Of course he’ll follow such post to another page and instead of leaving from the landing page, SimpleReach Slide plugin has recommended a related post to him.

Without such a plugin a visitor on your site may not know you have such a post within your site. With SimpleReach Slide you can increase your site’s pageviews as related content visitors will likely stick around to read more related posts.

How to Get SimpleReach Slide:

Visit SimpleReach’s website and create an account, then download SimpleReach Slide for WordPress and install on your site, activate the plugin and configure it as you like on the plugin’s setup page. You will be required to enter the login details you registered from their site.

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