Page Bounce Rate

Bounce Rate
The Bounce Rate is still not improving on the web site, and I've been working to improve or reduce the bounce rate all year. From the Google help page the definition is; “Bounce rate is the percentage of single-page visits or visits in which the person left your site from the entrance (landing) page.”. Or to say it another way, a visitor only sees one page out of the entire site and then chicks away to another website.

Now in some cases just hitting one page would be fine; say they found the site via a Google search for SCSI Cable Assemblies, and visited that particular page and clicked away. Well they found the vendor they were looking for and went out to read the online-paper. But at the same point I do expect some amount of people to check out more then one page per visit. Of course this is true, many hits result in multi-page visits. In fact some sub sections of the site always see visits that result in many page views per visit.

Now the down side of having a poor bounce rate is that it's a bit hard to correct. The only recourse I have is to add related links to a page with a high bounce rate and hope that one of those links are clicked. Some pages lend them selves to handle related page-to-page links while other pages do not, so it's hit or miss. Over the last nine months I've been trying to add related links to pages that had a high bounce rate.

Of course I could always start to write a multi-page articles and include a 'next page' link at the bottom of each page. Unfortunately much of the site is really not set up as a group of technical articles which span many pages.

Here is a sample of four pages that seem to have an increased Bounce Rate over this year.

Table of American Wire Gauge.
Description of the DVI interface.
Description of the Firewire Bus.
Cable insulation color coding.

Related blog posts;
SEO Tactics and Visits from Image Searches [6/22/09]
How to decrease Bounce Rate [2/13/09]

Photo; Maximum Thermal Impedance of a 2N5003.
Ref; How to Derate a 2N5003 Transistor.

Office Live and their Free Web Services

I finally logged back into my officelive account after 7 months of not checking it. I stopped logging in after Microsoft disallowed any other browser but MS Explorer from accessing the account. Of course I hadn't had any updates either, but I would have like to see the site stats regardless.

Any way Microsoft had said you would get a free web site, free hosting, and a free domain name. Now they indicate a policy change and they will no longer pay for the domain name; the interfacebus.net domain name expires April of next year.

The question is do I want this site, or is the site even making any money for interfacebus.com?
The web site really only has about a dozen pages


What I don't like about Officelive:
I can't run Google ads.
I can't login with out using MS Explorer.
The web tools aren't that great.

What I like about the web site:
It locks down the interfacebus.net domain name.
The site has a Page-Rank of 3
The site has sent 944 visitors to interfacebus.com [over 3 years]
---- Serialphy.com has only referred 247 in the last year.
---- google-pages [defunct] referred 2,597 visits over the last 3 years.
---- google sites has sent in 499 in just the last three months.
---- google knols has sent in 783 visitors in just a year and a half.
The site has been online for 3 years [06/06] and has history.
---- The incoming referred visitors view more pages and stay on the site longer
The site allows interfacebus to show up twice on a google search [cause it's a different site]

What is it just $10 a year anyway for a domain name, did I make that from those 900 visitors? It is free advertising [or was], but people posting about my web site in on-line forums sent in 37,127 visitors over the last 3 years! now that's free advertising......

The last related posting regarding interfacebus.net was 4/08 Usage Stats.

Web Site Status

Its be a month without blogging, so time to generate an input.

Web visits are up this month by several hundred, but I think it's just because its seasonal. Nominal hits are running around 8,700 visits a day.

Seems like I just checked for bad links a few weeks ago. The sitemap was also updated over the last few weeks, but the system will not let me back in to make any more changes [not sure way?]...

Added a new page to the Google site covering Capacitor frequency operation. From the "What's new" blog it appears that about one new page a week is added to the main site.

I also notice that one of the interface bus pages has only received 21 page visits since Jan 08. However it may just be that the page covering the Medical Information Bus only has a few sentences of text.