After starting a website every website owner will try to promote the website through different methods of website promotions like social media promotions, online advertisements, offline advertisements, SEO, link building, Marketing and so on…
The ultimate aim of all these methods are for getting the users to the website. Without the users visiting website, it’s not treated as success. The popular & expert bloggers might feel that Its not that hard to get the people to your website/blog. But for a nonpopular and small websites/blogs, that is a super hard task. Some of the expert bloggers/website owners will feel that, they can bring the people to the blog easily but keeping visitors stay on their blog is much difficult (also, check the Best WordPress SEO Plugins list).
Before we start, what is Page Views & Bounce Rate?
Let’s go into some technical terminology and make our hands dirty to get good results (also, check this useful tutorial – How to Install a WordPress Theme?).
Page Views: According to the Google Analytics “A page view is an instance of a page being loaded by a browser”.
Bounce Rate: It represents the percentage of persons left your site from the page where they land, with out going to any page of a website.
We can bring the people to our website, most of the visitors might leave even with out going to the second page on the website. It increases the Bounce Rate of the website. Directly it also effect you websites page views per visit. Every blogger might use some tool like Google Analytics for tracking the website performance data (also, you can check our WordPress Pricing table plugin).
Now you might be wondering where all these figures count?
For a website which mainly depends on the advertisement revenue it makes adverse effects and some times it might impact on the website existence. Because for earning a good amount of ad revenue, having the higher page views and lower Bounce Rate is a must. Based on these figures you will get paid high with higher eCPM and CPC. Also if the user is going to another page of your website then the advertisers will get a chance to show the relevant advertisement by giving you higher eCPM and CPC.
Tips & Tricks to reduce Bounce Rate and Increase the Page Views
Show the Related Articles at the End of the Post
One of the easiest & popular way to lower bounce rate and increase page views for the WordPress website is to show related/popular content at the end of every single post. The main reason the users left from a website is because its not showing the related articles to read next. By showing the users with related/popular articles from your website, there are chances the visitor can go to other pages which improve the Bounce Rate and Page Views as well. There are number of WordPress plugins to show the related / popular posts to your visitors (also, check our WordPress Countdown plugin).
Those plugins will give you the ability to show the related articles by category or by tags. You may also try to show the other articles written by the current author. If the visitor feels interested in an article, and if you show the related articles section at the end there are good chances the user might visit the related articles.
Produce High Quality and Relevant Content
In all the parameters of the website promotion and performance the “content is King”. If you don’t have the unique and engaging content, it doesn’t matter in which methods you are trying to improve the page views and the bounce rate. If the user finds the content is not interested then they will leave from your website immediately (also, you can check our WordPress Coming Soon plugin).
You need to make sure that your articles are impressive and most relevant. You need to do research while writing an article and write clear and crispy content. If you want to be successful in blogging, you need to spend a lot of time gaining fair knowledge on the topic you are writing.