How to Reduce Your Bounce Rate

You’ve heard the term “bounce rate” before, but do you know what it means? Google Analytics defines “bounce rate” as the percentage of single page sessions on your website.
Now that you know what a bounce rate is, do you know how you can decrease your bounce rate? Instead of breaking down the specifics of it in a text blog, I’ve decided to create an infographic that shows you what you need to do.
Here’s how you can decrease your bounce rate:
Image by :  QuickSprout.com

Conclusion

If you don’t have much time to focus on decreasing your bounce rate, first look to see where you are in comparison to other sites in your space. For example, the infographic above shows that blogs typically have a bounce rate of 70% to 98%, and e-commerce sites have a bounce rate between 20% to 40%.

Once you know where you stand compared to other sites within your space, you can determine if you need to focus on decreasing your bounce rate or not. If you do need to decrease your bounce rate, consider implementing the following elements:

• More white space to help increase engagement
• Larger headlines to draw your visitors in
• Bulleted lists to make your text more readable
• High contrasting colors to increase usability
• Faster load times to prevent people from leaving in frustration

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GOOGLE ALOGRITHMS: Panda, Penguin and Hummingbird

It has been so long we've not talked about search engine optimization and the time arrives now. So, we're going to pick up the interesting topic - Google Algorithms : Panda, Penguin and Hummingbird. In the past, these were the terrible animals for people but now Google have made them terrible for webmasters. Every webmaster know them very well if you don't get them known before you get hit from them and almost everyone don't want to get them on their way. Yeah! There are also some webmasters (specially called SEO Analysts) who love to fight with them.

Let's come to the real fact now. Google Panda, Penguin and Hummingbird are the algorithms that Google uses in its big search engine. In order to display search results of the desired keyword, Google uses some factors but usually after the gap of 2 3 months Google update these algorithms and they just make changes in the whole search results. Simply, some websites rank lower and some higher after the update. These Google algorithms uses many factors, points, rules to penalize any website or to gift the high rank to them.

I'm writing this article specially for newbies who don't have heard about these Google algorithms before. Commonly, I've described about these algorithms that what they're and what they do but let's dig more about these algorithms one by one.

1. Google Panda

Those were the days when the development of websites was increasing more and more but mostly more than half of them were just duplicating other well published websites. People were copying content from others site instead of creating their own original and high quality content. Some were even re-writing the content by using tools. It was growing more and more even more than spam, this all was just happening to make money online but at last, it was all illegal and original owners had to took action against copyright law but how many complaints do they report, it was a very huge number. Than suddenly in February 2011, Google made a blast and introduces Google Panda. Panda is aimed to take down the sites that has low quality content, duplicate content or re-written content and rank high the original owner. Many sites were affect on the first release and ruined all the crappy sites. If you use to copy content from other sites than remember, you'll dead by Panda soon.

2. Google Penguin

After Panda, The number of duplicating others content by decreasing rapidly but on other side people had started doing over-optimization. Penguin kick the sites away from Google search results who violate Google webmaster guidelines or make use of black hat techniques to rank higher in SERP. This Google algorithm's first release was introduced on 24 April, 2012 and Penguin 2.1 was the most recent update made on 4 Oct 2013. This recent update had affected only 1% searches but previous ones had made big changes. If you do over optimization like keyword stuffing, keyword density out of range, anchor text link building spam, link spam than you will probably get hit from Penguin. Avoid black hat techniques to rank high in SERP and don't violate Google webmaster guidelines to be safe with Google Penguin.

3. Google Hummingbird

When there were Panda and Penguin, many spammers gave up because their all work was going waste and on other hand, Google wanted to grow more and more. Another Google Algorithm called Hummingbird was released on September 27, 2013. Actually, Google revealed this algorithm on that date but Google had started using it back from August 2013. The gurus say that this algorithm is used to bring better and more natural search results. This algorithm improved the way Google showed the search results. Better search results as accurate results, graph results like if I search for "Whats time now in USA" than it directly displays the time in search results page instead of going into the next page. Hummingbird is just all about improving the search results but it took down many sites and also raised the high quality sites.

Conclusion

Now, You just be a good guy and don't mess with these Google algorithms otherwise you can also be their next enemy. Take the guides some experts to be best friends with these algorithms. Being friend with them will let you touch more and more success. That was all for today and hope you enjoyed reading it out. Make a share of this article with your friends. Cheers!

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6 Proven Ways To Increase Website Traffic

Do you think that you’ll publish a new post and people will start sharing and commenting on it? Absolutely, No! Website traffic is always a major problem for Bloggers. Quality Content is not enough for traffic. You have to spread your content all over the world. Without readers / visitors you're website is nothing? It doesn't matter, if you've posted good and informative post on your blog. If it isn't seen by readers. And the only way to get our posts read by people is to promote it. So today, we're going to share some proven strategies for increasing your website traffic. Here's a Proven Methods to Increase Website Traffic in the year.

Socializing - Each blog post should be promoted on social media 

The Social Media usage is increasing day by day. People are using social media for both business and personal usage. Let's take an example of Facebook there are billions of active users on Facebook. So, if you share your blog posts on Facebook, I think it would be great for you. I know what you're thinking now, that how is it possible to reach all those billions of people? It's impossible, I know. But there are hundreds of Facebook group having millions of members. So, just join those groups and share your posts on daily basis. You can get those groups by using Google.

But remember, social media isn’t all about posting content, it’s more about engagement.  So, do post your content, Ask opinions, Do surveys and take the full benefit of social media.

Share your content more that once a day

Many of us have the mentality of sharing once and done. But that's wrong. You publish a new post, and you'll share it just once, so what about those people who missed your post? Some people log in to their account daily, and some people are not regular like others, they log in to their accounts after 1-2 days, while some people on a monthly basis. So what about those people? That's why you should share your content more than once a day.

Okay consider you Publish a post on your website daily. After sharing that post on your social media accounts, share your previous posted content after 5-6 hours and keep sharing your posts after a certain interval.
Here's a simple Time Table for you:

Publish a Post Today! Share it > Share it again after 2 - 3 days >> Share it again after a week and then share the same post after a Month. Isn't it simple?

But remember; don't behave like lazy people by sharing 15-20 times a day. The best way is to share 3-5 times a day and keep your followers busy. Enough said!

Extra Tip:
Share the same post more than once with different Unique and Catchy headlines. Share it with a quote, its title or write an interesting headline.

Participate in Communities Related to you Niche

Here's another killer tip to boost your traffic. Engaging with other bloggers is a great way to boost your traffic. It’s a proven strategy and it helped me a lot in increasing my website traffic.

Lets take an example, you're a designer and imagine what would happen if hundreds of designers meet at one place? Obviously they will share their ideas etc. Same in the case of blogging, if you join a blogging community, you'll meet other bloggers and all of you share your posts. In this way they'll visit your blog and it’s impossible that you wouldn't find some interesting posts written by other blogger.

In this way, you can boost your traffic and engage with other bloggers. And thankfully, you don't need to spend a dime to figure out where a large portion of your audience can be found on the web. So participate in communities related to your niche, engage with other bloggers and increase your website traffic. 

Focus on your Design

"First Impression is the last impression". The first thing that people notice when they visit your blog is your blog design. So, if you want people to stay on your blog then you should give your blog an eye catching look, if they get interested in your blog design then they will read that what you've published on your blog. To make your blog attractive you should give then a clean design which includes Beautiful Header, Easy Navigation and User Friendly.

Submit Your Blog to Bookmarking Websites

Another great way to boost your blog traffic is to submit your content to best bookmarking websites like stumble upon, Reedit, Digg and more. So, submit your blog posts to these bookmarking websites and boost up your traffic. 

Guest Posting

What is Guest Posting? Simply, guest posting is to write an article and submit it to a website that accept guest posts. If your post gets accepted, they'll publish your article on their website and in return you'll get a backlink to your blog. Simple. Right!

Conclusion 

I am sure that these methods will surely make a change in your traffic reports. So, apply it and keep visiting us for more spicy tips. Happy Blogging!

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How to Improve Image Quality in Blogger

Being a blogger user, you might have noticed that sometimes blogger compromised on the image quality. By default when you upload images to your posts, blogger reduces the quality of the image so that your site loads faster than it normally does. In this day and age when websites are getting professional it is essential to take care of each and every element. Therefore, today in this article, we will show you how to improve image quality issue in blogger.

Tips to Improve image quality:

•  Do not use blurry images that are highly pixilated make sure they are of high resolution and are taken from good camera as well!
•  Adopt one width and try to resize your images using any photo editing software and then upload it to your site. This keeps your images quality better as well.
• Make sure that the image that you upload should be in PNG format, JPEG image usually increases the sizes of the image that alarms blogger to compress it in smaller format. 

How to improve image quality in Blogger?

The first step is to login into your Blogger account and go to Template >> Edit HTML. Now in the template coding, search for </head> and just above it paste the following piece of code.

<script type='text/javascript'>//<![CDATA[ $(document).ready(function() { // change the dimension variable below to be the pixel size you want var dimension = 90; // this identifies the PopularPosts1 div element, finds each image in it, and resizes it $('#PopularPosts1, #somethinghere, #related-posts').find('img').each(function(n, image){ var image = $(image); image.attr({src : image.attr('src').replace(/s\B\d{2,4}/,'s' + dimension)}); image.attr('width',dimension); image.attr('height',dimension); }); }); //]]></script>

Now to improve image quality you have to add the DIV ID or DIV class so that it could fetch all the images in it and improve its quality accordingly. We have added most of the common IDs and Classes. However, you can have your own as well by simply replacing #somethinghere from the above code.

Once everything is done, save the template by pressing that orange “Save” button located at the top of the screen and now the quality of your images won’t let your site down.

We hope this tutorial may have helped some of our user in improving the picture quality of their posts, popular posts, recent posts, and etc. In case you have same problem before then do let us know what your solution to the problem was, and let us have a meaningful conversation that could benefit each and every of our users. If you liked this post then, feel free to share it with your fellow blogger friends at Facebook, Google+ or twitter.

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How to Optimize Images for SEO Automatically in Blogger

 

This is done so that the images on your blog page automatically indexed by the search engines like Google so you are not bothered by adding it manually (add a description of the <img alt="description of the image" height="125" scr="/image.png" width="125"/> when posting images).
The way it can be said to be a hassle. With this automatic way each image has the same description with the title of the picture. Therefore, you should give them appropriate names for each picture to be posted.
Why should Optimization For SEO Image Automatically?
Because the image on the blog page is one medium that can be used for traffic on search engines because most Internet users are very likely to seek or simply browsing to look at pictures.
Here's how to install automated SEO code in the image.
SEO SERVICE

Find </body> tags on your blog template, then copy and paste the code below just above the </body>

<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
$(document).ready(function() {
$('img').each(function(){
var $img = $(this);
var filename = $img.attr('src')
$img.attr('alt', filename.substring((filename.lastIndexOf('/'))+1, filename.lastIndexOf('.')));
});
});
//]]>
</script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
$(document).ready(function() {
$('img').each(function(){
var $img = $(this);
var filename = $img.attr('src')
$img.attr('title', filename.substring((filename.lastIndexOf('/'))+1, filename.lastIndexOf('.')));
});
});
//]]>
</script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
var scrollTimer = null;
$(window).scroll(function() {
var viewportHeight = $(this).height(),
scrollbarHeight = viewportHeight / $(document).height() * viewportHeight,
progress = $(this).scrollTop() / ($(document).height() - viewportHeight),
distance = progress * (viewportHeight - scrollbarHeight) + scrollbarHeight / 2 - $('#scroll').height() / 2;
$('#scroll')
.css('top', distance)
.text(' (' + Math.round(progress * 100) + '%)')
.fadeIn(100);
if (scrollTimer !== null) {
clearTimeout(scrollTimer);
}
scrollTimer = setTimeout(function() {
$('#scroll').fadeOut();
}, 1500);
});
//]]>
</script>

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5 Easy Steps To Increase Blog Traffic

1. Make a good Keyword Articles
Too many keywords (long tail keywords) can make low competition, meaning the search is rarely done by writing long keyword. Step is easy. Do not worry about keyword density and most importantly to write original content, interesting, informative.

 

 
2. Optimized Post Title
Keyword optimization is still there in addition to the first step. Creating keyword density will alleviate the problem the original content. Keywords are the easiest way for a search engine for connecting traffic to the site they are looking for. Place keywords in the title as close as possible to the keywords that are often searched person to help search engines find your website or blog

3. Image More Effective than pile word
The server does not read images. But he read the description placed in the tag. The placement of the keywords in image alt tags is another way search engines can find the content and can bring the article to search engine that deserve a ranking.

4. Placement Keyword
Place the keywords in title, keywords in your subtitle, keywords in the text of your article or sentence in the first paragraph and the last in the blog, and of course in your picture by using alt tag. Once you have these 5 keywords in place, one in each paragraph or in any other sentence that is more than enough and not too much. And do not forget to write naturally

5. Answer The Questions
Once formatted and optimized, answer the following questions ..?
Are your article interesting?
Is your article informative?
Are your articles answer questions that often arise?
Is there something that is valuable to the reader?
Is your article original?

If all answered YES, then buddy has implemented excellent SEO formula.

Hope, you will like our post. So please share it with your friends on social media. Happy Blogging !

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