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aneil On February 20, 2023




Freeport, Trinidad and Tobago
#1New Post! May 20, 2010 @ 05:03:01
hey, i checked out my site's analytics a few minutes ago and.

pageviews are going up (slowly)
visitors are going up and absolute visitors are going up.

the problems?

bounce rate remains high and 80% of visitors dont return.

i know that the solution for both these problems is to get more engaging content.

any ideas on this?

any other possible solutions?
El_Tino On October 12, 2023
booyaka!





Albuquerque, New Mexico
#2New Post! May 20, 2010 @ 06:07:03
Where's your traffic coming from? What are the demographics of the visitors?
aneil On February 20, 2023




Freeport, Trinidad and Tobago
#3New Post! May 20, 2010 @ 15:56:28
@El_Tino Said

Where's your traffic coming from? What are the demographics of the visitors?


google, direct traffic, google images and facebook in that order.

the top countries are usa, trinidad and tobago and the uk.
47% use firefox and 21% chrome.
i'm not sure what other demographics i could get (in terms of age etc)

the ones that found it on google, is their a way of using the keywords they found the site with to get a higher page rank?
El_Tino On October 12, 2023
booyaka!





Albuquerque, New Mexico
#4New Post! May 20, 2010 @ 16:21:29
Well, google images will basically be bounces for almost 100% of the traffic. So that probably makes up a lot of it.

If it's the site in your homepage, you might also want to move the main column to the left and put the ads on the right, and label them as ads. I'm not really sure where I'm supposed to click on your site.
aneil On February 20, 2023




Freeport, Trinidad and Tobago
#5New Post! May 20, 2010 @ 18:37:15
@El_Tino Said

Well, google images will basically be bounces for almost 100% of the traffic. So that probably makes up a lot of it.

If it's the site in your homepage, you might also want to move the main column to the left and put the ads on the right, and label them as ads. I'm not really sure where I'm supposed to click on your site.


ok thanks, i'm working on moving the columns.
right now i do stuff to specifically get my images to come up on google images.
is that a bad thing? would it affect page rank?
Lili On July 12, 2019
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Sunshine Land,
#6New Post! May 20, 2010 @ 18:40:41
The main issue I see is that your site is very graphic heavy, so there isn't a lot of obvious distinction as far as where the content is, where you're supposed to focus on the page. It's looks nice, but it's not real intuitive.
El_Tino On October 12, 2023
booyaka!





Albuquerque, New Mexico
#7New Post! May 20, 2010 @ 18:46:50
@aneil Said

ok thanks, i'm working on moving the columns.
right now i do stuff to specifically get my images to come up on google images.
is that a bad thing? would it affect page rank?


I don't think it will affect your page rank, but you'll have a high bounce rate. You might want to use popups or something if you want to monetize that traffic.
El_Tino On October 12, 2023
booyaka!





Albuquerque, New Mexico
#8New Post! May 20, 2010 @ 18:52:55
I just checked and my bounce rate for google images is actually only 65%.

I agree with lili, you might want to add some more text into the equation.
aneil On February 20, 2023




Freeport, Trinidad and Tobago
#9New Post! May 20, 2010 @ 19:02:38
@Lili Said

The main issue I see is that your site is very graphic heavy, so there isn't a lot of obvious distinction as far as where the content is, where you're supposed to focus on the page. It's looks nice, but it's not real intuitive.


i think i'll put in some text over each column; "advertisements" over the smaller column and "featured content" or "latest posts" over the other.
what do you think.

i'm thinking of toning down the colors in the ads too, so they arent too distracting.
this way everything would be black, white or gray except for the main content.
Lili On July 12, 2019
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Sunshine Land,
#10New Post! May 20, 2010 @ 19:04:46
@aneil Said

i think i'll put in some text over each column; "advertisements" over the smaller column and "featured content" or "latest posts" over the other.
what do you think.

i'm thinking of toning down the colors in the ads too, so they arent too distracting.
this way everything would be black, white or gray except for the main content.


What would be kind of neat is a shading effect so that the main content column seems to overlay the other content, and it stands out more, know what I mean?
aneil On February 20, 2023




Freeport, Trinidad and Tobago
#11New Post! May 20, 2010 @ 19:07:05
@Lili Said

What would be kind of neat is a shading effect so that the main content column seems to overlay the other content, and it stands out more, know what I mean?


i think i know what you mean.
so that the grey wouldnt turn abruptly to white?
and so that the bigger column would seem on top?
Lili On July 12, 2019
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Sunshine Land,
#12New Post! May 20, 2010 @ 19:08:58
@aneil Said

i think i know what you mean.
so that the grey wouldnt turn abruptly to white?
and so that the bigger column would seem on top?

I would make the background color of the main content white, and give it a drop shadow onto the left-hand column so it seems to pop up off the page, yes. Also, I would make the left column a bit narrower.
aneil On February 20, 2023




Freeport, Trinidad and Tobago
#13New Post! May 20, 2010 @ 19:19:02
@Lili Said

I would make the background color of the main content white, and give it a drop shadow onto the left-hand column so it seems to pop up off the page, yes. Also, I would make the left column a bit narrower.


ok, thanks alot. i'll start on that.
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