Will high bounce rate from social traffic affect my post SEO performance?

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Norman_drey

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Trying to push some traffic from social media, I know too well the bounce rate will be super high, will it affect the post SEO performance?
 
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No doubt it will.
But high traffic will also bring you a positive impact
 
Source of traffic doesn't matter, google doesn't like high bounce rates. They think your content is not valuable. Same thing happens on Youtube, videos with low watch time don't get recommended.
 
Project Limitless said:
Source of traffic doesn't matter, google doesn't like high bounce rates. They think your content is not valuable. Same thing happens on Youtube, videos with low watch time don't get recommended.
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But the traffic is social, will it affect SEO?
 
Norman_drey said:
But the traffic is social, will it affect SEO?
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To be honest, I can't say for sure if it affects SEO. But Google does have a problem with social traffic, at least adsense does. I've seen a lot of people get their adsense banned because 90%+ traffic was coming from social media.
 
Norman_drey said:
Trying to push some traffic from social media, I know too well the bounce rate will be super high, will it affect the post SEO performance?
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It can only have a positive impact (if it does have any impact at all). Usually, it's a good idea to send social traffic to your new pages as it helps them get indexed (if the user is using Chrome)
 
Seopreneur01 said:
It can only have a positive impact (if it does have any impact at all). Usually, it's a good idea to send social traffic to your new pages as it helps them get indexed (if the user is using Chrome)
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Hurts my brain
 
Norman_drey said:
Hurts my brain
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Did I say something wrong?

Edit: When I said "if the user is using chrome", I meant if the social traffic coming to your site is via Chrome (because Google does take inputs from Chrome usage to determine a page's popularity and user behavior. It's also the reason why some posts that go viral on social media end up getting boosted in the SERPs too)
 
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I'm going to say yes. Currently, my bounce rate sits at 28%, and I have over 60k keywords ranking.
If I saw a sudden spike to say 60% you bet your ass my SERPs will fall through the roof (or so I assume).

Please note that this is from personal experience and I can only speculate on what I think I would experience.
 
Seopreneur01 said:
Did I say something wrong?

Edit: When I said "if the user is using chrome", I meant if the social traffic coming to your site is via Chrome (because Google does take inputs from Chrome usage to determine a page's popularity and user behavior. It's also the reason why some posts that go viral on social media end up getting boosted in the SERPs too)
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Okay now I understand,

What I want to get clear is: I'm tricking the users to click on the link, users are coming to the wrong page (what they're not expecting to see) so they're going to close it after few seconds.

Will it be a problem?
 
Norman_drey said:
Okay now I understand,

What I want to get clear is: I'm tricking the users to click on the link, users are coming to the wrong page (what they're not expecting to see) so they're going to close it after few seconds.

Will it be a problem?
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That really depends on what you're making them click for. Typically, you have about 2-3 seconds to get someone's attention.
For my ADHD ass, if I can't find what I'm looking for in about 4-5 seconds on a webpage, then I usually close it and go to the next.
 
lukey372 said:
That really depends on what you're making them click for. Typically, you have about 2-3 seconds to get someone's attention.
For my ADHD ass, if I can't find what I'm looking for in about 4-5 seconds on a webpage, then I usually close it and go to the next.
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They're coming to see adult sh*t but when they land at my page what they'll see is me trying to lead them to Christ and more of that :)
 
Norman_drey said:
They're coming to see adult sh*t but when they land at my page what they'll see is me trying to lead them to Christ and more of that :)
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I mean have you looked at maybe targeting Christian groups etc? The more targeted the better.
 
lukey372 said:
I mean have you looked at maybe targeting Christian groups etc? The more targeted the better.
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Nope, the adult world is where I can get more people to click, those guys will click every link to watch p**n
Actually is a tech blog..
 
Norman_drey said:
Nope, the adult world is where I can get more people to click, those guys will click every link to watch p**n
Actually is a tech blog..
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So, you have religious stuff on your tech blog? I'm sorry, but how are your rankings in terms of keywords? I asuume your topical authority would not be good in the eyes of Google IMO. Correct me if I have gotten something wrong.
 
lukey372 said:
So, you have religious stuff on your tech blog? I'm sorry, but how are your rankings in terms of keywords? I asuume your topical authority would not be good in the eyes of Google IMO. Correct me if I have gotten something wrong.
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I use religion as an example, is a full tech blog
 
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