Right now I have a site that's a few months old that I'm in the process of SEO'ing. When I do my SEO on new sites I like to grab some cheap traffic off Twitter and send them to various pages on the site because well, I think building a bunch of links to a site with no visitors would look sketchy. But now that I'm starting to rank for a couple keywords I'd like to install analytics and further optimize the site. My main concern though is that if I install analytics I'll be penalized for the Twitter traffic that bounces right off the page. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with a similar situation or has any thoughts in it.
There's speculation that bounce rate can affect ranking, but I'm not sure if anyone has concrete examples. If you're starting to build links though, I would ignore the twitter traffic now, unless it's relevant and the visitors might be interested in your site(s).
I think the bounce rate is bull. I've got a site with 72% bounce rate that is #3 for my keyword. KW's difficulty level in MNF is Red 38,000.
