Help with bounce rate

Nexusx2

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Direct traffic from blog comment tools are messing up my bounce rate. They are coming in direct and then posting a spam comment. I used a simple capcha wordpress plugin and I'm fine with marking them as spam but they are killing my bounce rate at around 75% So I'm wondering if there is something I can do on my end to minimize the bounce rate. Any advice?
 
Put a compelling video on your site at least 30 seconds long. 1 minute is better.

Split your article into two sections so that your visitor has to go to another page to finish reading.

Put a puzzle on the page, or a game.

Give something away that requires the visitor to click thru to another page.

Put an info graphic on the site, link to it from the home page.

Put a flow chart or mind map on the page.

Have a graphic built of a blueprint of somethinga nd put it on a page. I have one of a hamburger, its made like a cad drawing and has a bill of material and everything on it.

Put in a humor section, and thumbnail it on the home page.

Put a link ahlfway thru the article and at the end that links to additional related information on the page, so your visitor will go there next.

Put a hidden spot on the pagel with n Easter egg on it. I went to one that had an exploding page graphic, when I found find the graphic, my screen showed a quick screen explosion. It looked a lot like the old Batman BAM graphics. I spent 20 minutes trying to find it...( I lost this site, if anyone has seen it, pm me the URL.)

Put a link on the home page that leads to another page where your visitors can request content they would like to see.

That's all I got on short notice.
 
I've used a small niche related puzzle on my website and it really helped with the bounce rate, but it decreased a bit adsense CTR.
 
Nexus,

You could try to identify something unique about those visits and then create a filter in order to exclude them from your data. Most of my experience is with analytics so I can't offer other solutions but in that platform, you can exclude traffic based on certain characteristics. For instance IP address.

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033162?hl=en

Hope that helps,

Shawn
 
Install a 3rd party comment system like Disqus and stop outrageous spam and make a little money from that comment traffic as well..
 
Make sure that your page loads fast. If visitors get to your site and it is not loading fast, they will leave in a hurry.
 
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