Bounce Rate is the percentage of visitors who leave your website after viewing a single page. High bounce rate is a serious problem for the website owners. It drops your website in search ranks and also leads to drop in ad revenues. Thankfully, there are good WordPress plugins that help to reduce bounce rate and increase page views of your WordPress website or blog.
Let’s check them out:
1) Reduce Bounce Rate
This useful WordPress plugin offers you real time on site and bounce rate in Google Analytics. It is a simple and effective plugin and is compatible with Google Analytics by Yoast. Some of the amazing features of this plugin include track page scrolls, code placement choice between header and footer, old and new tracking codes are supported, set maximum tracking time and more.
Some useful insights about Reduce Bounce Rate:
Cost: Free
Ratings: 4.8 out of 5 stars
Requires: 2.6 or higher
Compatible up to: 4.2.3
Last updated: 2015-5-1
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2) Thank Me Later
Thank Me Later WordPress plugin sends ‘Thank You’ emails to your commenters. With this plugin, a simple message saying thanks will be emailed after a time of your choice such as five minutes, a day or a month. It helps to attracts readers back to your blog and asks them to check for replies to their comments.
Some useful insights about Thank Me Later:
Cost: Free
Ratings: 4.7 out of 5 stars
Requires: 3.1 or higher
Compatible up to: 4.0.6
Last updated: 2014-9-30
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3) WPtouch Mobile Plugin
WPtouch Mobile Plugin automatically adds a simple and elegant mobile theme for mobile visitors to WordPress website. This plugin instantly enables a mobile-friendly version of your website that passes Google Mobile Test and ensures that your SEO rankings do not drop. You can customize many aspects of the appearance to deliver a fast, user-friendly and stylish version of your website to the mobile visitors.
Some useful insights about WPtouch Mobile Plugin:
Cost: Free
Ratings: 3.6 out of 5 stars
Requires: 3.9 or higher
Compatible up to: 4.2.3
Last updated: 2015-7-9
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4) SEO Smart Links
SEO Smart Links is one of the best plugins to reduce your bounce rate. It provides automatic SEO benefits for your website or blog in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and lots more. The plugin automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags.
Some useful insights about SEO Smart Links:
Cost: Free
Ratings: 2.9 out of 5 stars
Requires: 2.3 or higher
Compatible up to: 4.1.6
Last updated: 2014-12-25
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5) Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
YARPP displays a list of related posts on your website based on a powerful unique algorithm. This WordPress plugin displays pages, posts and custom post types related to the current entry, introducing your readers to other relevant content on the website. The pro version of the plugin allows you to customize thumbnail layout through user interface.
Some useful insights about YARPP:
Cost: Free
Ratings: 4.2 out of 5 stars
Requires: 3.3 or higher
Compatible up to: 4.2.3
Last updated: 2015-5-14
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6) WPeddit: Reddit for WordPress
WPeddit is a standalone plugin for adding post rating functionality to your WordPress powered website or blog. The plugin lets users rate your posts, display your hottest posts and engage your visitors more widget ready. It is simple to setup and use and allows you to let visitors rate your WordPress posts. It provides instantly recognizable and powerful solution to your website needs.
Some useful insights about WPeddit:
Cost: $22
Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars
Requires: 3.0 or up
Compatible up to: 4.2
Last updated: 2013-9-23
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7) Insights
Insights is another good choice when looking for plugins to reduce bounce rate. This plugin brings a powerful new way to write your blog posts. It quickly accesses and inserts information such as links, images, videos, maps etc. into your posts. It increases productivity and quality of posts. It performs several functions in real-time such as interlinking your posts, inserting Flickr images, inserting YouTube videos, and more.
Some useful insights about Insights:
Cost: Free
Ratings: 4.7 out of 5 stars
Requires: 2.3 or higher
Compatible up to: 4.2.3
Last updated: 2014-12-22
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