# Bounce Rates as it relates to my newly created Rapidweaver Website

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**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [December 17, 2017, 1:13am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/bounce-rates-as-it-relates-to-my-newly-created-rapidweaver-website/17658 "2017-12-17T01:13:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![powhitehorn](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/powhitehorn/32/9602_2.png) [@powhitehorn](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/powhitehorn)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 1:13am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/bounce-rates-as-it-relates-to-my-newly-created-rapidweaver-website/17658/1 "2017-12-17T01:13:23Z")

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Hello fellow Weavers,

I have a concern about my websites bounce rate. Well, maybe first I should at least introduce myself. My Name is Paul and I fix dents on cars, without repainting! This is my first website. Im just a one man operation and trying to raise my three sons, like most of us, while trying to make a living.

I ran into several problems with Rapid Weaver as it relates to Chrome and other browsers in Foundation, which was largely caused by Animate in Foundation, which Im sure hurt my bounce rate.

Furthermore, I have no experience with Google Analytics and tags until the past few weeks. Im not sure how terrible or good that Im doing. All I know, is that my Rapid Weaver website is lightyears better than the clunker I had before. Having said that, I know I have a long way to go.

I have a bounce rate over 90% and I know thats a bad thing. Most of my traffic is organic in my market and the few marketing dollars I have to spend a month 1000$, needs to convert. Any and all suggestions are welcome. I will buy any stack or do anything you guys might suggest.

I should also note that I was an Airborne Infantry Solider for 10 years active duty, so your not going to hurt my feelings. I would rather you shoot me straight rather than beat around the bush.

[Dentrepairusa.com](http://Dentrepairusa.com)

Respectfully,  
Paul

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**Author:** ![BrandonCorlett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/67e7ee/32.png) [@BrandonCorlett](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/BrandonCorlett)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 3:39am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/bounce-rates-as-it-relates-to-my-newly-created-rapidweaver-website/17658/2 "2017-12-17T03:39:26Z")

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Have you looked at where the traffic is coming from? A lot of hits are going to be spambots.

When using Google Analytics you will have to filter your data to figure out what information is relevant. Google knows that spam traffic is an issue and has been developing machine learning tools to help resolve it.

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**Author:** ![powhitehorn](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/powhitehorn/32/9602_2.png) [@powhitehorn](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/powhitehorn)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 4:09am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/bounce-rates-as-it-relates-to-my-newly-created-rapidweaver-website/17658/3 "2017-12-17T04:09:19Z")

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All I really have are countries. 89% is coming from the states and mainly on Firefox browser. The rest is coming from Germany (Which makes sense, because most of my family lives there and its where my company originally started, at least the method.). The majority of my 584 hits this week came from Carol Stream in another state and Palmdale in California. Let me go into Google Adwords and ensure I add those states as negative geographical locations. Yeah if I add up all of my local towns I have a really low bounce rate. Let me dive into this, I didn’t even consider it could be people from another town and possibly I have a leak somewhere in my ads.

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**Author:** ![powhitehorn](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/powhitehorn/32/9602_2.png) [@powhitehorn](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/powhitehorn)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 4:14am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/bounce-rates-as-it-relates-to-my-newly-created-rapidweaver-website/17658/4 "2017-12-17T04:14:47Z")

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Yep,

Texas, United States  
Tennessee, United States  
Plant City, Florida, United States  
Pennsylvania, United States  
Oklahoma, United States  
Ohio, United States  
Oceanside, California, United States  
New York, United States  
New Jersey, United States  
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States  
Massachusetts, United States  
Maryland, United States  
Louisiana, United States  
Illinois, United States  
Georgia, United States  
Connecticut, United States  
California, United States  
Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Are now added. I had a leak.

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**Author:** ![BrandonCorlett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/67e7ee/32.png) [@BrandonCorlett](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/BrandonCorlett)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 4:14am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/bounce-rates-as-it-relates-to-my-newly-created-rapidweaver-website/17658/5 "2017-12-17T04:14:53Z")

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If you look at “referral sites” you will probably end up seeing some odd links. you can filter those out too.

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**Author:** ![joeworkman](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/joeworkman/32/23780_2.png) [@joeworkman](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/joeworkman)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 5:18am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/bounce-rates-as-it-relates-to-my-newly-created-rapidweaver-website/17658/6 "2017-12-17T05:18:36Z")

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Have you read this? [https://neilpatel.com/blog/13-ways-to-reduce-bounce-rate-and-increase-your-conversions/](https://neilpatel.com/blog/13-ways-to-reduce-bounce-rate-and-increase-your-conversions/)

To me it seems that your the people that your ads are hitting don’t actually stay on the website. That is my guess. Maybe try to adjust your advertising targets?

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**Author:** ![BrandonCorlett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/67e7ee/32.png) [@BrandonCorlett](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/BrandonCorlett)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 2:28pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/bounce-rates-as-it-relates-to-my-newly-created-rapidweaver-website/17658/7 "2017-12-17T14:28:51Z")

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🙂 Here’s another good link from Neil [https://neilpatel.com/blog/how-to-remove-referral-spam-in-your-google-analytics/](https://neilpatel.com/blog/how-to-remove-referral-spam-in-your-google-analytics/)

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**Author:** ![system](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/system/32/25301_2.png) [@system](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 2:29pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/bounce-rates-as-it-relates-to-my-newly-created-rapidweaver-website/17658/8 "2017-12-23T14:29:02Z")

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