Reducing Bounce Rate 6

[sirlojik]

Hi all,
In effort of reducing bounce rate on my site. Im reaching out to all of you to ask what to do to keep my members longer.

I have thought up of only,
1) free sms
2) Polling system
3)Good games

these r just my assumptions. The idea of my website is social networking. i have added the fundamentals of social networking, now im stuck on what to add on to make it better.

Please share some practicle suggestions

btw,

http://www.veepiz.com

is the site.

 

[kjv1611]

audiopro,

What links are opening up in the main page? I'm using FF if it makes a difference, and I clicked a few external links.. they all opened fully separate from the veepiz site.

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[audiopro]

Latest African News - links to BBC content.

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[kjv1611]

That's strange. I tried all 4 of them, and all 4 of them go directly to the BBC article on the BBC site.

Could it be a caching issue perhaps? Or either a browser issue?

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[kjv1611]

Just to be sure, I tried in Google Chrome 3, FF 3.6, and IE 6. The external links worked correctly in all 3 on my machine... running Windows XP Pro on a Corporate network.

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[audiopro]

They do not open up in a new window
eg.

<a style="color:#A47C03" href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/8535189.stm">Ethiopia[/URL] aid 'spent on weapons'</a>

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[kjv1611]

Oh, now I see what you mean - I thought you meant they were opening in the same page directly... like a frame. Gotcha.

Well, some people aren't crazy on external links opening new windows on their own, so I suppose it's a preference thing. I could see the argument that you'd want them in a separate window from a social site, I suppose.

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[audiopro]

I usually open internal links in the _parent but I always open an external link in a _blank.
That way, they don't get away so easily.


Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk