website bounce rates

[Rusher]

All I know about website bounce rates are that they should be kept to a minimum. But what exactly are these bounce rates, and how do you keep yours as low as possible?

[suwunk]

Bounce rate is the percentage of single-page visits or visits in which the person left your site from the entrance (landing) page. Use this metric to measure visit quality - a high bounce rate generally indicates that site entrance pages aren't relevant to your visitors. The more compelling your landing pages, the more visitors will stay on your site and convert. You can minimize bounce rates by tailoring landing pages to each keyword and ad that you run. Landing pages should provide the information and services that were promised in the ad copy.

What does Bounce Rate mean? - Analytics Help
Hope this helps!