How to reduce / decrease bounce rate of your website / blog? – Using target=’_blank’ to reduce / decrease bounce rate.

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How to reduce / decrease bounce rate of your website / blog? – Using target=’_blank’ to reduce / decrease bounce rate.

Everyone is worried about how to reduce bounce rate of your blog / website since bounce rate is very important factor to increase your page rank (To know what is bounce rate click here). The lower the bounce rate the higher the page rank. Target=’_blank’ plays very important role in reducing / decreasing bounce rate.

LOL...don't look at me like that...I'm not talking dirty :-) Using target=’_blank’ in the anchor tag opens the target link in the new window, this is desired for 2 important reasons.

1) Visitor still on page of your website / blog. So that visitor do not need to navigate back to come back to your page.

2) It also helps decreasing / reducing bounce rate of your website / blog.

If you are involved in increasing your SEO (Search Engine Optimization), the bounce rate on an entry page can help to determine how effective it is at grabbing people's attention. Bounce rate is only an SEO factor to improve page rank of your blog or site / blog which is involved with commerce. If your blog / site is just providing information or news than bounce rate is not an important factor for you.

Example of setting target=’_blank’ for out going links

<a href="URL " target="_blank"> Link Text </a>

<a href=’http://jokes-tejash.blogspot.com’ target=’_blank’ > Latest Jokes </a>

If you want to add the link for the image which should open in new window then you can do it similarly as follows:

<a href="URL Link" target="_blank"> <img src='Image URL'/> </a>

<a href=’http://jokes-tejash.blogspot.com’ target=’_blank’ > <img src='http://www.example.com/example.jpg'/> </a>

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