Interesting Article about web traffic and 'bounce rates'

[Jane @ Kidzarama]

I'm on this guy's mailing list and he's pretty well known.

Just reading what he has to say about types of traffic has been interesting.
He mentions 'high bounce' traffic like digg/stumbleupon and higher value visitors.

Also talks about how to reduce that bounce rate & better engage your new visitors.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/bounce-rates.html

Some of the stuff he writes gets a bit technical, but I thought this would interest some of us here as we've been talking about some of it already.

[cloudsters]

Pretty good stuff, this. Repeat visitors (or 'loyal visitors' as they are called here) are certainly the ones we want - guess they're the stuff blogging friends are made of. But presumably if we get a huge spike of Digg/transient visitors, the chances are higher that one or two or five will be hooked by our astounding content.

(deep sigh. so far, of course, no spike at all [not even a leeedle one], so it's all academic for now).

[Jane @ Kidzarama]

I received your email about stumbling my fursing post, earlier today. Just procrastinating over answering mail, so I'll say my thankyous here.

Thank you so much, cloudster!

I was pretty pleased with that piece myself, so it's good to know that I'm beginning to get closer to the mark on what entertains.

I will definitely pop over to Mum's the Word (or Pa), for a look. ~ later tonight or tomorrow.

[cloudsters]

Hey, it was good to be in on the beginning of what may be etymological ground zero, if the word catches on. Twas great reading, furse and foremost!

[tojona]

Thank you! That was an interesting read.