{"id":802,"date":"2011-08-20T20:54:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T01:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.animelondon.ca\/blog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2011-08-20T20:54:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T01:54:30","slug":"getting-rid-of-the-wiki-bounce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animelondon.ca\/blog\/2011\/08\/20\/getting-rid-of-the-wiki-bounce\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting rid of the Wiki Bounce"},"content":{"rendered":"

From time to time, I get offers from people to help out with the club and the web site. Which ends up meg, they disappear and I end up doing the work.\u00a0 Such is the case of a person who said, you got to have Google Analytics.\u00a0 Fine, a month passes and well the usual happens.<\/p>\n

So I end up getting a book on the subject at the library. One of the stats which I knew of before Google had to tell me was ‘Bounce Rate<\/strong>‘.\u00a0 An annoying stat that puts the obvious problem of running a wiki has.\u00a0 It’s great in pulling in web searches but pretty lousey at getting people pass the page they land on. Which in our case, is hundreds of pages.<\/p>\n

So how do you get people to click past the first page they find on your wiki?<\/p>\n

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I’ve started adding additional line which invites people to click further into the wiki.\u00a0 Yes, the image does link to a page. Another bain of wikis is images don’t necessarily link to pages but the image itself.\u00a0 The first part of this code is plain wiki code with simple link.<\/p>\n

Check out what else is aired during this [http:\/\/www.animelondon.ca\/wiki\/index.php?title=Anime_Shows_-_Spring_2011 season].<\/code><\/p>\n

The second part to get an image to act like a button which most people are use to on the web is thus.<\/p>\n

[[Image:Spring2011.jpg|link=Anime_Shows_-_Spring_2011]]<\/code><\/p>\n

It took a little doing to find that code but it works. Giving a visual marker even if it’s not clicked.<\/p>\n

For us, the average bounce rate of 77.0% was a bit high. Not all of that was the wiki’s fault but it was a place to start. I put new code in the latest shows like the one above.\u00a0 The daily bounce rate climbed to over 80% but yesterday (Friday) a significate drop to 67.57% from 83.33% prior. While the pages effected were small fraction of the entire wiki, it was a good sign.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting if this will turn the tide of new visitors into surfing more and more of the site. A WHOLE lot more work is needed all across with site for that.\u00a0 Still it’s a good sign.\u00a0 Considering now I have to put the line and button on hundreds into existing wiki pages.\u00a0 Maybe I should be trying to learn templates more than Google Analytics.\u00a0 Running a major website is a major pain but a major pay off.<\/p>\n

Now if only those who offered their help would actually come through with their promises.\u00a0 That would surprise me more than a really low bounce rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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