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Discussion on: How to Start a Blog in 2020 and Grow (0 - 80k) Views

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AlbertoM

Awesome job at getting to 80k but to be honest your metrics looked better last year. A lot more of time per user and much less bounce rate. Regardless, my blog is still very far from reaching your numbers so great job!

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Sai gowtham

Thank you Alberto.

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Tim Kamanin 🚀

those metrics are what you usually get when your traffic is mostly driven by Google - people search for the solution, land on your blog and go away. My blog has similar stats. I don't think you can do much about it.

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AlbertoM

I guess you have a point. Unless you provide some kind of multi-page course it's hard to make the user spend a lot of time and visit multiple pages.

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Sai gowtham • Edited

Hey Alberto, don't think more about bounce rates in technical blogs, because people visiting your blog have a different kind of knowledge levels.

If they already have the knowledge they can understand by reading the code.


scotch.io bounce rate is 83.74% and session duration is 1minute 11 seconds in the year 2018

You can find more about here Scotch.io 2018 Year in Review

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Sai gowtham

Yeah, you are right tim sometimes google just show the solution in the form a featured snippet.