What's a good bounce rate for a Forum?

[abroad]

What's a good bounce rate for a Forum?

[Brian Cummiskey]

There's really no 'good' bounce rate.

0% is obviously the best, but its simply not feasable.

Low bounce rates tend to show from low indexed sites and lots of bookmarks/type ins
High bounce rates tend to show from greatly indexed sites with good search placement, persona gets their answer (or not) and leaves (either by back button or link/ad click)

Somewhere in the middle is nice-- you get the retention/Call to action, but you also make some money on search traffic.

[mickeyy]

The lower the better as people are staying and looking at the content of your site instead of just moving along to the next site. There was a video of a SEO specialist talking about bounce rate as being the most representative analytic. He was also saying that a number to strive for should be 30 to 35%.

[abroad]

30-35% for a SEO friendly Forum? That's quite hard, isn't it?

[Brian Cummiskey]

I think it's really low. I personally have about 75% bounce rate. I would love to see 30%... but that's just not how it woks. a lot of people come to the site via search, get their answer, and move on.

[3dmovieforum]

I have a bounce rate of 32.6% on http://www.3dmovieforums.com
Dunno if thats good, but i think it is.