Does Bouncing Hurt?

I have to wonder. I ran Google Analytics and have a "bounce" rate of 92.46% and I'm not sure if I should feel pain or not.

I realize that a vast portion of the bounce rate is Entercard folks landing to drop their cards, collect their 1ec and moving on. I don't have a problem with that, especially since I get a 1ec as well. But I have been working on the "stickiness" of this blog.

I know, this is a niche blog. Not every one dancing the Entrecard 300-step will be interested in my niche. I am very happy to see, however, that there are those who do stick around to read and perhaps even comment. And advertise! I hope those who have been advertising on this blog are getting new hits from my widget.

But the bounce rate is one of the reasons I've decided NOT to put up a "top 10" list of Entrecard droppers. I'm going to stay with what I did the other day and list/link those who comment. And I plan to list/link those who advertise on my blog.

Another problem I have with the Entrecard Top Ten is that if you're looking at your list and all 10 have dropped one each day for each day of the month, there may be 11 or 12 or 13 or more droppers who also dropped each day of the month, but because the list is limited to 10, you won't see the rest. It boils down to the luck of timing as to whether a particular blogger shows up on your top 10 list. I'm not comfortable with that.

So forgive me if I don't follow the pack in recognizing the top-10 droppers.

Now I really got to get some new pictures done! I have some new things. Stay tuned.