: An associated website won't host a link to my site because they are afraid it will increase their bounce rate I made a site for a Comedy Club, they are associated with a fairly well known

@Barnes591

They refused and made us copy/paste all our info on to a blog post in their website arguing that putting a link to our website will increase their bounce rate.


Assuming we are talking about Bounce Rate the way it is commonly defined, it shouldn't. The only way having a link from their site to yours would increase the bounce rate is as so:


Visitor comes to the hotel site from Google.
Visitor sees the link to your site on the hotel site when it wasn't there before and gets massively offended.
Visitor slams the Back button on the browser, goes back to Google.


I think the chances of this happening are pretty remote^ so the hotel likely has other reasons for not wanting to link to you. There are all sorts of reasons why they prefer to do it that way (control of content, fear of linking to a low-value resource, policy from ownership/management to NOT link to certain kinds of sites, etc.) and they are simply misusing the words "bounce rate" in their answer to you.



^ We'll assume the name of the comedy club isn't offensive in any way whatsoever to a rational adult. "Hitler's House of Hijinks" may, in fact, increase a linking site's bounce rate.

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