Can underscore blanks trigger home page bounce rates
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Buongiorno from 8 degrees C Wetherby UK
On this site the scrolling banner has been hyperlinked with underscore blank causing new pages to open when a user clicks on a banner. My question is please...
"If a user clicks on a banner will Google measure this as a home page bounce" ( I dont think it will i just want to be 100% sure)
Click here for illustration:
http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/home-page-sw-banner_zps0fda6318.jpgGrazie Tanto,
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David,
No it would not, UNLESS the user doesn't click on any more links on the homepage. Really, a bounce is calculated based on whether or not there was more than one pageview of a site in a single session, not whether or not the user left. GA (without doing some custom work) doesn't even know the user has clicked on an external link.
Edit: My apologies. I misread your question. I thought you were saying that the banner click was a click off to another site. Still, the answer stands.
As long as the GA snippet exists on the 2nd page, it will trigger a pageview and look like the 2nd pageview in the session, meaning it's not a bounce.
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