First Mike got a response from Google Search

irst Mike got a response from Google Search Evangelist Adam Lasnik:

If you're talking about bounce rates in the context of Google Analytics, I'm afraid you probably know as much as I do. I love the product, but don't know the ins-and-outs of it very thoroughly.





If you're talking about bounce rates in the context of Google web search and webmaster-y issues, then we really don't have specific guidance on bounces per se; rather, the key for webmasters is to make users happy so they find your site useful, bookmark your site, return to your site, recommend your site, link to your site, etc. Pretty much everything we write algorithmically re: web search is designed to maximize user happiness, so anything webmasters do to increase that is likely to improve their site's presence in Google.