Bounce Rate Validatio

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Jeremy L. Knauff: Have the subscription form send them to a thank you page. No bounce, two or more pages visited, and a little longer time on site.
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  Steve Gerencser: What he said. And people wonder why I still love thank you pages.
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  Jeremy L. Knauff: Plus it lets you track that conversion more accurately.
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  Patty Mantaloons: The scenario I picture is :Oh this page is great, I found the perfect content - oh look, I can subscribe to a newsletter! - let me just do that before I forget. Woops - where was I again? Ah, it was on a different page, I`ll check it out later...
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  Alan Bleiweiss: In other words, Google cannot judge, by bounce rate alone, what is acceptable, appropriate, or accurate in a usability / value perspective. Too many variations.
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  Alan Bleiweiss: This is why bounce rate, by itself, is not critical. It`s pogo-sticking that matters more. Search at Google. Click on result. Bounce back to Google. Click on different result. Don`t come back to Google again in that session.
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  Patty Mantaloons: Is pogo-sticking actually the colloquial term? Or is it a Bleiweissism?
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  Patty Mantaloons: On my way to steal my gf`s water--and then refill her glass once she started crying--I told her about a new term I just learned; `pogo-sticking`. Right away she said StumbleUpon must get lots of pogo-sticking. If I remember though, the pages you Stumble are embedded inside of StumbleUpon, a la Facebook, etc.
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  Patty Mantaloons: Funny, because I went out of my way to prevent the new thank you page from loading so visitors wouldn`t be pulled off course, away from their current page :o (The newsletter form is in a sidebar)
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  David Kutcher: Google Analytics has two types of events: interaction and non-interaction events. Without skewing your numbers by going to a thank you page, on submission or confirmation you can have your form send an event with interaction enabled. It will then still be 1 page, but not register the session as a bounce.
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  Patty Mantaloons: I.e., G can tell the difference between `came, puked, left` and `came, was satisfied, left` by presence of pogo-sticking.
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  Patty Mantaloons: I`m guessing that the conclusions drawn from pogo-sticking signal percentages vary by industry. E.g., insurance quote comparison sites--where it`s normal that visitors jump from site to site--compared with retail or informational pages, etc.
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  Ammon Johns: Also use something like ScrollDepth or Riveted from parsnip.io to make your tracking of single page interaction much better