(Entry was posted by Rod Farrell on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 09/13/2014).

Higher bounce rate

If a site provides a lot of information on the home page, resulting in less clicks to find information will this result in a higher bounce rate?

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

Rod Farrell: If a site provides a lot of information on the home page, resulting in less clicks to find information will this result in a higher bounce rate?
Victor Castillejos: You might be right, I have a customer (plumber) that has a very high bounce rate, but he receives like 10 phone calls daily from his website, I guess people just want to call him. One of the first thing you see in his website is his phone...
albert mora: Probably, but I don't think it will affect your serp's
Ranjeet Singh: Never noticed that. Well, hell ya. Why would anyone navigate to any other page, when they have found what they were looking for, on the homepage.
NoobHole: For sure, if visitors think they get what they want, they will exit for sure. But you should check the average time on the homepage to see whether they really look at the information or just leave.