5 Minutes to Reduce Your Bounce Rate in 2026
It doesn't seem like much, but these are the big little details that can build trust in your website and keep folks on it longer. And they don't take long to do!
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Pick one of these things and watch your bounce rates drop and your conversion rates go up:
- Simplify your main navigation – keep it under 5 items
- Put social media icons & links in your footer, not your main menu
- Check and correct the color contrast on your website
- Add up to date terms/privacy pages to your website (they each get their own page!)
- Add a refund policy to your website
- Align your body text left
- Update the © on your website to this year: 2026
- Update old articles with links to new ones