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Comment posted on Low Bounce Rate WordPress Themes by Rarst

My stats in last month:
78.59% bounce rate
1.52 Pages/Visit

I am using free WP theme that I tweaked a lot. Since I am not much of designer I guess it doesn't capture attention of visitors who are influenced to stay by purely visual appeal. :)

Currently making (slowly) new theme (child for Hybrid framework) and what I want to try is using new taxonomies system to provide more relevant information on posts. For example for software review show list of all posts about software by same developer, for same task, etc.

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