link: Increased Bounced rate for target _Blank

Hello J,
You can view an image of my GA account here:
http://hostimage.ca/di-A906.png

This is only ten days after launching the website, and the first few days had been more than rocky having launched it while the CMS was still in construction.

As you can see, the stats line up exactly how I have mentioned -- but I cannot anticipate if this is desirable or not. It is worth nothing that the website in question provides a shortened link at the bottom of each article / page. This is the external link causing the bounce and duplicated unique viewer.

I would appreciate any opinions. While I love numbers, I haven't been able to make heads or tails of GA statistics such as these.