bounce rate again

After suggestions from people in this forum about redoing my home page and tweaking my SEO on some of my other pages I find myself on page 1 and 2 for many keyword strings on yahoo and google.

However I still find myself with a high bounce rate. Almost all of my highest search rankings are from 3 and 4 word keyword phrases so the people landing on any of my pages should kind of know that the information on the page should be what they are looking for.

But I still have a high bounce rate. I get a lot of clicks from countries that I don't know if they even read English. My site is an italian travel site giving information on a virility of subjects about how to plan an Italian vacation. I kind of look at my site like a baking site, If someone went on a page by asking how to bake a cake when they land there they certainly aren't going to learn how to bake a cake by reading the article for 30 seconds. Chances are they will have to read it to the end in order to learn what they want to learn.

So my problem is how do I get my viewers to stay on my pages long enough for them to realize it is the best site for finding the information they are looking for. How do I present the information better. About 2 of every 10 people stay around for 10 minutes or so and the rest google shows zero time.

As I said I re did my home page based on suggestion from this forum and restructured it but I don't think I could do the same thing with pages that provide all the information that they do. my site is my italian travels dot com. Thanks for any suggestions. Mark