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Hi! The logo is for PRO Plus and PRO Elite users. Your profile says you're at the PRO level, which I suspect is the problem.

I just have to hope EGOL never gets interested in selling model warships, otherwise I'm going to have to really up my game on my website!

Thanks! I also agree with what Neil Patel said in that post that sometimes, long copy can interfere with conversions. It's a big "it depends". Sometimes all you need is a brief answer to an FAQ that will take you 100 words, and other times you need 2000 words to properly cover a subject.

It's Labor Day weekend. Shouldn't you be chasing down a BBQ grill and a beer instead of Q&A questions EGOL?

Appreciate your thoughtful answers on a holiday weekend!

A period before the domain is a subdomain, like blog.domain.com.

A period after the domain usually indicates an extension, such as domain.com/index.html.

I would also suggest reading the Beginner's Guide to SEO, especially the link building section at http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links.

Personally, I would rather do nothing at all than do a package like the one above. The one above just means that at some point, I'm going to need to spend a lot of time to clean up those junk links. I view this as similar to spending a couple of hundred dollars a month to provide someone with spray paint to put your URL on the side of a building. It's about the same quality. Again, this is my personal opinion, and not the official voice of SEOmoz, but we take a fairly similar if more muted stance on these type of packages.

Spun articles are junk. My favorite is  an example of a post on alcoholism -- instead of "think before you drink" it read "think before you beverage".

Here's an example of an .edu link. http://courses.csusm.edu/ricastudy/module01/discussion01/_disc1/00008603.htm They're not all quality.

Ok, stepping down off the soapbox. You have a number of trusted community members here that are also giving you great advice. Those with Authority, Guru, and Oracle underneath their names have been around for a while and have lots of participation and are generally good people to listen to.

If you download the CSV, there will be a column in there showing you the referring URL. We're working on making the language a bit more clear.

With a bounce rate that low, do you by chance have multiple GA tracking scripts, or something that's triggering an event even if no one goes to another page? Look at the source code when you're in incognito mode, in case your CMS suppresses one of the GA codes when you're logged in as admin.

[voice of experience and learning the hard way here!]

Also check out Rand's Whiteboard Friday (with transcript, to help with translation) at http://moz.com/blog/why-visual-assets-are-better-than-infographics-whiteboard-friday

He discusses why visual assets are better than infographics.

As long as it wasn't that boss of yours forcing you to work!

Someone ought to write a good post about how to find (and vet) companies via forums.

Backed by quite a bit of real-life experience on EGOL's part.

We're deploying a fix for this today. Thanks for your patience everyone!

In Rand's "The Story of SEOmoz post", the marketing section bullet point six references Wistia. "We recently switched our hosting provider to a company called Wistia, if you are doing online video, I think they are phenomenal. They do all the good SEO, the XML video sitemaps stuff for you, it is really good."

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-story-of-seomoz

It's also in point number 6 on the following post, and includes a link to a sample report. "Wistia is video hosting on steroids. Not only does this video hosting platform support HTML5, which makes your videos viewable on a slew of non-Flash enabled devices, but the platform is inherently designed for SEO."

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/top-10-web-apps-we-love

Thank you for my morning grin!

Like any links, will they be relevant?

http://faculty.cbpp.uaa.alaska.edu/afef/Principles_frm.htm

https://openjournals.wsu.edu/index.php/landescapesarchived/comment/view/912/70452

These are both EDU sites, but you couldn't pay me to have my link there.

If it worked, we'd all see text with lots of odd quotes and parenthesis, correct?

Are you logged into Google? Are you using an incognito window? Have you tried the search on other computers? I can get different results for rankings just by using different browsers, because sometimes I'll be logged into Google on one browser, and not the other, and have the history enabled on a third even though I'm not logged in.

Are you checking from the US or a US proxy?

Here are some blog posts from Moz about infographics and where to place them that might be helpful.

http://moz.com/ugc/how-to-push-an-infographic

http://moz.com/blog/how-to-build-links-with-infographics

http://moz.com/ugc/the-definitive-guide-to-conceptualizing-designing-and-promoting-your-own-infographic

http://moz.com/blog/10-tools-for-creating-infographics-visualizations

http://moz.com/ugc/how-to-create-an-infographic-for-less-than-500

I will! Had a few other things come up, but I do plan on responding, should be later today.