Infographics

As you might have noticed a couple of posts down I have an infographic. An info-graphic is, well... a graphic with information in it. But more importantly it contains a link to the originating website. During the first few days of this blog I sought to spread the word by linking to our site using forums such as YouTube, Reddit, StumbleUpon, and etc... I also thought that hosting an image on Deviant-art or Google images, for example, might help to tap into another type of reader. This, however, I had not got around to doing. Today, I came across this article detailing how infographics can be great for the propagation of advertisements and references to origin site and realized that I had already succumbed to this tactic.

Why did I have an infographic on my site? I had one because It was much easier to copy the image than retype the information in my own words.

The image not only contains the information but also a link to the original website. This acts to redirect traffic to their website but also to increase the page rank. One of the factors that Google uses to determine the grade of content on a page is to measure the number of references to it.

In conclusion, use infographics because:

• They are informative 
• Easily propagate through the internet
• Redirect traffic to your page
• Increase your page rank

I think I will begin creating some infographics.

Thanks again. Comments, advice and grammatical corrections are welcome.