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How to Promote an Infographic

April 23, 2012/25 Comments/in Infographics/by Michael David

Infographics have emerged as a sound, white-hat way to generate high-quality natural backlinks. Even a moderately successful infographic can go viral and bring a few dozen high-quality backlinks. But creating an infographic—as much work as that is—only gets you halfway there.

If you cleverly promote your infographic, you can greatly increase your chances of going viral and generating higher numbers of backlinks. We know because we’ve done a fair amount of infographic development here at TastyPlacement.

The Quid Pro Quo of Infographics

The name of the game in infographic promotion is that a webmaster gets to display your hard-earned content (the infographic) and in return, you earn a backlink from the website displaying the infographic. A preliminary task in promoting your infographic is to place your infographic where it is easy to find and in a manner which is easy for webmasters to employ.

Set Up Your Infographic “Home”

First, pick a “home” for your infographic—this ideally should be the same site where you want to send your backllinks. Your home location will house the infographic itself (1000 pixels wide is fairly standard), and ideally an “on-page display” version for the page itself for faster loading and easier visibility on a typical webpage (about 540 or 600 pixels wide), a mini-thumbnail for Facebook shares (more on this in a minute) and of course, your recommended embed code.

Your embed code should be dead easy for any webmaster to simply grab in a block. The embed code should be simple html, and should contain the entire “package” for the infographic: the on page display version, a link to the full infographic as well as author attribution and your desired links.

When we promote infographics, we host the preview image and the full infographic—it’s just too complicated to ask webmasters to download the infographic, install it on their site, then update all the links. By hosting the images, you make it easy and idiot proof. Because we are hosting the infographic, and the files are large, we create our infographics in jpeg format: that allows us to compress the file down for faster loading and less bandwidth usage.

To see all these elements coming together on a proper infographic “home.” see the page we’ve set up for our “Austin Startup Scene” infographic here:

https://tastyplacement.com/start-up-infographic

Include a Facebook-Ready Thumbnail

You will also notice another element on that page: a square thumbnail of the infographic at the bottom of the page. We added that thumbnail to our infographic page after we learned that when someone posts a share link on Facebook, Facebook will search the page for roughly square-shaped images to offer as a thumbnail choice to represent the share. Because infographics tend to be very tall images, Facebook won’t generate a thumbnail from the full infographic. You have to hand-feed an agreeably-sized thumbnail.

Now Let’s Promote: Make it Searchable

With our infographic set up and set to share, you want to make sure your infographic can be easily found in search engines. Make sure you’ve got the terms “free” and “infographic” in your title tag and body copy. “Free infographic” is searched 2900 times a month in Google, as reported by the Adwords keyword tool.

Finding Webmasters With MyBlogGuest

[update] When we originally posted this thread, we recommended MyBlogGuest as a means of reaching promotion-minded webmasters. We no longer recommend MyBlogGuest as a responsible means of promotion.

Promote Through Social

Promote your infographic through your Twitter account with #free #infographic hash tags. Include a shortened URL with a link to your infographic home. You should also post a link to your personal and business Facebook pages. We think it’s ok to re-post an infographic every few weeks.

Promote through Infographic/Visual Graphic Directories

We promote our infographics through infographic and visual graphic directories. These diretories exist for the purpose of displaying and housing infographics. You’ll get a mix of dofollow and nofollow links from these directories, and you’ll get the chance for webmasters to find you there. Below is the list of sites we employ (Visual.ly is easily the most popular and authoritative of this group):

  • http://www.infographicsarchive.com/submit-infographics/
  • http://submitinfographics.com/
  • http://infographicsite.com/submit-infographic/
  • http://visual.ly
  • Reddit.com/r/infographics/
  • http://www.nerdgraph.com/submit-infographic/
  • http://www.infographicfile.com/
  • http://www.infographiclove.com (this is a paid submission)

To find more locations for submission, try a Google search for (keep the quotes) “Submit Your Infographic”. That query will yield sites with infographic submission forms.

Use Specialized Searches to Find Bloggers and Webmasters

If you really want to take your infographic promotion to the next level, you can do a little curation of specific websites. This technique is going to take a bit more time, but will generate the highest value links.

First, let’s search for existing sites that display infographics. It makes sense that a webmaster that already displays infographics would probably post another in the same topic area. For our sleep infographic, we think our content would be valuable to sleep doctors. So we enter a Google query as follows: “sleep doctor” infographic. This query led us to a few sleep doctors and mattress and pillow manufacturers that already display infographics. One mattress manufacturer has an active blog with a PageRank of 4. We’d like to get a link on that site, so the next step is to write an email to that webmaster. So, we wrote the following message:

“Hi, we were browsing the site __________.org, and we notice 
you display Infographics for your readers. We have a useful
Infographic on sleep science that you can display for free
on your site. We've already coded the HTML so all you would
need to do is paste in the code to your website. You can
find the Infographic here: [link to infographic page/embed
code]. 

If you have any questions about how to post the Infographic
on your site, please let me know. “

Good luck using these tips in promoting your infographic. If your infographic is attractive and useful to readers, you should have have no trouble in ultimately generating 100s of links.

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25 replies
  1. Brent Nau
    Brent Nau says:
    May 30, 2012 at 5:06 am

    Another promotion strategy would be to use Fiverr. You want to post your infographic on StubmleUpon and then buy a gig or two on Fiverr to “Stumble” the post.

    Here are a couple of high PR sites to syndicate your infographic:
    BuzzFeed.com
    Flickr.com
    Imgur.com
    Reddit.com/r/infographics/
    Tumblr.com

    Reply
  2. susie
    susie says:
    June 20, 2012 at 10:04 am

    This post was really informative and useful. I wish I’d seen it before I wrote an article about infographics… next time!

    Reply
  3. Deirdre Attinger
    Deirdre Attinger says:
    July 9, 2012 at 9:57 am

    Good resource! :-)

    Visual.ly

    Is also I really good one too!

    Reply
  4. Angel
    Angel says:
    July 9, 2012 at 10:22 am

    I’d love if you could feature our infographic directory nerdgraph.com. Check out the submission page: http://www.nerdgraph.com/submit-infographic/ and if you like it add it to the post.
    Thank you in advance,
    Angel

    Reply
  5. Shelley
    Shelley says:
    August 8, 2012 at 8:15 am

    Hi Claire
    I would like to suggest a site for infographic submissions if that’s ok:

    http://www.infographiclove.com

    Thanks
    Shelley

    Reply
  6. Linda
    Linda says:
    August 25, 2012 at 9:30 am

    Hi Claire,

    Here is another free infographic site for your readers:http://www.InfographicSubmission.com

    Thank you.

    Reply
  7. Darren Jamieson
    Darren Jamieson says:
    October 29, 2012 at 8:21 am

    Nice tip about the Facebook thumbnail. Without that Facebook will grab any image it can from within a post, which may also include the captcha code for a contact form – as I’ve seen before!

    Reply
  8. Infographics Zone
    Infographics Zone says:
    November 15, 2012 at 10:11 am

    Hi,

    Here is another free infographic site for your readers:http://www.infographicszone.com/

    Thank you

    Reply
    • Michael David
      Michael David says:
      November 19, 2012 at 11:01 am

      Ok, thanks for this…

      Reply
  9. Brad
    Brad says:
    December 21, 2012 at 3:05 pm

    How do you create the recommended embed code? I have posted an info graphic on my blog and I think I put it in correct with the “alt tag” and page tile you recommended but I don’t know how to get the code so others can post my infographic on their site…

    FYI this is a great blog post. Really helped out. Plus the site links above were helpful. Looking forward to posting my infographics on them.

    Reply
    • Michael David
      Michael David says:
      December 25, 2012 at 2:15 pm

      You just have to code it yourself. Look at one of our samples for guidance. Then you can test whether the HTML code works by taking your code and trying it out on one of the “online HTML testing tools”, just search that phrase in Google.

      Reply
  10. Matt
    Matt says:
    January 15, 2013 at 4:45 pm

    Thanks Claire for this excellent overview. Much appreciated!

    Reply
  11. sam
    sam says:
    February 5, 2013 at 8:30 am

    Thanks Claire for this great article, it’s very useful and actionable.

    Reply
  12. mark
    mark says:
    February 10, 2013 at 6:08 pm

    Hi guys, Here’s a PR5 Infographic site that’s currently accepting submissions:

    http://artsdigitalera.com/submit-infographic/

    enjoy!

    Reply
  13. infographics
    infographics says:
    February 11, 2013 at 12:52 am

    NIcely explained, thanks…

    Reply
  14. Catherine
    Catherine says:
    April 1, 2013 at 5:21 am

    Thanks Claire for such a brilliant blog post, you can also add another site for infographic submission:
    http://infographicb2b.wordpress.com/
    This is the blog I’ve just created to showcase well-designed, quality infographics in b2b marketing and technology.
    Keep up the good work!
    Catherine

    Reply
  15. Anne
    Anne says:
    May 17, 2013 at 5:04 am

    As per my personal experience, If your infographic is attractive and captivating you will get the natural shares. The other webmasters of the same industry will also share your infographic and it is a best way of branding your business online.

    Reply
  16. Gregor
    Gregor says:
    June 12, 2013 at 1:06 pm

    Thanks for this, it’s exactly what I needed. I was thinking about creating an infographic for my site and this post really cleared things up, especially about the hosting, embed code part as well as promotion. Heck, I didn’t even know about infographic directories. Now I’m pretty confident I can pull it off.

    Reply
  17. Thomas
    Thomas says:
    July 10, 2013 at 3:01 pm

    Hi Claire, some excellent infographic promotion tips listed here. We like turning infographics, especially cartoon themed ones into videos, this is another excellent way to drive traffic.

    Reply
  18. sammy
    sammy says:
    October 8, 2013 at 3:19 pm

    Great thanks for letting us know how to promote our infographics! very useful.

    Reply
  19. Mark
    Mark says:
    April 17, 2014 at 10:07 am

    I would suggest staying away from myblogguest at this point. The bots are not happy with them.

    Reply
    • Michael David
      Michael David says:
      April 26, 2014 at 9:06 pm

      Good point. That site is toxic right now.

      Reply
  20. Emily
    Emily says:
    October 9, 2014 at 7:37 am

    Interesting article Michael. We use infographics a lot at our agency, and we have also discovered that outreaching them properly is half the battle. We agree that by promoting your infographics, you give it a much larger chance for success.

    Reply
  21. Infographic Plaza
    Infographic Plaza says:
    July 22, 2015 at 7:36 am

    Superb post. Thanks for these useful tips and amazing resources. You can always submit your infographics for free at http://infographicplaza.com/ and get a lot of traffic to your site.

    Thanks.

    Reply
  22. Raul Tiru
    Raul Tiru says:
    October 26, 2015 at 5:20 pm

    Thank you so much! I had no idea you could submit your infographic.

    Reply

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