Over the last 10 months or so I have really got into doing infographics for our clients. At the moment they are really popular and generally getting way more links then regular linkbaits.
By practicing I have got pretty good at marketing infographics for our clients and am normally getting very good results.
Submitting to infographic sites is a great way to kick start your infographic marketing campaign and there are plenty of them out there. The thing is that when I have been going through infographic site lists around the web I have had problems. The problems with the infographic sites on the lists are, either a/ the infographic site has been abandoned and not updated in months, or b/ the infographic site is very popular and so overwhelmed with submissions that it could take weeks or even months for your submission to be approved or finally c/ the owner of the infographic site wants cash (and sometimes a ridiculous amount) to review your submission.
Through hard work testing I have figured out which the best free to submit to infographic sites are that will actually approve your submission in a timely manner. Here are the top 10:
1/ visual.ly
Visual.ly is without a doubt the king of infographic sites with a whopping PageRank score of 7/10 and more traffic then any other infographic site. All you have to do is sign up, click on the submit page and then follow instructions. Your infographic will be published straight away with a link or two to your site.
2/ Design You Trust
This design blog and community is an excellent place to submit your infographic with a PageRank score of 6/10 and high levels of traffic. All you have to do is register for the site, login and then create a blog post including your infographic and a link to your site – the post will appear right away.
3/ Visual Loop
This infographic blog powered by Tumblr has a high PR score and publishes new infographics all of the time. The site is operated by a guy called Tiago and he has published every infographic I have ever sent him and got back to me with an email to let me know each time. All you have to do is send him an email to submit.
4/ Business 2 Community
Now this PageRank 5 business community blog isn’t strictly an infographic site but it does accept and publish lots of them as you can see here. Before you are able to submit you have to apply to be come a contributor, but it doesn’t take long, I was accepted within a day or two. You do need to write a 300+ word description to go with your infographic if you want it to be accepted.
5/ Infographic Directory
My own infographic blog that was hosted on a WordPress.com domain until recently. Because the site got quite popular and received almost a quarter of a million visitors in the 1st few months I decided to take it a bit more seriously and purchased Infographic-Directory.com. I try to approve a good few submissions each month.
6/ Love Infographics
This infographics community site is another one that you should submit to with a good PageRank score and traffic. All you have to do is register, sign in and then fill in the form including a link to your site to submit. Your infographic will appear on the homepage right away.
7/ The Infographics
This infographic blog is owned by a friend of mine called Tom from Sensible Internet and it has a high PageRank score of 4/10. All you have to do is fill in the short form on the submit page and Tom will aim to process your submission within a few days.
8/ Video Infographic
This one is run by infographic designer Brian from Nowsourcing and has a PageRank score of 3/10. All you have to do is click on the submit infographic button and fill in the form. Brian is quite choosy and only approves really decent infographics.
9/ Cool Daily Infographics
Another PageRank 3 infographic blog that publishes lots of infographics in a wide range of categories. Click on the submit page and fill in the form to complete your submission. Cool Daily Infographics has featured quite a lot of our work.
10/ Infographic File
This infographic site only has a PageRank score of 2/10 but it is very new so it may well go up in the future. To submit your work register, create a profile and then click on “upload an infographic+”. My submissions have all been approved very quickly.
I hope you find this post useful. Best of luck promoting your infographic.
Posted in Link Building News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
January 7th, 2013
About a week or so ago somebody managed to hack into this website and they were able to claim it in Google webmaster tools. They used the change of address tool to move my rankings to a payday loans website:
http://paydayloans-money.co.uk
And for a couple of days the payday loans site stole some of my rankings. As soon as I realised what had happened I cancelled the change of address, changed all of my passwords and updated my WordPress (my designer suspected that was how they got in).
Yesterday I was checking my stats and I noticed that I was getting hits on the keyword payday loans, I checked Google and saw I was ranking in the 11th position on Google for the term:
Over the past few days I have had 98 visitors from people searching for payday loans.
I was just checking my links with Bing webmaster tools today and I found hidden links pointing to this site. Whoever hacked this site has built hidden links to get it ranking for payday loans such as the one on this site in the code:
http://darcomic.com
So there you have it, make sure your wordpress is up to date and keep an eye out for unusual activity – negative SEO does happen.
Posted in SEO News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
June 8th, 2012
Over the past couple of months we at The SEO Company have been working with the Louisville, USA based social media optimisation company Nowsourcing. They have been coming up with excellent infographics for some of our clients which have attracted lots of social love and more importantly good quality links from blogs and news sites. We are really pleased with the way things are going and plan on doing lots more business with them in the future.
I have managed to persuade them to do one for this website about social media called The State of Social Media 2012 which I hope will be popular and gain us some much needed links, click on the link below to check it out:
The State of Social Media 2012
If you are trying to get links to your website then I recommend you give Nowsourcing’s infographic design service a try. The infographics they have done so far have all attracted numerous blog and news site links.
Posted in Social Media News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
May 21st, 2012
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Here are 7 of the best link baits our team have done so far ranked by the amount of traffic they have received from Stumbleupon, IMO the best social bookmarking site for getting traffic.
According to Google Analytics roughly 65% of the Stumbleupon hits convert into unique page views.
1/ 30 of the World’s Greatest Wedding Cakes
This link bait was published on the FreeDating.co.uk site on the 24th of May this year and is by far the most popular bait we have done so far. It’s basically just a collection of amazing wedding cakes that our linkbait guy was able to find around the web. It did incredible on a bunch of social sites and got linked to by loads of blogs.
Stumbleupon hits: 1.2 million
2/ 5 Creepy Beach Sculptures To Scare Off Sunbathers
This one was published on the Premier Holidays website back in December 2008 and everybody loved it. The post features 5 super creepy beach sculptures from round the World: the pictures are awesome. As soon as Neatorama linked to it the post went viral and attracted lots of links.
Stumbleupon hits: 506K
3/ How Not To Clean A Window
We put this one on the Master Cleaners blog on March the 1st this year and as soon as it got published the post set on fire. The linkbait is a selection of photographs of very brave or stupid people very dangerously cleaning windows. It hit the homepage of Meneame and Yahoo buzz and got plenty of links.
Stumbleupon hits: 477k
4/ 10 Beautifully Intricate Locks
We put this brilliant linkbait on the Locksmiths R Us blog on June the 16th this year and almost all of the people who commented on it really liked it. The blog post shows pictures of 10 old fashioned and beautiful locks and at the bottom there is a video. It got featured on some very popular blogs such as Dark Roasted Blend and Mental Floss.
Stumbleupon hits: 394k
5/ 10 Enchanting Tree Tunnels
I put this bait on a web directory I run called Killer Directory on the 6th of August 2009. It is simply 10 photographs of tree tunnels: streets or paths lined with trees where the branches have arched over to form natural tunnels. The post did really well on reddit and got linked to by quite a few blogs.
Stumbleupon hits: 89k
6/ Infuriating Wheelchair Ramps
This funny linkbait was put online on August the 9th 2010 on the RollaRamp wheelchair ramps blog and people on the social networks adored it. The article shows pictures of poorly designed wheelchair ramps that are difficult for people who are in wheelchairs to use. The bait did well and got lots of links from wheelchair bloggers.
Stumbleupon hits: 48k
7/ The World’s Most Unique Headphones
We did this one for online electronics store Crescent Electronics and it went online on the 6th of June earlier this year. The post shows photographs of the World’s most unique headphones including antler headphones, Star Wars headphones and more. The bait was quite successful and got linked to by some decent gadget blogs.
Stumbleupon hits: 38k
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Posted in Social Media News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
November 25th, 2011
Just been having a look at the Alexa rankings of some of the top social news websites and was surprised to see that Stumbleupon and Reddit are both apparently getting more traffic then digg. Have a look at the graph below:
The results are very close so it is hard to tell who is getting the most by looking at the graph, but if you look at the traffic rank for each site you will see that Stumbleupon and Reddit are both supposed to be getting more traffic then digg. Here are the traffic ranks for each site:
- Stumbleupon – 117th most popular site on the web.
- Reddit – 135th most popular site on the web.
- Digg – 138th most popular site on the web.
I am not surprised that Stumbleupon has come out on top, our linkbait articles always seem to get lots of traffic from the social bookmarking site, one of them that we did a few years ago has had almost half a million visitors from it and another that we did just a couple of months ago has already had 274K.
Up until a few months ago digg was way ahead of both of them in the Alexa rankings, I think the drop in traffic could be something to do with the site re-design that they did last August.
Posted in Social Media News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
April 28th, 2011
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