How to Skyrocket Your SEO: Building Backlinks with Irresistible Infographics
Infographics are not just popular on social media sites such as Pinterest and Reddit. They can also improve your SEO significantly and increase web traffic.
Case in point: Websites that publish infographics see their traffic grow an average of 12% more than sites that don’t.
Yet most people ignore infographics because they wrongly assume that it requires a lot of time and effort to design one or consider it to be an expensive task to outsource.
Here’s the truth: Infographics are remarkably effective in generating high-quality backlinks for free.
You don’t need to be a professional designer either. With free online design tools like Canva, Venngage, and Piktochart, you can create fancy infographics in a matter of minutes.
Another way to create beautiful infographics is to outsource it by hiring professional designers on sites such as Fiverr, Upwork, or if you have a bigger budget, Design Pickle.
Once your infographic is up and ready, it’s time to promote it. Follow these steps:
1. Submit your infographic to infographic submission sites
Here’s a list of sites that allow you to submit your infographics (both free and paid). I’ve also mentioned the domain authority of each of these sites to signify the value of each backlink that you’ll get, so you can prioritize your efforts accordingly:
- Graphs.net (DA – 54)
- Visual.ly (DA – 78)
- InfographicBee (DA – 27)
- Cool Infographics (DA – 60)
- Infographic Journal (DA – 55)
- Submit Infographics (DA – 46)
2. Reach out to bloggers in your niche and offer them the infographic for free as a guest post
The next step is to identify bloggers and influencers in your niche. You can do this by using a tool like BuzzSumo or any of the blogger outreach tools. Once you’ve identified the bloggers, send them an email informing them about your new infographic and how it can add value to the content they have created on the same topic. If need be, offer to write a unique summary for the infographic.
Everyone loves well-designed, informative infographics and half of the sites you reach out to will gladly accept to include your infographic in one of their articles.
3. Use Siege Media’s Embed Code Generator to generate an embed code for your infographic
Siege Media’s Embed Code Generator allows you to generate embed codes for your infographic. Once the code is generated, all you need to do is copy and paste the code below your infographic.
By generating an embed code for your infographic, you make it easier for others to share and embed your infographic onto their own site. Here’s the best part: every time someone includes your infographic in their content, you get an attribution. Yet another easy way to fetch a contextual backlink.