Discover How To Promote Infographics On Social Media by Kimberly Jean Fricke

1. Discover How To Promote Infographics On Social Media by Kimberly Jean Fricke Infographics can be a great way to accomplish many different marketing goals for your web site. For starters, infographics can generate free traffic to your web site. Infographics can also generate a lot of links to your web site as well. These links can not only generate direct web site traffic, but they can help improve your site's search engine rankings, which will result in even more organic search traffic. Infographics, much more so than text articles, can pull a lot of free traffic from social media sites like Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Images are 'liked' and 'shared' much more often than plain text or links. In fact, Pinterest and Instagram are based on sharing images! And Facebook has greater reach, meaning more people see images than text or links when they are posted. The first thing you should do is write an article about the topic of the infographic and post it to your own web site. Include the infographic with the article. Make sure to make the article shareable. For search engine optimization purporses, include they keywords you want to rank for in the "title" and "alt" information for the image. Include the embed code for the image under it on your web site so that people can copy and paste the code to place the infographic on their own web site, too. The article itself can simply include more in-depth information on the topic of the infographic itself. You already have the information you need on the infographic. Just expand that information for your article. Be sure and submit your infographic to sites that love infographics, not just your typical social media web sites like Facebook. One great example is a site called Visual.ly. This site is perfect for great infographics and yours could even get picked up by news sites in your industry (if there are any). Once you've done that, post your infographic on the major social media sites such as Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Remember on Instagram, to put the link to your article in your Instagram profile, as it's the only link you have on the site. In order to kick start your infographic campaign, consider boosting your post on Facebook to a targeted audience that would be interested in the topic. This could be as simple as $2 a day for a week. If you target the correct audience and you create a lot of likes and shares, this could be a very low cost way to ignite a lot of social media traffic to your web site.

2. Another very important aspect of this campaign is to remember the most important part of it that sometimes gets lost. Be sure and have some way on your article page on your web site to capture email addresses. What good is all that traffic from your infographic if you don't get those visitors on your email list so you can contact them again? Follow these tips consistently with each infographic you create and you'll be well on your way to generating a lot of free traffic and links to your site.