What Do You Think About Publishing/Distributing Infographics?

[sbrault74]

I am looking for ways to gain links / visibility / traffic and so I did a little search on infographics and found this company: http://nowsourcing.com/services/infographics/

I contacted them about their services and here's a part of their reply:

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Here's a bit more information about our pricing options:

level 1 - infographic design (up to 3 major revisions, 30 minor revisions) - $3,000
level 2 - infographic design + research (up to 5 hours) - $4,000
level 3 - infographic design + research + promotion (social networks plus 30+ outlets) - $5,000

**Distribution is on a few different levels:**1 - we look for top name mainstream media / large traffic / high pr websites that will run the infographic
2 - we have a media network of sites where we feature the infographic
3 - we have the ability to publish on numerous sites that feature infographics and / or are niche vertical targeted
4 - we also promote via large audiences in social media networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, StumbleUpon and Pinterest

**Here are some good examples of our artwork and promotion abilities:**Facebook vs Google Display network, www.wordstream.com/articles/facebook-vs-google-display-network
Estimated 15-20 million reach, was profiles in Adweek here - www.adweek.com/sa-article/beyond-words-142494
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Now my concern is with the distribution part. Would that be considered as spamming by Google? They seem to push the same infographic on a ton of websites.

If you have better advices on infographics, please do share

[jesse-landry]

It could be spammy, but I like to think that Google doesn't punish infographics as severely as say trash-written articles by English-as-a-second-language "SEOs." Reason being is it makes sense for infographics to sit in many places as some people want to share infographics that may not be entirely relevant to their niche/site/whatever.

That said I'd still be skeptical and if it were me I'd skip the distribution part and handle that on my own. If you want them to create your infographic, that's one thing.. but there are also tons of great ways you can create your own if you have your own facts/data to present. infogr.am, visua.ly, infoactive.co, easel.ly - - check all these out first.

Good luck!