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Blueglass has produced some good infographics, and has also blogged about what makes a good infographic a couple of times. This can be helpful when thinking about ideas for how you want it designed. http://www.blueglass.com/blog/what-makes-a-good-infographic/ http://www.blueglass.com/blog/foundational-infographic-elements-for-link-baiters/ SEOmoz also has an extensive post on the infographic development and marketing process at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-build-links-with-infographics.

2 sides to this, 1. Protecting brand and 2. Just want more results for a keyword. With regards protecting brand, using other sites worked best for me. Putting YouTube content on mydomain.tv, putting company info on a .info, creating my own affiliate sites with brand name in the URL. A few of these and you can control the first page for your brand quite easily. Also with language Googles assigning a folder to a language in WMT and building links from those language sites into it seems to give me an easy 1-2 with /county/ first and plain dot com second. For getting more results in on a specific keyword, yes pdfs or other media types (either youtube videos or host my own and make a video sitemap). If you can get into Google News (depends what kind of site you have) that's good. Plus getting a few Twitter accounts to tweet about the keyword can get you to show up. Both ideas kind of overlap but I find the domains provides more stable control where as the other media varies wildy by search.

Never for seo but it is good to use on blog comments or where you dont want to rick linking to a spam site. but for SEO, no-follows still lose link juice. even for a login page i would still no use it, as linking to a login page that links back to your home page can be usefull in link sculpting

You are not the only one that is frsustated with this, please post url i can only guess without it.