A couple of years ago, no one had ever heard of infographics. Now, they’re a very effective way of communicating info…and of drawing traffic to your site.
The infographic below shows some interesting and some curious facts on the effectiveness of using infographics (why on earth is an infographic on beards and trustworthiness so popular?), but for me the biggest take away is that posts with infographics are tweeted almost 600 times as often as traditional posts.
That’s big.
Posts with infographics also do better on LinkedIn and StumbleUpon. Pinterest isn’t mentioned here, but I would think it would show similar stats.
One thing that baffled me is how my home country of the Netherlands is being depicted, the shape doesn’t even come close to what it actually looks like! Not that it’s that important, but just saying.
The state of infographics:
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