Inbound Web Design

Finally.

Someone has created a simple way to create basic infographics for free. That “someone” is Piktochart.com, our favorite tool (from a rather short list) for building super-simple, pseudo-custom infographics in a matter of minutes.

The piktochart site offers both a free and paid option, with the paid version ($14.99 a month) offering a greater number of templates, tools and images. But, we were very impressed with what we were able to churn-out using the free version in a mere 5-minute trial run.

A suitable number of pre-loaded graphics are ready to use out of “the box,” along with the ability to upload items from your own stash of images. What’s more, the free option also offered up a tool for creating custom charts by entering your metrics manually or from a CSVfile…pretty slick.

Can social media activity impact organic search rankings? Popular wisdom says yes, but Michael David of Tasty Placement set out to prove it with a simple test, and compiled his findings into an easy-to-follow infographic.

It’s hard to imagine a scenario where Google would not take advantage of their staggering search market share (more than 3 times its nearest competitor, Bing) to aid in injecting their fledgling social media arm, Google+, into more of our lives. 

Google+, afterall, holds a mere 0.58% of the social media market share as of April 2012. 

Suspicions are abound, that Google would "reward" those of us who are making a serious "go" at incorporating Google+ into our daily social media regimen. 

The following infographic, will at the very least, should encourage you to dedicate a bit more time into the investigation of how using different social media out-posts can affect your search rankings in a very real way.

It certainly raised an eyebrow here at Magnetic MarCom...