Increase your Website Traffic with the Art of Online Visualization

Online visualization is a surprisingly strong weapon when it comes to gaining readers and attracting more traffic to your site. Though content has traditionally been about words, in this modern day and age, visually pleasing material can go a long way in attracting visitors to your site.

If you’re not a graphic designer and don’t want to spend tons on one, there are a few alternative ways to create cool and engaging visual content.

1) Dipity

This online resource enables uses to create interactive timelines and within each timeline, a number of events. The events are clickable with descriptions and comments. Using the free version, you can add up to 150 different events. If you’d like to add cool designs and branding to your timeline though, opt for the premium account – which starts from 4.95 a month – and you get instant access to customization options, analytics and much more.

2) Esel.ly

This online tool allows you to make your own infographic from among dozens of stylish templates, including Venn diagrams, bar charts, “road maps” and social charts.  The free tool also offers empty templates that you can customize.

Eselly has over 400,000 users!  It shows the importance of visualizations for marketers. Start and create your first infographic. This is ours.

3) Gliffy

If you’re looking to make a simple chart Gliffy is the perfect tool for you. With a range of flowcharts, diagrams or analysis tools, the resource enables you to just drag and drop things into your visual content. The web-based diagram creating program allows you to draw diagrams online, in any browser.

Gliffy also supports UML elements which is helpful for software developers. Here is what we have made on gliffy:

4) ICharts

For those looking to create various types of charts that are both engaging and easy to understand, Icharts has vibrantly coloured charts of all kinds. You can load Excel spreadsheets and Google Drive documents in manually to this tool and use their pre-determined templates to make your charts interactive. The charts are also SEO-friendly and stored in cloud so they can be updated easily and even embedded into newsletters and social networks and sites. You can use the free trial version but get more using the premium version for about $75/month.

5) Piktochart

Another great resource for online visualization is Piktochart. This tool allows you to create amazing inforgraphics in just a few clicks. There are tons of templates for you to choose from and a lot of different themes for different occasions and industries. Add your statistics, symbols and data and you’ll have an infographic ready to be shared. The intuitive user interface allows you to easily get started for free and create maps, infographics, reports and charts.

6) Statistic Brain

For those of you that don’t have the resources to do research and find useful data, Statistic Brain is just the tool! This resource provides users with already made data and research. All you have to do is grab the information relevant to your business or topic and make them visually pleasing.

 

Conclusion

So as you can see online visualization doesn’t have to cost a lot or take a lot of time. Your readers can easily get the visual content they crave and your business doesn’t have to spend too much on giving it to them either. With a bit of research you can find the platform that works best for you and start creating infographics and charts to make your material more interactive, engaging and understandable. This simple method of creating visually pleasing content can do wonders for your site’s traffic and bring in new business. You can use this content to make your site more SEO-friendly and attract more readers that way as well.

Have you ever created any infographic? Share your thoughts about how to Increase your Website Traffic with the Art of Online Visualization with us. We might use it to our next blog article.