Best way to create a shareable dynamic infographic - Embed / Iframe / other?

[jtriggs]

Hi all,

After searching around, there doesn't seem to be any clear agreement in the SEO community of the best way to implement a shareable dynamic infographic for other people to put into their site. i.e. That will pass credit for the links to the original site.

Consider the following example for the web application that we are putting the finishing touches on:

• The underlying site has a number of content pages that we want to rank for.
• We have created a number of infogrpahics showing data overlayed on top of a google map. The data continuously changes and there are javascript files that have to load in order to achieve the interactivity.
• There is one infographic per page on our site and there is a link at the bottom of the infographic that deep links back to each specific page on our site.

What is the ideal way to implement this infographic so that the maximum SEO value is passed back to our site through the links?

In our development version we have copied the youtube approach implemented this as an iframe. e.g. <iframe height="360" width="640" src="http://www.tbd.com/embed/golf" frameborder="0"></iframe>. The link at the bottom of that then links to http://www.tbd.com/golf

This is the same approach that Youtube uses, however I'm nervous that the value of the link wont pass from the sites that are using the infographic. Should we do this as an embed object instead, or some other method?

Thanks in advance for your help.

James

[jtriggs]

Thanks for the reply George. That makes a lot of sense.

I guess we will have to just police it manually to make sure that people are not removing the link when embedding in their sites.

[GeorgeAndrews]

Hi James, you should check this previous question out.

Basically, you can include your infographic as you've described in the iframe, but add your link after the iframe code but still as part of your embed code.

Here's an example:

<iframe src="http://www.tbd.com/embed/golf"></iframe>

<- anchor text here ->

Hope this helps!