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I don’t know the meaning of life… yet.<br><br><br>I’ll also show you easy-to-edit infographic templates you can customize now with Venngage’s Infographic Maker.<br><br><br>Why mini infographics improve on-page SEO<br>Types of mini infographics to use to maximize time on page<br>Choose the right template for your mini infographics<br>Optimize your blog SEO with mini infographics<br>See the results for yourself<br><br>Part 1: How do I know that mini infographics are the solution to better on-page SEO?<br><br>A few years back, some of the people on the content team at Venngage asked ourselves a simple question: How can we increase our rankings without building any new backlinks, and only focusing on formatting updates to our content?<br><br><br>(But if you still want to build backlinks, read our guide on how to use guestographics to build links and increase your SEO rankings, fast.)<br><br><br>Back to the question above: in an attempt to answer it, we ran a focus group across some of our customers to see how they interacted with content.<br><br><br>The caveat was we only showed them two articles at a time, and scrolled through those articles very quickly.<br><br>In other words, people had 10 seconds to decide what they would read, and why.<br>Long story short, people indirectly told us 2 things:<br><br><br>1. 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