Old : A picture is worth a thousand words

New : A picture is worth a thousand backlinks !!

Well to convey your story, try to use graphs , pictures or infographics.  Is this concept new  ?

Nope.

Illustrations have been always been very powerful.  But slowly with users creating cool info graphics, they have been catching more attention than plain text. For eg Look at the you tube flow chart below

Isn’t it cool ?

A useful link to create charts and infographics online. Some of them are free and others are paid.

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/resources/free-online-tools-create-diagrams/

The link below is list of sites which are only into info graphics.

Omni graffe

http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnigraffle/

Vector Designer

http://www.tweakersoft.com/vectordesigner/index.html

Free Mind mapping software

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

I tried http://www.onlinecharttool.com till now. Will update this post once I try out some more.