Blogging – Why Images Matter
A website blog is one of the most effective weapons for marketing your business nowadays. Its rich content improves the SEO search traffic which attracts tremendous number of visitors to your blog when they search online.
According to a study done by HubSpot.com blogging at least 20 times per month allows your blog to get five times more traffic than making less than that which implies doubling your website traffic in six months if you keep it consistent.
In order to attract visitors to be excited about reading your blog posts, it is essentially important that you make it visually pleasing. This can be done by adding a relevant image within the text to make it more attractive and effective as well as organizing the text in neat paragraphs. This makes your blog more professional.
There are many ways you can find appropriate images:
- Take Photos Yourself
You may get great and relevant images by using your cell phone or a digital camera. In case you want to take a picture of products, make a portable light box or try taking the pictures outside in natural light.
- Get Creative
An image isn’t necessarily a photograph, you can even make a written quote from your blog post arranged beautifully in .jpg file. Making quotes does make your blog post more attractive and give the reader an idea about what this blog post could be about.
- Hire Someone
You may hire someone to come up with appropriate graphics for your blog posts. There are tons of designers on sites such as Fiverr and they may come up with ideas that make you amazed. In case you outsource you blog posts, your writer could be as well a great support with helping you with images.
- Look on Stock Photo Sites
You can use stock photo sites such as iStockphoto.com, SXC.hu, Morguefile.com, and RGBStock.com to find relevant images to be used on your blog. Some sites are free and some are paid. Just check the license rules that ensures that you have the right to use the image and its also good to give credit for images.
Its recommended to use small images as long images takes more time to load your blog post. Using the “alt” tag is very useful in which if the image doesn’t show up, due to security, it informs the reader on what the image is all about. This is also useful as it alerts search engines about your website’s subject.
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