Making Your Posts Interesting: Why You Should Add Images To Your Posts

[ishan]

I was thinking about ways to help bloggers and also contributing back to community, so I decided to write a series on making your blog posts attractive. The difference is that this series is not on my blog but completely on the forum! If you find it helpful, do share your views and if you have any suggestions, feel free to share them.

In this thread, I will discuss why you should add images to your blog posts.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

We all have heard this quote but often forget about it.
Ask yourself a question, why do people come to your blog? Do they come to get useful information or read essays?
Of course, they come to get useful information. However, without a picture, your post is just like an essay: Good to read, but also easy to forget.
If you are not adding images to your posts, you are feeding essays to people. And they won't like that.
Here are 3 reasons to add images to your blog posts:

1. Images Capture Focus: One of the most important things about images is that they instantly capture visitor's focus. For a small time, your reader's focus will be on the image. And you can use this time to draw his/her attention toward the main point of post. Do this by placing image near important point and see how people focus more in it.
2. Images Help In Getting Search Engine Traffic: Images are not just for readers. If you are a traffic junky, they can also help you by attracting traffic from Google Image Search and other similar services. Just make sure you add proper alt tags.
3. Images Help People Remember Your Blog: Have you noticed that images are easy to remember than large chunks of text? This is so because our brain is trained to remember them. We don't see text as often as we see images. In fact, whole world around us has images and our brain remembers most of them. A nice picture can make people remember about your blog.

Adding images is important to your blog. If you are not adding at least 1 image to every post, this is a big mistake. Remember to add image after you complete a post.
Note: While adding images is important, it is no substitute for quality content. Your top priority should be producing quality content.

Thanks for reading. Feel free to share and comments or suggestions. If you have any question/topic in mind, do share here or PM me.

Have a nice day.

[deutsched]

Nice tips out there. I never realized I could get hits from google image search as well, now I might rename my images to make them more SEO friendly

[ishan]

Originally Posted by deutsched

Nice tips out there. I never realized I could get hits from google image search as well, now I might rename my images to make them more SEO friendly

Glad that you liked the tips!

[William Veasley]

Hey homie,

This is a awesome forum post! Thanks for taking the time to share it with us here.

I totally agree with you dude. Pictures do speak a thousand words if not more. A picture will add liveliness to your blog post. I always enjoy a good picture with what I'm readying. When I was young I would only read picture books, because there were simply more appealing to my eyes. It's always nice having that picture that relates to what your writing. It capitalizes on what is being said in the post.

I have a friend who just read a article I posted, and the first thing she mentioned was that she loved my picture. So, with that being said everyone should take the little time it takes to find a picture, and FIND ONE! Lol. People can be so lazy now in days. The object is to make your site as appealing as possible.

You have to remember, the first empression is always the most important.

Thanks again!

God bless

[Eduard]

Excellent idea. It took me a while to realize this, but images with posts can make a blog more memorable and look more professional.

I started using images on my people skills blog a few months ago and I get positive feedback from readers about this. However, I also have a conversation starters blog that I keep minimalistic and I use no images on it (although minimalistic and having images are not necessarily a contradiction in terms).

[kctan75]

HI thanks for the tips ... i think adding tags to the photos is something i haven't really done ... cheers

[sfossy]

Yes I would also say to add images to every post, this is helpful in many ways. Readers are always waiting for some images to explain what they read. Moreover you get traffic from google images.

[Laughing Ninja]

This is genius. I'm just new to blogging, but it never even occurred to me to use images.