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Adding quality, well formatted and unique text to your blog post is the most important thing a blogger can do, but adding one or two images to illustrate the text content is expected and equally important.
This goes a long way in improving reading experience and grabs some on-page SEO juice along with it.
Why use images in blog posts?
- Appealing to Read: Remember as a kid when you were only interested in Books with lots of Pictures? lol Yeah!. Adding images that Appeal to the eye can grab readers attention as they scroll and make them want to read the text around it. ngbuzz.com
- Break up Long Paragraphs: When the writing seem to go on forever, readers might be tempted to stop reading or scroll down fast to the end – Using images to break up long lines of text stop them and act as sub headings recommended to keep readers interested.
- Illustration: Rather than wasting time and brain juice trying to explain the intricate details of a complicated process and at last confusing the reader even more – why not just take a snapshot of it and show? – Images still speak a thousand words and even more.
- SEO Juice: Text content is not the only thing that shoots you up to the number one spot on search engines. The use of “alt tags,” adding appropriate keywords to the file name and Optimizing images to be faster for web is a great SEO tip that shouldn’t be ignored.
- High Image search Listing: You might not make it to the top spot in Web search – But with the help of images, you can dominate Google image search. Want to know how ? –
This Google Webmaster Tools article explains it all
Images (like java script) are known to slow down the speed of the page, therefore it is also very important to Optimize your images for the web before uploading.
Take a snap shot of something related with the post and add to your post or use online image sources.
Here’s a Post on How to CORRECTLY use Google Image search to get FREE images without copyright infringement.
You can also use the Flickr Creative commons license image search
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.” -Walt Disney
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