While content is truly king when it comes to blogging, your images are equally important. Choosing great blog images will be very important to the success of your blog posts and your site as a whole. You don’t have to be a graphic designer or a professional photographer in order to get great posts for your blog. We’ll cover some tips on how to do it right but the best thing to do is practice. You can also study other blogs that have great images on them to help you get the feel for what’s right and what will work for you needs.
Here are some tips for choosing great blog images for your posts:
- Make sure you have permission to use it – It’s very important that you only use images you took yourself or that you have permission to use. You can get sued and have other complications if you use photos without permission. Take your own photos, use tools like Canva to create images, or buy stock photos that you have the rights to use.
- Make sure it’s relevant to your post – Your image should fit the post and make sense with what you’ve written about. It should also be catchy, clear at different sizes, and crisp. You want something that will catch the eye of the internet reader and draw them in to your post.
- Make sure it’s the right size – Sizing is also important for your blog post. If you want to gain traction on Pinterest, you should use at least one Pinterest-sized image in your post. You also want your featured image to fit properly and not get cut off in your theme.
- Use headlines – Your featured images also look great if you put the title of the blog post in as a headline. It will display when your post is shared via social networks as well and it looks great while also getting the reader’s attention.
- Size your images for social – Size the images for the social networks people will be sharing your posts to. They will look better when shared and will gain more clicks and views than images not properly optimized.
With these tips, you can make excellent blog posts with awesome blog images to get the total package. This will greatly help you to succeed with your blog both at launch, and for a long time to come.
