Blog Images Are Worth a Thousand Users

By Celeste Bennet

Images help blogs with organic traffic, which is why I don't understand why more bloggers don't use this resource. The concept behind it is fairly simple to why images help with traffic. But I think that finding images and loading them might is probably where the problem lies. A lot of bloggers have enough trouble trying to find a topic to write about, let alone images to go with.

The reason why blog images bring traffic is because of two factors, the first is design and the second is discovery. Having images on a blog extend a blog from just words to visual as well. This gives a blog more opportunities to being discovered on the web. Of course it's not the image itself, but the name of the image that really helps in this.

When naming an image, it is best not to just keep the original name your camera gave it, but rename it with a good description. Rename the image to something that applies to the post as well as the picture itself. This can be tied into keywords relating to the post or blog.

The design comes in with visual stimuli. Images give blogs a more visual appealing look. Instead of users being overwhelmed with pages upon pages of text, images can be used to break up the words. It also makes the post more interesting, creative and original.

Usually the only colour on a blog is the header and maybe the side bar. By having images spotted around the posts, it gives the blog more colour and feeling to it. Images should be well balanced in the post and have space around to still maintain a clean look and feel in the post.

Users will appreciate the creativity and effort gone into the design more than if it was just letters put together to make an interesting topic. With thousands of blogs for users to read, you need to make yours as interesting as possible to stand out. Images are one way to assist with that and taking a picture isn't that difficult.

Celeste writes for Celestial Online an online company that specialises in inspirational images, words and design for websites.

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