How Effective Are Blog Images in Your Blog Posts? Do You Really Need to Use Images on Your Website?

Images are an important part of the internet, can you imagine the internet without images or video? It would be very dull and surfers wouldn't spend half as long online as they currently do.

• Images say 1,000 words - this is very true, especially if you are on topic of a specific product or place. How long would it take you to explain intricate details of a new digital radio and all its buttons? Save yourself a lot of time by using images.
• Images help set the tone - all content is on a particular topic, help set the tone of the topic with a related picture, if you are telling a funny story but can't find a related picture just have an image of something laughing really hard, on topic and sets the tone.
• Images enhance the visitors emotions - all experiences cause an emotion, this is true even on websites , if your are talking about beautiful beaches then have some pictures of them, it will make the reader want to be on the beach even more!
• Images complement text - you can further explain what you are talking about with images like graphs, tables and charts. This goes into the "images say 1,000" words, save yourself time and explain stats with graphs and tables.
• Humans don't like big blocks of text - if this article was written as one big block of text without paragraphs or these bullet points you would have left the page along time ago! Small images can help break up the text as well as explain what you are talking about even further.
• Images can bring in traffic - all the major search engines now index images so give your pictures an accurate "alt" attribute and receive trickles of traffic from image search results.

Conclusion

Images are really effective, especially when used in blog posts when the surfer may not be that interested in the post but just wants to check it for a couple of seconds to see if the post is any good anyway.

The only thing to be careful of is to make sure your images are on topic and not just put their because you want an image, this doesn't make sense.

Don't use the excuse of paying for images, there are hundreds of royalty free photo providers with hundreds of thousands of free stock images in their libraries so get out there, add them to your pages and get your message across to your readers enhancing loyalty and improving experiences!