Choosing perfect images for blog posts kills most of our time blogging. The fact is that you need not to find a perfectly matching image for your blog post, choosing images that are relevant to the topic and indirectly conveying a message to the readers are also effective.
For example, in one of my previous posts I had listed some of the cool WordPress plug-ins, in that post I have not used image that denote WordPress plug-ins. Rather, I used the image of a glass of cool Juice. This image denotes cool. I have used this image because I found it effective and I could not find the image that denotes cool WordPress plug-ins in one image.
Look at this…
Or this…
What can you notice? Is there any perfect relationship between the image and the topic? Nope. However, the above example images are more effective than that of images that denote the exact topic.
In the second example, you can notice that I have used the image of the magnet to denote magnetic blog post titles. Most of the bloggers, search images that perfectly denotes magnetic blog post titles.
In the second example above, the magnet represents blog title and the nails represent visitors who are attracted to the magnetic blog post titles.
These types of images help to form an emotional bond between you and you can blog readers, these images convey messages to your blog readers according to their angle of vision.
How to search that kind of perfect images?
Search for those images that represents a part of a title, but not the whole blog post title.
For example, while choosing the perfect image for the post, “magnetic blog post titles“, I simply searched for magnet in Pixabay.
In some cases, you simply get no idea about what to search.
In such cases, Google for any similar blog posts as yours. Observe what kind of images they have used it in their blog posts. Now you get an idea about what kind of images that you can use in your blog post.
Conduct royalty free image search for the image idea that you have found, in royalty free image search engines like Pixabay, Freestock.
Another example,
If you are writing a post on “Rock-solid tips to be a successful blogger”, search for some “rock” images that represent stability.
For this very post, I searched for the word “Perfect”.
Pro tip: Use the image by looking at which reader clearly understands the point you make. Your image should shout out to readers, “This is the exact post you are looking for”.
Once the reader understands that your blog post contains the content, exactly what they are looking for, they tend to read the entire blog post thoroughly.
I can’t still find the right image
I also witness the situations where I can’t get the right image for my blog posts.
In those cases, I use Canva.
I got no idea, what image I have to use for the post, Blog Descriptions: Tips to Create Effective Ones.
I grabbed a background, and simply typed the keyword of my post in it.
You can also present text on the image in the form of light-box to give your image a more professional look.
Like this one,
Ain’t it simple?
Edit the images if necessary
As you may already know that royalty images have no restriction on editing and republishing. So you can edit your images so that it suits your blog post and topic perfectly.
You can use any free tools like Paint.NET, GIMP or any premium software like Adobe Photoshop.
If the image does not reflect the topic, on which you are blogging upon. Just edit the image, so that it sends an abstract message to the readers about what you want to convey.
Observe this image…
Finally,
- Resize the image, so that it matches the layout of your blog perfectly and as well as decreases the size of the image.
- After resizing the image, compress the image using free tools such as RIOT or premium JPEGMini.
Final words
Now your image is ready for upload, just upload the image to your blog or site.
An image that sends abstract messages and capture readers’ attention has the true potential to get direct visitors.
It also shows your imagination power, way of thinking and, of course, the quality of your blog posts.
Hope you enjoyed this unique article on choosing perfect images for blog posts. Do comment and share if it has really helped you.
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