| The Benefits of Using Images in Blog Posts Posted: 08 Feb 2012 06:17 AM PST 
Guest post by Susan Hannan. Normally, when most bloggers publish their posts, they tend to include a picture just for gist of it. Nevertheless, most are coming to the realization that pictures are indeed crucial for any blog post. If you have never comprehended the benefits of using pictures while publishing your blog posts, here are some of them: - Pictures bring out the color in your blog posts. This is especially true if the theme used in your blog is black and white. By adding a picture, you will be brightening your blog post. Basically, all a picture does is to get the attention of your readers, thus directing them to your published article.
- Pictures function as a navigation feature for the published post. When readers are going through your blog post, pictures enable them to know where they are on the blog. While this may sound lame, readers know which posts they are on by counting the pictures used. As such, you can assist your readers to locate a particular post by making use of pictures.
- Generally, when someone opens a blog post, they instinctively go through it once just to get a glimpse of it. If your published contents have some compelling images, chances are that your readers will look at the published content one more time. Using images also enable people from other social networks to stay longer on your site.
- Images can be used as a means of individualizing blog posts. Readers mentally start to associate your blog posts with particular images. They will recall the posts that made an impact on them by using images. As such, when readers want to look for specific information, they will use the images as a point of reference.
- Images can also be used for taking up space that would have otherwise been used by text. One way through which you can minimize the use of text in your blogs is by making use of pictures. A 500 word article can be made to appear like a 1000 ward blog post by simply making use of images. This can be an immense victory for you given that no one really wants to read a 1000 plus blog post. If you are an excellent writer, you should be able to put your thoughts in a 600 word blog post rather than a 1000 word blog post. But, you can include images to make your blog posts to appear longer.
- Images can also be used as a means of breaking up long text into blocks. It's common knowledge that readers get bored by long blog posts. However, you can make your texts appear small by using images.
- Using pictures also adds humor to your published content. Your objective is to make your readers stay long on your site. Hence, you can use images to make your readers laugh while reading your blog posts. Note that, when readers are laughing, it means that they are relishing your blog posts.
- Last but not least, images can be used as a means of bringing out emphasis. It is a way of getting out feelings from your audience.
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