You may take lengthy minutes selecting the perfect words for your blog, but in the long run, research suggests you could be better off investing that time into choosing images. In this episode of Stay Paid, we share five ways you can use images to raise your blog's click-through rate, increase the time visitors spend reading your articles, boost social sharing, and improve readers' retention. Join us to discover how many images you should include, and where you should place them, to get better results; the must-have image you need to include in every blog and how to optimize its effect; and AI and more traditional tools that will help you create blog images, pictures for social media posts, and videos.
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Blogs
路聽聽聽聽聽 11 Blog Images: Best Practices for Adding Great Pictures to Every Post (from Orbit Media)
路聽聽聽聽聽 Understanding Copyright: How to Safely Incorporate Internet Images into Your Marketing
Tools
路聽聽聽聽聽 InVideo: creates videos from text
路聽聽聽聽聽 Giphy: grab animated .gif files
路聽聽聽聽聽 Meme Generator (free version)
路聽聽聽聽聽 Pexels and Unspash: Free images
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0:00聽聽聽聽 Introduction
0:57聽聽聽聽 Blogging trends
3:53聽聽聽聽 Impact of images
3:47聽聽聽聽 #1: Use as many images as possible聽聽聽聽
5:42聽聽聽聽 #2: Use charts and graphs
6:48聽聽聽聽 #3: Include faces in every post
9:25聽聽聽聽 #4: Place quotes over images
9:59聽聽聽聽 #5: Embed videos into your blog
13:12聽聽 Bonus tips
15:09聽聽 Action Item
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Best Practices for Using Images in Your Content