Should you place relevant images in every article?
October 19th, 2008 by Lax
It’s a well known fact that human eyes will catch Images first than text in a page. By seeing an appropriate image, reader can get an overview of what the author intended to say. So it’s highly recommended that using an appropriate image adds worth value to your article.
For example let’s imagine you are writing an article related to Adsense, here its worth to place a Google Adsense logo in your article. Let me share some Do’s and Don’ts while you play with images or logos in your articles.
Do’s:
- Do use a company logo if you are talking about it
- Do credit the designer if you use images on personal websites or blogs
- Do use images on public domains like Gov
Don’ts:
- Don’t edit the images without written permission from author
- Don’t use company logos in unnecessary situations
- Don’t remove or edit water marks on images
Please feel free to add more if you know. By the way are you placing images in your articles?
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I prefer to place Images in every article if possible. because they are very cache and useful.
I totally agree with you Lax.
Apart from you told there is one more benefit by placing Images.
That is: Search engines also will catch your site while users searching for images relevent to some topic
Images will only indexed or crawled by search engine, if your image having a search engine friendly codes.
Search engine can’t define your image if you only use img src tag.
So, be sure to put a information on your image through alt tags so that search engine could categories what is your image about.
You can also used alt text in your image for your keyword promotion but I don’t think it is a good idea. What Do you think?
@moneyfromblog,
Thanks dude
@Steve,
Very good point yar.. i will ad this point when i edit the article.
Thank you very much for sharing this.
I remember many occations that visitors coming from google image search.
I agree that Images are important and worth. But your site loading time sucks here.
is that right?
Your site loading sucks, if your Images have large amount of bits.
You can Do editing the image and compress it to some photo editing software like adobe photoshop.
The weight of the image depends on its Quality and sizes.
Make that you don’t put more than 2 images on each article you have in your blog post.
@Evelyn,
Good point. i agree as you said load time increases.
But i recommend to use relevant time and with as min size as much.
Hi Lax,
I would say that if it takes you longer than 5 minutes to find an image you are wasting too much time on it. This may be a hard and fast rule but what are people on your site for anyway? The words, right?! Unless you are a photographer you shouldn’t worry too much about photos.
My 2 cents,
Jeremy
Hi Jeremy Day ,
It wouldn’t be a hard rule. But for user interaction and look & feel.
I dont think it will take more than 5min to find an Images in this web world with help of many image searches
Any way i will agree with you till some extent.Again it’s upto the authors who is writing articles.
Earlier i was not using image in my blog, but i have started using simple Images created by me only, which really help reader in order to quickly see what the article is all about.
I rarely used Images on my articles. I think I should also use images to capture the imagination of my readers. Thanks for the tips.
i think image is most important thing, it will give better understanding to readers mind.
Yes. If you find any relevant picture you should consider to put in your post. It has much advantages. Bring traffic through image search and like folks say..picture can give 101 meanings