Want one easy tip to make your blog posts more appealing to readers? Try adding an image. It doesn’t have to be a full photo display of images with a new one for every paragraph. Just a single image can attract a reader and help a post seem a bit more interesting.
Now, where do you find these images? If you have some talent with a camera, you might want to take some of your own photos and use them. If you do that, the photos are yours and there is no copyright issue to worry about. Just be careful not to use photos with people in them unless you have permission to do so. A professional blog or journalists blog is going to be held to somewhat stricter rules than the simple family blog.
But not every blogger is a photo journalist. There are websites out there that offer copyright free and royalty free photos that you can use. One of my favorites is MorgueFiles.com. It’s not a deadly as it sounds. The term morgue file in the newspaper business was the file (or room) where past issues were kept. The term has been used by various creative individuals to describe a file for inactive jobs – a place for reference material. Morguefile.com is a place where anyone can upload photos that they have take and make them available for others to use. Because morguefile.com allows anyone to create and upload their photos, I find that it holds more usual and interesting photos than some of the more commercial sites. The feeling can be more personal, and that’s a feeling I like for my blog.