Great source for FREE IMAGES - Embedly!
So having a fashion/beauty blog requires a load of visual content. I've done research all day today and found something i just need to share with you right now!
A program which allows you to embed pictures from almost all over the internet - I love it!
You create an account, it's free! Once you're done, you copy and paste a link to the image you want to embed, click a button and tada! You have the html code which you paste into the "text" window of your wordpress post where you want that image.
I just embedded an image that I've searched in Google Images - clicked on the View Image button
which took me to the URL of the image, I copied the URL, pasted into embed.ly, got the code, pasted into the text window of my post, and this is how it looks like on preview:
If you have a dark background on your blog, there is also an option to choose a dark background for your picture. Of course not all images can be embedded, but I've tried it on a lot of Google search ones, and on websites, it works on most, totally legal, AND it's SEO friendly too!
You have an analytic section on your profile where you can observe what your viewers/readers are watching, clicking - from the images you've embedded - added bonus!
You can embed video and audio too! Yeah I know it sounds too good to be true!
Let me know if you have any questions, and use to your heart's content! Oh by the way, you have a monthly quota of 50 000 images to embed before you have to pay. Rock on!
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The pleasure is mine - I love sharing good stuff with the community, and I'm so excited about this one!
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I discovered this recently too. It's brilliant. I was even able to embed one of my own pages into a widget for the sidebar so I can have a "featured article" kind of thing.
I wouldn't mind a bit more control over the SoundCloud embeds, like switching to their miniplayer instead of the HUGE default player but I mean that's not a deal breaker considering embedly can embed just about anything in one plugin. Definitely a good find.
Oh, and they have this wrapping "card" technology so the embeds work on mobile, desktop, anything and the size is taken care of... how sweet is that :)