fireyourdayjob (FYDJ) Give without Expectation #2

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6 years ago

Add value to your blog posts & articles with eye capturing images. It so important to realize that audiences today are utilizing all of their senses when consuming content through Images, Videos. Animations & Audio like podcasts. Put yourself in your customers shoes, would you want to read 500+ words in an article or post?

In some shape or form you will need images to become an integral part of your posts, website or articles. The budding entrepreneur is faced with so many challenges in the very beginning and although so many people out there are selling this as the easy option, we all have the “brick wall” moment where you feel like its just another expenses you will face to either have a super high end camera to create your own images or pay for yet another monthly fee to get eye-catching images.

GOOD NEWS for you is there is a FREE way to add life to your work! As part of FYDJ (fireyourdayjob.com) constant persistence to give without expectation, I have a list of FREE image websites where you can legally & ethically download images for use. Just a disclaimer here from my side:

FYDJ did not produce any of these images, FYDJ does not accept any responsibility for misuse of these links/ images from anyone who decides to follow these links on my blog post. PLEASE use these links responsibly & ethically.

Where to find free usable images:

https://www.freeimages.com

https://www.pexels.com

https://pixabay.com

https://unsplash.com

https://stocksnap.io

https://kaboompics.com

https://magdeleine.co

Always remember that there are hard-working Photographers that have gone to extra ordinary efforts to make this service available, it is ALWAYS advisable to “pay it forward” when you can afford to, when there is the option to “donate” I personally go back and give back if I have received either business or good feedback with a post that has free images attached, its just good karma and WILL come back to you along the way.

Choose images that relate and express the paragraph/s that you are writing about, it will allow your reader to visualize what you are trying to say. Your reader will become engrossed in your content if they can have a visual in their mind about your message. It is also a proven fact that readers will engage for longer in an article if there are images in a post/ article as it stimulates extra sensory receptors while they are reading and that is the goal after all isn’t it?

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Make sure that if you are adding images on your website that you add captions below your image, it will show up if the reader drags their mouse over your Image and will portray that you hand-picked this image for this section in your post/ article.

If your using your OWN images or Wealthy Affiliate images ONLY you can also add the hyperlink to your website or your WA Affiliate link. Do not do this with free stock images unless it expressly gives you permissions to do so which is usually visible before you download the image.