Page 1 = Why is it necessary to use images
Page 2 = What kind of images are really free & Links to Free Images
Page 3 = How to resize images & Links to Free Images
Page 4 = Links to my favorite free image directories
One of the hardest things with website design is finding free images for a website. In this tutorial I will provide links to 12 Free Image Resources. These directories contain 100% Free Images that you can use on your websites and blogs.
WHY SHOULD I USE IMAGES
People are visual by nature and if they come on to a website that is nothing but text, it can become pretty boring really quick. You could have the most engaging content in the world but if everything looks the same it will be hard to keep people on your website.
FYI, That big brown building is Google’s New York City Headquarters.
Now there are ways to keep people from becoming bored with your content without images, like using shorter paragraphs, occasional bold text, and the very important paragraph heading tags. But an image helps to keep your readers engaged.
Another reason it is important to have at least one image (I use no less than 2) on a page, is so that you can effectively share it on social media. But when you place images on your web pages and posts, you want to make sure they are either in the center or on the right side.
You should never put an image to the left of your content. For the normal progression of reading, you should never disrupt the left edge of content. Also since Googlebot indexes your content from left to right, there is a chance that the text to the right of the image may not get fully indexed, since Googlebot cannot index an image.
NEXT UP = What kind of images are really free & Image Directory Links
forgive me if you explained it already in your blog maybe I missed it. I'm going back to read your lesson again.
Great training btw, very helpful, I bookmarked and tagged it for future use.
Thank you for all you do Robert,
Michelle
Very nice tutorial. Especially the list of the CCO image resources!
Images are a great way to make the post more interesting and to keep the reader longer on it, what in returns help for better SERP!
Anyway, nowadays it is easy to get royalty free images and anybody should use this possibility to make own content more appealing to the audience!
Thanks for sharing your tutorial!
Best regards!
Were do if find the out about the image details and see what kind of license it has.
Please help as I am pulling my hair out I have been on this all morning and still don't understand what I can cant use.
On the training, it said that I could get free images but so far everybody want's paying please please help.
Thank you
Craig
regards
Andrew
Greetings from México.
Eugenio.
Free to use images I have taken.
Wishing you all the best going forward. John
I didn't know that we should not put images on the left of our content.
I have done that in the past and will not be doing that again.
I also did not know the trick on searching free images on Google!
Thank you for the links to free images. Some of them I have not heard of so I am going to check them out.
What's the protocol on using either Microsoft Office Word or Microsoft PowerPoint CLIP ART?
Great information as always!
-Thank you much!
Now I've got some editing to do!
By the way, sxc.hu is free...at least they say they're free.
Thanks again & best wishes,
Karen