HOW TO INCREASE BLOG TRAFFIC (2020) - Accompany your blog with fabulous images

5. Accompany your blog with fabulous images

It’s REALLY important to use good images in any blog posts you publish.

There are four main reasons for this.

First, it helps readers get a sense of what you are writing about (this is particularly important if you are exploring difficult concepts – visual aids can really help simplify matters).

Second, the main picture accompanying your post will show up whenever your visitors share one of your posts on social media, and if it is a dull picture, it’s far less likely to generate clickthroughs to your site.

Third, as with text, images can be optimised to help your content appear in search results. By adding suitable keywords to a picture’s 'alternative text', file name and caption, you can help search engines gain a better understanding of what your post is about (and by extension, help the post appear in relevant search results).

And finally, good images help to make your content look authoritative. If you use a beautiful piece of photography instead of a dodgy piece of clip art to accompany a blog post, it is far more likely to be taken seriously — i.e., read in the first place! — by people who come across it.