Shelby ClarkeOctober 15, 2015 Finding just the right stock photos for content – e-books, social posts, blogs, etc. – is important, but I often find myself dreading the task. (Seriously, I would avoid it like the plague if possible.) However, marketers and designers alike must embrace the search as a necessary evil, because images are one of the keys to … Continue reading Avoiding Cheesy Images: Best Stock Photo Websites
Free tool gives people simple way to create square images for Instagram, horizontal for Facebook and Twitter, vertical for Pinterest. Martin Beck on October 15, 2015 Buffer has given its free images-with-a-message tool an upgrade. “Pablo,” launched last spring and the generator of more than 500,000 photos, now enables people to create images optimized for … Continue reading Buffer’s Pablo Now Creates Images Optimized For All The Social Networks
Alicia DoddOctober 8, 2015 I have to admit, I am so tired of seeing such uninspired feature images on blogs and I’m not the only one. My colleagues share my sentiments and I’m sure other professionals agree; feature images matter. Statistically, content with relevant images gets 94 percent more views than content without. Furthermore, … Continue reading Death to the Gummy People: 3 Ways to Improve Blog Images
Madhu GulatiAugust 26, 2015 Images add to the visual appearance and hence, are used to attract visitors’ attention to improve upon the conversion rate. There are many people who do not want to browse the information, but instead experience it. Hence, it becomes a must for designers to choose the right images that could connect … Continue reading 7 Tips to Boost Web Conversion Rates Using Images
Jessie-Lee NicholsAugust 13, 2015 Contrary to popular belief, search engine optimization (SEO) goes beyond keywords. In fact, Google (and other search engines, consider lots of different factors, from those trusty keywords, to page load time, domain maturity and more when they determine where to rank your site in search engine results pages (SERPs). If you’ve … Continue reading 5 Tips to Optimize Images for SEO
Rebekah RichardsJune 30, 2015 It’s been said countless times, “A picture says a thousand words”. What do your blog post graphics say about you? Do you simply grab a stock photo or two and add it to your post? Do you go all out and create full custom graphics for every post to wow your … Continue reading How To Create Images That Boost Blog Post Shares [Infographic]
Priya Florence ShahJune 17, 2015 Are the obligatory dimensions for social media images on each channel making you crazy? They’re sure making me nuts. I mean, social media updates happen in real time. Who on earth can remember what dimensions each image should be so it shows up well on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ etc? … Continue reading The Quick And Dirty Guide To Using Social Media Images
Anna BennettJune 3, 2015 You’ve all heard that saying “a picture is worth a 1,000 words” right? After all we live in a fast paced society where we’re glued to our smartphones, laptops, iPads where images are easy to consume. Study shows that 65% to 85% of people describe themselves as visual learners. If … Continue reading How to Create Great Images for Pinterest: 12 Keys
Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, (June 04, 2015) Teens leverage social media as a conversation space and an outlet for self-expression to a greater degree than adults do, according to researchers at Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology, who used a combination of textual and facial recognition methods in their study. Nearly half of the photos … Continue reading Reseach Finds Images In Social Media Posts Reflect Another Ad Targeting Option
by Meghan Cahill April 22nd, 2015 Visual content is downright essential for any digital marketing effort. The rise of platforms like Tumblr, Pinterest and Instagram, sites such as Houzz, and even the dreaded wasteland known as Buzzfeed, prove that yes, we like to look. A frequently-cited study states that visual content receives 94% more views. … Continue reading How To Use Images To Your Best
