If you are a blogger who does not feel the need to include images within your posts, then you are definitely missing out. When you include images, it helps you in more ways than one. And one reason is the fact that it helps get you traffic. I mean, who doesn't like traffic?

But I have compiled my own top 5 reasons why yo

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Creating a niche site can take some work to accomplish.  One important aspect for any niche site is to use images to make the site look less spammy and more like a real site.  Now I'm not talking about your local niche site that you might have, or a niche site that you keep up with all the time.

I'm talkin

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Often, the only difference between great posts and awesome posts is the fact that awesome posts tend to be livelier. After you read this post, you’ll be able to tweak your posts so that your great posts will transform into ‘awesome’ ones. You’ll als

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Does your blog look bland? Then it's time to Be-Funky-fy it. Read our review and see our image gallery for a variety of ways you can use the free BeFunky online image application to enhance your blog.

It’s easy to create stunning images for your blog’s header, avatar or posts. All you need is a photo or clip art and a few clicks to create

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My early thoughts about this art world icon were sorely incomplete and inwardly deceptive, this figure had a very silent but exposive personality that caused everyone who met him to misinterpret him. Behind the blonde hair and nu vogue wardrobe lied a rather intriguing and accomplished visual artist - an artist that would chang

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"Images. To use them, or not to use them? That is the question. Surprisingly enough, the answer is simpler than the question. Do use images on your blog! There are plenty of reasons why, and we will cover many of those reasons in this article...

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I'm always running across funny images or having funny images sent to me so I decided to share some of my favorite random images that made me laugh over the past week or so. There's really no way to explain what you'll be seeing so you'll just have to click through and check them out for yourself. Be warned, though, my sense of humor ha

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A question I get often is: how do you find such great images through Flickr? Most importantly, how do you find such great images that you can use freely?

In this post, I want to share everything I’ve learned about how you can quickly and easily find Flickr’s best images to suit your needs, whether it’s for a blog post, an eBook, a design,

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Royalty free pictures that you can use freely everywhere can be hard to come by. Specially if you are looking for the perfect picture which will add value to your post. Here is a list of the top 10 sites which offer royalty free pictures. You can use these images on your computer as a wallpaper, inside an application or logo. You can also use

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You now know that using images on your blog is a good thing. You’ve probably heard about it before or even tried out using images from Google, but this isn’t a very good method to practice - images you find via Google and other search engines are most likely copyrighted, which means that they belong to someone else and you don’t have the righ

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Recently, since switching to a magazine style theme, I've been using a lot of graphical elements in my articles. Several people have contacted me asking about where I got them. In this post, I cover the main sources of pictures that I've used. This includes both free and paid sources and sources both on and off the Internet. If you've wond

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Every website has hotspots. I've spent several hours reading eyetracking studies, heatmap studies, and you name it studies. All of these studies show that websites have certain hotspots in common.

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Previously I had discussed finding images to use in your articles. In this article I cover three techniques that you can use to get the most out of the pictures in your posts. To use them effectively you have to work the image into your article. This helps you drive the story home with the serious reader and catch the eye of the casual viewer

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Need an image to use on your website? How do you make sure you can edit and use images found on Flickr on your blog or website and include the proper attributes? Here are 2 ways to search and find Creative Commons images on Flickr. Easily edit, cut and paste into your blog using your WYSIWYG editor, and include the proper attributes to the ph

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Ever wonder why your avatar shows up when you comment on some blogs but not others? If it doesn't show up, you probably need a Gravatar.

What's a Gravatar? It's a free globally recognized avatar that appears beside your name when you comment on Gravatar-enabled blo

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This article, the third in the series on using images in your posts, covers some tips and tricks you can use to improve your images to give them a greater impact and to increase their quality. In the article I briefly go over various photo editing software and tools and cover a few basic techniques you can use to enhance the quality of your p

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Even if you don't need Picasa's capabilities to organize photos and clip art on your computer (and you probably do, even if you don't know it); you're going to want it just so you can play with its photo design features.

This fun, free software is a powerhouse of features for anyone who has photos or clip art stored on a hard drive. I

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