Wednesday 26 September 2012

Best Places To Find Free Images For Your Blog

Images are a must for a good quality article to impress its readers. Images bring alive the real content in a blog. Images make a blog life-like. Without images, a blog is just incomplete and boring. Images play a crucial role to increase reader engagement to blog posts and with the right images, one can attract a large audience.

Whenever we write any post, we always like to add a relevant photo to it or we add screenshots for reference in tutorials. Photos get easily attracted to the blog's visitors. So using high quality is a must to make our audience stick to our blog. With the right graphical strategies, one can increase their reader's count by a large number. There are many sites that provide high quality images at a very low price, but for someone who blogs at zero expense or as a hobby blogger, I have included the best 2 sites where you can find high quality images for free.

Find Free Images For Your Blog
Image courtesy of adamr/FreeDigitalPhotos.net

1. Free Digital Photos

Whenever I kept searching for free photo sites, I never came through this name. But few months ago, when I was reading an article on some blog, I found a very nice image with a credit given to Free Digital Photos and so I went to the site. And I found a really large collection of good-enough quality images which can be used for free. The site only requires you to give a credit link back to their site wherever the photo is used. The images found at Free Digital Photos are of ideal quality for blogs and even I prefer using images from this site.

2. Flickr

Another good site (that we all know about) which provides high quality images for free is Flickr. Though not all images on Flickr can be used for free. There are many pictures with a copyright on them and we cannot use them without special license from its owner. But Flickr also has a large collection of creative common images as well as attribution images that have certain limitations but can be used for free. Some of the limitations are that the images can only be used on non-commercial sites, or you have to provide a link back to the owner of the photo, but these limitations vary from image to image. Overall, you can find many images on Flickr that can be used for free.

Is there any other nice site that I am missing? Comment and let me know!