Wordpress Wednesdays: Pictures Are Worth 1000 Words
Posted on March 12th, 2008
It’s easy to get lost in the blogosphere, especially when you consider how many great blogs — and as a result, how many great blog posts — there are for readers to consider. That’s part of the reason why we do the In The Sphere segment every Friday. The hope is that we will simultaneously introduce BlueFur readers to some great content, as well as garner a little bit of attention from the blogs that are receiving the trackbacks.
When going through a standard feed aggregator like Google Reader, it’s very easy for your blog post to get lost in the mix. People typically subscribe to several RSS feeds, so they don’t really have the time to read each and every post. They may take a quick glance at the title and move on. How, then, can you grab the attention of your readers? If they’re skipping past your posts, they aren’t being exposed to your world class content!
One strategy that you may want to try is including an image at the top of every post. As you can see, the BlueFur blog already employs this strategy. Whether it be a Fantastico update or a Wordpress Wednesdays, there is an image at the top that is designed to grab the attention of the reader (and to help separate the posts a little on the blog itself). If readers just skim the title, they may miss out on the topic you are covering. An eye-catching image, in this way, truly is worth 1000 words, because it draws the reader deeper into your post.
If you happen to be blogging about a new piece of technology, grab a picture of this product and place it at the top of your post. If you’re blogging about what you had for lunch, try to include a photograph of what you ate. No matter what the subject matter may be, there is always an opportunity to include a picture and, thus, an opportunity to draw a reader deeper into your post. Otherwise, you could just get lost in the never-ending stream of posts from around the ’sphere.
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Just make sure to make these images have a small file size, otherwise high speed readers might pass the post on before the image loads.