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So no matter who your audience is or what you're going to focus your blog on,

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you need to have images.

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Images power the web.  We're humans.

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We see things before we read them.

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We click on things when an image gets our attention.

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And it doesn't matter if you're focusing on writing, video, photography, whatever it is.

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You have to have images in your post.

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Now, how are you going to find those images? Are you taking them yourselves?

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Are there creative common searches you're going to do?

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It's really up to you in what you want to focus on.

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Whenever possible, it's easier to create the images yourselves.

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Take screen captures of the code you're writing

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or do a screencast walk into the design of a site you just did.

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It's really up to you.  But if you create it, it's going to get a lot easier.

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It's going to have that personal feel, and plus,

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when they know that you're creating the images that go with your post,

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it adds a certain authenticity to the post and to the content you're creating.

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And again, keep in mind that every post you write,

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no matter what it is, should have an image attached.

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And the reason for that is that you hope

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when people come and consume that content, they're going to share it,

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and every social network out there is going to pull an image and share.

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If you have an image in the post, usually that is the one that would go.

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Otherwise, it's going to scroll your site looking for another image,

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and you don't know what that will be so think about that ahead of time.

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Also, want to get a little adventuresome? Break out a little bit.

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Maybe share photos that are going with your post on other networks.

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Instagram is getting a huge boost lately.

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Think.  Is there a way that you can create content and push it out on that channel

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that might be unique and different and thus get you more readership.

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Also, one final thing, by having images in your post,

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it helps drive people to your website through good old fashioned SCO.

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People are going to go out to Google or Beam or whatever search engines

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they want to use and search for things.

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If the images you've put in your posts are tagged appropriately,

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have descriptions to them, it will help in your search results.

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People will think about that very often as well as little things

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that can bring your blog above the others.