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Today we are talking about making your guest posts GREAT by using screenshots!
Why images?
We have listed most convincing reasons why images are a MUST for guest posts in our previous chat (We even started our own collection of images for bloggers – that’s how much we believe in what we preach!). Let’s re-cap the “whys”:
- Images make web articles much more easier to market: Images make people stay, interact and share
- Images increase your chances for approved guest post: A blogger is likelier to like your guest article if it appeals to an eye.
- Images make social media shares much more engaging. As an example, it has been proved that tweets with visuals increase engagement (retweets) from 90% to 150% (based on different research). Images are grabbed by Facebook and Google Plus to show in the social media update. Images make your article “pinnable”. The visual web is definitely the future (Look at multiple visual startups).
"A picture is worth a 1000 words!" #myblogguest
— David B. Faltz (@dfaltz) December 12, 2013
@myblogguest Images make your article more clickable, AND sociable for social profile sharing. #myblogguest
— Shannon Hutcheson (@LdyLarke) December 12, 2013
Why screenshots?
While screenshots are not always possible, in many cases screenshots are definitely the way to go:
- They don’t require license* (as you are making them yourself)
- They make a post much more useful (giving the preview of tools, apps, dashboards, etc)
*We had cases when people just screenshotted an image from a page claiming it’s now theirs (I know that sounds funny). But because we had precedents, I have to note: A screenshot is an image displaying part of your screen that aims at explaining some functionality. Read more »