Free Stock Images for Business Blogs
Business blogs are an important way that internet business owners can market their products and services to potential customers. A blog that is properly optimized for search engines can, in fact, be a useful way to make your business known to people who are searching for what you provide, but may not already be familiar with your company. In order to present the image that you would like to project for your business, it is important to create a site that is attractive to your readers. One easy way to improve the appearance of your site is to include images that relate to your posts. However, if you are on a budget, you may not want to pay the high prices that many stock image sites charge for the use of their images.
If you are looking for free images to use on your blog, the Freebie Images plugin for WordPress may be the way to go. It comes from the blogger-friendly folks at Crestock Stock Photos, and is very easy to install and use. The plugin allows you to search the Crestock web site for images from the Edit Post page in WordPress, and then drag and drop the images that you want straight into your post. It could hardly be easier!
So, what is the catch? There are a couple of issues you should know about:
- In order to use the image for free, you are required to link back to the Crestock web site.
- A copyright notice will appear at the bottom of the image.
However, if you are on a budget, you may consider these to be a small price to pay for getting high-quality free images for your blog. In fact, if you are looking for additional ways to monetize your blog, you could consider signing up as an affiliate for Crestock, and making money from the affiliate backlinks that you provide from these images. If this fits within your business model, it is a win-win for you and Crestock; I have to hand it to them for coming up with this brilliant way of promoting themselves while providing bloggers with free images.
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