Why Annotating Images is Essential for Good Blog Articles
Everyone judges a blog by its covers.
Blog stories with unique images receive 94% more engagement, according to Optimind Technology.
Important headlines and bulletproof text are sometimes not enough to pull in the audience you deserve. Readers are not rational beings, and when writers shift focus to emotions and eliminating friction, they get higher returns and capture more attention with their ideas, articles, and websites.
Your reader acts on emotions first, and then follows with reason.
Annotated Images are great at communicating emotion.
People are creatures of split-second decisions based on their emotional drive.
Your life is overrun by thousands of voices screaming for attention. Marketeers blast links, sales templates, and advertising funnels for products that you’re not even sure you need. Grab for attention can overwhelm both writers and readers, especially when it lacks substance.
If you’re a content creator, then you’re the big player in this game.
Your currency is attention. And people give attention to stuff that makes them feel special, curious, and prestigious. Seeing the same image twice doesn’t leave anyone screening for more. Most people turn down a good headline and skip on a life-changing blog article just because they have already seen the cover image before.
Tech Crunch, one of the most famous publishers in the tech industry, is annotating images for its widely-successful blog.
Annotated images help your blog photos stay fresh, enticing, and valuable.
Draw on Screenshots Online / Tech Crunch
Nothing speaks less to your inner instincts than overused cover photos.
Free stock images come with a significant risk of being used in similar articles.
Exclusivity wins readers because people want to feel unique, special, and important. However, getting exclusive photos is either expensive or time-consuming. And If you’re a content creator, spending $500 for paid stock images is financially risky because you never know which post is the viral one until it actually goes viral.
You’re alienating potential readers with overused stock images.
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