Small Business Advertising Blogging Guide – Where To Get Blog Graphics

When using blogging

 for any small business advertising purposes it is important to have not only an attractive blog and good content but is also a great idea for your blog posts to have attractive images and graphics.  By graphics I mean either pictures or video that will  catch your visitors attention, educate or entertain them, depending on your niche.  Any graphics that your blog has should complement your blog as well as the particular blog post. This post is just meant to be a short blogging guide on where to get blog graphics to enhance your business message.

First I want to cation you about where you get your graphics especially if they come from the search engine results or if you just see a nice graphic on someone's website. That's because a lot of the images or videos have copy rights and are licenced.  If you decide to use a licenced image without getting rights to it or permission you can get an unpleasant e-mail or letter from a lawyer informing you that you owe someone thousands of dollars for that particular graphic.  That is why you always have to be aware of the licencing of any blog graphics that you use on your blog and any content you create.

 There are ways of getting great graphics that you can use legally without ramifications. You can find some free licenced for reuse graphics on Google by doing an image search. To do this go to Google Image search and click on the "Advanced Search" options, look for the blue anchor text by the Google search box. Type what image you want then scroll down to the licensing option and select from the drop down menu " Licenced for reuse."  When you are looking for images on search engines to always do a search for graphics that are licenced for reuse. 

A safer  way get blog graphics is purchase what is called royalty free photos and images.  What this means that you purchase the licence to use these photos.  There are several sites on which you can find amazing graphics for under a dollar that will enhance your blog posts.  My personal favorites are Fotila.com and iStockphoto.com.   You can use these images as is or alter them to suit your needs. For example adding text or your business name to create a quick logo for your business a Facebook Fanpage image for branding or a quick blog header. What  you can not do is to sell them or to give them away to people.

Another way to ad graphics is by adding video to your blog.  If you don't want to create videos you can find great videos created by others that have great information about your topic or niche on free sites like YouTube, Viddler, and many other video sharing sites. You can also outsource video creation and have professionally made videos created for your business both informational and promotional. 

Another safe way to have all your content and images to have local business marketing firm create all your content written, blog graphics and videos  so that you can concentrate on running your business and serving your customers.

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