Finding Royalty Free Images For Your Website Or Blog

Posted In Blogging for Musicians | 3 comments

Once you set up a blog based around your music and have been posting for a while you will probably come to a rather interesting realization, that will change your blogging style forever…

This little epiphany may come in the middle of the night (after eating too much cheese) and is that the majority of your fans only skim and scan through your posts, reading a tiny amount of the text just to get the gist of what you have written. In fact, I’m lucky that your taking the time to read this right now…thank you PARTNER!

So as “A-list bloggers in the making” we need to do everything in our power to make our website stand out from the crowd. The goal is to keep people sticking around longer so that they notice links to latest gigs, music releases and the other important actions that keep us all afloat as DIY musicians.

There are a few little tricks we can use to make this happen like breaking our text up into very short readable paragraphs that become like greasy poles, making fans slide down the page like a sexy dancer…you can also try linking to other relevant content on your blog to increase time on your site.

But another important tactic in your efforts to create an addictive experience for your fans is to include a captivating image with all of your content. They spark the interest and instantly get people more engaged into what you have written.

OK…give me some images Chris!

To show you want I mean here is a link to a songwriting post I added to the blog the other day…

The post is all about moving from a song book to a word processor for writing lyrics. I got a bottle of ketchup and created a photo of myself killing my old song book, with blood effect and everything! (Sorry for the mess wifey ;-) )

The problem with setting up these kinds of photos is that it can be time consuming, turning a quick blog post into a major project.

So I shot the video below to help you find amazing images that you can use totally free without breaking any rules:

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  • http://www.viralgigs.com Andy Rogers

    Chris,

    How do you rate the Flickr CC options vs google images advanced search for content filtered by use?

    Andy

  • http://www.promoteyourmusic.net Chris Rockett

    Hey Andy,

    Google works too but I like going straight to FlickR because there are a few less steps to find attribution and such.

    I also find that lots of those google images come from FlickR or wiki anyway.

    But whichever way you’re most familiar with will achieve the same result I guess.

    Your viral gigs program looks amazing, I’d love to get some more info on that.

    Maybe we could do an interview or something.

    My email is contact at promoteyourmusic dot net

    Talk soon,

    - Chris

  • http://www.electrickiwi.co.uk Ross

    Thanks for the tip! From time to time, I do need to find royalty-free images for blog posts – now I know where to get them! :)