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Hi Roezer, I like to use images in my posts. I try to use my own images when I can. Well to be honest, what I really love to use in my posts is video. I think this is a visual element that I find really important. But for the posts where a video is not appropriate I will try to find an image. I’ve been using the Zemanta plugin to help with that.

However, you are bringing up a good point about the images being removed by the owner. It has happened to me once already. The good thing about Zemanta is that I find a lot of Wikipedia images and I don’t think those images change often. But I will keep an eye on this. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. There are so many things that a blogger needs to consider so it’s nice to have help.

@Ileane
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I think it is always good to have an unique image rather than copying someone else. I had to face that issue couple of times as my blog will not display the image as they have removed or changed the original image location. So now I try to publish one of my own image or not adding an image.

Another thing is that if you are not having a image gallery or something related to images visitors coming though image search will not stay much longer in your blog.
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Here is where I will disagree. The only reason bloggers feel like images aren’t worth it, is because they don’t know how to use them effectively. 50% of my traffic comes from image search. I believe images are just as important as great content.

The problem is, you can’t use generic images that are meaningless. This is where people fall on their face. You have to spend time and create great images that will drive people to your site. I custom make all my images for all my sites. I make sure they look good, will stand out well in search and will even say what they are. I’ll give you an example. Do an image search for “vvs clarity”. I show up number 1. And when you look at all the other images for vvs clarity, it’s easy to see why I get clicked on. My image says vvs clarity right on it. It’s smart and it works.

Try another example. Type in “si3 clarity” in images. See why people would click on mine? Doing an image search for “fake pandora” brings up 3 of my images on the first page.

How about this? You know how you do a regular search and it also shows a couple images as well? Do a regular search for “cz vs diamond” 727,000 people search for that a month. I show up number one. I also show up in the 5 images on that page. And if you go to image search, I show up number 1.

I’ve been telling bloggers for months to not discredit images. No one listens. If you slap up a generic image, that doesn’t show anything or doesn’t say anything right on the image, then you’re doing yourself an injustice.

The point is, you are totally missing out on a huge traffic bringer by treating images as nothing. Use images smartly and you will see your traffic double! :)

This is also a problem that people put images that are just say a width of 530 pixels and their content wrapper is only 500 meaning that the Image covers the Sidebar and spoils the whole look of the Article even though it’s the Perfect picture for the Article

As a small blogger who handle personal blog (riwayat terakru) i think the need of photo based on the story. if the story about people or place, it would be better to have the related photos together. Sometimes photo used as an attraction. If in a page full of words, it will look better if there are one or two photo attached there.

Just one thing always disturbing, when we took the photo from others web. Even we put the link to the real owner but we still not sure whether they happy or not for their photo being used by us.
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That’s the problem. There is not a creative common license for the whole web. When we create our pictures and images for our website it is copyright by us automatically. Plus, most sites have disclaimers on their websites that state the content and images are copyright, do not steal or hotlink. I put copyright directly on my images and people still steal them. Just because we put it on the web does not mean it’s fair game. You should not use any images on any website unless it actually states that the image is free to use. Always assume it is copyright and off limits.

The only places that you can get free images from are places like flickr and photo galleries that do allow these sorts of things. And only if the creator of the image says you can use it.

Flickr states: Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.

If you don’t check or don’t get permission to use the image first, then you will tick off website owners, like me, who custom make my images and don’t want the whole wide world to take.

I find this just as rude as the people that steal my content. It’s not cool. Check the copyright first. It’s the right thing to do.

I guess my opinion is simpler, I just like them. An image is simple to add to a post and I think it adds aesthetically, so I purchased a set of clipart that I draw from often or use photos I took myself and sized to fit.