Pictures on your blog good or bad?

Well if you’ve been reading my blog you will notice that I don’t use pictures in my articles but I though I should go around different blogs looking at the advantages and disadvantages of pictures.

Advantages:

1. It entices people into your writing by this I’m talking about when you read a blog if you notice their isn’t any pictures your eyes want to wander away.

2. A picture is worth a thousand words, you will be surprised how true this is lets take a film for example like Harry Potter then compare it to the book a film is about 1 hour and 30 I guess and if you read the book it can take around 3 hours to read it so we can see here a picture is worth a thousand words.

3. Brightens up your design, well I’m comparing two sites which one doesn’t use pictures in the post and one does, looking at one where their isn’t any pictures its pretty much dull all over it doesn’t draw your eyes to anything, now comparing this to the one with pictures it looks more colourful.

Disadvantages:

1. Where to get the pictures, there are many websites offering cheap stock photos, but do you really want to buy photos which could change your income substantially.

2. Decrease in unique visitors, well as you might of guessed your hits won’t increase as much as you want adding pictures will get you your visitors you’ve always wanted!

I really tried to think of a 3^rd one for disadvantages but I couldn’t so this must mean that it wins, next time you write a article include a picture!