How effective is sharing images within your social media posts?

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July 15, 2016, 9:54 am

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How effective is sharing images within your social media posts?

People said that image / photo is like speaking 1000 words! On social media sites we usually write short posts, so adding nice images to it can be beneficial, mainly on Twitter where we are limited to 140 characters to post. So how effective is sharing images within your posts and what kind of images work best for you.

Do you absolutely choose images related to contents of your text, or you choose whatever it is, but looking eye catchy?

If you tested few different options, i would love to know what worked for you best when we talking about engaging people to interact with our posts.

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idealmike

Extremely effective! Pictures do indeed speak a thousand words and they can be what makes people actually click the link and visit it. In some cases, when there is no picture attached or included, it's just a boring text only link and that doesn't really stand out at people. When you attach and include a picture with your social media posts, that increases engagement exponentially! But of course, as you've pointed out, it needs to be an eye catching image/picture or photo. I find that images that are related to what it is you're posting work best but that's just relative. I mean, it needs to be related to what the link/page is about you're posting about. So if you're posting about lions and tigers, you'd want to make sure you have a nice picture/image of some lions and tigers. Nobody looking for lions and tigers that sees an image of a horse or a donkey is going to likely click on it to visit the link because they're not looking for horses and donkey's, they're looking specifically for lions and tigers. So putting an image there of one of the images that are on that page helps people to see what that page is about in a visual way before they even click/visit it. So yeah, definitely images used on social media are very very effective.

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MusicMoguls

yea i know how that feels seeing a boring post with no life to it , it is like why post it in the first place you know, and you learn to notice that post with out visual usually do not get a lot of attention either , nobody takes the time to read some thing that has no visual proof , in 2016 it is all about presentation and what you are showing with the social media take over it has really come down to pictures and videos , and you have to take full advantage of you plan on getting ahead

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MusicMoguls

very very effective , like you took the time too mention a picture is worth a thousand words, and attached to post makes every thing a thousand times better, any body could write post all day you know but when you add visuals to any thing it becomes a game changer your giving your audience some thing too see rather then just read, you know that saying wont believe it till i see well yea that can also apply in this case, you can say a whole lot of things on the web and could be meaningless but if you add a visual then the empty ness in your post is filled, and you give the reader more which is always helpful.

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ajlancer

Hi anwebservices thanks for your question. Yes I agree with you. Image or picture will work as like thousand word text on social media. And it is pragmatic practical. if you write some word and post on social media, your fan or followers may miss it as plain text. But, if you post any text with a related image, you will get huge response. I like to use animated picture. And flowers will attract more for any animated image. And as your point on twitter, you can just use 140 characters for 1 tweet and I saw by using image with tweet more responsive to followers.

Regards by Ajlancer

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Lynne

Yes for sure. I have found that social media posts with images reach a lot more people and have a load more engagement than posts without images.

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MusicMoguls

yea i have noticed that too but that goes with any thing people respond off of visuals , i used to work at this restaurant and i used to make wages serving sides too customers so you know a restaurant has menus and what not and the store was cafeteria style so we had list of items on the glass for our customers too read and decide what they wanted and let me tell you how many would skip out on the list and just get straight to asking me to let them see all the sides, some people didnt even notice the list that was right in there face till i pointed it out, people dont want to read they want too see.

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vinaya

When I am sharing my links on social media, I usually use the featured image from my post as the preview image. Since the image on my post also happens to be the preview image on social media, I use a high-quality photo on my posts. My photos are made for Pinterest kind of images (because Pinterest uses image pins for content curation). made for pinterest images are the images that are high quality, eye-catching, and says a lot of things. Made for Pinterest images are also useful for twitter and facebook.

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Corzhens

My husband has the habit of posting his selfie almost every day. It started some years back when he posted a funny picture of himself. It got a lot of likes and comments. And then he posted more. And after a week when he stopped posting funny selfies, there were numerous comments clamoring for more. So now my husband seemed to have the obligation of posting such novelty selfies for the benefit of his fans. But me? I seldom post my selfie because it is not relevant to me.

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