Use photos in blog posts (with a Creative Commons license)

Shakespeare went to school here
(CC BY 2.0 license by Ell Brown, Flickr)

If you want people to read your online writing, you need to use pictures.

Maybe people could care less about Shakespeare's education. But I put a picture of the grammar school he attended and -- blam! -- instant interest. Well, at least more than if I just posted a large column of visually boring text.

This is the digital age, and that means this is the age of communicating with photos all the time. So find a photo to give your blog posts a hook.

But don't just use any photo that you can find! The best practice is to make use of content that has been published with a Creative Commons license, as I will briefly explain.