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With the popularity of visually-oriented social networks like Pinterest and Instagram, it probably comes as no surprise to you that graphic content – images, photographs, and illustrations – plays an important role on the web. But how important?

Research from OkDork and Buzzsumo suggests that they’re incredibly important. They analyzed millions of articles and came to the conclusion that posts with at least one image are shared twice as often on Facebook and Twitter as posts without images. According to Jeff Bullas, articles with images get a total of 94% more views than articles without images. With stats like that, why wouldn’t you add images to your articles? It’s clear that simply including visual content on your blog can make a huge impact on visitors from social media. Plus, there are so many themes out there that thrive on powerful imagery.

So where do you find these great images? (more…)