Ehance Your Blog With Free Stock Photos

Relatively new blogger Rachel from AverageGal shares what she’s learned about adding free stock photos to add some creativity to your blog.

Recently I’ve been looking to add some spice to my blog in the form of photos. We’ve all heard the saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” and this especially holds true when posting blog articles. I’ve been struggling for the past couple of weeks to find a good website that offers free stock photos for blogs. There’s multiple stock photo site out on the web, but I’ve narrowed it down to 1 that I really like.

After spending countless hours surfing and getting some input from my friends over at Unique Blog Designs, the final free photo site that made the cut is Stock.Xchng. This site offers blog owners a quick and easy way to bring their blog to life with stock photos. Using the easy search function you have access to a database with over 350,000 pictures to choose from. The best part is you don’t have to pay any royalty or usage fees to add the photos to you blog. Another neat function that you’ll find over at Stock.Xchng is the premium search results that are displayed next to the free results; while the premium photos aren’t free, they do offer a good alternative of choices and prices start at $1. Adding either the free or premium photos to your next post will give your article more credibility and give your blog professional look.

Stock.Xchng probably isn’t the only free stock photo site that bloggers are using, but it’s been the most user friendly one that I’ve come across. Hopefully you’re able to utilize this tool when posting your next article. If you have a favorite free stock photo site to recommend, we’d love to hear about it. Please share the site with us in our comments section below.