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Wednesday, January 15, 2014
How to properly credit third party images used in blog?
One drawback of being a blogger is that you can't create everything you need for yourself.You have rely so much on the Internet and other public sites for coming up with articles .And articles that speaks a lot are impossible if not without images.As the formal thought goes by 'a pictures speaks thousand words'.Therefore images are part and parcel of wonderful articles.
Having said that ,is it possible for a blogger to come up with their own pictures for blogposts?really a tough task .No is a much precise answer.it is not possible every now and then to come up with self created images.The reason being ,creating images requires a predefined skills at photoshop and is effort taking and time sucking.And therefore Some time bloggers are forced to go with third party images.And what's the risk? They are copyrighted to the original source.And when you use them ,you are accepting their terms and conditions on the use of image.So to stay on the safe side,bloggers must choose to go with royalty free stock photos ,which means you are free to use them in your ways ,even commercial provided that the attribution clause is met.
Method 1-Adding credits in the Image Caption
Method 2-Adding credits in the end of the post
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Having said that ,is it possible for a blogger to come up with their own pictures for blogposts?really a tough task .No is a much precise answer.it is not possible every now and then to come up with self created images.The reason being ,creating images requires a predefined skills at photoshop and is effort taking and time sucking.And therefore Some time bloggers are forced to go with third party images.And what's the risk? They are copyrighted to the original source.And when you use them ,you are accepting their terms and conditions on the use of image.So to stay on the safe side,bloggers must choose to go with royalty free stock photos ,which means you are free to use them in your ways ,even commercial provided that the attribution clause is met.
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Top five sites that delivers royalty free pictures
- Istockphoto-www.istockphoto.com/
- Freerange Stock-www.freerangestock.com
- Flickr-www.flickr.com (Not heavily free stock)
- Stockvault- www.stockvault.net
- Stock.xchng-www.sxc.hu/category/110
What if you don't Properly credit images in your blog?
Google is a mess.I knew it ,You knew it.Google is in fact so strict about copyrighted images.Their image bot are technically developed so as to find copyrighted images easily.They cross check images for same pixel density ,same color distribution ,same text name and same image sizes.If duplicate image re found googlebot will search for the source link.And if source link ,that leads to the original image is not found on your blog,then the bot classifies your blog in the list of blog that encourages plagiarism.And encouraging plagiarism is the violation of Google's site policy.And only the dumbest person will believe that Google approves adsense account of blogs that violate their policy.How to properly credit images that is not created by you ?
In fact ,every images that is not created by you is a third party image and you are heavily advised that you should credit the pictures properly so as to avoid SEO penalties or as an ct of appreciation to the creator (or both way).Method 1-Adding credits in the Image Caption
Method 2-Adding credits in the end of the post
Conclusion
I'm just stressing it again.Credit the creator is a way of thanking them and appreciating them.So it's important that you give proper source links to the original image.It helps to reduce the SERP penalties and and help to build up the reputation.I'm keen to know what you think about this article.Do let me know your views in the comment section.
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