Want more people to upvote your posts - Use Pictures!

There is 1000's of posts steemit every day. Some we look at, but most we skip past. Obviously one way to get noticed is put the right tags on, but even still, the more popular the tag the more posts we're competing with to get seen.

The solution - Good Images!

First things first. An image attached within a post is then shown as a thumbnail in the list of posts. When scrolling through, I for one will look at an image first and if its interesting then I'll read the heading and onto the start of the text. The image is what hooks me in. Secondly - One or a couple of images within a post helps break the post up. There is nothing more boring than slabs and slabs of text which loses the readers interest an d makes them less likely to read through. Breaking the text up with relevant images keeps the page fresh and means the reader is more likely to keep going.

I wanted to share with everyone a great site I grab a lot of images off for use at work, home and of course in posts here:
http://pexels.com

There is heaps of images and can be searched via key words so you will always find something like want to see. Whether you want to images for #food, #sport, #cats, #bitcoin or any other random thing you want to post on. There is sure to be something there for you.

Best of all they are free!! An extract of their licensing information is below, which unlike many others allows for commercial use as well as personal use.

"The pictures are free for personal and even for commercial use.
You can modify, copy and distribute the photos.
All without asking for permission or setting a link to the source. So, attribution is not required."

I love using it so thought I would share so others can too.