Here is a good general rule when making a blog post. Limit the number of pictures you include on it. Unless your post is titled something like “Top Ten Pictures of…” you should really avoid using too many images in just one post.
Top Blog Posts
I spent some of the weekend looking for good traits of a blog post using my sites stats, and the popular posts listed on some of the most popular blogs on the net today. Here is what I found. Avoid using more than one image in your post.
Adding a picture to your post does seem like a good idea. Most of the popular posts I found had at least one. Nine out of the ten most popular posts on this site had exactly one picture. Looking at the other bloggers, pictures did seem essential, but finding a popular post with more than three images was pushing your luck. Sure their are plenty out there with more than three, but I am looking at the top posts out there.
Reduce The Bounce
Images do draw a crowd, but they don’t neccessarily reduce the bounce. Because I am only able to use my own sites for statistics on the bounce rate I can not say this for everyone, but it seemed pretty clear that the number of images in a post directly correlates to the number of bounced visitors. Meaning, the more images in the post, the higher the bounce.
Using this and another blog I have for the statistics I looked for posts with over 100 views. Looking at the ones with the least bounce rate the best posts had no pictures at all, and a high percentage of the remaining had just one picture. Note to self, use just one pic.
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Interesting and useful info – thanks for informing everyone. Matt
thanks bro..for this info I find the solution now about my blog that sometimes not fast loading..
I’m sure load time does play a roll, but I think there could be a few other factors as well. One for example is the fact that a post with several pictures would typically have lots of writing to go with it. If that were the case, then people could be simply bouncing off simply because they don’t want to read a huge blog post.
but mby there are just many pictures and not much text. then its called photo blog
Very true.
One picture is enough for a blog.
If there is at least one picture in a blog, it attracts the reader.
But too much photos can truly slows down the loading.
my teacher said too much pictures is “amateuristic” and I believe him