Whenever you write an article, it’s extremely important to make sure that you insert an interesting image that relates to your content. The main reason why it’s important is that you only have a few seconds to capture someone’s attention on the web before they decide whether to mouse click away or not.

A good quality image catches a person’s eye & increases the chances that your article will get read. Rather than running around taking photos or paying professional photographers & models to appear in your photos, there are a number of sites where you can download top quality images inexpensively.

Plus, now there’s an easier way to find the image you want.

Searching for these royalty free stock images has just been made even easier by a stock photo search engine called Cyclo.ps.

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Cyclo.ps searches through sites like Flickr, Shutterstock, BigStockPhoto, Fotolia, stock.xchng, Cutcaster, Photos.com & stockvault.

Another site I use for royalty free photos is iStockPhoto.

PhotoBucket & Google Images also provide a huge resource for images.

Inserting images into your articles doesn’t just catch a person’s eye when they visit your website.

There’s also another important reason why I always insert an images into my articles:- Facebook sharing.

Whenever I share one of my articles with my friends or fans on facebook I make sure there is a thumbnail of the image within the article appearing within the News Feed or Live Feed.

Having a good quality image appearing within the Facebook feed increases the likelihood that my Facebook friends & fans will click open the article.

Additionally, if they like the article enough then they may even share it with their Facebook friends.

And if they share the article with the image appearing then it increases the chance of having their friends come over & visit the website too.