In recent weeks I have observed some errors when uploading photos to Blogs or Social Networks finance executive email database , and that is why I would like to offer you in this article a series of tips that will be very useful to optimize your photos before uploading them. whatever the online media.
Right after the tips I will offer you a list of 20 web pages where you can upload images for free and without registration in its vast majority.
Some of these optimization aspects will have an impact:
1.- Visual improvement. The objective is to make a good choice of the images, as well as their dimensions and visual aspect, so that this positively affects our brand image.
2.- Improve SEO. We must not forget that the images are indexed by Google and through them we can increase visits to our blog or website.
3- It facilitates social viralization. It is important that we know how to adjust the images to the different social profiles and prevent any social network from cutting or not showing that image as we want.
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How to optimize an image before uploading it to the Internet
These recommendations will be very useful both to upload the images to a Blog as well as Social Networks.
1.- Choose a size that fits well with your Blog and Social Networks. We all know that each Blog and each Social Networks profile have a different size, so in this situation we have 2 options; design an image for each medium or establish a generic size that fits well with all Internet channels.
In my case, the measure that best fits all my channels is 640 × 330 in the case of images. When it comes to infographics I always use a width of 800 pixels and with a height that varies depending on the amount of information that gathers.
What is the measure you use?
2.- Show the image to the exact size that will be seen. A very typical error that is still being seen is to upload photos to Blogs at a much larger size than what will be seen, thus unnecessarily damaging the loading speed of the web page.
3.- Lighten the weight of the images as much as you can. There are many tools and plugins that will help you reduce the size of the images but today I am going to recommend one that you can use for free and online, and that is very complete;
Web Resizer
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The good thing about this online tool is that we can see the preview at all times, both the original image and the optimized image, an important aspect to see how far we can compress without losing the quality of the photo.
Another interesting aspect is that it does not allow editing and making changes on it modifying aspects such as; dye, brightness, contrast, color saturation, frame, border, etc.
Another option, and is the one that I use the most is to use the export for Photoshop web, and save the image in jpg with quality 50. In case of being a vector image we will use the png format because it will have a considerably smaller weight.
Tips when uploading the image to the Blog
1.- Write the keyword in the name of the image. The way to do it is to write the words but in a friendly way, and for that we will separate the words by scripts and we will not use accents or special characters.
Example 1: how-upload-images-gratis.jpg (WELL)
Example 1: how-to-upload-images-gratis.jpg (BAD)
If we do this, we will get Google Images to index it and even appear in the normal search results. Do not miss this post where I give you some tricks of how to search in Google.
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The most common error when choosing the format of the name of the image is to use accents.
2.- Add a title and alternative text (ALT Text). A title and text will be added naturally to the images, always taking into account the search term for which we want to appear.
Tips when uploading images to Social Networks
1.- Use a size that adapts well to each social profile. It is very important that the images we upload to Social Networks be seen at full size and without cuts, that is why you should know well the different sizes of your main social channels, so that you can avoid it in this way.
2.- The choice of the image is very important. The choice of the image directly affects the engagement of our publications in Social Networks, so always choose an image that captures and attracts the attention of users and facilitates the click.
To finish and finally I leave you a series of pages where you can upload images for free, so you can use it in blogs, forums, ebay and any other web page.