Finding royalty free images for your blog is tricky, and confusing. A lot of new bloggers mistakenly turn to Google Images. Unless you’re searching under a licence that specifically allows you to use an image, chances are you’re using it illegally.
To make things clearer, Google has removed the view image button from Google Images, sending shockwaves around the Internet.
Now users of Google Images have to click through to the actual webpage where the image is hosted, and download it that way.
So what does this mean for you?
I think it’s a really positive step by Google.
Hopefully this means there will be less confusion for bloggers, webmasters, and marketers who are looking for images to use.
Also, it hopefully means there’s going to be less chance of copyright infringement and that means less people will get into trouble for using images that they’re not supposed to.
Listen, we’ve all made that mistake.
When we first started out online most people have gone to Google Images thought it was OK to use those images because Google encouraged them to.
Google has now removed one of the steps that made it easy for bloggers and content creators to take images.
But this means more traffic for you.
In order for people to obtain the image they have to actually go to your website and see the image in full context.
And that brings more people into our sales funnels.
But maybe you don’t like this development, maybe you think it’s a bad thing.
If Google Images is your only sources of images, I’m going to give you some alternatives.
I’m gonna give you three awesome websites that I personally use, so you know they are good image sources.
And I’m gonna give you a bonus one too.
The first alternative that I’ve got for you is pixabay.com, the second one is pixels.com and then the third one is unsplash.com.
Do double check that licenses are still royalty free or haven’t changed, because things can change really fast online.
Then the final one that I’ve got for you which I don’t use very often that is Flickr and you have to search under specific licenses to make sure that you’re using the right one for your content.
So there you go I hope you found this useful and if you have then share this with other content creators who might need to know about it.