When you are searching for information on creating a blog website, millions of Google Search hits may overwhelm you. Find here 10 best resources for your blog for free. They are simple to use and functional. Most importantly, they will save your time, as blogging is very time-consuming. In fact, it is an active income source, but not a passive activity, as some may think.

1. Work on Media for Creating Your Blog Website

Before creating a blog post, you should think on media you will include. In fact, preparation or pre-writing is the most time-consuming initial stage, after you have come up with a brilliant idea for your article, informational post, or educational content. Dedicate 10% of your time spared for blog writing to preparing a visually striking image, infographics, and social graphics. Do not forget to give credit to creators of images you use from any website. Here are the best free resources:

• visme.co: The advantage of this resource is that you can create any type of media you want: a book cover, social graphics, presentation, and web graphics. Here you can add text to images with many font and color options absolutely for free. The resource requires registration with your e-mail.
• unsplash.com: Easy-to-use free resource with a lot of images without the need to register in the system. All you need is to enter the category to which your planned post relates, choose an image, its size, orientation (landscape, etc.), and color.
• shutterstock.com: The site requires registration to download images.
• pixabay.com: The resource requires no registration, and you can download images choosing the size you need.

2. Creating Video Content

After writing an amazing article and saving it as a draft, you can create a YouTube channel and embed the related video in your post. The reason is the growing popularity of videos and podcasts searched in search engines. The point is that you may shoot a video or just use resources based on artificial intelligence that can help you make short videos based on the content of your post. An example is Lumen5 (lumen5.com).

3. Using Your Own Images for Creating a Blog

If you are good at taking photos and capturing the moment related to your writing, you can just add text to your photos using you phone, set the needed size, and publish them. Again you can use Visme to adapt the image to the size needed to publish it on Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

4. Choosing Social Platforms for Marketing

Note that a lot of content can come to your website from social media. Thus, social media marketing is an important point to consider. It is not necessary to use all social media websites, but only those that can best meet goals of your website. Use Pinterest if you want to create infographics and images with text; use Instagram marketing if you have your own amazing photos with short text. You can embed Instagram into your post. Use apps to edit your photos like Lightroom. If you publish news or just interesting content, use Twitter, but remember to include hashtags. In Facebook, you can market your posts through communities and groups.

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What free resources do you use to create visual content?