If you spend a lot of time reading popular blogs, you may notice something similiar about them. It has nothing to do with what subject they are covering, their overall design, or where they place ads. Any guesses?

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The answer is simple: pictures.

They all use pictures to help spruce up their posts. Why? Because photos can take your blog to a whole new level in terms of visual appeal. Remember how boring it was reading those plain text books back in middle school? The same thing goes for blog posts.

Pictures can also greatly improve your results on popular social networks. For example, many users of StumbleUpon tend to move on whenever…