PhotoDropper Premium Review

Images are an extremely important part of successfully running a website. To illustrate just how powerful infographics are, please reference the statistics below from an infographic done by MDG advertising. Below are some statistics taken from that infographic:

• Articles containing relevant images have 94% more pageviews on average than articles without.
• 60% of consumers admit that they are more likely to contact and/or consider a company that has images in local search results.
• 67% of consumers say the quality of a product image is very important in selecting and purchasing a product.
• Facebook posts with a picture enjoy a .37% engagement rate. Much higher than just text alone which receives .27%.

When you combine these numbers with the fact that Pinterest is now a leading source of referral traffic, above Twitter, Yahoo and Bing… You should already be asking how to include images in your blogging gameplan.

So, Why Don’t We Use Images More Often?

Well, quite honestly, because it’s not easy. Using high-quality images in your posts requires that you break concentration on your post to leave your website, find an image, do any image processing, then upload the image to your website.

Blah….

But, there is an easier way.

Welcome PhotoDropper

Photodropper is a free tool that makes it easy to find and insert beautiful images into your WordPress blog. Considering PhotoDropper delivers both free-to-use creative commons images as well paid stock images, the process is super simple!

1) Click the hot air balloon.

2) Search for a photo.

3) Click the photo to get a larger view.

4) If you like the photo insert into post. If not, go back to search results.

5) Now, insert PhotoDropper image as you usually would.

My Thoughts

Before using Photodropper,  I used to use search Flickr manually for creative commons images. Once I found a good image, I would have to download it, edit it, and then upload it to WordPress. As you can imaging, this is a pain!

PhotoDropper does all of that for me. But, one thing I really love about Photodropper is that it also searches for stock images. You may be asking why I would want to use paid images when there are free alternative. Well, sometimes it’s hard to find the perfect image that is creative commons. In those cases, it is completely worth paying a few dollars to get an awesome image!

The only gripe I have about PhotoDropper is I would like the ability to crop/rescale the image once I have inserted it into the post. As it stands, you can scale the image by clicking on it and then changing the size. This method still loads the larger image, but resizes it using HTML. It works fine, but will make your website slightly slower.

Overall, I recommend PhotoDropper for use on all blogs. In my time using it, it has simplified the process of finding images and has worked without error.