Pictures and photos in hubs

  1. MizBejabbers profile image89
    MizBejabbersposted 5 years ago

    I read somewhere that the time the reader spends on the hub is directly proportional to the hub's advertising potential. As a result, I find that many hubs contain superfluous photos, illustrations, logos, links and other non-related pictures. I enjoy a well-illustrated hub, but I find most of these thrown-together illustrations to be a distraction from the point of the hub. Does anyone else find them to be a distraction or do you enjoy looking at all the pictures, no matter what? Thanks, I'm new here, so please enlighten me.

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  2. QuestionMaster profile image90
    QuestionMasterposted 5 years ago

    There is a special section for photo hubs.

    In a normal hub I'd say that a good number of pictures is two - if you don't take advantage of different capsules (such as multiple text capsules with subtitles, pictures, links and Amazon products) all you end up with is a big block of text which puts many readers off.

    But of course, overwhelming the reader with media and hardly any text isn't the way to go either.

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    1. MizBejabbers profile image89
      MizBejabbersposted 5 years ago in reply to this

      Hey, thanks for the info. I'm working on a couple of hubs, my first, and have been delaying them to find the right pictures that were public domain or that I owned. I'm glad to know that I don't have to worry about that so much. It does bother me though, that "a big block of text ... puts many readers off." A well-written story or article should not put anyone off except the ones who "like pitcher books". I would hope for a more intellectural audience.

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