<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bcc25115-e5e1-439c-9424-455ddfd053bd/7BC7FF38-5C1C-4BD4-BE31-6D3BA037D8A6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/10-steps-to-develop-killer-blog-articles/" href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/10-steps-to-develop-killer-blog-articles/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailyblogtips.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/10-steps-to-develop-killer-blog-articles/"><H4>5. Illustrate Your Article</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/10-steps-to-develop-killer-blog-articles/"><P><HEADUP>After the bulk of the article is written up I head over to </HEADUP><HEADUP>Flickr</HEADUP><HEADUP>.com and begin searching for images that I can use to illustrate my article. I click the ‘advanced search’ button and opt to only search through the images with a <MASHLOGIC mashbutton="qAmfVSP6OWDmUwSYjxPLFA c43071e2c4a1aff2f5a267e6cbf74299 btVPVPmV8vRILGeYmDSjSg Q_t6tYmm9Hg4I5P5ye4Tyg cOQdd1z1QXztJV1Q4GPg_Q Tj1tpz-kzawWT89JMRJLTg" li-term="creative commons license" class="mashlogic mashlink-wikipedia mashlink-news-feeds mashlink-kosmix-topics mashlink-documents mashlink-new-york-times mashlink-guardian-uk-" title="MashLogic: Wikipedia, News & Feeds, Kosmix Topics, Documents, New York Times, Guardian (UK)">creative commons license</MASHLOGIC> that allows me to copy and modify the work.</HEADUP></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/10-steps-to-develop-killer-blog-articles/"><P>Make it your goal to select a picture that is beautiful and on topic. If you are writing an article about horses then don’t show a picture of a starfish. Try to find something that will <MASHLOGIC mashbutton="j8QYfWXISHjWzHnN5gYjTw" li-term="correlate" class="mashlogic mashlink-english-vocabulary" title="MashLogic: English Vocabulary">correlate</MASHLOGIC> with your article’s title.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/10-steps-to-develop-killer-blog-articles/"><P> I always position my image at the top of the article so that it can be seen while reading the headline. I want to draw people in with my headline, my first paragraph and my picture. These are three highly important areas to draw people into your article.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7BC7FF38-5C1C-4BD4-BE31-6D3BA037D8A6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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