5 Incredibly Simple Rules to Improve Your Article Images on Medium

How you can start choosing better pictures for your blog articles

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I’ve been spending way too much time researching the top-performing articles lately, and one of the significant pieces of the puzzle I found was the images.

An article with a million views has a million dollar picture. —Me

Make this above statement your next rule in writing — and apply it 100% of the time.

If you’re curious, go on any popular publication here (huge list) and look through the articles for ones with a really high amount of claps (5,000+).

Do you notice anything different about them vs the articles with just a few claps?

I bet you might notice the popular article images are remarkable.

As in, there’s something about them that caught your eye — and that equates to a higher chance that someone clicks into the article.

The way I see it, you can classify article header pictures into 3 categories.

Bland, Average, and Remarkable Images

Let’s say you’re writing an article about baseball and need to choose the perfect image to entice readers with your sexy talk of…