How to Find Royalty Free Blog Images Using Google Search?

Images play a major role in the enhancement of a blog post. Proper addition of images can take each of your blog posts to the next level. There are many benefits and various reasons why you must have images in your blog post. That is the reason why I always emphasize to use at least one image in your blog post. Not using pictures in the blog post is a simple mistake that most of the newbie bloggers make.

But when it comes to using images, you download any of image related to post that you come across and upload it to use within your post. It’s not a mistake, in fact, it’s a blunder.

“Being a new blogger, you might have license to make many mistakes but making even single mistake with copyrights and image license [to use] is like a crime” – Rahul Dubey.

Do you know, you are putting all your hard work and efforts, but you might be blogging illegally. Your such mistakes may lead you to a serious problem. Don’t know how? Let me ask you a question, do you have the usage rights or license to use that image? Obviously, your answer would be – ” I’m not sure about it .”

Now consider a situation, you have used an image without the usage rights or permission of the owner of that picture. None knows about it other than you. Great ! But what if you get a legal notice after some weeks or months demanding $1000 for that image and copyrights violation. You would be legally in trouble as you have made an unauthorized use of someone’s copyrights and the person can file a DMCA complaint against you.

For being legally safe, a better idea would be to find royalty free images and use only images tagged with creative commons license.

How to Find Free Blog Images Using Google Image Search?

Google is definitely the easiest and first choice for many bloggers. Being the top most search engine, Google contains a large number of pictures. So it becomes quite tough to filter them with usage rights as per your desire. So, now the question is – How to find free blog images using Google search?

On July 9, 2009, Google introduced a new feature for finding creative commons images with image search which got modified recently. Thus making it easier for you to find free blog images using Google search. But before I explain the steps involved, let’s take a look at the official announcement of Google blog.

“Today, we’re launching a feature on Image Search to help you find images that you can use for free, while respecting the wishes of artists and creators. This feature allows you to restrict your Image Search results to images that have been tagged with licenses like Creative Commons, making it easier to discover images from across the web that you can share, use and even modify.”

Steps to Find Free Blog Images Using Google Search:

Step 1

To find free blog images using Google search, first of all, go to Google image search [images.google.com] and enter your desired keyword(s). Then hit search or enter.

Google's Advanced Image Search

Step 2

Click on the Search tools [marked by the green arrow]. This opens some menu in the downside. Find out Usage rights and click on it.

Free Blog Images Using Google Search

 Step 3

As you click on Usage rights [marked by the green arrow], this opens a drop-down menu in which you have to select your desired license for filtering. By default, it is set to filter not by any license [Not filtered by license]. You should look for Labeled for reuse with modification or Labeled for reuse, to use them even commercially.

How to Find Royalty Free Blog Images Using Google Search ?

Step 4 [Most Important one]

Filtering by labeled for reuse, found free blog images using Google search doesn’t guarantee that they are in public domain or available under any license. So must check about the copyrights by going through the image description or details before using them commercially. If required, you can give them an attribution or credit by marking image source or credit.

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Images are must have ingredients to make your blog post more spicy and tasty. To find free blog images using Google search is quite simple and a good idea as you can get some good quality blog images for free. But one of the biggest drawbacks of this search feature is that you get a limited number of images under those labels. And sometimes, you get even what is 100 miles far and not related to your keywords.

Also, bloggers, webmasters, photographers, artists or any of copyright holders – being dynamic body keep changing the usage rights. So the new copyrights of that image might have been different from what it used to be earlier. So, a smarter idea would be to double check images before using them commercially. You can reverse check the details of images like copyrights and usage rights by a tool – TinEye.

Free Blog Images Using Google's Advanced Image Search

Hope this post would help you to find free blog images using Google search feature. However, for any doubt or query feel free to ask or share your views and experiences via the comment section below.

Don’t forget to share this post with your friends, if you enjoyed reading this post or think it useful.

More to Read:

  1. How to Find High-Quality Free Blog Images Using Flicker?
  2. 5 Reasons Why You Must Have Images in Blog Post?
  3. 10 Tips to Write Your First Blog Post
  4. 8 Best Reverse Image Search Tools to Do Reverse Image Search
  5. How to do Proper Attribution? – A Quick Review of Various Creative Commons Licenses

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Rahul Dubey

Rahul is a tech geek, author, blogger, podcaster, YouTuber and a keen learner. Rahul enjoys learning, testing, and messing up with new tips and tricks, apps, and gadgets. He has been writing for several years and has even contributed to popular Magazines like Huffington Post. When he is not making this site better or shooting videos for TechReviewPro YouTube channel, you can find him helping people in groups, forums, and private communities. He is very down to earth person and believes in Karma, hence he never misses an opportunity to help others. Got a query? Ask him via Email: [email protected]

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