20+ Free Ways to Get Photos and Multimedia Content for Blog Posts and Articles

Search engines love when you use more than just text in your website content. Plus, media makes your content much more appealing to visitors, which is even more important. You don't want people to come to your posts, see nothing but boring text and click away!

Think creating multimedia content takes too much time? Don't worry. There are plenty of websites out there that help you make your own GIFs, maps, charts, memes and more for free, in just a few minutes. There are also plenty of sites that let you use their multimedia content on your site.

Here are 20 of my favorites:

1. Giphy for GIFs

2. Creative Commons for Creative Common photos

3. YouTube for embeddable videos

4. Easel.ly for infographics

5. Meme Generator

6. Pablo for quotes

7. PhotoPin for Creative Commons photos

8. DaFont for fonts

9. Office Sway for presentations

10. Pond5 for historic media files

11. Survey Monkey for surveys

12. NVD3 for charts

13. Mapbox for maps

14. OpenClipArt for clip art

15. GetEmojis for emojis

16. Pexels for modern, clean photos

17. PhotoPin finds Creative Commons photos

18. MapBox for maps

19. Microsoft Sway online visual creator for newsletters and more

20. Pexel Videos for free stock videos

21. Pikwizard.com is a free stock photo website

Also, here's a nifty way to make YouTube videos into GIFs:

Do you have any sites that you really like? Don't be shy! Share those suckers!