Blog Featured Images: Size, Format, and Optimization Best Practices

Featured images make your blog posts more engaging and improve social sharing.

- **Recommended**: 1200x600px - **Aspect ratio**: 2:1 - **Minimum width**: 600px - **Optimal file size**: 100-200KB

- **Standard (2:1)**: 1200x600px (most common) - **Square (1:1)**: 1200x1200px (social media friendly) - **Wide (3:1)**: 1200x400px (header style)

1. Design or source image (1200px+ width) 2. Resize to 1200x600px 3. Compress to 150KB or less 4. JPEG quality: 85% 5. Add meaningful filename 6. Write descriptive alt text

- Alt text helps search engines - Filename improves indexing - Image size affects page speed - Image search drives traffic - Social sharing increases reach

1. Edit post 2. Set featured image 3. Upload optimized image (1200x600px) 4. Add descriptive filename 5. Add alt text 6. Set title and caption

**Before**: 800KB image, 3.5s load, 1.2% click rate **After**: 150KB image, 1.2s load, 2.8% click rate

- Our Image Resizer (perfect dimensions) - Our Image Compressor (optimize) - Canva (design)

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