Re:How I took my SaaS from idea to sold in 14 months
by lloydjones on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @05:20PM
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Any site that gets traffic from social sharing on Twitter / Facebook.
The visits via those sources are competing with other tweets/posts in the feed. If there's a visually compelling social image, the likelihood of the URL being visited and/or shared increases.
(Obviously this doesn't 'prove' that a more-visually-compelling image does better than a basic one, but it seems like it'd follow, given the inclusion of the image at all performs better than no image).
The visits via those sources are competing with other tweets/posts in the feed. If there's a visually compelling social image, the likelihood of the URL being visited and/or shared increases.
Source: https://buzzsumo.com/blog/how-to-massively-boost-your-blog-t...
(Obviously this doesn't 'prove' that a more-visually-compelling image does better than a basic one, but it seems like it'd follow, given the inclusion of the image at all performs better than no image).