I use several of what I call companion programs with the St. Paul Real Estate Blog. My blog has a lot of photos on it because I want people to see St. Paul and a photo is worth a thousand words, besides if I use more pictures I can write less. 

Picture posts with a few words can generate numerous comments and some interesting discussion.  I recently received a note from one of my readers saying he was "moved"  by a photo he found on my blog.  In my business moving is what it is all about. Pictures can create powerful visual messages and tell stories that could not be told as well with words.  

Serious real estate blog writers should consider having pictures of real estate on their blogs.

I recently started using a free online video and photo storage site called PhotoZou and have decided that I prefer it over Flickr.  I can store 10,000 files for free and create unlimited photo sets.  Photo albums can be made public, private or freinds only.  Photo sets also come in handy for sharing photos with out of town buyers  and for home buyers who want to share pictures with friends and family.

Like Flickr photos can be uploaded from cell phones or computers. What I like about PhotoZou is having the ability to create multiple photo albums for free and I love the way the photo albums can be displayed on my real estate blog. 

The pictures from a photo set are displayed below using PhotoZou Widgets:

The Active Rain Platform does not support some of these features, follow this link to view the rest of the post.  Widgets will work on your typepad blog, blogger, wordpress and most other popular platforms.  The widget shown below is the photo album cover widget.

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Easy to use.  With user friendly menus and thousands of public photos to view and use on your blog.