Beginning a post with an image…bad practice?

  • Actually this may not be a wp question, but it might be so I thought I’d bother you guys with this.

    Is there a ‘rule’ that one shouldn’t begin a post with an image?

    I happened to notice a recent post on Google blog search, (I have a feed set up to look for similar topics) and in their results, the html for the image is the first part of the listing.
    ————–
    A note to recent visitors
    15 hours ago by 8wheels ?
    … vspace=”0″ alt=”Mc8 Sm” style=”padding-left: 10px” />There’s a lot on this
    site so far that is somewhat tangental to the topic of bus conversions – many
    more on-topic posts are just about ready to come live in the coming days.
    busbuilding – https://busbuilding.com
    ———————————

    Is this ‘normal’, or is there some escaping I should be doing if I begin a post with an image? Or is it just bad practice to do that?

    I don’t mean this to be spam and sorry if it’s too offtopic. (like anyone here is interested in my wierd content) And I’m still fairly green, so go easy on me, ok? ??

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  • I can’t answer why Google shows your code instead of ignoring it and showing just the text like they should, most likely Google will fix that eventually because they don’t want to show code.

    But, no, I don’t think it is bad practice. It is common to put a picture anywhere in your post.

    A similar result for me is when I use the Adhesive plugin, my RSS feed shows some code relating to the sticky post. Kind of ugly but not a big problem really, I just ignore it.

    Thread Starter 8wheels

    (@8wheels)

    Just wanting to do an idiot-check on myself. Some days I don’t even trust myself enough to login.

    Thanks, Dgold.

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