I Wasted My Life Designing Blog Post Thumbnails

Thumbnails on Your Blog or Medium Articles Are Completely Different Than on YouTube

Your thumbnails on your blog posts or Medium articles mean almost nothing.

I’m begging you, please don’t make the mistake I did and spend time adding fancy text overlays to your thumbnails.

I have made, and I’m under-estimating to protect my ego a bit, 500 text centric thumbnails for blog posts.

Google Results vs. YouTube Results

There’s a misconception that they matter because on YouTube, they mean everything. If you have a lame thumbnail, your video won’t perform well.

Make YouTube and Blog Post Thumbnails That Get Clicked | 15 Tips and 20 Examples

Let’s take a quick example. Here’s what appears when you type in “Amazon Influencer Program Tips” in Google.