Matt Cutts: Stock Images Do Not Impact Search Engine Rankings

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Google’s Matt Cutts: Stock Images Do Not Impact Search Engine Rankings

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, said in a recent video that using stock images from a stock image website has no impact on rankings.

The question was, “Does using stock photos on your pages have a negative effect on rankings?”

Matt’s answer was very short, he said “no.” There is no positive or negative impact on your organic Web ranking if you use stock imagery versus original imagery.

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... and then he said at the end of it "but maybe it's a signal we should look at in terms of search quality ..."

(Geez, please don't - that would get crazy!)