{"id":27933,"date":"2024-11-14T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitizer.rs\/news-stories\/google-on-the-use-of-stock-photos\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T15:27:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:27:37","slug":"google-on-the-use-of-stock-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitizer.rs\/en\/news-stories\/google-on-the-use-of-stock-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Google on the use of stock photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1639132975780{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1667463454414{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221; font_family=&#8221;Open Sans&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #333333;\">Some people only discover the world of stock photography when they first need images for a project. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitizer.rs\/usluge-portfolio\/izrada-i-dizajn-sajtova\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A new website<\/a><\/span> for their company, images to revamp <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitizer.rs\/usluge-portfolio\/drustvene-mreze\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a><\/span> channels, marketing campaigns, etc. Stock photos are photos that you can buy and use in your own projects, without having to hire a photographer and therefore spend much less money and save a lot of time. Authors or photographers send their photos to companies that offer large digital catalogs full of images that you can pay for online and download directly from their websites. You buy a photo from an agency, and they then split the profits with the photographer.   <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\" data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">There are many proponents and opponents of the use of stock photos. Perhaps the line of argument is that stock photos might be inappropriate in situations where readers expect to see photos of real people, such as &#8220;our team&#8221; website page.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Are there any downsides to stock photos?<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">John Mueller and Lizzi Sassman from Google discussed the benefits of using stock photos and the impact on the web and image search.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">To start the conversation about stock photos, Lizzy Sussman, who maintains Google&#8217;s Search Central documentation, first asked if there were any arguments against using stock photos.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;24735&#8243; css_animation=&#8221;fadeIn&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1667463468853{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1667463518149{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221; font_family=&#8221;Open Sans&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #333333;\">Mueller acknowledges that using stock photos is acceptable for use to bring textual context to life, but also suggests that the image should be appropriate for the audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\" data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Muller says:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>&#8220;I think if you want to use them as a decorative element on the page, that&#8217;s perfectly fine.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>A little more color in a post or any content we have. will spice up that content a bit <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>So if it&#8217;s, I don&#8217;t know, a Halloween themed article, and then I add&#8230; I don&#8217;t know&#8230; stock photos of spiders&#8230;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>I guess you wouldn&#8217;t want them to have too realistic a picture of a spider. That might be disturbing for some people.&#8221; <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Pros and cons of stock photos<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">They then discussed stock photos in relation to image searches. Mueller talked hypothetically about posting stock photos to the Google Seach Central page, using this example to illustrate the situation. <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;24736&#8243; css_animation=&#8221;fadeIn&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1667463532386{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1667463582916{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221; font_family=&#8221;Open Sans&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #333333;\">Muller continued:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>&#8220;But I think you have to keep in mind that it&#8217;s a stock photo. And if people are looking for Halloween photos, it&#8217;s unlikely that we&#8217;d show up in the search results for that. We&#8217;d have that image, but probably, I don&#8217;t know, 20, 30 other sites have the same image, and they all have a license for it, and displaying it is fine.  <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>And maybe even the original stock photo distribution site has that image in the search results. And if you&#8217;re looking for something like a Halloween image, then you probably want to deal with the original website. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>Not that the Search Central documentation should rank for that query.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>I guess another aspect is also that you wouldn&#8217;t rank this photo in Image Search results either, but that doesn&#8217;t count either. So (if) you have other good images on the same page or site&#8230; or if you&#8217;re talking web search, it won&#8217;t hurt your site. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>It&#8217;s more, it&#8217;s like, well, it&#8217;s decorative, but it&#8217;s not what your site is about. Therefore, you will not rank for that particular photo. <\/em><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;24737&#8243; css_animation=&#8221;fadeIn&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1667463598478{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1667463715154{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221; font_family=&#8221;Open Sans&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>But everything else will be fine.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>It&#8217;s not like we say: Oh, this is a generic site. We shouldn&#8217;t show it in search.&#8221; <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\" data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">So stock photography won&#8217;t have a negative impact on website performance, which should reassure anyone who is worried.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\" data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">On the other hand, don&#8217;t expect stock photos to rank in image searches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">There is a fear that stock photos can have the effect of turning off site visitors by using them, but this is only the case if the stock photo is used in a context that requires authenticity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">For more news and interesting stories from digital marketing <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitizer.rs\/en\/news-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">, visit our blog page<\/a><\/span> or <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/webdigitizer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow our Instagram profile.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Source:<\/span> <a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.searchenginejournal.com\/google-on-use-of-stock-photography\/468849\/#close\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">searchenginejournal<\/a> <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221;][vc_column][vc_separator color=&#8221;orange&#8221; align=&#8221;align_left&#8221; border_width=&#8221;5&#8243; el_width=&#8221;20&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1625743965128{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>Made by Neboj\u0161a Radovanovi\u0107 \u2013 SEO Expert @Digitizer<\/em><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1587387018476{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;Back to News &amp; Stories&#8221; style=&#8221;gradient-custom&#8221; gradient_custom_color_1=&#8221;#000000&#8243; gradient_custom_color_2=&#8221;#515151&#8243; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.digitizer.rs%2Fnews-stories%2F|title:Back%20to%20NEWS%20%26amp%3B%20STORIES|&#8221;][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1639132975780{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1667463454414{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221; font_family=&#8221;Open Sans&#8221;]Some people only discover the world of stock photography when they first need images for a project. 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