Original Pictures matter for SEO?

You will be fine. Use pictures that have proven to get engagement elsewhere. There's enough eye balls to go around.
 
Google now uses AI to detect whats on the image. You can try uploading your image their and see how google actually see's it. As per my experience unique images are faster to index also if you write exif data then it will also help.
 
People here are saying to "copy" the top photos, but won't google know you're using the same photo? It'll see website A had that exact same photo as website B first and won't rank your photo under google images.
 
Yes original pictures do matter.

It's easy and legal to make pictures original tho.

Find free to modify images and run them through a filter on your image editing program. Backward image search can't tell a filtered image from the original.
 
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Good to find this thread now. Back when I knew even less than I know now I got @Shree great Amazon Affiliate course [I'm not affiliated with him, for a newbie like me it was brilliant]. I took what he said as the gospel truth which was to use unique images.

The tip he used was to search on youtube for a video of what you need and then take a screengrab of what you want, resize it to a small file, like 20kb, to keep your site fast.

You get extra credit from google for producing something unique. This is very tedious and time consuming but I'm glad to see that the consensus is that it is worth it.
 
it's better to use copyright free photos. If you are going to use other's original photos, then give him credit that way you didn't get any issue.
 
How do I optimize images for SEO?

Very short answer:
- optimise file resolution with some image processing software and compress the file with compressor.io or something to get optimal image size
- keywords to the file name
- keywords to img-tag alt- and title- attributes

More details you can easily reading some article about this issue.
 
1.- Go to Photoshop/GIMP whatever* and flip the image to opposite side.
2.- Select parts big color parts of the image and change it's color.
3.- Make a new layer and draw two arrows. One pointing Up and the other one pointing Down. You can pick any color for the arrows.
4.- Save your image WITHOUT METADATA.
5.- Open any browser and search for EXIF PILOT IMAGE METADATA EDITOR. Download and install it.
6.- Open your image in EXIF PILOT and start adding info in GENERAL-EXIF/IPTC, LOCATION and XMP.
7.- Go to METAPICZ.COM and uppload your image to check your image metadata.

Remember to add GPS to your image. Doing it will boost your rankings for LOCAL SEO.

Best regards m8.
 
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