<b>Stock photos quietly lose the image pack</b>

<b>Stock photos quietly lose the image pack</b>

Today's lesson: the <b>image pack</b> — that row of photos inside results — tends to favor original images over the same stock photo everyone else uses. If a hundred sites use one stock shot, Google rarely needs yours.

Think of a class where ten kids hand in the same printed worksheet. The teacher remembers the one who drew their own.

You don't need a fancy camera:
1. Take your own photo, even a simple phone shot of the real thing
2. Add a clear caption under it — captions sit close to the image and Google reads them
3. Make sure the page text talks about what the photo shows

Original plus described beats borrowed plus blank, almost every time.

Try this: find one page using a generic stock image and replace it with one photo you took yourself, caption included. 🎓