Does stock art photo attribution negatively impact SEO by leaking Google Page Rank?

[Kingalan1]

Greetings:

Companies such as Shutterstock often require that buyers place credit attribution on their web pages when photos you buy from them appear on these  pages..

Shutterstock requests that credit attribution links such as these be added:

Songquan Deng / Shutterstock.com

Do these links negatively impact SEO? Or do search engines view them as a positive?

Thanks,
Alan

[Kingalan1]

Thanks!!! Good answer.

Alan

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Alan, this couldn't be a better timing. Matt Cutts just released a new webmaster video stating that using stock photos in any way do not have a negative impact on your rankings. The whole video can be found here.

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

These links definitely don't negatively impact SEO as your just giving the credits of the picture to the original owner. That is on the other side just something which would be motivated by Google.

[toddmumford]

I wouldn't expect search engines to view them negatively, as long as the image provider is an authority (like Shutterstock is)

If you are concerned about the issue, you can always nofollow those attribution outbound links, just to be sure.

Hope this helps.