A Reddit thread, spotted via Areej AbuAli on Twitter, says that there is an SEO guy who travels across multiple regions in Europe to upload photos to Facebook from that local region. The SEO claims it helps with “better reach and ranking in the eyes of the algorithms.”

I was not planning on covering this but once John Mueller and Gary Illyes from Google responded, I figured why not. Of course, the SEO community is having a field day with this thread. Let me quote it:

Here is Areej’s post on Twitter:

Gary Illyes from Google gave his classic “no” response, basically confirming, at least with Google Search, this has no positive or negative impact on ranking better or worse at Google. Let’s not forget that Google does not use Facebook signals for ranking but that is for another story.

Here are the responses from John and Gary:

But wow – can you imagine this SEO guy’s airline mile balance?

Forum discussion at Twitter.