Google says images styled with CSS won’t be indexed in Image Search, advising developers to use HTML tags for important ...

Google's John Mueller reminded us that when it comes to your CSS background images, Google won't be indexing or ranking those images in image search. John Mueller said on Twitter "last I checked ...

Paste the following code into that section:body { background-image:url ('myImage.gif'); background-repeat:repeat; }This code defines a CSS selector that styles your document's body tag.

However, an image with large dimensions can take a great deal of time to download on a slow connection, and if you place the background image code in the section of an HTML document, it can delay ...

Google's John Mueller said this morning in a webmaster hangout at the 20:55 mark that Google Image search does not index and rank images from CSS background code. He said if you want your images ...