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

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 to ...

A background image adds greatly to the visual appeal of a Web page. However, an image with large dimensions can take a great deal of time to download on a slow connection, and if you place the ...